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We now have the November 9.

After four day ones, two day twos and the following days three, four, five and six, even hardened poker journalists, accustomed to the Vegas time distortion, were at sixes and sevens.

Twenty seven players remained from the field of 6,844 at the start of day seven.  Two thirds of the remainder would have to slope home, a mere quarter of a million dollars richer, but no doubt plagued by thoughts of ‘what if?’

Although the November 9 will now have plenty of time to waste thinking about how they will play when they eventually return in 117 days, the man most likely to need the assistance of the trauma team is Dean Hamrick. When he pushed …

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Oh lordy the Bodog phone has been ringing off the hook, why you may ask? Because Cristiano Ronaldo has seen sense and dumped the alleged gold-digging girlfriend Nereida Gallardo and her glitz ‘n’ glam loving ways. The phone calls don’t come from grieving fans but from celebrating sports professionals, aye indeed half the Manchester United crew has been shoving their ten penn’orth at us.

It seemed that the perky young model was becoming too much of a distraction for Ron and if truth be told he wasn’t liking her loose tongue shall we say. All those tittle-tattling tabloid dealings seemed to have rubbed him up the wrong way, mind you the lad is bound to be a bit tetchy what with …

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A man named Paul Judge first introduced me to the nuances of golf betting from the top floor of a rented apartment in Gibraltar. The monitor screen listed Scotland´s Gordon Brand Jnr in a match bet with a promising up and coming Argentinean called Angel Cabrera.

"I´m just about to buy myself a BMW 3 series," he enthused, rubbing his hands together as he logged into one of his several online accounts. "Do you fancy one as well? This lad Cabrera will eat little Gordon for breakfast, Jo Brand would have more chance chief."

After such a strong opinion I just had to have a punt, big for me, but nothing on the scale of the Judge - who is now …

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