In a tournament environment, when someone loses all their chips and "busts out" of the competition, a re-draw takes place so that each of the tables has an equal number of players sat at each writes Matthew Pitt.

The main reasons for this is so there is not one particular table that gains an advantage by playing more hands per hour or benefits from short-handed play whilst the other tables are playing with a full quota.

If the tournament is especially prestigious, such as the World Series of Poker Europe, television crews like to focus on any table that has an unusual number of well-known players seated at it.

One such "feature" table was formed during Day 3 of the 2007 WSOPE at the Empire Casino, Leicester Square. For the neutral poker fan, it was a dream table but to anyone unfortunate enough to be seated at it, it could be described as a nightmare scenario.

The table included Patrick Antonius, Gus "Great Dane" Hansen and the likeable Canadian, Daniel Negreanu. Between the three of them, they have won one European Poker Tour, one Aussie Millions, three World Series of Poker bracelets and an astonishing six World Poker Tour titles!

As the cameras started rolling, Gus Hansen summed it up best when he stated, "I don't like this table!"

It did not take long for one of the "big three" to eliminate one of the lesser-known players at the feature table. With the blinds set at 800/1600 with a 200 running ante, the 4,200 starting pot was large enough to steal and looked appealing to some of the shorter stacks at the table.

Erik Joergensen was one such player nursing a small stack of chips and when he was dealt Ac Kc under-the-gun, the seat to the immediate left of the big blind, he promptly moved all in for 28,600.

Daniel Negreanu paused before putting in another raise, holding Js Jd, one of the top five hands in Hold'em.

Everyone to the left of Negreanu quickly folded their hands but Patrick Antonius, in the big blind, woke up with a pair of tens. After a few moments of deliberation, Antonius folded, realising that after an opening raise and a re-raise his medium pair was likely to be beaten.

Sportingly, Negreanu wishes his opponent good luck but he was the one needing some luck when the flop came 6c 4s Ad, making him a 92% underdog in the hand.

As the jack of clubs peeled off on the turn, Negreanu pump the air with his fist and let out an expression of joy before telling his opponent not to leave yet as the turn card had given Joergensen a draw to the nut flush.

Unfortunately for Joergensen, it was not to be his day as the eight of hearts fell on the river, meaning his pair of aces had lost to Negreanu's set of jacks.

As Negreanu raked in the 65,200 pot, he looked at a deflated Joergensen and softly announced he was "sorry about that."