Bench 01 · Games on the bench
Poker
Poker is the one game here where the other players matter more than the house. Reports on this bench cover tournament formats and the players whose runs are still quoted at the table.
- Reports on file
- 29
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- The SonicBet Desk (29)
Filed under Poker
Newest first. A report can sit under more than one game type, so its chip shows the game type it was filed under first.
| No. | Report | Game type | Filed by | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. 187 |  Free Jacks or Better Video Poker: Practice the Pay Table 9/6 Jacks or Better returns 99.5439% against 97.298% for 8/5. Use free play to read the pay table and drill the holds optimal strategy ranks. | PKPoker | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 168 |  Poker Freerolls: How Free Tournaments Work Okay so freerolls are actually insane. You're not risking a cent and you can win real money. Let me walk you through how this actually works because it's… | BNBonuses | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 167 |  Tony G: From Lithuania to Poker Table Trash-Talk Legend You meet a guy like Tony Graziano in 1995 and you don't know he's going to become famous for talking at a poker table. You just know he's loud. | CECelebrities | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 166 | Joe Hachem's 2005 WSOP Main Event: Australia's Poker Hero On May 31, 2005, an accountant from Melbourne beat six thousand eight hundred eighty-five other players to win the World Series of Poker Main Event. The outcome was documented. The method was not. | BWBig Wins | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 155 | High Roller: The Documentary About Stu Ungar's Tragic Life Stu Ungar had more raw talent than any poker player I ever saw, and he destroyed himself with the same precision he used at the tables. | PKPoker | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 135 | Antonio Esfandiari's $18.3M Big One for One Drop Victory Esfandiari's 2012 win at the Big One for One Drop remains the largest single poker tournament payday in history. But the real story is what happened at the rail when the cards stopped falling. | BWBig Wins | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 127 | Peter Eastgate: The Youngest WSOP Main Event Champion at 22 Peter Eastgate sat at the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2008. He was 22 years old. The youngest player at the table was Eastgate. | BWBig Wins | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 107 | Women Who Are Shaping the Modern Poker World The poker world used to be exclusively male because casinos tolerated a particular kind of behavior from grinders. Women... | PKPoker | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 106 | Shannon Elizabeth: From American Pie Star to WSOP Regular So I was sitting in the poker room at the Venetian, and this woman walks in, and you know, I'd seen her face before but couldn't place it, and it turns out she's been playing poker seriously for like twenty years. | CECelebrities | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 95 | Fedor Holz: The German Prodigy Who Retired at 24 So this kid, German kid, Fedor Holz, he's playing poker at like 19 and he's not bad, he's absurd. And then, boom, he's gone. Left. Cashed out. You know what I mean? | CECelebrities | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 91 | Exploiting Limp-Callers at Micro-Stakes Cash Games The grinder's advantage starts here: watching how weak players enter pots with a simple call. Three thousand hands of $1/$2 teaches you something the books never quite capture. | PKPoker | Filed by The SonicBet Desk | |
| No. 83 | The Biggest Game in Town: Al Alvarez's Poker Book Classic Al Alvarez's 'The Biggest Game in Town' is a portrait of poker as a competitive art form and as a window into human motivation. It is the best book about poker ever written. | BWBig Wins | Filed by The SonicBet Desk |