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The poker community’s collective esteem is taking a bit of a kicking right now. The eyes of the sporting world are turning to Beijing and the Adonises of the felt are feeling a bit left out. Unbelievably, poker is still deemed to be unworthy of the Olympics.

That is the first cause for depression.

Secondly, the players have had the final of the ultimate test delayed for four months so a TV company can sell more advertising space to breweries.

It is little wonder that the top chip-rifflers of the circuit are contemplating a call to the trauma team.

Normally, they would console themselves with some top dollar action and then, after the lady has left the buffalo suite with …

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You can tell just what kind of shape English cricket is in when the two most plausible candidates to replace Michael Vaughan as skipper are two South African ringers - Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Strauss.

As a general rule of thumb you can gauge how badly a nation has been performing when it reaches for a foreigner to lead them out of the darkness.

Take football for instance. Following the debacle of Steve McLaren our magnificent FA has turned to Italian Fabio Capello to take the nation to untold glory at the 2010 World Cup.

But to hear Capello moaning about the percentage English players to choose from in the Premiership it´s peasy to work out what he privately thinks about …

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