The 2016 WSOP Main Event was one of the best to take place in the last decade. Looking back, the tournament had it all. It had Will Kassouf’s infamous ‘Nine high like a boss’ moment of cringe-inducing comedy, it had the resulting fall-out between Griffin Benger and Kassouf in which neither man covered himself in glory and, of course, it had Cliff ‘Johnny Bax’ Josephy and the moment that will haunt him forever.

It all ended, somewhat predictably given Josephy’s elimination, with aggressive player Qui Nguyen winning the Main Event by beating the more passive Gordon Vayo heads-up.

It’s easy to put it in such plain terms now, but how easy was it exactly for Nguyen to seal the deal? It turns out he wrote a book explaining in detail.

Surprisingly, the WSOP Main Event champion doesn’t always write a book describing what it was like to win the biggest poker tournament on Earth. We’d like to see this rectified in future years when live poker is back – playing inside a giant square bubble can’t have too long a shelf-life – and each winner commissioned ahead of the tournament to work with a talented ghost writer in putting together a tale of the tape.