Marc Goodwin took down the fourth leg of this year ’s GUKPT in emphatic fashion, beating 308 opponents and recording one of the biggest wins of his career as he cashed for over £90,000.

From the opening hand onwards Goodwin played perfect ‘power’ poker, growing his chipstack from 10k to 150k in record time – and that was just on the first day. ‘I must have got to 50k unchallenged,’ he says. ‘I was just raising, raising, raising, pushing on the medium-sized stacks.’

Goodwin admits he got the cards as well but believes that were it not for his loose image, he could never have got paid off in the ways he did.