/ Editor / 06 December 2007 / Leave a comment

IN the pages of the Lincolnshire Echo - "one of Lincolnshire's leading newspapers" - we read: "CABBIE SCOOPS £15,000 POKER JACKPOT."

Reading on, we learn the good news that "poker-faced amateur gambler Steve Reed cleaned up when he won £15,000 at the table".

Such news items things follow the convention. Poker players are always "poker faced". And as the Fifth Rule Of Journalism states: "A person's livelihood should be mentioned at the earliest possibly moment."

We trust Mr Reed is not always poker faced, and on winning his money morphed his features into a poker smile.

Mr Reed has won money at Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham, the UK's first legal bricks and mortar poker club. (You can, of course, play poker online at Betfair - and with a bonus - without the need to journey to Nottingham.)

"It was a really tough match," says Mr Reed. "We started at 7.30pm on Saturday and played through until five o'clock the next morning. At that stage the field had been whittled down to 11. Then it was back to it at 5.30pm on Sunday, through till 11pm. In the end it was down to a heads-up, which is one-on-one, with me and a Scandinavian guy. They normally last about 10 to 15 minutes. Ours went on for three hours - it was pretty tense."

Congratulations to him. Poker faces all round...

Tags: Dusk Till Dawn