A young German poker player has won the inaugural PokerStars Sunday Million Live, and the British have started well at the 2017 World Championship of Online Poker with two wins, and a second in the first four events.

There was a time when a Sunday sucked balls.

An afternoon down the pub with your mates, watching the footy, couldn’t make up for the dreary Sunday night TV, and inevitable insomnia, knowing you had to wake the next morning and clock on for a job you hated.

And then, on March 6, 2006, PokerStars changed everything when they created a $215 buy-in event that afforded an escape from Songs of Praise, the Antiques Roadshow, and Swiss Rolls, with a $1m guaranteed prize pool.