An interesting problem has cropped up for an online poker room in the UK this week. We all know about online qualifiers for the World Series of Poker but for one winner on jonnytexaspoker.com, winning was the easy bit, with the hard part, getting to Vegas, now to come.

Dubbed ‘Britain’s fattest man’ by the Daily Star newspaper, Barry Austin of Birmingham, who tips the scales at an incredible 50 stone, won the £10,000 trip to this year’s WSOP due to be held at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July and August.

However, Austin is so large that he can’t be accommodated on a passenger aircraft, so an alternative travel solution is being sought by the tournament organisers.