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For this week’s Poker Unclogged we are going to read the scriptures of poker pro and all-round good tomato Steve Ruddock.

A while ago, Steve decided to issue The Ten Commandments of Poker, presumably because He had had found two odd tablets and thought He was God.

Having spent time in Vegas, He had plenty of opportunity to reflect on the moral challenges of the 21st century and, to offset the risk of coveting the button-player’s cocktail-waitress, He channelled His mental energies to poker teaching.

We at Bodog are proud to reproduce His commandments. We will also stoke controversy by providing out own interpretation of the sacred words and thus show our followers the path to enlightenment.

Poker be with you.

1. Thou …

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And so to the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas where, after a punishing sequence of four separate ‘Day Ones’, a few details are starting to emerge about the main event of the 2008 WSOP.

We know that our estimate of the number of players was woefully inadequate as there was an impressive total of 6844 bold hopefuls who all forked out $10k and created a prize pool of - get this - $64,333,600.

Scarily, for those followers of omens and other such irrational shite, the minimum payout of $21,230 will be awarded to the top 666.

However, the player who emerges as the prince(ss) of darkness (in four months’ time) will bank $9,119,517.

Here is something that will …

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Didn’t think it would stay quiet for long. Real Madrid chief Ramon Calderon might have claimed last week that Real Madrid wouldn’t interfere in the Cristiano Ronaldo saga. But Beat reckons he’s been telling porkie pies. He’s only gone and started stirring things up again, hasn’t he?

“Manchester should not be angry,” smirked Calderon. “We cannot be blamed if nearly every player wants to come to Real Madrid. If I was Manchester United, I would be happy and proud to be able to negotiate such a transfer for one of my players. Everything would be a lot easier of United realised that they could pull off the transfer of the century.”

What a smarmy, cheeky so-and-so, eh? So now Calderon reckons United …

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Who could forget the glory days of the summer of 2005, when England finally recaptured the coveted Ashes by beating Australia? Beat still gets misty-eyed thinking about that – and no-one who watched England’s finest triumph for 20-odd years can forget the four men who bowled us to victory. Their names are etched in our memories like tattoos on skin: Freddie Flintoff. Simon Jones. Steve Harmison. Matthew Hoggard.

Yet, that Ashes series was the very last time all four played together. After that, the awesome foursome were decimated by injury and loss of form – Jones has suffered a terrible time, with setback after setback, while Flintoff has struggled for much of the last year. Hoggard and Harmison have seen a …

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