Lee Davy brings you up to speed on the latest changes to the Global Poker Index scoring formula while offering an opinion on why he would love to see Global Poker League matches accruing points towards the Index.

Poker is not an eSport, yet.

The game doesn’t need to flow into that slipstream – it has done mighty fine on its own for decades thank you very much – but as Paul Weller used to howl – this is the modern world.

eSports are growing faster than acne on a kid called dirty, greasy, spot-spots back. 250 million people are watching other people playing video games, and number crunchers believe betting operators will be earning $1.81 billion in revenues by 2020 with an estimated global wagering market of $23 billion.