Poker - The Greatest Game in the World.

The poker boom of the last decade may be subsiding but we have been left with some enduring images and memories of people that we would never have heard of, had it not been for this wonderful game.

Tom Dwan v Phil Ivey and the first ever televised $1,000,000 poker hand.

Dan Harrington executing the perfect 'squeeze play' at the final table of the World Series Main Event in 2004.

Daniel Negreanu's seemingly telepathic ability to 'read' his opponents hole cards.

Mike Matusow and his infamous 'blow-ups'.

And who could forget Phil Hellmuth's entrance for Day 1 of the 2009 World Series Main Event, dressed as a Gladiator!?

It's characters like these that have become legends of the game and not just because of their antics at the table.

They are truly gifted poker players and what separates them from other poker players is that when they 'go with their gut feeling', their gut is more often right.

Many of these players are 'gamblers' in the true sense of the word, but not when it comes to poker. Then they become cold calculated assassins, ready to destroy your chip stack at the first available opportunity.

Life at the table can be intense and a huge mental strain on the body, as well as physically taxing with hour after hour sat at the tables, often long into the night.

Players need to let off steam somehow and it's these times that we want to document.

We want to bring you stories of excess. Crazy prop bets and wagers. Mad tales of what poker players do as 'routine' that the rest of us would consider insane. The best and worst things they ever did, heard or saw, both at the poker tables and away from them.

Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope you enjoy the posts as they appear.