I’m currently sat in my hotel room at the Wynn in Las Vegas, having just bust out of the ,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the WSOP. The event kicked off with 1,531 players and I finished 29th. As this was my first event of this year’s World Series I should be ecstatic, but my enthusiasm has been dampened by the way I was cruelly knocked out.

There’s a poker expression called ‘stop and go’, where a player will call a raise when he’s first to act after the flop and shoves his chips in on the flop regardless of the cards.