When you’re playing no-limit Hold’em one thing you should constantly look for is the sort of hand or situation that can take an opponent off their entire stack. There’s nothing more beautiful than to see the look of dull stupefaction on your foe’s face and to hear them say, ‘You played that?’ as you show down your supposedly inferior hand and gleefully rake in their chips.

Apart from the psychological damage such moments inflict, in today’s post-modern Hold’em world, where everyone knows the top 20 starting hands by heart, you really do need to be able to add some so-called ‘creative’ holdings into your mix, if only to stop being so predictable and, you know, dull.