GG Krasniqi

Arben Krasniqi owns a cafe in Tirana and treats every game as a final, every roll as either a triumph or a robbery, and every double as something a man simply does not decline. Two players, though, he regards as a waste of an evening. Faced with a one-on-one he will get up, walk the room, and come back with a third and often a fourth, and only then sit down properly. What he wants out of a night of chips is the number of people round the board rather than the size of the pile, and the crew at his own place rarely breaks up before three. He is never the last to leave, since he owns the keys.