Imagine the scene, you are losing heavily, the tournament organisers have been cutting back on expenses. Another internet player has called your bet with a pair of Tens and you have 3 6’s and the ‘turn’ and ‘river’ gives your opponent a flush therefore kicking you out of the game. What would you do?

Well I must admit that I am surprised that this type of robbery has never happened before. When I started playing poker it was very illegal and the sorts of people who played poker or more correctly 3 card brag, at the time, were the sorts of people you had a row with over spilt beer. If you had the temerity to try and steal some money you ran the risk of being stabbed, glassed or both.

Nowadays the game seems to be populated by computer nerds and geeks who see it as the height of fashion to look like an extra in one of those numerously depressing vampire films. So why not steal 800,000 Euros from the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Germany, which is lying around in a bog standard hotel, being looked after by security guards straight from a temporary staffing agency.

So there you go a backdrop to Germany’s very own Oceans Eleven and its funny how life and art looks so different. Fair play to the robbers, probably some desperate East German gambler with a larger criminal plan in mind.

Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010

Playing poker at night i have become an expert on winter sports because the TV has been constantly on and all those women whooping and hollering while the sweep the ice after chucking a lump of stone on it has been quite amusing.

Grinding at poker can be very boring so having the odd diversion is a welcome incident. Usually i surf the papers between hands  but the Olympics is much better. I have read somewhere that some bright spark wants to have poker as an Olympic event! Well if synchronized swimming and rhythmic dancer can be an Olympic event then why not poker.

A load of unhealthy looking guys and gals with dodgy baseball caps the wrong way on their heads, with over sized sunglasses and covering their head with hoodie jumpers may not be the height of fitness, but, there is a certain amount of mental agility needed to play poker for hours upon hours.

The money angle maybe a bit of a problem but i am sure the International Olympic Committee will sort that out because they are used to corruption and fiddling expenses. So hopefully by 2024 or some far away distance Texas Hold Em and Omaha will have drug cheat expose as do the other events.

For a laugh I have been playing on websites that have a lot of Canadians and Americans on them so that i can take pot shots at my opponents especially if they have lost a major event. It is a bit puerile but poker is like psychological warfare and if you can get an advantage on your opponent then use it.

I might get booted off for bad manners but hey there are other poker sites to play on and you will never go short of online poker.

Bad etiquette can be very profitable ask the Sex Pistols or N.W.A they made masses amount of money being obnoxious so if you want to rile your opponent find out what really gets on their nerves such as bad body odour, or a food smell. If online find out if they are a Sarah Palin or an Barack Obama supporter and then give them hell. You would be surprised how these two subjects can lead to fireworks. Fireworks lead to chaos, and, chaos leads to cash. Try saying Sarah Palin maybe hot but she is daft as a brush, or, that Barack Obama is Irish and came from County Kenya in Northern Ireland.

The same applies to other countries - you will find there is always something they do not like about their country, culture or customs. Niggling at these silly little things can push a person into full tilt which is  good!

However be prepared to have the same done to your country. When this happens then you can guess what they are upto and act accordingly. The only badd thing with the strategy is when you get beaten or suck out really badly. In which case i suggest disconnecting really quickly!

John Terry

A new morality tale is unfolding in West London and it features the toxic mix of money, gambling, sex, class politics, football and drink. The England captain has been caught with his hands in his best friends former girlfriends knickers. He tried to get the courts to ban the news therefore stop the whole country from reading about it - this failed and now it will be plastered all around countries newspaper. The reason why this is big news is that in some peoples eyes being captain of England is more important than being Prime Minister of The UK.

John Terry has constantly been surrounded by this type of situation. In the old Daily Digest #43 his mother and mother in law were caught shop lifting and were given a caution. His dad was filmed acting like a drug dealer selling a few grams of cocaine to a news reporter. John Terry himself was reprimanded for making drunken fun of American tourist who were in a state of distress when they watch the attack of the Twin Towers on 9/11 at Heathrow Airport.

He has been constantly caught out having sex with numerous women, each time his wife has forgiven him,  he has been caught out trying to make a quick pound out of some racket or another. The latest racket he has been involved in was offering tours around Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge - his football club for £10,000! Why is he doing these things?

Quite simply John Terry is a gambler and likes to take risk and if you constantly take risk you will get caught out every now and then. It is an urban legend that John Terry was losing £40,000 per week! OK he is on £170,000 per week at Chelsea plus his numerous endorsement making his wealth to be about £17 million so he is not in the poor house, however, if this is true then he is want is known in the trade as a mug gambler.

As a mug gambler there is a need to replenish resources constantly and John Terry exhibits these qualities in abundance. So he has to get another source of income other than the day job. Some mug punters have a second job others use credit cards, some even resort to robbery or fraud. The fact is mug punters lose and lose heavily, hence their need to stock up the bank balance. In fact the whole family seem to be mug punters as I detailed above.

John Terry last big bet was trying to gag the countries newspapers to stop the story going out about his relationship with his best friends ex who is also mother to his child. Apparently Wayne Bridge is spitting fire at the ‘betrayal’ with his long time girlfriend Vanessa Perroncel - a lingerie model. Wayne Bridge has just recently broke up with Vanessa Perroncel and has made it be known that he will have nothing to do with John Terry - which makes it a bit difficult since they are both in the England national side.

Will John Terry lose the England captaincy - you betcha! The surprising thing about this tale is that it wasn’t about his wife knowing it was more about him losing the very lucrative sponsorship deals, just like the Tiger Woods saga. The difference being this could be the destroying of John Terry because unlike Tiger Woods Terry likes to gamble and gamble big. He bets at rubbish odds and is known as a mug punter. This could be the beginning of the end for John Terry - not good if you want to win the World Cup 2010.

Here are the videos of john Terry’s dad doing the drug deal and John Terrys mom and mother in law tale about shoplifting.

The November Nine 2009

We are looking for the next WSOP Champion. To do this we will be prepared to back all bloggers who contribute to this website and are willing to keep us updated with their progress.

Our backing will be financial and we will expect a split (70:30 in favour of the player).  Obviously we are taking a risk and therefore we will need people with the mental capacity to grind out a place like last years third Antoine Saout who was our pick when he was a massive 18/1.

More updates of this new and special scheme when we get them watch this space.

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