She’s an ex-PokerPlayer columnist who’s known for her poker skills as much as her mainstream TV work on programmes like Balderdash and Piffle. but she also won the recent London EPT and scooping the £500,000 pot, Dave Woods talks to Vicky Coren.

Did you always believe that you would win a major poker title?
Goodness, no. I always admired those players who went into poker tournaments thinking they were definitely going to win. I don’t have that kind of psyche; I only ever hoped to enjoy it. I thought it would be lovely to make a final table in an EPT event, and I would have been perfectly happy with that.