For a lot of Brit players it was a WSOP to forget, but for Londoner Pramesh ‘Praz’ Bansi one he’ll always remember. Praz beat 1,099 players in Vegas to win the $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em event and become only the second Brit this year to grab a bracelet.

But right at the end of the first day of the WSOP event, it seemed highly unlikely, when he haemorrhaged 50,000 of his 80,000 chips on the final hand.

‘The average stack the next day was about 60,000, but I still felt confident, because I looked around and there weren’t many big faces left. I got to the final table short-stacked but Fabrice Soulier was the only player at the table who was a possible threat. Every time he put a chip in the pot, the cameras were on him. When I got a few chips together, I’d raise his blinds and he’d pass. Then the rest of the players took notice that the short stack was taking over the table. From then on, I just steamrollered it.

‘I only take the bracelet off now at night. I put it in the safe, because if it’s on the bedside table, I keep looking at it and I can’t sleep. When I’m in a tournament, my friends keep catching me looking down at the bracelet and they’ll be looking at me, shaking their heads saying ‘get over it’, but I can’t!