After an online poker player known only as Cumicon posts an almost perfect graph of online Pot Limit Omaha winnings hitting the $7.4m mark, Lee Davy, takes a few punts on why the player suddenly retired.

I had my first Thanksgiving Dinner on U.S soil last week (don’t tell Daniel Negreanu) and the conversational icebreaker, “what do you do for a living?’ was on the menu.

When I told people how much money is floating around the game of poker, jaws dropped lower than my mother and her best mate when they accidentally pressed play on the VHS recorder after my Dad had left Electric Blue 2 inside after a drunken orgy of one back in 1983.

I talked about Patrik, Phil and, of course, the brain-shaking hit and run from Fedor Holz.