It’s official! Poker is now the biggest game in the world. A new $60m payout is set to eclipse the paltry purses put up for sports like boxing, golf and football, making cards the single most lucrative pastime in history.

Mansion – a Gibraltan-based online casino and sports betting operator – is set to cut a swathe through the competition when it enters the poker arena in February. It has struck a deal for six of the world’s best players to sit down this summer and play for $60m in the first of three multi-million dollar, winner-takes-all events, which will act as the jewel in the crown of the forthcoming Mansionpoker.net Pokerdome Series.