Still Alive

Managed a small profit with Midnight Gold winning, no others got placed.

The first race of the day offers us some each way thievery.

Cartmel
2.00 Lake Wakatipu (11/8f) should have won last time and should be on a hat-trick today, however he managed to throw his jockey off when all set. He's a worthy favourite. However there is a little value in picking out Elusive Swallow (25/1) to get a place. His 2 races so far have been over fences and he's not set the world alight with 2 4ths. 3m looked too far over the jumps and 21/2$ m on the short side. 2m6f over hurdles could light his fire and he could be a steal here.

Epsom
8.20 Stanley Goodspeed (10/1, betfred) is another that is overpriced. 10/1 isn't an ew shot (in my book) so it may have to be on the nose. Getting some sort of form back recently with decent runs in May.

Doncaster
8.40 Tough handicap, but Huirlingham (16/1, Ladbrokes, Skybet) looks overpriced. This race should suit him and so should the ground which he hasn't had since a 4th at Nottingham.

Cricket
The 2nd Test starts today. It's still 0-0 thanks to the bowlers. England will need to bat a lot better on a good batting pitch and bowl 100 times better here. I expect Flintoff (injured) and Panesar (pants) to drop out. That means they may play 6 batsmen (I hope not) or Onions, swing king and headline-writers dream (there's definitely 2 more Tests in them anyway) . Harmison is a shoo-in judging by the pie-chuckers of the 1st test. I'm hoping that Swann and Broad batting at 7 and 8 will be good enough....... ANYWAYS....... BARMY ARMY... BARMY ARMY *hic*

WSOP Main Event
I have a small problem. The 'November 9' are now set after 8 days of hard graft. It looks a great final table with the UK's James Akenhead, who got really unlucky to lose to Grant Hinkle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fRaTnpd9mE and Jeff Shulman. The problem I have is a small 'fun' wager I had with a fellow contributor. He asked for 500/1 on Phil Ivey to win the Main Event. Piece of piss (66/1 was best price on t'internet) there are 6500 players after all.

Phil Ivey is one of the 'November 9'. FECK FECK FECK ........ Don't worry it's only for £2..... so I will be working doubly hard to make myself a grand in the hand here, just in case.
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You work hard for 8 days, you get up to £20m in chips, one of the big stacks of the tournament and the cooler hits you full in the face...... harsh

Billy Kopp Eliminated in 12th Place ($896,730)

Wow. That's a succinct description of what just happened on the secondary feature table. Billy Kopp opened for 600,000 preflop from early position and was called by the small blind, Darvin Moon. So far, so good. On a flop of , Moon had first action and checked. He then called when Kopp bet 750,000. Again, nothing out of the ordinary yet. It was on the turn where everything went haywire. Moon checked again and drew a bet of 2.0 million from Kopp. Moon then check-raised to 6.0 million. Improbably, Kopp moved all in for about 20.0 million total. Even more improbably, Moon called! Kopp: Moon: Kopp looked like he wanted to cry when he saw Moon's hand. He knew that he was drawing dead and that Moon had him covered. Kopp had more than 80 big blinds to start the hand; with the river he had none. He didn't even wait for the river to come out, barreling out of the secondary feature table area as fast as he could. Moon is once again the chip leader with a whopping 45.0 million chips.