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We love John Daly. Besides being the most talented golfer in the world (if he practised as much as Tiger Woods he´d be too good for anyone), he´s also a blinding songwriter too.

One of his best songs is called "All My Exes Wear Rolexes" on account of previous wives who have taken him to the cleaners. Most men would be battled scarred for life but Long John soldiers on.

He´s hit the headlines this week for a public spat with nauseating American golf coach-cum-pundit Butch Harmon.

Harmon, who along with the rest of the sycophants on the Sky Sports golf team consistently subject viewers to a painful periods of old boy network back slapping, recently sacked Daly over suspicions of heavy …

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This weekend will see the climax of the Olympic Open Championship at the Olympic Casino, Tallinn, Estonia. The two day Hold ‘em freezeout event will begin at 6 pm today, local time, and players who are eager to pay the €1050 buy-in are advised by a Tallinn tourist site to ‘be prepared, be active, be curious’.

Quite.

Plenty of side games are expected and smaller tournaments have been running all week, including one called ‘Texas Terminator’. If there are any enlightened folk out there who are aware of the nature of this event, please post a comment: it has the team at Bodog scratching body parts at a level not seen since Alf brought in the itching powder. We would particularly like …

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It is good to see that the CAPT event taking place at Casinos Austria, Innsbruck is including a €200 Pot Limit tournament, which started at 2pm today.

Pot Limit deserves a wider audience. In most scenarios, players are unable to cram their chips into the middle, pre flop and so it forces them to make more decisions, playing down the streets: it can easily been seen as the thinking person’s game of poker. It’s never been very popular in America. Make of that what you will.

In Pot Limit, it is pretty impossible to force players, pre-flop, off their small to mid pairs so you see a lot more flopped sets. This is where the game becomes particularly interesting. Experienced  Hold ‘em …

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Welcome back to our tournament tips column.

If you have been following our posts every Friday, you may recall that we noted that these events require that you remain calm amidst the pressure of a ticking bomb. Well, this time, we will guide you through the period of the tournament up to the bubble. This is when the tick-tick provides the strongest influence on play. Most players become highly cautious, desperate to make sure they are not the player to depart one off the money. 

This section of play also forces you to think about what you want from the tournament.

Do you want to try and win it or is it more important for you to finish in the money?

Obviously, the biggest …

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The F Word, starring the chef with the lived in face, is on its way back.  We know this for two reasons. Number one reason is the F Word trailer on the tellybox last night.   A bit of a giveaway we must admit but we did rather enjoy the Richard the Great / Aragorn/ King Theoden pastiche that Channel 4 has knocked up to publicise the televisual event of next week.

Number two reason is opening every single bloody newspaper today to see Gordon Ramsey’s mug staring out at us.  We like shouty Gordon but did spend too much time ironing the newspapers to get the creases out only to realise they were Gordon’s facial lines / gorges / valleys whatever …

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It looks like Cher is a right bundle of information. We’re really being treated to it, what with her admitting that she almost fell in love with pint-sized Sci freak Tom Cruise, there are now more gems of wisdom to enjoy! This time the cannon-straddling, crotch-less pant wearing ageless singer has added marriage guidance to her repertoire.

But who’s life we hear you cry? None other than the full junked trunk of Tina Turner. Actually we’re not having a pop at Cher or Tina for that matter and we take women’s lib very seriously indeed.

Tina was ‘fessing up to the totally inspiration that Cher was to her back in the day when she was married to abusive husband Ike Turner.  The …

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ITV what can you do with them eh?  If it’s not rigging phone votes, producing crap like Britain’s Got Talent, rigging phone votes, fleecing viewers of cash in rigged phone votes it’s now revealed that it er, rigged a phone vote.

This time though it’s not ITV’s fault, no it’s alien seeking porker Robbie Williams’ , well kind of.  It appears that in 2005 some wise soul at the channel thought that it might be a nice idea to give Ant and Dec the People Choice award at that year’s Comedy Awards.

Robbie was still a bit of a draw back in 2005 and would only appear at the show if he could present an award to his Geordie japester mates.  So …

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It´s interesting to see that some Newcastle fans are declaring Kevin Keegan´s recent comments directed towards owner Mike Ashley as "harmless". I´ve always found that a difficult word to define.

When I was a nipper I remember my younger brother doing a "harmless" poo in the bath but as it floated towards me it may as well have been a torpedo.

Football club owners have notoriously massive egos, that´s why they are football club owners. And Kev publicly airing that Ashley won´t be giving him much dough to spend this summer has clearly prickled the sports retail magnate.

Keegan has been "summoned" in Henry VIII-like fashion to a London summit to explain his comments. Will his head be stuck on a spike …

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We’ve all said it about old Keira Knightley, how that ridiculous pout gets up our bleeding wick! She’s been slated left, right and centre for posing too much and doing her trout pout special everywhere she goes! But it seems that the self-confessed moody babe has even had enough of it herself.

She says that she doesn’t do it on purpose and that it just happens, apart from the fact that her pout’s as famous as Posh’s, she reckons it’s all down to a nervous disposition. Ah love, here’s what she said:

"I think I was pouty when I was 16 or 17 when (my) first films came out and it’s sort of stuck. I don’t know, maybe I still do …

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No one likes cry baby. But this is exactly what "obnoxious little weed" Harbhajan Singh is becoming. When he’s not whingeing and mouthing off he’s stamping his feet. His last exploit in loss of control on the pitch involved Sree Santh and led to an 11 match ban for the duration of the Indian Premier League (IPL).

But it seems that Singh has seen the light and is remorseful - or bored. As such he has lodged an appeal with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Which probably went something like this: "Honest Guvs I’ve seen the error of me ways, my slapping days are behind me, I can change - promise. On me Great Aunt Meena’s life. …

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