Poker players are supposed to be bolshy know-it-alls. In a game based on bluffing and balls, it’s not uncommon for successful players’ egos to be even larger than the colossal prize pots they take down. But Aussie Joe Hachem just doesn’t fit the stereotype. He’s the game’s newest royalty, having beaten off 5,618 rivals to win the World Series of Poker ‘Big One’ – poker’s greatest event – in Las Vegas in July.

If you’d just netted a cool $7.5 million and become the richest poker player in history, perhaps streaks of an over-inflated ego might be forgivable – even expected.