Sam Grafton earned the largest live score of his career when he took down the inaugural PokerStars Festival Main Event in Bucharest, and India’s Uday Bansal did the same in Manila.

After I have finished writing this, I will take a bath with my nipper. We’ll read the world’s first noisy water book {that hardly makes a sound}, and play with her bath toys, amongst which is a squid we call SamSquid. 

It even has the same accent.

Sam ‘SamSquid’ Grafton isn’t just a famous bath toy that lives in Cardiff. He is one of the most loved poker players in Europe. Grafton has earned close to $5m as one of the hardest working online grinders in the business. But it’s his personable presence on the live felt that has made him a star, and he is started to rack up some impressive scores to go along with that gift of the gab.