Season 4 of the Singapore Poker Championships breezed onto the high seas last weekend, and what an electrifying start to the season it was. The SPC hit its third consecutive 300+ Main Event field, numbers which augur well for the growth of the sport in our region. The weekend saw Jaden Lim nab the SPC XII Main Event after a deep FT run in SPC XI, while SPC heart-throb ‘Major’ Ricky Foo bagged his first series trophy with a triumph in the Short-Deck. Congratulations are also in order to Lim Min Soon, whom the SPC surprised with its premiere (and it has to be said, long overdue) Triple Crown Trophy - an award for winning the SPC’s High Roller, Main, and Side events.

Also, we would be remiss to not afford (dis)honourable mentions to our merry band of Yellow-Shirts: a group of players in luminous yellow t-shirts with an unflattering (but not indecent) image printed on the front. At first glance they resembled an amateur lion-dance troupe. Or possibly they intended to picket and protest the quality of the SPC’s Copags. Turns out they were merely on the wrong end of a prop bet. It’s heartening to see that poker players, like Lannisters, always pay their debts.