Some poker comes and goes, especially if it’s conducted by professionals. Oddly, the best in the business often look outdated just three or four years on. Poker moves in cycles and those who always play the same game and don’t evolve get overtaken by new methods of winning. It’s the same reason the flat 4-4-2 is no longer preferred in football. Virtually every top team plays a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3, with inside forwards instead of wingers.

In professional poker, you can get left behind very easily if you don’t adapt. This is paradoxically the opposite of poker in the Hollywood movie you’re about to become acquainted with, a scene of poker so timeless, it should be hung in art galleries to be admired and never touched.

When Steve McQueen played the Cincinnatti Kid of the title in the 1965 movie of the same name, he created an enduring character who would live forever in celluloid history.

McQueen’s performance is amazing, casting a dusty sheen over all the action. In this particular scene, McQueen, as Eric Stoner, a.k.a. ‘The Kid’, is taking on a character called Buster in a single hand of poker. Buster, wearing a dark hat and casting a shadow over the table purely through the shade of his scowl, is definable as the baddie before the first bet is made, and quickly bullies everyone else out of the hand.