World-renowned poker star Phil Ivey spent a few nights at the Mayfair casino Crockfords in London last October, and normally that wouldn’t be news, because he’s a pro poker player and all, but the 37-year old caused quite the buzz when he won about $12 million playing the baccarat game Punto Banco. Now, I don’t understand any card games that aren’t called war or assh*le, so forgive me if I gloss over the rules to this specific game* and get right to the bangers and mash – the casino bosses refused to pay out because they accused Ivey of cheating. Naturally, he’s suing them.

So how on Earth do you cheat at a game that involves nothing but pure luck? Easy. You use the exclusive, illegal knowledge that the decks of cards had been improperly cut and you examine each card’s back from a distance to determine the card’s value and wager accordingly. I know, right? How the hell haven’t we all been doing this for years?

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And now, complete with helicopter entrance, here’s the Best and Worst of WWE Raw for April 22, 2013.

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Tonight on the With Leather WWE Raw open discussion thread:

With WrestleMania 29 in the books, the road to Extreme Rules is heating up. Brock Lesnar wants Triple H in a Steel Cage Match and Ryback has his sights on WWE Champion John Cena! With emotions still running high from last week’s Raw, here are five reasons to tune in Monday at 8/7 CT on USA Network when WWE rolls into London. (via WWE.com)

Our five-point preview:

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While the Renen Barão fight that we all want to see involves Dominick Cruz, who will be sidelined for most of 2013 with a torn ACL, we could do a lot worse than watching Barão face off against Michael McDonald tomorrow at UFC on Fuel 7, live from London at 3 PM ET. At just 22-years old, McDonald has the chance to become the youngest champion in UFC history, and while people want to make sure that we point out that it’s just an interim title, we wouldn’t want to crap on the kid’s accomplishment in the event that he does win.

Aside from the main event, though, Saturday’s card is filled with some young, exciting talent, and I’d love to talk at great length about the potential of guys like Jimi Manuwa, Dustin Poirier and Ryan Jimmo – as they should offer us exciting fights – I’m focused on one guy and one guy only – Gunnar Nelson.

Yes, the Icelandic fighter has won 10 consecutive fights, including his UFC debut at UFC on Fuel 5 in Nottingham last September, dating back to his MMA debut in 2007. But I don’t care about that. What I care about is that he shares a name with one-half of the 80s pop rock duo Nelson, which delivered us the greatest song ever written by man, “Love and Affection”.

For so long, I have asked for the gods of organized belligerence to deliver me a new fighter to champion, and I believe that man is Gunnar Nelson. Don’t let me down, good sir.

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Kyle Singler’s walrus-like quest for buckets of all shapes and sizes continues in London, where he shoots the aforementioned buckets over a double-decker bus, over a MOVING double-decker bus, and FROM a double-decker bus. You know. Because “London.” And also BUCKETS. (via It’s Always Sunny In Detroit)

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Forget Kelly Brook’s annual reminder to the world that she has large breasts and don’t bother picking up Sports Illustrated’s latest celebration of Kate Upton and Chrissy Teigen. This year’s awesome sexy date tracker is coming from London artist James Husbands, as his 2013 Sexy Managers calendar is selling like crazy. So who has Husbands decided to capture in famous movie and TV poses in this incredible animated calendar? A bunch of guys I’ve never heard of, because I do not watch soccer.

But you’ve probably heard of them, because you are a sophisticated soccer fan, and unlike my brutish gorilla ass, you understand and appreciate the world’s most popular sport. According to the Daily Mail, the months are adorned with the most famous soccer managers in the world:

January – Arsene Wenger
February – Harry Redknapp
March – Roberto Mancini
April – Pep Guardiola/Jose Mourinho
May – Fabio Capello
June – Sven Goran Eriksson
July – Andre Villas-Boas
August – Martin Jol
September – Rafa Benitez
October – Ian Holloway
November – Alex Ferguson/Kenny Daglish
December – Roy Hodgson

As I said, only a few of those names are familiar to me, but I have to be honest… I’m a little turned on right now. Seriously, call me, Martin Jol.

Anyway, after the jump you can view the calendars images for yourself. I’ve been known to post a lot of artsy stuff between here and the mother site, and it’s because I just appreciate cool paintings, drawings, photoshops, etc. So I just want to say, without hyperbole, that short of the Dikembe Mutombo video game, this is my favorite thing that I’ve posted this year. And if Husbands made a similar calendar for NFL coaches, I think my head would explode.

So please do that, James Husbands. Please. Jim Schwartz doing the interrogation scene from Basic Instinct. That’s all I ask.

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