Lee Davy pores through the weekly news stories including Mukul Pahuja and Mike Sexton stirring up a little C&C, and the Godfather of Poker having surgery to remove a melanoma and then back to the tables within a week.

Sometimes writing this column is like eating soup with chopsticks, but this week I got a big spoon.

We start with the reigning World Poker Tour (WPT) Player of the Year, Mukul Pahuja. Talk about a man on a tear. The Florida native had made the trek to Maryland to play in the state’s first World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC), when he took to twitter to share a four page iPhone notes account of all the things pissing him off.

It seems the spark that ignited the Pahuja petrol bomb came from the organizers of the WSOPC Baltimore Main Event. They took the rather crass approach of advertising a $1m guarantee, after the prize pool had topped $960,000.