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Oh dear oh dear it’s just not looking great for Boy Wonder Danny Cipriani. He will now miss England’s tour of New Zealand after fracture dislocation of his right ankle during the Wasps’ 21 - 10 victory over Bath yesterday.

This is bad news and means that despite success for his squad in the semi-final play-offs, Cipriani will be out of action for the next six months, so he can kiss goodbye to the home autumn internationals against Australia, South Africa and New Zealand at Twickenham on 15 November. 

The injury came in the 49th minute as an Olly Barkley tackle meant Cipriani got stuck at the bottom of the pile. Tom Voyce was also taken off after a dislocated shoulder …

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On May 17th 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was formed. It was born from simple origins: the Buttonwood Agreement was named because 24 brokers signed a piece of scrap paper under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street.

Today, its trading floor has a continuous auction format which demands precise human interaction and rapid, expert judgement from its traders: in other words, it’s poker with a health plan.

Sadly, the history of poker is harder to trace, and not just because it is hard to find 24 players who will gather under a tree (that’s outside, for Christ’s sake!) and nod in agreement. Some say it has its origins in the Persian game ‘As Nas’, others hold that it was born in …

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Regular readers may remember that Poker Unclogged brings you strange poker tales every Tuesday. Sometimes that can involve back-breaking treks into the wilderness, our only company a mouse with a strange third button. (It must have been designed by a frustrated woman to help men locate the nub of the matter.) 

However on other occasions, stories are available on tap and all we have to do is sit at the bar and become intoxicated on their mind altering substance.

As an example of the latter, consider these two tales, one about poker and the other about an alleged crime:  – you have to work out which one is true.

There was a recent case of a man being conned out of $35,000. He …

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After a month of failing to land a single winner I´ve decided the key to this punting game is all about karma. Be decent and kind to thy fellow neighbours and a world of riches surely awaits I read somewhere.

On Saturday morning I helped my neighbour Harry lift his canoe onto the roof of his car lo and behold his namesake Redknapp went and won the FA Cup.

And yer man Kanu goes and scores the winning goal.

When I heard that John Terry parked his Bentley in a disabled space outside Pizza Express before going inside for some sit down nosh I immediately reviewed the odds on Manchester United winning this week´s Champions League final.

With a disgraceful act like …

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