Cate Hall and Mike Dentale have managed to turn an ugly slanging match on Twitter into a live heads-up battle with £30,000 up for grabs, and the whole thing will be streamed live and broadcast on TV by Poker Night in America.

According to Mike Dentale, Cate Hall is a slut, a tramp and a crack head. Allegations surfaced on one of many tweets flying back and fore between the pair like the imaginary nuclear warheads that Kim Jong-un sends to Donald during his dreams.

There were poker players all over the world shouting Fight! Fight! Fight! Prompting Matt Glantz to declare that Dec 8 must go down as the ‘greatest poker Twitter day of all time.’

So how did it all kick off?