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The popularity of poker throughout the whole of Europe was underlined this weekend at the Casino Austria Graz. It hosted the CAPT Graz €2,000 NL tournament and no fewer than five nations were represented in the final ten players.

105 entrants created a prize pool of €199,500 and the lion’s share went to Piotr Jopp, a Pole celebrating his first tournament win. When the €57,850 is plonked into his bank account, we are sure he will want to reproduce the feelings of euphoria and it will be difficult to keep him away from the tables.

Slightly lower down the podium was another newcomer, Austrian Christian Zeibeck, who stashed 41,890 for his second place.

Completing the one-two-three was a countryman of …

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Blimey is Jennifer Aniston unlucky in love or what? One minute it’s all roses and loved up public displays of affection, the next its Splittsville. But from the sounds of it her recent relationship with singer John Mayer looks like a lucky escape!

Now we’re not being funny, Jen’s no Angelina but she’s still totally hot and we at Beat UK most certainly would kick her out of bed or anywhere else for that matter.

We wouldn’t do what the juvenile (aye we admit he looks about ten in that photo, what were you thinking Jen?!!) Mister Mayer has been doing, that’s for sure. But then how would you feel if your older, rather hot and somewhat wealthy, film star …

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We´ve got a sneaking feeling that Manchester United are going to get blown away by Chelsea in this season´s title race.

Compare Sunday´s efforts against Newcastle at Old Trafford where Sir Alex McTaggart´s side were only good enough to earn a draw with what happened over at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea absolutely mullered Portsmouth (who incidentally are a far better side than Newcastle) 4-0 to leave big Phil Scolari´s boys top of the Premiership after week one. Joe Cole, Nicolas Anelka, Frank Lampard and new signing Deco were all on the mark in the 4-0 rout against the FA Cup winners.

And to hear Ferguson already moaning about the fixture list must be music to Chelsea ears.

"We have been handicapped by the fixture …

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