The inaugural Malta Poker Festival has come to an end, with the Italian Emanuele Onnis beating Fabian Gumz, heads-up, to bank the €150,000 first prize.

A middle-aged woman is wearing the grimace of a weightlifter, an old man who looks oddly like Steven Avery’s father grins through broken yellow teeth, and a young kid with a head of hair as red as the bottom of a Christian Louboutin high heel sends a Wicked Witch of the West like cackle into the rafters.

There are 7.5 billion people in the world, all created with a difference, and there is no better place to take a thin slice of this magnificence than at the poker table.

The Malta Poker Festival (MPF) cost €550 to enter.