A weekend of British Almost in Australia

Australia proved to be an unhappy gambling ground for punters this weekend as the English cricket team lost the fifth ODI and with it the series. While Andy Murray went out in the Australian Open final to Novak Djokovic, English poker professionals James Keys and Chris Moorman despite reaching the final table, lost out coming second and eighth respectfully. 

England cricket started the weekend of woe when they suffered their fourth defeat to lose by 51 runs. Australia looked like they had set England an achievable target of 250 but this was not the case. Andrew Strauss later said that the team had to learn to bat smarter if they were to win, bookmakers had made England evens going into the match but Australia were the better odds at 4/5. 

Andy Murray experienced a similar mauling at the tennis open final in Melbourne that never really saw him sparkle, the Serbian, Novak Djokovic finished him off in three straight sets 6-4, 6-2, 6-3. The betting odds were in Murray’s favour and bookies believed he could finally break the 75 years British hoodoo but it wasn’t to be as Djokovic played a powerful controlled game, which by the second set saw the Scot losing his way. 

Even on the poker tables British interest wasn’t able to scale the heights and despite a good week for Chris Moorman and going into the final table as chip leader he was unable to make the most of his advantage. The head to head saw local Melbourne boy, David Gorr beat the Englishman James Keys and 721 other players to take the title and $2 million in prize money.