Blackpool-based chef Lee Biddulph made history last month by becoming the world’s first online poker million dollar winner after netting the ParadisePoker.com Million Dollar Freeroll.

And his victory was made all the more sweet by the fact that as the only Brit on the final table he swiped the first prize from under the noses of eight pesky yanks.

Biddulph, who got to the final via a series of online satellite qualifiers, went into the final table in second place with 1,580,000 chips, but still had a long way to go to catch up with chip leader Mike Darweesh, a software engineer from Arizona, who controlled the table with around a third of the 8.6 million chips.