Alexandre Dreyfus outlines his plans to take the game of poker to the next level. How will he do it? And most importantly, will anyone help him?

In 1999, a UK-based television production company called Presentable tasked an ideas man to brainstorm ways in which they could create compelling and entertaining viewing.

That ideas man was the late Rob Gardner. Amongst his submitted ideas was a show about poker that would be called Late Night Poker. Presentable pitched it to the Channel 4 boss. He was a poker nut. They would get the green light if they could prove it would work. They were in. There was only one problem. None of the team knew anything about poker.

Nic Szeremeta did know poker. Gardner pulled him into the team. Szeremeta knew the only way to make poker interesting was to focus on the characters. He knew people wanted to see emotion. They wanted to relate to some, desire to become others and spit on a few on the way. It was all about the story. If they could get the right cast, then the story would create more plot lines than an M. Night Shyamalan movie.