3-Barrels of pure value for you including an update on the Phil Ivey v Crockford’s court battle, an NFL star skipping work to play some poker, and Tom Dwan needs your help.

Phil Ivey will have to draw on more reserves of patience if he is going to be £7.8m richer after a UK Court of Appeal Judge ‘reserved judgment’ in his court battle with the Genting-owned Crockford’s Casino in Mayfair, London last week.

Ivey took the upmarket Crockford’s Casino to the cleaners in August 2012 when accompanied by his partner Cheung Yin Sun, the pair used ‘edge sorting’ techniques to win the obscene amount of money, gambling up to £50,000 per hand in Punto Banco.

The Casino employee’s smelled something fishy and after promising to wire the winnings to Mr. Ivey, eventually decided only to return his £1m outlay, and keep the rest, resulting in a long drawn out court case.