partypoker LIVE has secured a four-year deal to become the primary partner of the Sochi Casino & Resort, and Kristen Bicknell wins the Asia Pacific Poker Tour High Roller in Macau.

I’ve never been to Russia. I’m too scared. I heard writers go there and never come back. And if the bad guys don’t get you, there are tigers, bears, and all manner of ways to die horribly.

I know.

I can be on holiday in Tenby, and a house could slide off the edge of a cliff and flatten me while crabbing. If I do ever set foot in Russia, it’s very likely to be in Sochi near the Black Sea because anytime I jump on a plane it’s because of poker.