Some World Series of Poker hands will always be remembered not only for the drama that the cards brought, but the context within which they were dealt.

One such example of this came in 2017, when popular British amateur John Hesp, the Bridlington-based caravan salesman who had cashed for literally hundreds of pounds before winning $2.6 million in the Main Event of that year. 

Hesp was, as many have doubtless regarded him in his time, a colourful character, both literally in the sense of his own personal dress code – all Hawaiian shirts and Panama hat – and his 4th-place finish left many hoping to see him again at such a level. 

Sadly, that wouldn’t really be the case, Hesp barely returning to live poker and certainly not running deep in $10k-buy-in events, but that left this hand to be enjoyed forever and earmarked for poker posterity.