Named after the famous horse race, the Derby City Classic pool tournament in Louisville, Kentucky, offers round-the-clock gambling action. Justyn Barnes drank a lot of coffee and tried to keep up...



Modern sporting events are so sanitised. You never see the world's top golfers play an after-hours cash game worth more than the tournament's first prize, or a player on centre court at Wimbledon strike a wager with a spectator during a match. Cue Louisville, Kentucky's annual Derby City Classic - the biggest pool tournament (in terms of gambling action) in the world. For raw, down and dirty, win-or-go-hungry, 24/7, sleep-and- you'll-miss-something action, it's unmatched.



Apparently 39.3 million Americans play pool at least once a year (9.6 million of them 25 days or more).