What would you do if you were offered tuition from one of the most mercurial young players around, and a free bankroll with which to try out their white-knuckle moves? You’d probably bite off the hand that said knuckles belonged to... and your own mother’s nose if you thought it might help!

This kind of offer doesn’t come around every day, so when WSOP Europe runner-up John Tabatabai offered to mentor me as a Badbeat trader, my notice was being pushed towards the editor of this mag faster than a Hellmuth all-in call. My new bankroll is $500 a day and the task ahead is simple: if I win consistently I get more (Badbeat gets 50 percent of my profits); if I lose, my daily limits start shrinking until – worst case scenario – I’m down and out.

But that’s not going to happen...