If you’re not lucky enough to live near one of the dedicated card clubs, which seem to be springing up all over the land these days, the good news is that most of the big casinos have caught the poker bug.

The majority run £10 or £20 no-limit Hold’em rebuy tourneys two or three times a week and the format is fairly standard: the rebuy period lasts for the first 60 or 90 minutes with starting stacks anywhere between 1000 and 2000 chips. You’re normally allowed to rebuy if you drop down to 50 percent of your starting stack and at the end of the rebuy period you’ll usually get the option of an extra rebuy called an ‘add on’, regardless of the size of your stack.