One of the nicest, and most talented, men in poker gets his just desserts after Dylan Linde takes down the record $10,400 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic at Bellagio for $1.6m.

I woke in a good mood. Then I turned on the Internet (I don’t want brain cancer as I sleep), walked downstairs and began filling in the blanks. I picked up on something that turned my mood. I won’t share the shame of it.

I needed something sweet to come into my life – a fantastic marriage, not a broken one, a lover not a lawyer. Something. Anything. I was fed up of holding the hand mirror and having to put up with the schmuck staring back at me.

And.