The Showdown: Nothing but the truth

Adam Hampton playing at the 2024 WSOP
Adam Hampton
Posted on: March 12, 2025 13:42 PDT

ā€˜What is truth?ā€™ Not our words, but those of Johnny Cash, and if he didnā€™t know - who possibly could?

This weekā€™s episode of The Showdown with Sarah Herring - your regular, lickitty-split rundown of the weekā€™s biggest poker stories - is filled with players doing what doesnā€™t always come naturally: Telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

So come join Sarah for a whistlestop tour of the poker worldā€™s top stories of the week, all wrapped up with a bow in just a couple of minutes. Youā€™ll love it... honestly.

Gimme some truth

This weekā€™s episode of The Showdown featuresā€¦

  • Chris Moneymaker dropping some truth bombs about his ACR Poker colleagues Ebony Kenney and Nacho Barbero
  • Doug Polkā€™s unflinching honesty when it comes to ClubWPT Goldā€™s pros and cons
  • Aleksejs Ponakovs at Triton Jeju demonstrating the maxim in vino veritas (ā€˜In wine, there is truthā€™)
  • Tom Bedell dropping his guard to show just how it feels to beat the likes of Phil Ivey and Erik Seidel at a big-money final table

Plus more honest-to-goodness tales involving everyone from Ryan Feldman to Nick Vertucci and Alex Foxen to Jean-Robert Bellande.

Hit the play button up top to watch now, catch last weekā€™s edition of The Showdown here, or see below for more.