This year’s Main Event winner – the inescapably likeable Jerry Yang – played like a man possessed on the final table. And that’s because in a way, he was. Yang was often seen praying at the table and, according to an interview he gave after his victory, in front of a toilet during the breaks.

In his exit interview Yang told a reporter, ‘I give all the glory to God. He really helped me. I’m victorious today because of him’. If that’s the case, it was hardly a fair contest...

Even as an atheist I’d have second thoughts about playing against someone who felt there was a he/ she/it out there manipulating the odds in their favour as part of a divine plan.