I was never a professional poker player, but for many years I was a regular in cash games. In 2005 I had even managed to build up a substantial poker bankroll. So, like Matt Damon in Rounders, I made my way to the desert that summer to play in the $10,000 main event of World Series of Poker (WSOP) to see if the $7.5 million prize for first place had my name on it (spoiler alert: it didn’t).