‘I was third in chips at the beginning of the final table and as I sat down I realised that my position was very good, so I thought that I had a shot. I had small stacks to my left, big stacks to my right along with a tight player. I knew I could take advantage of it as it allowed me to pick up many small pots.

‘The key moment of the final table was when I bust Sherkhan Farnood. He was the chip leader at the start of the final table but by the time this hand came up I had something like 150,000 chips more than him.

‘He limped under the gun and I raised with A♦-A-7♦-6.