So I thought: Right. So what I did was, first I invested in poker software to familiarise myself with the game. I then registered with Casino.com. Now, I will say that it was uphill sailing, I experienced more setbacks than I would have anticipated, to be honest at one point I was £2500 down and I thought what the fuck am I doing. But that was before I understood online poker, which is not like ordinary poker.

The important thing is to wait until it is 9 a.m. in New York to make sure the traders are at work, because those are some very smart players. Those are some people you do not want to come up against. What you want is to play against the kind of people who have no job, the kind of people who are drinking at 9:00 a.m., either they have been drinking all night or they are the kind of people who start as soon as they get up, and you’ll be all right. Once I got the hang of it I won £10,000 in three months. The only reason it was not more is that kind of player does not play for high stakes. It is a slog getting the money, but it is there for the taking.