There’s an oft-repeated quote about poker organiser Eric Drache when he was in his prime: ‘He’s the sixth best Stud player in the world; unfortunately, he regularly plays with the top five.’ Which just goes to show that game selection is everything in poker. Your money comes from only one thing – having an edge over the other players in the game. If you’re sat at a table with players who are better than you then your expectation is negative and the poker skills that you do have will be largely irrelevant.

Two years ago game selection, or table selection if you prefer, was a dying art.