The Showdown: Cheaters and stinkers

Posted on: March 21, 2025 12:48 PDT

Do you want to make everything about poker make sense? Does the constant cheating confuse you? Are you baffled by inconsiderate and dishonest players who downright stink?

Maurice Hawkins is here to help with a one-on-one coaching service that promises to make everything about poker make sense. Meanwhile, Sarah Herring is also here to help with this week's edition of The Showdown — your regularly scheduled whip around of the latest nonsense in poker.

Jump on the video at the top for a hot lap around poker's biggest stories from the week.

Make it make sense

This week's episode of The Showdown features:

Mike Holtz blew the lid off of the rampant cheating in Las Vegas poker rooms.
Ari Engel won up his 19th World Series of Poker Circuit ring after Hawkins evened the score last week.
Hawkins hard-launched his poker coaching service to help people "make everything about poker make sense."
An actual poker rule that stinks.

If that doesn't make sense, we don't know what will. Slam the play button on the video above, catch last week's episode, and find more links below for previous editions.