The World Series of Poker Europe will return to the King’s Casino in Rozvadov in the fall with ten bracelets and €13m in guaranteed prize money up for grabs.

I wonder if I carefully pulled my eye out of its socket, and moved it around the room with my red right hand would I still see things? Is the frog whose life I saved by moving him from my backyard to the safety of the local park, suffering from depression because I tore him away from his family? And what do you do in Rozvadov when you aren’t playing cards?

Or maybe that’s the magic, right there.

Away from roving eyeballs, and heartbroken frogs, perhaps the key to creating the most vibrant poker rooms in the world is to erect them in the towns where the most exciting thing to see are the mice you find when you lift up zinc roofs dying in the fields.