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Poker boys hold the ace - 2004-01-30
Every punter knows what it feels like to have too put much money one horse race. The stomach tightens, the mouth goes dry and, just occasionally, you wonder whether you would be better off taking up something less stressful like basket weaving.

Consider that feeling, then treble it, and you are close to what Jerry Wright and his mates will be going through when Tiutchev bids to win the Servo Computer Services Ascot Chase for the third time tomorrow.

Wright, along with Terry Benson, Steve Burke, Nigel Holmes and Bill McGregor, race the gelding under the banner of the Liars Poker syndicate.
Read the full story at This is London

Are you ready for some ... poker? - 2004-01-30
If someone had told you a few years ago that a major television network hoped to grab a nice little portion of the Super Bowl pre-game audience by broadcasting a poker tournament, you’d have looked at him as though he had three nostrils.

If someone told you that today, you’d probably ask, “What channel?” and make a mental note to check it out.

That, at least, is what NBC, a partner with Microsoft in MSNBC, is hoping. From 4-6 p.m. ET on Super Bowl Sunday, while CBS is into its fifteenth or sixteenth hour of pre-game features, NBC will air the World Poker Tour Tournament of Champions from the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
Read the full story at MSNBC