Another round-up from the World Series of Poker focusing on Andrew Ireland winning Event #67: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Bounty in his first-ever appearance at the festival.

The first time I played in a World Series of Poker (WSOP) event I didn’t reach the break. I had spent the previous night, sitting in a hot tub, surrounded by the dead skin and piss of strangers, listening to a chorus of poker advice from some of British poker’s elite.

Unlike the dead skin and piss, nothing sunk in.

Ever the hero, I went for it early doors, made the call, looked like the spunk stain I was, and then crept away into the daylight like a hyena in the presence of a pack of lions.