Success at last! I have my first significant poker win, after taking down a 60-runner live tournament featuring half of the Hendon Mob, Tony Bloom, Kenna James, Steve Davis, Poker Million V winner Rajesh Modha and, not least, the rest of the PokerPlayer team.

That it came in a boozy media freeroll where business and banter were more important than the actual poker is beside the point – a win’s a win. I got my chips in when I was ahead, read my opponents well, picked my spots and every move I made came off, all the way to the £1,000 first prize.

Now the bad news.