When VNUnet contacted ComputerActive reader Stan Harris to tell him that he had won the prize to go to the CES show at Las Vegas courtesy of our partners at the world poker tour (WPT), he initially thought it was another one of those irritating sales calls we all seem to get when we are in the shower or just leaving the house.

"I thought it was someone trying to flog me a time share at first," Stan said but when he was told it was for real he was delighted because he said he had never "won" anything in his life before and had never been to the US.

Now, Stan and his wife Jean are hooked on Vegas and hope to return. In preparation for the trip, Stan also told us that his daughter had bought him a poker set in anticipation. So watch out users of VNUnet's poker rooms, you might see our Vegas high rollers in the rooms very soon.