Four years ago, across one super-hot summer, the World Series of Poker dominated headlines not only in poker publications, but in the mainstream media too.

One hand defined the action, with British lawyer Will Kassouf the aggressor and Canadian Griffin Benger the assumptive hero. Both men held monster hands, but Kassouf’s pocket kings, the second-best starting hand in poker, were way behind Benger’s pocket aces.

A standard opening raise from Benger saw 875,000 in chips go into the middle. Kassouf’s three-bet to 2.3 million saw the rest of the players fall away. The two men were ‘heads-up’, and the mind games and war of words could begin. As legendary commentary from Norman Chad and Lon McEachern described at the time…

“A big hand at the wrong time… and we now will wait for Will Kassouf because this is his time.”