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Bodog Sport is right in the thick of what bears all the hallmarks of being the greatest 100 metre battle of all time between Tyson Gay, Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell.

Until this week many believed it was strictly a two-man fight between Gay and world record holder Bolt but Powell´s triumph over Bolt in Stockholm has altered the form radically.

The current odds are Gay 5/4, Bolt 7/4 and Powell 11/4.

The win in Sweden must have been sweet revenge for Powell, who saw fellow Jamaican Bolt claim his world record in June. The 25-year-old scorched home in 9.88 seconds - a hundredth of a second ahead of Bolt to give him his third straight Stockholm win.

Bolt established the new world …

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The multi-event Poker Worthersee Trophy concluded on Sunday at the Casino Capt Velden, and there were plenty leaving the Austrian holiday resort with prizes in their pockets.

The main event, Saturday’s two-day, €2,000NL tournament was won by Stefan Rapp, who is clearly having a good summer. By beating 185 other players and scooping €95,420, he adds a 1st place to the two cashes he achieved in this year’s WSOP.

Although the Hold ‘em event had the biggest buy-in, it was Thursdays No Limit 7 card stud tournament that boasted the Worthersee Trophy.

This coveted piece of silverware is the casino’s way of trying to keep the flips flopping through their doors at a time when other parts of the town are …

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For this week’s Poker Unclogged we are going to examine some of Doyle Brunson’s advice from his 1984 book, Poker Wisdom of a Champion.

Doyle believes that most ‘players would do well to examine themselves carefully before every game’, and given that he is regularly touted as one of the best three individuals ever to peep at pocket aces, his words might be worthy of consideration. Keeps them moving and look at

So, as most people should recognise that playing in the wrong frame of mind can be a wonderful method of shovelling cash to your opponents, let’s have a look at ‘Texas Dolly’s’ seven point checklist.

1. Have you had enough sleep? If no, don’t play.

(Bear in mind it …

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Beat is never one to jump straight into a story head first without checking the full facts and developing a well rounded opinion.  That’s why we’ve waited until today to add our two penneth worth into the Peaches Geldof mysterious ‘OD’ story.

It appears that there are a few theories for Peaches little resuscitation incident knocking about, with the current favourites being her ‘competitive’ dieting or the hair dye she uses to dye her hair blonde.

She hasn’t been snorting lines of ammonia or injecting Just for Men into her eyeballs as far as we can make out but according the Ooh Ahh Daily Star she forgot to open a window before she started dying her hair ahead of Monday’s Batman premiere.  …

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