The big boys have landed – time for some serious golf action. Message on my phone says ‘Hi Marc, this is Phil Ivey. I’ve just landed, looking for some action on the golf course; I’m seriously jet-lagged and there’s no telling how much you can win, call me.’

Don’t you just love those sorts of messages? Golf is the number one gambling game among the poker pros on tour and I like to think that with my golfing partner Ram Vaswani we have an edge. So I pack a case and I’m off to London four days earlier than planned.