Sunday, July 11, 2010

Casino Capitalism

A slight 'Rear Window' style period of recuperation has led me to finally engage actively with the internet, culminating in this blog (I'm really going to have to learn to touch-type). I've also embraced the phenomenon of online poker where, in a striking case of cognitive dissonance, despite being universally held as a 'F@CKING DONK' by almost all other players, I'm happy to say I've being tremendously successful.(Of course there may be no inconsistency here, 'donks' may be perfectly likely to prosper at no-limit poker, perhaps we're even predisposed to it. I'm not sure, I don't know what a donk is.)

Some of my winnings, 100 ever decreasing euro(s), will be going on tonight's final. I think/guess the outcome will be decided either by Sergio Ramos or Mark van Bommell. While I don't have much time for the inordinately celebrated RTE punditry team, Eamon Dunphy's description of Ramos as 'a headbanger, like Paul McShane on steroids' actually seems on the money to me and i think he'll play a significant role tonight, either positively or negatively. While I've backed them both to score and various other scores half my stake is on there being a red card. I would love to see a thoroughly distasteful encounter full of rancour and bad feeling that sours the watching publics' spirits. And I can make a minuscule profit.

Living the dream baby.

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