On its first birthday – exactly one year to the day after it was founded in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 29 April 2009 – the International Federation of Poker (IFP) has today achieved its first major objective – to have poker officially accepted as a ‘mind-sport’, on a par with chess and bridge.

Gus Hansen risks more than money when he steps into the boxing ring to face off against fellow poker champ Theo Jorgensen in a full-fledged boxing match aimed at settling old scores.