Repeat after me: ‘I will not give up in a tournament, ever.’ Now say it again. And again, until your body accepts it as an imperative that you can’t deviate from, no matter how hard you try.

I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve sat in tournaments, live or online, and seen people blow up when a hand doesn’t go their way, leaving them short-stacked, despondent and beaten. The very next hand, they chuck their chip(s) in without a thought and head for the door. I’ve even seen a couple of players storm out when desperately short-stacked saying something like, ‘And you can have those as well…’

Now, putting aside the fact that you can’t actually give someone extra chips even if you want to, there are a couple of more pertinent points here.