I'm looking for poker and watching movies only. I'm willing to spend money, but want bang for my buck. Not really keen on spending over $1000, unless somebody convinces me.

I have a baller laptop, but keep it on 1600 x 900 resolution instead of the recommended 1920 x 1080 because I don't like everything so damn small. I watch movies on my slingbox and projectfreetv so I don't guess better resolution is going to make that look any better . . .?

I was looking at this one as a starting point:
Dell U2715H 27 inch LCD Monitor Black - (16:9, 2M:1, 350 cd/m2, 2560 x 1440, 8ms, HDMI) £425.00

Thanks for the advice.

*I guess I should add that the monitor will be connected to my laptop:
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970M 3GB GDDR5
Maximum supported output resolutions: HDMI: 1920 x 1200 @ 60Hz

This got left off the maximum output resolution:

2x Mini-DisplayPort: 2 x 3840 x 2160 @ 60Hz

Increase the windows font size to deal with everything looking so small

Thanks but it's more about the max size of a Stars table than font size.

Google "windows DPI settings"

Thanks, I'll look into that.

Still need a monitor though...suggestions?

I got this http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-WQHD-L...2+inch+monitor for a work monitor and am pretty happy with it. It's not as good as the Apple monitor it replaced but it's also $300 dollars less. It's a samsung, probably wouldn't go wrong getting one closer to your budget.

Thanks, but it doesn't have screws in the back for a VESA mount, which is a prerequisite for me. I guess I will go with the DELL if nobody speaks up.

It's all about the 32s these days

Dell model you've mentioned is great. I've got 24" Dell with 16:10 ratio and am very happy with it.