Until the conclusion of Sunday’s World Cup final anyway. For the last few years I have been completely whipped off the style of Spain’s (/Barcelona’s) football and I am very happy to see they have made the final. Largely because I just enjoy seeing the best teams advance and provide the best matches, but also because I placed a bet on them to win the WC before the semi- final with Germany (@3.15 to 1). So if they lift the famous trophy I lift ~ $1.5K bones.


I definitely thought it was a good price which put the Germans as slight favourites in the semi, but my main motivation in my WC bets so far has just been to add incentive for following the team I prefer. Incidentally I’m down all the money, but as long as Spain win the final the overall damage won’t be that bad.

Myself/ best friend were considering going to watch the semi last night (4.30am our time) in a cinema in 3D, but backed out due to fears it would be weird FIFA video game like camera angles. I mean I want to see David Villa’s face coming straight at me as much as the next guy, but if that’s it for the whole game it’s probably really annoying in terms of properly experiencing the flow of the match. Has anyone watched any of the World Cup in 3D/ has a review?

Also, for the very few people who didn’t recognise my title reference, I’d like to recommend ‘The Mighty Boosh’ radio series as one of the best things created so far.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvNp9...eature=related

And if you haven’t seen Pokerstars’ Big Game show yet, check it out here: http://thebiggame.pokerstars.net/

I thought week 3 was comfortably the best so far, with a line-up of Barry Greenstein, Joe Cada, Jason Mercier, Daniel Alaei, Joe Cassidy and Justin Bonomo joined by impressive loose cannon Nadya Magnus. I think the overall level of play was a step above the first 2 weeks, and as a result there were some genuinely interesting hands.

Till next time.