I’m writing this fresh from being knocked out of the London leg of the GUKPT where, after five levels of play, I went from hero to zero in two hours. Before you turn the page, I’m not about to reel off a bad beat story. No, this is about me blowing a £150k payday, which I call, ‘Making a move at the wrong time, you idiot.’

Everything had been going well in the early stages. I had 36,000 chips, while the average stack was 16k. I was feeling confident and ready to take on anyone at the table who stood in the way of me becoming a dominant chip force by the end of the first day.