Poker Forum

Off the Felt is interviewing your favorite people in the poker industry to find out more about their lives — you've got it — off the felt. We recently sat down with Brent Hanks to talk poker, his ideal boy band, and little Saved by the Bell.

How did you start playing poker?

I started playing poker with my dad in little home games in western New York. They were hi-low mixed games. I think the buy–ins were like $100 to $200 and so I started with those, and I was a pretty big fish, but luckily everyone was. They were all terrible, so I figured out how to be good enough to beat them and then...