Hanlons Corner is a working class area of Dublin, about half a mile from the city centre. There, on a busy, dusty thoroughfare called Old Cabra Road (or, in Irish, Sean Bhothar Na Cabrai), there’s a butcher, a mini-market and, between these two, a betting shop with a freshly-painted blue-and-yellow sign, which reads: ‘Terry Rogers – bookmaker.’

Beside it there is a permanently locked door; no one ever appears to go in to whatever lies behind it. But they did once – almost every name in Irish poker went there. It was a place where legends were made. From behind that door came three men who would all make the final table at the World Series of Poker in the same year.