There’s a difference between playing a game and watching a game. And every weekend thousands of men with beer bellies prove the point by screaming and swearing at their football team as they miss a golden chance or concede a soft goal. It doesn’t matter that if they were asked to do the same amount of running they’d be coughing up a lung – every armchair fan is an expert.

Poker is far, far worse. The problem is that anyone who can pick up some cards and push some chips around can argue they’re a poker player – and there’s no real measure of how good or bad they are.