It was every schoolboy’s dream to hang out with Mr T (BA Baracus from the A-Team) but for Liam Flood it became a reality… and was a disaster. Flood was paired up with the TV tough guy in an Eccentric Club pro-celebrity charity tournament where the pro and celebrity would take turns to play for 20 minutes each.

While Mr T may have been great at cobbling together impromptu combat vehicles he obviously had no idea how to put together a straight. The two of them were knocked out of the tournament faster than you could spike a glass of milk with a sleeping tablet.

The Eccentric Club was a card school based in a small Dublin apartment that was frequented by the likes of Liam Flood, Terry Rogers, Jimmy Langan and Donnacha O’Dea. Up to 10 Eccentric Club invitationals were held around the world during the 1980s to raise money for charity, which helped to attract the galacticos of the poker world to play in the Irish Open.

Winners included Tom McEvoy in 1983 and Dewey Tomko in 1985. Flood took it down himself on the Isle of Man in 1984.