Monday Merge: Comebacks, Upsets, Football and Futbol

Sports and poker. Poker and sports. While the “Is poker a sport?” debate is an endless endeavor with no true answer in sight, Poker Central is blending the two together. At the start of each week, the “Monday Merge” fuses sports and poker, drawing loose comparisons, and even looser transitions, between the only two things we really care about.

From the World Cup to the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup, where Justin Thomas has continued his white-hot streak through 2017. Thomas won his first major earlier this summer and while his Dell Technologies Championship win didn’t come with a jacket, like poker’s most prestigious major or next month’s Poker Masters series, Thomas is making a run up the FedEx Cup standings and has gotten the satisfaction of beating the world’s best every week multiple times this year.