The €15m

I told Mum I was busy stacking shelves when I taught myself to play.. I once left with 1m euros stuffed in my backpack

a week in the early days. Meeting Katie – then a poker agent – helped achieve some balance in his life. They enjoyed a dream wedding in Los Angeles in 2015.

His prize pot to date includes more than €11million from online and €3.5million at live events.

But it took a while to master face-to-face poker. He says: “I didn’t make my first final table for four years, even though I was ranked No1 online.

“I was giving away information with my face, I didn’t feel 100 per cent comfortable. But I built my confidence and have been pretty consistent since 2011.”

Despite his wealth, Chris says he leads a relatively modest lifestyle. He doesn’t drive and isn’t interested in designer clothes.

While based in Vegas with Katie, 35, he spends most of the time on the road – often renting pads on Airbnb. Holidays are his main passion.

He adds: “I once chartered a helicopter with a fellow poker player and our girlfriends to Catalina Island, off California, where we rented an 80-person catamaran just for four of us.

“Then there was cage diving with great white sharks in South Africa, paragliding off a mountain in New Zealand, scuba diving in the Maldives and watching Andy