Whilst the popos work a blackball.

If you cannot decipher the jumble of words above plz to be educating yo self. http://www.hbo.com/thewire/

I'm not going to go on about this programme to death since I think it's become fairly standard to reference the wire in some way in the modern poker blog (as oppose to the traditional poker blog) and it's obviously important to keep things fresh. That said here is one of my favourite scenes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQbsn...eature=related. Not the most interesting/meaningful scene I'm sure but you've gotta respect writing like that imo.

Tomorrow evening is ppv time with Manny Pacquiao vs Ricky Hatton from vegas and what looks like a decent domestic undercard. Williams vs McDermott has the potential to be pretty explosive (fwiw McDermott is an excellent price at 7/4) and I'm looking forward to seeing Tony Jeffries in action although I have no idea who the guy is who he's fighting and it's only Jeffries 2nd pro bout so he's prob a bum.

Re the Hatton-Pac fight, I don't really have much of a clue. It's so close to call, although if I was betting I would def back Hatton @9/5. Apparently bookmakers in vegas have Pac @ 1/3 which is absolutely redic given Hatton has owned 10st for the last 7 years and he looked much better vs Malignaggi in his first fight under Floyd snr. I think part of it is that Pac is so popular (probably more so than Hatton worldwide) and a lot of the 'hope' money is going on him this time whereas it usually goes on Hatton hence he's typically a really bad price. I guess he's probably still a little underrated in the US as well although I can't say for sure, I mean he got well beat by Floyd, but Floyd is Floyd.

Also I don't buy **** in to the fact that Manny won't get walked down b/c he took a much bigger De La Hoya apart. DLH was so undercooked in that fight it was unreal, it was hardly even a contest. If I were Hatton I'd be a little more concerned about Pac tkoing Barrera/Marquez/Morales when all those guys were still at their prime or pretty close to it. Anyways should be a reaaaaly good fight unless someone gets stopped early, the styles just clash such that it can't go 12 and not be a good fight. I'm not betting on it though, just gonna sit back and enjoy. Dropped £1k randomly betting on Barca to beat Chelsea in midweek and they did everything but score. This one doesn't need a bet to make it more interesting anyway.

Anyway, back to the grind that is Jean Baudrillards' "L'esprit du terrorisme". I have to write stuff about reality. wtf is that?

P.S. There is a £1k at Dusk Till Dawn at the end of May (Nottingham) and the inaugural European Short Handed Championships at the start of June (Dublin) both of which I'l probably be attending. If anyone else is down shoot me a pm.

P.P.S. I hate to use pps since ps should obv be included in the main body and pps promoted to p.s, but I think this qualifies enough for a pps:


Kind regards,

Flinton
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