The $300,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl is a sell out three months before ‘shuffle up and deal’ and an influx of young German pros will make sure this event is even tougher to win than the last.

Sporting excellence is a funny old thing. You don’t realise you are witnessing something special until one day you are old and look back at the time where it all began.

I get that feeling with 888Poker Team Pro Dominik Nitsche. The young German has gone up a few gears these past few years, and you suspect there are a few more notches for the stick to get familiar with before he is done.

I was talking to him during the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) where he came close to winning his fourth bracelet in three years. I asked him if there was anything that might have held him back from being even more successful. He put his accomplishments down to hard work and dedication. He also told me that he was ready to move up to the next level.