‘I know you know this feeling... you know this feeling very well. I mean, you got your table all set up – your fork, your knife, your A1 sauce – you just don’t have the steak.’

So jokes Ed Norton’s character Worm, as he gets back into the familiar routine of extracting cash from his friend in seminal poker movie Rounders.

Well, I don’t know what the feeling of having my A1 sauce is like, mainly because I’m from England and we have ketchup, but every poker player knows the feeling of not having the funds to play in the game they’d like.

Thankfully, there’s a popular way of bridging this gap in the poker world, and that’s known as staking.