Man, we just can’t let the Tiger thing go!

Phil Ivey, arguably the best poker player in the universe right now (watch out Commander Data) has been granted a divorce from his wife; Luciaetta.

The jokes are streaming in because of his ongoing association with   Tiger Woods: his nickname has been ‘The Tiger Woods of Poker’ for some time now although we’re pretty sure he would prefer it to be the other way round where Tiger Woods would be nicknamed ‘The Phil Ivey of Golf’.

Cake cracked some classy jokes about how perhaps his wife left him after mistaking him for Tiger Woods or that Phil had left her after finding out that she slept with Tiger.

You couldn’t make it up…

Told you we’d have more to say about the Tiger Woods scandal. And before you assume it’s to do with with his ever increasing, and increasingly boring, tally of ladies, check out this little excerpt on how bookies and gamblers alike are having a lot of fun with the Tiger Woods saga:

If you don’t know, the lines have been set for…Tiger Woods Divorce Settlement Odds. You can also wager on which sponsor will drop T iger next. ’(Business Insider)

Punters at Ireland have set the line at $500 million for how much Tiger will ultimately pay out to Elin.

Apparently Wall Street traders have also been betting on how many Tiger ladies are going to come out.

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Tiger has certainly been in the money until last week when the scandal of multiple extra marital affairs hit. Unfortunately it seems like he waited a bit too long before he semi-bluffed and his mistresses, and wife, have all realized it would be better to cash out,  convert their chips to cash- mass media cash.

Prior to the scandal going public it seems Tiger was playing a hard game of bluffing. He certainly made the public believe he had a better hand than he did. But his bluff’ couldn’t last for too long. Eventually he landed up under the gun by the two irresistible players sitting directly to his left who started the action on the first round of betting. The blinds were posted before any cards were dealt but a week later it seems that many more high end players were willing to come to the table and confirm his loose passive ways

On the other hand there was also an element of collusion in this poker game- 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 players conspired to chip dump in the game. While Tiger might have thought he had a flush, it’s clear now that these mistress hole cards low are of the same suit and he certainly does not hold a pair of pocket rockets right now. In fact, it seems he has folded; sadly, it seems his marriage has folded too. His wife, Elin Nordegren kept him honest by ending his bluffing streak. Seems like she might still have a live hand and could still win the pot while Tiger is just plain stuck.

So for the moment it seems that the players, apart from Tiger, are all in and it’s anyone’s guess who is going to take the pot.

My moneys on Elin.