The poker world is like a jungle. It looks beautiful – safe even – but there’s a whole lot of pain lurking in places you can’t even see. Things want to eat you up. Chew on your flesh; swallow your money, spit out your bones with the expensive leather wallet.

How do you get through a jungle and keep your balls in your belly – and not in the belly of something else? Perhaps a man called Jungleman may know?

In 2014, nobody won more money playing online cash games than Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates. He ended the year with $2,805,751 in winnings on Full Tilt, and $631,288 on PokerStars, giving him a net profit of $3,437,039 on the two biggest sites in the world.

His total profit on the two sites over his lifetime exceeds $11m, and he was also the biggest winner in 2010 when he won over $5m. The man is a conundrum; of that there is no doubt. He has one of the sharpest minds in the history of the game; but he has other strengths, and one in particular stands out amidst the rest.