After finishing second in the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, I was invited by WSOPE organiser Harrah’s to play a WSOP Circuit event in New Orleans. (Nothing to do with the fact that the winner, Annette Obrestad, is still too young to play in the US, of course!)

As well as wanting to play in my first World Series Circuit event, I’d also heard that New Orleans was a party town, so accepting the invite was a no-brainer.

The centre of the city in the deep south of America is amazing and a great place to go out, despite the outskirts still showing the effects of Hurricane Katrina.