Another round-up of news at the World Series of Poker including Nick Petrangelo maintaining his lead going into the final table of the $100k, Julien Martini binking a bracelet in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-or-Better, and the first online bracelet of the festival goes to…I haven’t got a clue?

I wake up and walk to the Casino Barcelona hoping to bump into my story of the day. My Dad wakes up and spends the next hour pulling hair out of the sink with a cotton bud because he’s retired and doesn’t know what to do, and Nick Petrangelo wakes up and figures out how he is going to make all the right moves so he can bank $2.9m.

To say the poker world is ‘another’ world is sometimes the overstatement of the century.

How many sportsmen and women around the world are waking up this morning preparing to win $2.9m?