The biggest room in the world, and it wants you to know it.
The old champion, smaller now, still the smoothest software in poker.
Two rooms enter. One gets your bankroll.
Every poker site says it’s the best. We put them two at a time in the same ring and score five rounds: traffic, rake value, softness, trust, payouts. No draws allowed, and no room can buy a decision.
Watch the main event Free to read. No sign-up. 18+ only.The fight card
The duels
One pair of rooms per duel, five rounds each, a winner declared for every kind of player. New duels join the card as we finish scoring them.
- GGPokerVSPokerStars
- WPT GlobalVSGGPoker
- ACRVSGGPoker
- 888pokerIN TRAININGPokerStars
Duels marked in training are being researched and scored. We publish nothing we have not checked.
The rules of the ring
How a duel is scored
Five rounds, the five things players actually argue about on the forums. Each round names a winner and shows its working. The final verdict is never one-size: we call it separately for the grinder, the tourist, and the expat, because the right room depends on who is asking.
I. TRAFFIC Are there games running at your stakes, in your timezone, in your format?
II. RAKE VALUE Not the headline rakeback number: the net of rake, rewards and their small print.
III. SOFTNESS Who else is in the pool. We say plainly when the evidence is thin.
IV. TRUST Bots, past scandals, and what the room actually did about them. History is content, not a secret.
V. PAYOUTS Methods, speed, fees, and whether your country makes it complicated.
The purest duel
Heads-up: poker with nowhere to hide
One table, two chairs. Heads-up is the game this site is named after, and it has quietly become the hardest format to even find online. We cover it properly: where it still runs, and how the rules flip when it’s just you and one opponent.