PokerStars continue to honour Chad Brown by hosting a charity event in their inaugural live festival in New Jersey to raise funds for the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukaemia, Cancer and AIDS Research.

I have been thinking about death a lot lately. Perhaps, it’s because I have become a father again at the age of 41; maybe it’s because my old man can’t kick his smoking habit?

I often wonder what would happen should he die?

There would be a surge of emotion. There would be tears and pangs of regret for not trying harder to help him quit. Then over time, I won’t notice his absence. There will be more tears at Christmas and his birthday, and then, eventually, nothing.