Ladies and gentlemen, it’s over. After 36 issues, literally hundreds of pages of strategy, and more rage-ups than Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow combined, I am leaving the magazine.

When I joined PokerPlayer back in August 2005 it was as part of the launch team and my concept of poker was somewhat, ahem, less sophisticated than today. I thought I knew how to play. I didn’t. In fact, the panic of being £50 down in my first week of office games forced me to start a meticulous ledger of results that I continue to keep to this day.

Over the last couple of years I’ve had the pleasure of picking the brains of the Brunsons, Greensteins, Goodwins, Hansens and Raymers of this world, and in turn tried to squeeze their oh- so-precious tips into PokerPlayer’s strategy section.