One of the most damning assessments of my play came from my first poker mentor: ‘You have absolutely no idea how the other players perceive you.’ He was an older guy who’d been playing forever and his main point was that the other players thought butter wouldn’t melt in my mouth. I was younger than them, had clean-cut looks and was British (we were in Vegas). They saw me as being tight and incapable of bluffing and I wasn’t exploiting it. That was my first introduction to table image.

The truth is, most of us fall into the same trap. We spend all our time thinking about our opponents and how they’re playing and very little time thinking about our own image at the table.