Let’s get one thing straight before we get into the meat of this month’s column – you’ll never win a major tournament waiting around for Aces. Fact! But – and this is a humongous BUT – when they do arrive you hope to get paid off with them.

I’ve never been accused of being a card rack – I’m a grinder and a grafter and will play a whole array of hands in order to make the final table. But when I do get a big hand, I hope to get paid off handsomely.

And I couldn’t have asked for a better spot at the recent London EPT.