There's a new champion every day now. Some great, some good and some that would send you back to buying lottery tickets with new fire in your belly. That's why there is a game. Over time, you can work out which is which. Some guys get lucky once, the true greats write history. The stats...

I set a new record the other day. Last year I was the youngest player ever to lose his money in a senior's event at the WSOP. This year I became the only guy in the history of the event to lose his money before his 51st birthday. When I decide to set records, I don't fuck about....

Lots of Europeans think American comedy went into terminal decline after Bilko. They are sorely mistaken. My favourite comedy show on American TV is called "The News". A few days ago they hit new heights. They opened up with a pretty good "Ten Percent of Americans Think Obama is a...

It's a winning or a losing thing. Depending on your stack size, a player walking by the Rio with a ridiculous brand new nickname can make you feel like either laughing or puking. If Martin Wilson had been born 30 years later he'd probably be known as "Supersonic Marty" if his...

A dream is what's brought us all here. Dreams are fine unless they become an obsession and start to eat you up inside. The guy who said, "If you can dream it, you can do it" was a tad optimistic at best. He may well have been an idiot. What if everybody has the same dream? I spent...

I made my first mistake of this year's World Series of Poker about a month before we came here. I booked our flight on American Airlines rather than Air France. I like American Airlines but confidence is what this game is all about and Air France inspire a lot of this by not asking for...

I could never understand why, when poker was booming all over the world and the Irish were punching way above their weight, the Irish media en masse insisted on ignoring the elephant in the middle of the room. It was doubly mysterious because the Irish have always loved a gamble. A champion race...

Back in the days when donkeys had four legs and hoodies were called anoraks, eccentric Irish bookmaker Terry Rogers dropped in to the Horseshoe during a visit to Las Vegas to see what the World Series of Poker was all about and met the colourful Benny Binion. It was the beginning of a real and...