Do you ever get accused of poker taking over your life? If you play once a week or more then the answer is probably yes, and the complaints can get as annoying as a hoodie-wearing chav playing hip-hop on a cheap mobile phone. Nagging wives, finger-wringing husbands and other assorted nay-sayers find it all too easy to buy into the tabloid fallacy that you’ll gamble your life savings away within a fortnight of seeing your first flop.

I’m sure you’ve given the usual argument to such worry warts. The ‘it’s a game of skill’ routine can be fought in a court of law but try to explain it to a non-player and you’ll often come across as a wannabe lottery winner that believes their numerology technique will see them rolling naked around in piles of money.