Jon Pill

Cody's main format includes a lot of driving and walking while talking into the camera, a montage or two, and then the main body of the video with a string of hands, over which he talks.

Yet another documentary that set out to do a potted history of the game from its murky origins somewhere down the Mississippi to the aftermath of (spoiler alert) Black Friday.

One of the most interesting of the new poker bloggers is Andrew Neeme with his longer video essays on poker and the poker life. In his most recent one he gets a little philosophical.

In The Gambler, Dostoevsky’s portrait of a young tutor who is converted to degeneracy during a holiday in a town named – perhaps somewhat on the nose – Roulettenberg.

All this grows out of a long cultivated celebrity crush on Harbaugh that Helmuth has been cultivating with romantic shared airline flights and exchanges of witty banter.

Stuey, or High Roller, or High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story is the 2003 biopic of the late great Stuey ‘The Kid’ Ungar. It’s written and directed by A W Vidmer.

Written, implausibly, by an English poet and critic Al Alvarez. The Biggest Game in Town is a sort of rambling state of the game sort of account. Like long magazine journalism.

The plot sees Knife – now the God of Gambler’s protege and known to most of the world as the Knight of Gamblers – being pestered by The Saint of Gamblers.

Sometimes the rules are dumb, or you and your buddies just think table-stakes is for pussies and like the wild west feel of true no limit. In that case, here are some things you might want to consider.

Next time you sit down to deal a hand, you might want to just double check that you have pulled all your curtains and closed the blinds.

After bonding over a mutual love of bourbon the two pals head out on a road trip down the Mississippi towards a high-stakes poker game in New Orleans.

A Shade is a move designed to distract the attention of the audience away from sleight in question. It is this particular meaning that 2003’s poker/crime movie Shade refers.

Casino Royale is the 2006 installment in the long running James Bond series about a British civil servant who travels the world solving crime by drinking too much, having sex, and murdering.

The money, the title and the glory all went to Pat Lyons, an American pro who was running hot off the back of his earlier quarter million dollar win for first place in $1,100 buy-in Arizona Poker Championship a few weeks before.