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Many of us have learned and refined our game by watching televised poker and if there was one lesson you can take from the PartyPoker Big Game IV, it is just how powerful table image is. That is what the audience will take from David "Viffer" Peat who used the full 48 hours he played at the table to create and then exploit one of the loosest table images ever likely to be seen on screen.

Only two players lasted the full 48 hours in the game, Viffer and Neil Channing, who often tangled in some hugely deep stacked pots. Viffer came to the table playing like a maniac, overbetting...