Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of EasyJet, the low-cost airline, may introduce poker to his EasyCruise ship to cover costs as it crosses the Atlantic to its winter home in the Caribbean.

As he travelled to Barbados this weekend to launch the low-budget, orange-coloured cruise ship in the Americas, Mr Haji-Ioannou was mulling how to make the ship's transatlantic crossing "sellable".