PokerStars throw the grinders a bone after announcing plans to create a new rake free league to determine the greatest cash game players in the world with $100,000 in leaderboard prizes up for grabs.

Who is the best poker player in the world?

Ask one of those recreational players online poker rooms covet and it’s Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, or Phil Ivey. Ask a grinder, and I guarantee the answer sits in the highest stakes cash games.

Any idiot can win a tournament or two. But to win playing cash games over the long run is a different bottle of fish sauce. The deep stacked cash games are where the real masters of the universe hang out, and PokerStars has an eye on them.