We’ve heard of freeze-out tournaments but this is ridiculous. Following on from your ‘standard’ extreme sports such as bungee jumping, sky-diving and snowboarding we've had extreme ironing, and then extreme accounting, and now, yes, extreme poker.

On March 29 Robert Varkonyi won the inaugural Arctic Freeze Out Tournament held on an ice shelf in Kemi, Finland, a location selected by the Finn Juha Helppi, winner of the previous Extreme Poker tournamnent.

Six players, 2002 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Varkonyi, Peter Larsson of Sweden, Ulrik Jensen of Denmark, Rene Christensen of Denmark, Daniel Stein of England, and Helppi played in temperatures reaching -10 degrees Fahrenheit (-23 degrees Celsius).