As 888Poker react to the need for their players to receive instant gratification with the launch of Blast Poker, Lee Davy wonders just how far the online poker market are prepared to go?

I was standing in the supermarket queue when it happened. This raving banshee was spitting all over me, hurling abuse, eyes glazed, mouth foaming.

I only popped in for a loaf of bread.

It was 2008, and I had just ruined her life by making her husband redundant. We were at the peak of the economic downturn. I was the Area Production Manager for a freight company. Our primary customer was the steelmaking giant Corus {Now Tata Steel}, and we learned a painful lesson.