partypoker LIVE will use Marcel Luske’s International Poker Rules, seeing them break away from the traditional standard set by the Tournament Director’s Association. 

I feel guilty sitting in Coffee #1. The steam rises out of a Starbucks flask filled with hot water, lemon and apple cider vinegar. But there are no rules against this kind of thing, and I doubt ‘Barista Joanna’ has travelled all the way from Colombia to get into an argument with a cheapskate from Cardiff.

My premeditated response is: “Is it in the rules?”

She smiles.