Daily ReportProfit on Month £469.28Outstanding Bets £3832.26
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia1Hxq-NDNWdFk3UmlTSXMzTjRBTVNfOWRndVFsZHc&usp=drive_web#gid=32A profit of £720 yesterday thanks to
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From what i saw Martin played flawlessly. He had 6m of the 190m in play at 400-800k, played the short-stack then by the end was playing the big stack brilliantly. Tributes were effusive to his play
Here is the final hand
http://es.pn/1u9JTjA and interview
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11862965One of the thread's biggest ever wins, thanks to Neil and coincidentally it took Miscellaneous (poker, reality, dancing, esports, odds and sodds) to the second winningmost category in thread history, behind football
ongoing betsCarlsen had a bad day yesterday
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I was going to write it up, but couldn't beat the effort of our chess and sequin correspondent which i reproduce
"Eighteen months ago, people were chattering about how Anand v Carlsen was a poor match up and the sooner we got to see Carlsen play 12 games against Aronian the better. Aronian's fiery, complicated style is a perfect foil for Carlsen's quiet, suffocating grind.
Today, we got a glimpse of what that match would look like.
Anand, we all knew, had to work hard on opening preparation, because he would have to find ways of keeping positions unclear in the middlegame. There is no better exponent of that in chess today than the Armenian and Anand picked up on a game Aronian had played against England's Michael Adams in last year's Grand Slam Final in Bilbao. It had everything he wanted in being wild and impossible to calculate completely over the board. What's more, he found an improvement on the twentieth move and had it ready to go for today.
Football fans will know Tony Pulis is a brilliant manager for set pieces. His Stoke City team would score corners and the pundits would be salivating at the chance to pore over the replays in super slow motion to see what happened. The left back would start by backing into his marker. Then the centre half would run forwards and cut left towards the goal, as the corner was taken. Just as the ball approached, the striker would run in and use the space left behind the centre half and the left back to hammer it home, seemingly in acres of room. This was no coincidence, but hours of preparation on display.
Anand had his Pulis moment today. He had pretty much played this game out in his dreams. Everything fell into place exactly as he'd planned and Carlsen must have spent nineteen moves wondering what his opponent had got under his sleeve. Then he found out.
On Sunday, it was Anand who succumbed to time and over the board pressure to make a fatal error. This Timex when Carlsen blundered, the game was already lost. He fell hideously behind on the clock but this was primarily due to being less ready for this position. He had to work more out than his opponent and that's tough to do against anyone, even if you're the highest rated player in history.
This was a game Magnus was never going to be able to quell. It will be interesting to see if Anand plays the same moveswhen he next has White, just to test whether Carlsen has managed to find a response. If Carlsen is forced to do something else, it will be a big psychological victory for the Indian"
basketball
our teams in bold from last night
Dallas Mavericks 108-Sacramento Kings 96
Dirk Nowitzki became the ninth highest NBA scorer ever and the highest foreign born scorer, in this game
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Toronto Raptors 104-Orlando 100
The Raptors are now 7-1 on the season
San Antonio Spurs 113-Golden State Warriors 100
Duncan had a double double and Parker 28 points
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football
in the cofnference last night relegation bet Dover beat Braintree 1-0 to climb to 17th, three points above the relegation places
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