If you’ve been following this series with appropriate religious fervour, you’ve no doubt tried your luck at short-handed no-limit Hold’em, either at the end stage of a tournament or sit-and-go, or, as we’ve discussed it extensively here, in any cash game with six or fewer players.

By now, you will have no doubt experienced the adrenaline rush of making huge bets against few foes, and when I now ask you to turn your attention to the constrained betting patterns, and correspondingly constrained buzz, of short-handed limit Hold’em, it might strike you as risible or strange.

It might seem like being used to white water rafting and then being asked to do a scary slide at a water park.