It's incredible to think that the original Big Deal was written over 17 years ago and shipped onto the shelves way before the poker explosion changed the face of the game. Less surprising is the release of the sequel.

After all, Big Deal was the seminal poker text in the UK and eagerly devoured by a new generation of poker enthusiasts keen to emulate Holden's adventures: to play poker, travel the world, win enough to live on and, ultimately, triumph at the WSOP.

Bigger Deal provides Holden with a similar brief - to win the World Series - and tasks him with discovering just how much the poker landscape has changed over the past few years.