Congrats to Vicky C-M who won just shy of €500,000 in the main event of the European Poker Tour this evening, having been shortstacked for most of it (in fact sitting down as THE short stack at the beginning of the final table) but being patient and making the most of her chances. She becomes the first person to win TWO EPT main events.

Relatedly, Only Connect‘s on BBC4 tomorrow, and they start filming the BBC2 series very soon.

If you had been watching the EPT coverage all day like I have and have been bitten by the bug, come and play in the next Bother’s Bar game two weeks tonight on May 4th. It’s a pretty friendly game, and all the details can be found here.

Here is a picture of a cake I’ve found on Google Images to celebrate:

In other news if you’re between 12 and 18 and want to take part in the next series of Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge, you can apply here.

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It sounds very much like there’s a UK version of TBS’ King of the Nerds coming, Objective are currently casting (click for larger):

If this is what this is, the US show was quite good fun – challenges are split to alternate weeks between science-y and creative. I’ve seen series one of it but not seen series two (but Reality Blurred who is usually bang on about this sort of thing suggests it has even better challenges than the first one). casting@objectiveproductions.com is the direct link if you want to mail for an application form.

If it’s something completely different then meh.

Well this is a bit of a turn-up, an entire episode of Box Clever on Youtube. I used to bloody love this when I was about five.

In this show football player and Question of Sport captain Emelyn Hughes spends about twenty minutes explaining the rules of the game (UKGameshows has a good explanation, but it can be boiled down to: answer questions to turn squares your colour, if you don’t complete the set your opponents can nick it, try and box your opponents in on the board – it’s a bit like Blockbusters but you’re trying to claim territory). Hughes frankly not a great host, Dr Sue Kingsman has some quite fun questions (although seems to allow multiple guesses on a whim), aurally and sonically it is very eighties. Also was there a second computer game with a dog that I remember, presumably that’s series two.

It’s time for the landmark 53rd edition of Lewis Murphy’s Fifty50 podcast. This week yours truly and him discuss Fifteen to One and Schlag den Brig from my perspective. History truly being written by the winner, there. Truly an epic episode.

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