"This high water put a lot of fish where you can't get to them," Bolton said as if it was a lazy Sunday afternoon rather than a high-stakes tournament.
Negreanu, who got the nickname Kid Poker as a young prodigy, has been playing high-stakes tournament poker longer than some of the people he's playing against today have been alive.
Like other top players, he's a master at controlling his emotions during a game and is able to outlast other competitors who may crack under the pressure of a high-stakes tournament.
Americans play in friendly home games and high-stakes tournaments.
She is also a shrewd poker player who regularly competes in high-stakes tournaments, and the author of a forthcoming story collection, "American Housewife," that focuses a dark and humorous lens on the domestic.
"I don't know how it winds up being received, but I think they're really smart," said Steve Lipscomb, chief executive and founder of a competing poker series, the World Poker Tour, which puts on high-stakes tournaments around the world.
That 2002 upset, combined with the enormous growth of online gaming and the prime-time television broadcast of high-stakes tournaments, brought a record 839 players to Binion's Horseshoe Hotel and Casino this week for the 34th annual event known as the Big One.
Once the FBI catches wind of the high-stakes tournaments, Molly finds herself in the crosshairs of a major federal investigation and turns to a powerful lawyer (Idris Elba) to try to save herself from doing time.
But the nagging question about the Jayhawks' ability to perform under high-stakes tournament pressure remains.
With the introduction of a higher-stakes tournament with a $1 million prize and an online game in 2009, he projects revenue of $10 million next year.
