The best hands are a royal flush (ace, king, queen, jack and 10 of the same suit), straight flush (five cards from the same suit in order) and four of a kind - for example four aces. Next is the full house (three of a kind plus a pair), flush (five cards of the same suit), straight (five cards in order but of different suits), three of a kind, two pair and then a pairThe first round gave me a queen and a four and, although conventional wisdom would say fold, I started upping the bets.
With the others convinced a first-timer wouldn't bluff, I took one of my rivals all the way to the end, when a queen was dealt to give me a winning pair, knocking him out.
One opponent down and four to go, I was now £250,000 better off and starting to get a taste for this. In our last round, it was all or nothing. I was sitting on a pot of £400,000, with a queen and a four again. Time to go 'all in' - and bet the lot.
I prayed for a good card and couldn't stop smiling as I was dealt two fours, giving me three of a kind with a queen 'kicker', as well as £900,000.
I retired undefeated and richer, if only in imaginary money.
Confidence soaring, I asked for an entry form for the competition.
But I was refused entry to the Student Championships - on the flimsy grounds that I wasn't a student.
The winner, international relations student Calum MacNicol, 21, lifted £1180 and a place at this year's Poker World Series in Las Vegas
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