Anna Panna & Tess Goes Live

Howay the lads!

2012-01-05T14:04:00.003+01:00

So yesterday, I promised to outsource my good football karmato a mate that insists cheering for one of those bonecracker teams thatoften give good raw games but few points. However this season they are pickingup and that’s cool.. . AgainstManU I love all team so I gladly said yes to help cheer Newcastle to somepoints. (especially since i do have some old relations to dear old NC and the good old Brown Ales, my old mates Dokkedals favorite beer)

Anyway, the consultant fee for this is just a some beer, so if anyoneneed my help just let me know.

ManU has a big support here in Malta so finding a place withsome striped soul mates was not really to think of, said and done, seated witha cold beer in hand we kick off…

And no point dragging this out so let me sum it up:
1-0 My mate look around and says, I run VERY fast Anna am used in beingoutnumbered but.. can you run?
WTF? Seriously dude I don’t DO running, shut up and watch the game.
2-0 FUCK running!
3-0 The Man u fans are leaving….and passing us I couldn’t help myself but said; GG lads,bye bye (sorryboss)

A ‘few’ more beers later (sorry boss) it was time to gohome and post obscenities online to all Man U fans, (sorry boss) ohh yes almost forgot, brought my camera, took a pic of the leaving ManU fans….(sorry boss)

Sometimes am quite surprised I still have my job.

Better to be a man?

2011-12-23T02:54:00.001+01:00

Sometimesi think i should been born as a man, it seems so much easier really, and I morethan often agree more to men's point of view then women's, and yeathat is not always easy,,, sometimes i even think am lesbian butthat normally passes fast when i see how chicks try so hard to besexy, that's a big turn off, just be yourself. I always wonder whysome chicks can’t see a camera on a party without posingin unnatural strange poses, acting like they are in a magazine forbold old perverts. Well hold your horses ppl, am not really doubtingmy sexuality today, neither am i doubting it tomorrow or day after,but let’s just say i don't judge anyone.

I was once asked by my ex-boyfriend what i wanted for my birthday, i said bringhome a girl, he left me day after. So am careful these days ... but hey... who can NOT likeboobs!?

I found this list andit’s just too funny.. .. it made me laugh, because so many things arejust plain right, ha ha women are complicated things guys, dont stickyour hand in the cookie jar unless you ready for some mindblowing stuff, and maybe this list can help you chicks to keep your menhappy and alert!

Happy Xmas all!

Rules that guys wished girls knew..
1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't askus.
2. Learn to work the toilet seat: if it's up, put itdown.
3. Don't cut your hair. Ever.
4. Birthdays, Valentines, and Anniversaries are notquests to see if he can find the perfect present!
5. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to,expect an answer you don't want to hear.
6. Sometimes, he's not thinking about you. Live with it.
7. Don't ask him what he's thinking about unless youare prepared to discuss such topics as navel lint, the shotgun formation, andmonster trucks.
8. Get rid of your cat. And no, it's not different,it's just like ever other cat.
9. Dogs are better than ANY cats. Period.
10. Sunday = Sports. It's like the full moon or thechanging of the tides. Let it be.
11. Shopping is not a sport.
12. Anything you wear is fine. Really.
13. You have enough clothes.
14. You have too many shoes.
15. Crying is blackmail. Use it if you must, but don'texpect us to like it.
16. Your brother is an idiot, your ex-boyfriend is anidiot, and your dad's way past idiot.
17. Ask for what you want. Subtle hints don't work.
18. No, he doesn't know what day it is. He never will.Mark anniversaries on a calendar.
19. Pissing standing up is more difficult than peeingfrom point blank range. We're bound to miss sometimes.
20. Most guys own two to three pairs of shoes - whatmakes you thinkwe'd be any good at choosing which pair, out of thirty, wouldlook good with your dress?
21. Yes, and No are perfectly acceptable answers.
22. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a problem.See a doctor.
23. Your Mom doesn't have to be our best friend.
24. Foreign films are best left to foreigners.
25. Check your oil.
26. Don't give us 50 rules when 25 will do.
27. Don't fake it. We'd rather be ineffective thandeceived.
28. It is neither in your best interest nor ours totake the quiz in Cosmo together.
29. Anything we said 6 or 8 months ago is inadmissiblein an argument. All comments become null and void after 7 days.
30. If you don't dress like the Victoria's Secretgirls, don't expect us to act like soap opera guys.
31. If something we said can be interpreted two ways,and one of the ways makes you sad and angry, we meant the other one.
32. Let us ogle. If we don't look at other women, howcan we know how pretty you are?
33. Don't rub the lamp if you don't want the genie tocome out.
34. You can either ask us to do something OR tell ushow you want it done - but not both.
35. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have tosay during commercials.
36. Christopher Columbus didn't need directions, andneither do we.
37. Women wearing Wonderbras and low-cut blouses losetheir right to complain about having their boobs stared at.
38. Consider golf a mini-vacation from you. We need it,just like you do.
39. Telling us that the models in the men's magazinesare airbrushed makes you look jealous and petty, and it's certainly not goingto deter us from reading the magazines.
40. The relationship is never going to be like it wasthe first two months we were going out.
41. Anyone can buy condoms.

Has to be Xmas hormone's!

2011-12-16T13:25:00.000+01:00

Am going Soft. Waited 2 hrs on Malta Post office today and didn't even grumble to them, i SMILED.
What has the world come to? And no, it dont end there, - yesterday i wrote a long due sweet apology letter to someone i was rude to 3 months ago at a club (lol) and most likely will not even met again .... WAZ UP!!!!????

Xmas hormone's, bloody hate them.

Anyway, Mum dearest, your xmas packet is on the way, and as usual its home made. Since i was little thats the case, dont really like to buy but rather make personal gifts... believe me it really been some weird stuff over the years, when i was 6 i managed to pack a little frog and give my mum, the frog had a red ribbon around it and i was ever so proud, mum wasn't too happy and when i was 12 and scared my mum and dad will die as they where smokers i made a book about smoking kills you, very creative! However there been endless of home made butter knifes, weird scarves, socks, pictures, and more random stuff that ofc everyone have to have on for all winter lol.

BUT....this year am on the right side the creative mind, i made a year calendar to hang on the wall, big one (she is old, need big text, she is also very funny so if she read this she laugh, not that she can speak English more then telling my dog to pls sit, but anyway) i made the calendar with 3 different pictures each month, and i taken all the pictures myself from when she was here visiting me in August, she will love it. Additionally i also 'made' (and it IS still considered made by me, if you are the one ordering it , right? ) well... with great help, am no geeky whiz nerd, but thankfully i know several good ones, a 15 min video of Malta and the places we visit and many of the pictures we took, and some text and cool house music ( she will perhaps not like that music so much), my sis will play it for her on Xmas when they chilling infront of the fire place drinking some muled wine. It be great, am sure! Positive thinking helps. For some.

I love family life and i do miss them but it be ok, we have a deal, regardless what happen on Xmas they cant call me, cos then i break down and get sad imaging them all there all cuddled up inside with lots of candles and snowy and stormy outside. Anyway, thats how i see it in my head, and we all know my head and reality is not always correct. In fact, its pretty messed up :)

Found this picture on Facebook today.. hillarious lol! And with that i wish you happy weekend and safe journey to all those travelling home for Xmas to loved ones.

anna panna...

Bruises, smashed thooth and Italian poker fishes! Life is good!

2011-12-15T15:14:00.000+01:00

Its Thursday ... and am starting to recover from a heavy Mondaynight party.
We got all these public holidays in Malta where one are bound togo crazy and as we had one Tuesday, well who am I to stop old traditions likethat.

Recover is a BIG word this time. I still got a swollen knee,a blue hip, some concrete peeling in my face and a very blue check… and yea sorryalmost forgot, also lost a bit of a tooth. When THE woman goes down she goesdown not with style but hard. Another time I had a terrible bad bruise of aflat hand on my as. Yes you read right. And it was sadly not even connected with anyhanky panky, it was just.. a slap in a bar that really really hurted, trust me the guy doing it wont do that again : ).

So thisis better, I can sit in front of my computer and heel : ) .. and I been doingjust that.

I picked up some little onlinegrinding again at an Italian site, playing in an Italian software and it’s tosay the least funny! Taking some time to get a hang of all the Italian names onbuttons and surely there been some clicks that should been raises and viceversa lol but hey hoe in the total grand scheme of things, its okay.

Xmas, this terrible overrated holiday where I will do my utmost best to eat pizza, drink beers, bake happy cookies filled with funnymushrooms and NOT play carols on TV and visit places where its decorated withRED, after all RED is a ManUrinated color and never gone well with my blueblood.

Xmas also means all the office leaving to go back to mamas andpapas in DK so it will be a bit lonely but I have to make do with whats left : ) mooaaaaaaaa!

tjing tjing

panna

I want to be a cuddly Labrador

2011-12-12T16:18:00.000+01:00

It’s always puzzled me how we humans handle our days going throughso many stages of emotions, hopefully most of them good emotions, but sadly formany people not. It puzzles me that wespend so much energy on things that clearly can’t be resolved, fixed or alteredthat very day anyway.

And yes, I say we, because I do this as well – of course.
Why cant we be abit more like .. dogs?

Food yeaaay!
Ohh someone is coming Weeee!
Going out, now, yea? Weee!
OMG a cat!!!
Water, lets swim! ohhhh MUMMY its.. MUUD!!! yeay!
Car, car CAR!! -yes lets go for a drive!
Shadow on the wall… it MOVES god dammed it moves!
Flush , pls flush the toilet, now now.. I see the water spin!!!!

We all should live a bit more in the present, dogs really got the hang of that! Everything happening is like THE most funniest thing ever. Amazing.

So many things can’t be changed it’s there because we are different,have been raised with different values, different experiences in life, differentsizes of backpacks to carry around, each and everyone meaning different thingsand being differently heavy for us. Either one accepts that and enjoys each other’scompany or one simply has to cut some ppl out and move on. What many peopleseem to forget is that, what’s right for one is not necessarily right foranother. I forget this too. Ah well… I rarely do anything right when it comesto myself so for sure no one would ever follow my way so I don’t have to worryabout that.

I really really done some bad decisions in life *shaking my head*but one can’t let that stop you from making new decisions, meeting new people,trusting new people and even loving new people. Its not easy but a life withoutinteracting with others is not really a life, even though I am indeed talkingto my dog.

Dear god, in next life, can I please be a loved fat, cuddly Labrador in a family that let me sleep in bed and allows me toshare their take away food. I be good and happy and I will not eat too manyshoes. I even will let the kids dress me up now and then if needed. Great.Thanks.

Today… go out there and tell someone that you like them, forwhatever small reason it might be - do it! Everyone needs to hear it and feelappreciated.

I don’t like everyone :)FAR from lol, some might even say am quite picky, but hey am always ready to give a second chance. If you feel you deserve one, let me know!

Panna

PS... Karma is some scary shit eh?

Red brothel/porno bedroom or poker?

2011-12-05T17:11:00.001+01:00

So people, where you want me to start?
With my new red brothel porno looking bedroom thatmake me sleep like a QUEEN ( yea all your psycho hobby therapists out there gointo the tank now with you) or this weekend’s madness cashgame with 1000 of thecute ones here to entertain me.

Well, am sure the red brothel porno bedroom can wait so let’s startwith the important things.

Played this massive Betpro 100 000 guaranteed freeroll andthat was fun, for about 1 hr. Then it was not fun. Snip snap - over and out. Enoughof that, it was a freeroll. Whining is for sore losers : ) poker is and always should be fun, and it was avery good PR event! Was hoping for more ‘short skirts dressed girls’ but if theboys don’t complain who am i to complain ?

So as I only really play cashgame when the Italians are here, I decided that beon the agenda for the weekend. And to sum it up easy and smooth it goes likethis, Aces, kings and queens cracked trillionsof times times, won huge pot’s with 72 , 64, 63 ect yea, poker is sooooo easy.Not. Lotof chit chat, good times, shouting and screaming (really think it’s the espresso thatmakes them all wind up) and as we all know, English is not the Italians strongside, a lot of hand gestures and drinks later, I figure it’s time to go home,kind of missed both my cozy dog and my red brothel bedroom.

Never get tired of this clip.. brighten's my day ALWAYS : )

Woke up Saturday mid day with a crucifying headache, so FFSPortomaso, stop giving me the bad vodka.I want the good stuff, from second shelf; give the other vodka to those who don’ttip : ) ....and then we went on repeat for 2 days. You can start reading from the sum upagain. Only difference is I changed thevodka to Malibu pineapple, yea healthier choice I know, scary, going downhillfrom here id say! But I got tricked into it by a real cute smiling young lad sowho am I to say no? And wuupti…. The younger generation knows how to do it…. NOheadache!!

Monday and, yea it’s a bit dull, always feel sad and gloomy whenall the Italian's going home.
Malta is a bit better with them here. Fact.
Comeback – soon!

Panna

1000 Italians = value?

2011-12-01T17:48:00.001+01:00

Oh my... Portomaso Casino is once again invaded by the flathandbags ppl ... .. loud, and good smelling, espresso sipping ITALIANS!!

And this time.. 1000 of them. We like. A lot.

Its Betpro that has a campaign, 100k Euro guranteed freeroll and i said all along i wont play it, didnt bother to involve myself in the qualifing satellites and far from that it was invitational only, but in last minute i was handed over a ticket so i told myself, lets rumble!

Said and done, i lasted 2 levels lol.
Holding KQ on a KQ5 flop i though i was good... ending with K high flush i also though i was good but nope... river gave fi a Ace hig flush holding A9 so hey hoe - player out!

No big deal, moved on to cashtables and it was pure madness from start to finish :) gooood madness!

Well done Portomaso for pulling of this big event, respect.

Inside the World Series of Poker - (2001 Documentary)

2011-10-04T05:35:00.004+02:00

Stumbled over this old documentary about WSOP, and if your got the love for the game, its well worth seeing it, - great fun seeing all the big profiles in a younger version! They carry the 1 million dollars 1 price in to the table in a paper box :) a tiny bit different then these days presentations.

Inside the World Series of Poker - (2001 Documentary)

PLA, Malta shedule for 2011/2012

2011-09-29T15:08:00.007+02:00

I never really gave any report back how the last PLA went, WPT got in between and it slipped my mind. Now i saw Portomaso Casino, Malta got several more PLA events confirmed from Goldbet so i thought i post the dates for you guys... Last PLA didn't go very well for me, i was not really up for the task, wanted the weekend off, laying in sofa reading a book but felt i had to play in order to try my best to defend my FT placement in the PLA before that to make a so called eagerly wanted by most: back to back.

Well... that will not happen if you dont enjoy what you where doing and day1 i was so unbelievable tired, playing Friday evening after a weeks work is not optimal, however i did manage to make it to day2, but it was an uphill from start to end for me, didn't get any cards to do anything with whatsoever and managed to steal few potts in order to maintain my little stack but busted after 4 hrs play and i can easy say that the funniest thing that happened that day was when the dealer just stood up after a hand and left, walked straight into the break room for the dealers and left us sitting there wondering WTF happened? She thought there was another dealer behind her to take over so she just left, but there was no one and no one had been behind her since she sat down 20 min earlier so we where all quite amused by the scene ... just looked way to funny! She didnt even look back just walked the 40 meters to the break room and we all looking at each other wondering what happened.

Below are the confirmed scheduled events for PLA 2011/2012

PLA - LIVE Poker MALTA ADVENTURE TOUR STOP 2
Texas Hold'em No Limit€ 300 + € 30
FreezeoutFriday 14/10/2011

PLA - LIVE Poker MALTA ADVENTURE TOUR STOP 3
Texas Hold'em No Limit€ 300 + € 30
FreezeoutFriday 11/11/2011

PLA - LIVE Poker MALTA ADVENTURE TOUR STOP 4
Texas Hold'em No Limit€ 300 + € 30
FreezeoutFriday 09/12/2011

PLA - LIVE Poker MALTA ADVENTURE TOUR STOP 5
Texas Hold'em No Limit€ 300 + € 30
FreezeoutFriday 27/01/2012

PLA - LIVE Poker MALTA ADVENTURE TOUR STOP 6
Texas Hold'em No Limit€ 300 + € 30
FreezeoutFriday 09/03/2012

PLA - LIVE Poker MALTA ADVENTURE TOUR STOP 7
Texas Hold'em No Limit€ 300 + € 30
FreezeoutFriday 06/04/2012

PLA - Poker LIVE ADVENTURE "Italy & Malta"TOUR STOP 8
Texas Hold'em No Limit€ 300 + € 30
FreezeoutFriday 11/05/2012

PLA - Poker LIVE ADVENTURE "Italy & Malta"STOP 9
Texas Hold'em No Limit€ 300 + € 30
FreezeoutFriday 06/08/2012

-and as we all know our loved Italian organizers skills in organizing, be sure some dates will be changed, its just how it is :) no big deal ...hakuna matata ..

WPT wrap up - we got a winner!

2011-09-25T02:00:00.005+02:00

After a very long and entertaining final table, where the commentators Roy Brindly, Phil Hellmuth and on and off between girls and wine also Tony G, did their best to keep our attention. After suck outs to the right and to the left there was one man left standing, and it was one of the 2 i predicted will win, well done me :)

The Winner of WPT, Malta 2011, was Matt Giannetti. He is also one of the November 9'ers so one can say he got some good practice even though am quite sure he find the competitors very different at that table then this. He was heads up against our blond Italian train that completely massacred the field for days playing wild and unpredictable but also having a great instinct of the game. Cecilia Pescaglini came second in this years WPT Malta but still its about her the talk is, and i am very sure we will see her soon again going deep in a big tourney, for sure it is very entertaining!

Matt Giannetti's victory speach was a very humble one and also a very tired one, they played long for several days. He said: 'it wasn't right some of the beats i gave some ppl' , and i think thats a very humble winner and i sincerely hope he go all the way in November.

Tony G called one of the players call 'like a lose slot machine' and with that genius expression i wrap my WPT observations up and call it a day and go grab a a few drinks down the casino... my god what a good expression ' like a lose slot machine' hahahahah ! Rock on Tony G!
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WPT Malta Day3 at a glance...

2011-09-24T04:58:00.008+02:00

Day 3 of WPT Malta kicked of on time, one really must say they been very organized and big thumps up to the team and Casino Portomaso, and also as always, GREAT buffet. Thx !

The blond aggressive Cecilia kept on to her lead with some ups and downs, and for sure entertained us, all day long! Holding 1 milj in chips and losing small potts and getting furious is kind of entertaining, especially if it happens all the time…and never did I think so many bad words could come out of the mouth from such tiny person that also is wearing Hello Kitty headphones. Maybe good not all understood her rambling! Still, big respect girl, for doing it as well as you have and fingers crossed you go all the way, the foul language is just an awesome bonus. Thx.

And Christ man I got surprised when suddenly I hear a voice behind me calling out my name, and to my big surprise see someone I haven’t seen for several years, Roy Brindley. I met him in Ireland quite often when I used to go to the very green island (wazz up with me and islands? ) and play poker. It turns out he will be commentating the FT tomorrow so really look forward to that, together with our beloved ‘poker bratt’ and hopefully guest starring Tony G aswell. Lets hope it be a good old Irish craic afterwards; I for sure know the film team are good at that as well … craic you say? Well you know that Irish thing every one talk about but not know what it REALLY is.
I know what it is.
I will lead the way….
-Hey Boss- I might be late in on Monday, ok?

Of the 8 ppl left, MY money is on the French little guy, Tristan Clemencon, I think he been playing very very well, ofc he is up for some big resistance and one force to be recon with is Matt Giannetti. Matt has a big date in November that he can’t be late for so let’s wrap it up people. Matt is one of the November 9 players heading back to Vegas for the last battle. There are also 2 swedes left on the table and i know one of them, it be a blast if he win I really would love that, but… ah well let’s see .... in poker anything can happen so buckle up and join the ride!

Again dear people.. do NOT mess with someone who stack his chips like this, and on top of that also look like an English football hooligan, you will end up in serious trouble, for sure! (Simon Trumper, a very nice guy)

Then again, if a mans stack looks like this, the chips might be jinxed and very hostile towards organized surrounding’s, but as most men have something naturaly build in them against order, these kind of chips are more friendly in the long run then the neat one, these one you can wake up beside without makeup, important. Really. i am serious. Neat one's... too much fuzz.

Ohh yes, almost forgott, today I actually had a mission, but it might been slipping through my hands, in fact, this is the case, Tony G owes me a coffee, and he is bloody 4 years late with it. Its soon 4 years since he promised me this coffee, and it been on my mind ever since. I travelled to Sidney to play the APPT Grand final 2007 and really looked forward to my coffee, however he never showed up so I got plain and simple dumped... Well.... I been thinking of this now for 4 years and in my opinion this coffe have upgraded itself to a drink or two, I just need to find him, and explain, am sure he will be understanding about it. Or? Come on.. 4 years? Seriously?

No am not mentaly disturbed, i just want MY coffee!

What? Chipcounts?

I already told you that i dont do that! But okey...one more time then:
Seat 1: Cecilia Prescaglini: 1.218,000
Seat 2: Filippo Bianchini: 188,000
Seat 3: Fabien Sartoris: 654,000
Seat 4: Matt Giannetti: 309,000
Seat 5: Mats Karlson: 452,000
Seat 6: Simon Trumper: 631,000
Seat 7: Tristan Clemencon: 2.215,000
Seat 8: Christofer Williamsson: 510,000

Hep hep
anna panna

WPT Malta Day2 at a glance....

2011-09-23T01:06:00.003+02:00

Another day on the rock kicked off and ppl are seated to play day2 of WPT. It will be a long day for the players, as they won’t stop until reaching 27 players….and blinds today are 90 minutes so they are up for a long night. I passed by and stayed a few hrs and met up with new faces, old faces, pretty faces, famous faces and all other random faces.

To my big joy a gorgeous blond chick was chipleader when I arrived, a Italian chick that was sitting behind a pile of chips and a little teddy bear. Always great fun when a female takes the lead, sadly its not so often they go all the way. This very fine sample of female beauty did very well and took down mini IPT in Nova Gorcia few weeks back , her name is Cecilia Pescaglini and am sure we see a lot more of her in future. Fingers crossed to you Cecilia, hope you go all the way. (with some imagination one can actually... no.. ehh hmmm.. she does have a top, its NOT allowed to play topless in Malta. Its a very chatolic country. We couldnt even get divorced until a few weeks ago.

Very close to her was Tony G and I think he passed her by now as I read the updates. I be extremely happy to se a heads up between Tony G and Phil Helmuth I think that would be the very best The organizers and Casino as well as all us spectators could possible hope for. They are behaving quite well, both of them, or well.. tony G made a girl cry and Phil Helmuth seriously tilted his neighbor player by saying he played stupid, but hey… just another day at the office right?

There are a few job in the world I really would not like to have, massaging siting ppl I think have to be on that list. Seriously?

Its quite funny to see how ppl stack their chips, and I learned the hard way that someone who stacks his chips this neatly and proper, I don’t want to go up against, because they play mostly monster’s, probably because they don’t want to mess their stack up for small suited connector’s and such, I think that’s a bit rude to the beautiful small suited connector’s anyway, but that’s me….. The feeling of taking a bit part of a stack like that and purposely stack them in odd color and uneven heights just completely random stuff… are a very special feeling, one can almost see how it hurts the player and how eager he is to make his stack justice again. Love it :)

And as a special treat i add this one aswell, its from the side event and the very respectable stack belongs to a friend, Fabian' The Beard man ' Mezanger representing chilipoker with, of course a chili.. spice it up baby!

So thanks for today and remember ppl, poker is not that hard, just toss em in and hope for the best, and spades beats everything!

C4Q

WPT Malta Day1 at a glance...

2011-09-21T04:42:00.010+02:00

I sneaked down to Portomaso casino just after the players been to their dinner break and it was pretty quiet and sleepy and most action was all the busted ppl coming to tell me their bad beats.. ah well.. its ok.. this time it dont cost ya a cent but dont make it a habit!

A few old friends playing and its always good to see old friends! But god knows both Tony G and William Thorsson must have had a rough year, they lost a lot of weight. It’s not easy to be a pro player these days indeed. Respect.

Gorgeous Christine Sammut from Portomaso Casino along with legendary ( yea I know, am in the middle of HIMYM, sorry) tournament director Matt Savages'sweet wife.

Josef Borg, Casino Portomaso surrounded by family members, his father plays some of the tournaments at Portomaso from time to time and often with respectable stack.

Erik Smith dont leave his table so often, but a man does what a man has to do when a gorgeous blond walks into the room, he is weak our dear Erik, but who can blame him? Not me. ;)

And a bit later he doubled up with QQ against 77 and am very confident it was my 'scrubananas' as we like to call it, that did the trick!

And just like that, out of the blue, there he is, what the enitre room been waiting for, with just a level of playing day1A left he entered and created the normal chaos that suround him: The poker brat! Phil Hellmuth, to honour the day is in an outfit that would make every gay fashion designer on earth envy him, black trousers, red jacket and pink (yes correct) cap. Accordingly to himself he rather be downstairs in the bar drinking Red Label (hmm me, i prefer the black label) so he made the pain fast and sharp like a doctors cut and was all in after just few hands.....

Federico Cipollini our brave contester opened up in mp with 1000 (blinds 150/300) Phil Hellmuth in sb says 3000 and got a call.

Flop is out and say Jh4c3h
Phil bet 4000 and Frederico calls.

Turn is 5c and Phil is all in.
Frederico gives the Brat some resepct and ad some Hollywood show but end up calling.

Phil holds: Ks7s
Federico holds: Ah6c
River is 9s and the poker bratt is gone..... for today.. for sure we see him reenter tomorrow.

On his way out he got some standard trash talk from our loved Tony G and he was also told to stop crying like a baby, all in good old Tony G style , one gotta love it! Exact quote i think was ''"You are an absolute disgrace... Showing up here late and losing all your chips immediately..."

Chipcounts?? Naeee that boring stuff you gotta read somewhere else, tjung tjng!

/C4Q

Live tours in MALTA

2011-07-27T15:47:00.007+02:00

Am a very blessed person.

Even though it don’t feel like that all the time, especially not since started up online grinding again a few weeks ago, in fact it feels like am THE most unluckiest and cursed person ever. However, we all know its variance right?

I am truly blessed living in Malta, because we got Casino Portomaso and they really do good in getting lot of good live tours here, just take a look at below schedule for what is confirmed right now!!

# Poker Live Adventure- 16th & 18th September 2011 - Portomaso Casino (ITL)
# WPT Malta - 20st to 24th September 2011 - Portomaso Casino
# ChiliPoker Deepstack Open - 6th to 9th October 2011 - Portomaso Casino
# Betpro Live Poker Tour - 27th to 30th October 2011 - Portomaso Casino (ITL)
# Betpro - 30th November to 4th December 2011 - Portomaso Casino (ITL)
# Poker Live Adventure - 10th to 11th December 2011 - Portomaso Casino (ITL)

And since last September i have been on these event's FT's with two months in between sooo.... lets see.. statistical seen then its time again in September :) GET IN... GIVE me spades!!

I surely hope the ''Catania boy band mafia'' stays home, its sooooo much harder to get on these FT when they are here! However its a bit funnier when they are here so... hmm difficult choice!

Maybe i can convince them to fold?
/Panna

Worldest biggest Bad beat jackpot!

2011-07-27T15:40:00.004+02:00

This is a bad beat you would want to have for sure :)

Earlier this morning, Wednesday (27th July) at 08:59 GMT , IPN (Boss Media)'s WORLD RECORD Bad Beat Jackpot Hit at €1,265,583.34 with the Bad Beat Jackpot winner receiving €442,954.

This is a NEW WORLD RECORD of $1,831,426, which supersedes the previous World Record of approximately $1.2 Million. On top of this the new Jackpot is now starting at over €250,000 ($360,000); and thus remaining as the largest current Bad Beat Jackpot in online Poker!

The Hand in question was quad Kings beaten by Quad Aces, on a €0.50/€1 No Limit Table. The other players (7 players) in the hand all received €31,639.57 each for participating in the hand

Board came: A9K, K, A

They where all in pre flop AND even worse bad beat, one person at the table where sit out and gets nothing! My god! I guess he will regret that toilet visit for some time :) .. always keep a bucket at hand!

Congratulations to my friend KA that was on the table and got some pocket money and change for coming weekend! Looking forward to the drinks: :)

hep hep

Knocked out of Emeraldbet tour on wrong ruling!

2011-06-28T16:46:00.006+02:00

People, this is a true surreal story am about to tell, yes yes, get your popcorn ready folks. This story has very little to do with different rules or house rules, because I can’t even in my wildest fantasy imagine anyone really having this rule, it’s just plain and simple a ruling that went wrong, so wrong. Am almost glad I was not there to witness it, since I probably would have trashed the place :) even if I was not in the hand. I will never understand players that don’t speak their mind when they know something is wrong, just because it has nothing to do with them, in my book that is not cool.

And before anyone think am hanging out places and people you should all know I did send an email to the specific casino asking for their version and explanation, a friendly mail i must add, :) and I reminded them 2 times, and given them plenty of time to answer, and they have not replied. I also asked them to deny or confirm if it was their own floor or if it was the organizers floor man who ruled. They have not answered any of this. And if anyone of you get the crazy idea thinking why the fu** should they answer this odd person, i let you know that i am a customer in this casino and i want to know their explanation before going there again, in fact wanted to come and play the side events for this event, and i explained that in the email, but not before having an explanation and then take my decision on to play or not. I believe thats nothing strange at all.

The hand is played out during the Emeraldbet Tour at Casino Venezia, Malta this weekend. Main event buy in 640+60 euro. The hand/ruling is on day 1. (i didn't play this event, too few players)

Lets not to have too many opinions on the hand or how it’s played, bet sizes, position and all those stuff’s because in this case it’s not important but yea it’s a madness hand from start to end but the ruling of the hand is what is so shockingly horrible, scary wrong.

Italian bets out on the flop that is: QQ4
Finnish player raises and Italian calls.

On turn our Italian player shoves all in, and big brave Finland decides to call. Please remember Italy is now ALL IN and covered. When Finland says call, Italy says:
– I’m beat. And throw his cards face down over the line.Finland shows 42, and Italy realizes he has still a shot to win the pot as he has 63 and need a 6 to win. So Italy says: I thought you had the nuts but I still got outs, am not folding!
Well he can NOT fold as he is all in!

And here is where it really gets wicked, floor is called and rules the Italian’s hand DEAD and its dealt a river card, that of course, you probably already guessed, yes, is a 6.

One really has to wonder about the poker God’s ehh?

But this is so unbelievable wrong. A player that are all in and called can NOT get his hand killed, the dealer should instantly turn his card open even though player turn them face down. That is basic rules in tournament poker. Pot is given to Finland and Italy is knocked out, when in fact he would have doubled up and be good and well in the tour again.

1: Why was the hand not flipped face up by dealer?
2: Why is the hand declared dead by floor man?
3: Why if hand is dead, is there being dealt a river?

Anyone care to enlighten me?

Well.. not demand, but i think the pictures is sweet :)

Poker in Malta has really developed last 2 years, the dealers and floors we getting over here for international events are normally very good, and I can’t enough say how much I as a player enjoy playing under floors like, Rodolfo Zirio, Nicola Mazza, and Luca Vivaldi. Of course you all know my favorite is Christine Sammut, now working the floors of Portomaso Casino, but it’s getting a bit odd me giving her soo much credit all the time, her boyfriend, is starting to look evil on me, so lets leave her out :)

Anyway, I wanted a clarification on this from Casino Venezia as I can’t see how I ever can recommend anyone going there if this is the kind of unprofessional rulings one risk to face, but they have not answered me or to my knowledge done anything to compensate the Italian player. It is not the players job to know all the rules and be alert 100% of the time, this is why we have floors and dealers. So I guess, to sum it up, look very careful on what floor is in charge of the tournaments you decide to play, I for one would never again play under 1or 2 floors I have met during my years, I rather sit in the bar drinking espresso and zipping Sambuca!

-who am I kidding everyone knows am not ever zipping Sambucas, it has to go down in one fast movement!

Hep hep

C4Q

Ps: and i been waiting long time now to use this sweet photo of the angry kid, so thx in a weird way!

Raphael Toledo on fire!

2011-06-27T19:49:00.007+02:00

October 2008 I moved to Malta, and I knew really few here, only a very sweet Swedish girl called Emma, that you guys now know, she been in many of my blogs. Working from home as I did then made me crave for company and it turned out me going to the casino for some poker action 3-4 nights a week. Pretty soon I realized that some players are friendlier then others, and some are more interested in developing their games then others, and some, well let’s just say am not necessarily eager to spend time with them outside the casino. There is a handful Maltese players i somehow fear more then others on a table, one is for an example, Jacques Balzan Demajo and another one is Raphael Toledo

And people, this is my blog, I write what I want and this post is about him because I simply think he deserves it and I like him – a lot! He is such a cool person and Rafael very fast became one of my absolute favorite among all the Maltese players, he is the kindest soul ever, rarely complain and whine over hands and play completely fearless. If he get a beat he takes it very good, and knows it’s just poker, it evens out in long run. He also, more important, has 5 dogs, that’s a big plus in my book. Others show me pictures of their kids, Rafael show me pictures of his dogs, right there I knew this is someone I will like. And people, when I say completely fearless, I really mean that, with Rafael one never know what to expect card wise.

We started to talk hands and discussed poker back then and I really sensed he wanted to be, still fearless of course but perhaps a bit more, to put it nicely, organized fearless :)

And now am so so happy to say he found his place and form and going better and better! He is a very good cash game player but its not until recently he been going very strong on tournaments too and during Peoples Poker Tour last week he took two satellite tickets (!) and busted just before the money in the main event on a very very unlucky hand where board double paired and made his 2 opponents splitt the pott with K high instead of the pair Rafael was holding. He recharged his energy and came back day after, signed up for a side event and spitted it 6 ways, well done!
I played that sideevent too, so did around 130 hungry Italians, and some of them really good respected players indeed, so super well done to Rafael. I busted just before the money, but stayed around to the end and saw Rafael very patiently play very well and use his position to take down several nice pots; he was quite card dead but still managed to get a good chop of the price pot and put the Maltese flag on the finaltable!

This weekend it was the Emeraldbet tour at Casino Venezia and with a quite deepstacked tourney it was set for many hrs play, and am so proud Rafael kept his patient all the way and ended heads up, and here I got even more impressed as they played heads up for nearly 4 hrs, and I think they would continued even longer if Casino didn’t announce they have to close 04.00 so they have to be ready in 30 min! (yea weird I know) I was railing over live feed and its actually very very interesting how much more signs, tells and body language one realize about players watching careful as an outsider not focused on playing oneself. Maybe the security railing us behind casinos closed door is genius in tells? Perhaps. One never know!

They started the finaltable 16.00 and finished 04.00, that’s a long day in the office folks! It makes me extra happy Rafael made it all way to heads up due to this. He maintained his stack all the way and one point heads up he was holding around 70 % of the chips but as well all know, all it takes is a few hands that don’t go as planned and in the end Rafael finished second.

Still, this is a very good result for the Maltese poker community, and am very glad it was this particular player who claimed the second price! First position in Emeraldbet tour went to Ivan Barczi, who has a few prior results on Hendonmob and also did show a very strong game all trough the finaltable. Well done to him!

And to sum it up, lots of RESPECT to Rafael from me, and i sincerely mean this. He has really developed his game, he is always eager to listen to opinions, always ask others for how would you played this hand. If more players did that, it would just be so much more interesting to listen to everyone's bad beat stories!

And he is funny :), in a phone call in one of the breaks on Emeraldbets Finaltable, he ask me: Anna i got so much more chips then them now, is it ok to start playing small suited connectors? Haha and the way he said it really made me smile and i know he said it ironic to me as i always keep telling him that folding is a big key to the success in tournament poker, and one need to have a great calm mind and tell one self, am not bored, am NOT bored and as a cash game player that sometimes is not so fun to hear! But I really put my hands up, because he mastered these feelings and now really playing a very solid tournament game. Cant wait to get some big events over here again so he can show those espresso drinking, flat handbags nice smelling gorgeous looking young boys, yeaaaa THE Italians, (that we all love of course), show them some kick ass Maltese Toledo poker!

Hep hep my darlings out there!
Do well, do good, have fun and remember, play all your spades, its really not harder than that!

C4Q

Thanks to www.pokerjam.it for the live blog during the event and the pictures.

Hot in bed tonight i must admitt!

2011-06-27T04:35:00.011+02:00

Sometimes it sucks living alone, like now when i am desperate for someone to put cream on my back because the sun was a tiny bit to harsh on me today, yea yea i did use sunblock mum, but its freaking hard to get it on your back, really, try and you see. Also sucks living alone when i wake up thirsty middle of night and have to go out to the kitchen MYSELF to get a bottle of water....or take my dog out when am really really really tired, then i could do with a man.

And why is it that the small 200 ml glasbottles of Perrier taste sooo sooo much better then the big ones, or the plastic ones, or ANY other water for that mater?
It really puzzles me.

Or do i like them better because when i snap the cork and drink it i feel like drinking some hex potion from age of time that will make me invisible or have very long hair, because this little bottle is so cute reminding me of some cartoon i must have seen way back and stored in my mind where they boil something over fire and pour into tiny tiny green Perrier ish look alike bottles? Yea could be, i dont know, yea most likely. OMG, ghaaaa... sometimes i even scare myself!!
If i start talking to myself can you ever so kindly let me know ?

Am up late, again , sorry boss, but it was worth it, I been up railing a dear friend who been heads up for 4 hrs in a live tour that had live feed and tomorrow i will make a really nice blog dedicated only to him! Also followed the play down to FT in IPT Campione where i knew a few ppl going deep, and sadly it couldn't be Catania area who take 3 in a row, Francesco Tropea that been doing so well busted just before FT, these young boys from Catania: Francesco, Walter, Nicolaj ect, are coming strong! What are they feeding them over there in Catania, small Perrier bottles with winning potion????

Luuuve and peace!

C4Q

Anyone living close who can come and put cream on my back, MR BEARD man, you not that far off are you .. yea yea nice try AnnaPanna :)
( i said it myself so no you dont have to say it AlexAndy )

Walter Treccarichi wins PPT Malta 2011... with Spades :)

2011-06-23T15:18:00.005+02:00

We just finished off yet another great big Italian influenced tourney here in Malta, Peoples Poker Tour. I was told, instructed, urged, yelled, ordered, and so on and on, by ALL my Italian friends that this is one NOT to miss, most of the players have qualified for a very small amount online and is to be considered low standard. Well.. in all fairness I saw a lot of the players I respect and played with before here so not so sure of this, but yes ofc saw many players that also seemed to be needing a tiny bit more strategic talks :) ( I try to avoid the D word as you all know that sometimes we all are donks ..myself included )

I did not play this tour, I found the buy in of 1650 Euro too high for a little fish like me and also why play when you already know who is going to win!! Seemed like a stupid idea all together to challenge faith like that so I skipped this one.

Yea yea, sometimes one just know, and I knew it already during GOLDBET's Poker Live Adventure, weekend prior, and I told him…. then during the satellite play day before PPT I got even more sure. If there would been some live betting on this I would with NO hesitation bet money on it. And I was right, and am very sure me rubbing my spade tattoo so it’s almost faded helped him a lot, in fact I think it be impossible without it :)… at one point I rubbed too much and his opponent almost got a spade flush against him but luckily I realized my mistake and stopped in time. It was a bit confusing as I played the sideevent and only could rail his allin’s via the Italian speaker, so I misunderstood the hand, sorry for the scary moment there Wally, won’t happen again.

Am so very happy that Walter Treccarichi won PPT Malta 2011, not only is he a very good player, I like his play style a lot, we been on several tables together. But also, he is such a nice sweet person, always smile and behave excellent at the table as well as of it. Also, he always respects my 3-4 bets, for that alone he is well worth taking any tour down, as in all fairness my 3-4 bet can mean anything at all haha! I always called him my mascot, but am not sure I can use him for that anymore as he clearly deserve a far better nickname. Wally the champ!

They tell me it’s A6 of clubs he won with, but I really can only see spades, I guess they did some kind of mistake, but that’s ok, as long as we know how it really was!*

Lots love and happiness to you all out there, and to all my friends playing the IPT Campione, i wish you best of luck, i be following the forums for updates! Especially extra good wishes to Eros Nastasi who i really hope make a back to back !

C4Q

*photo from Walters Facebook, edit by me. If anyone are in doubt of the joke, he did win with A6 of clubs :)

Cinnabon cravings!

2011-06-22T15:35:00.003+02:00

Yesterday i was strolling around the Tigne Point center here in Malta, and i must say i got impressed. (yea I know it’s been here over a year, but I been busy :) )

Most impressed over the smell of new baked that followed us around.. ghaaaaaa…

How could one NOT buy???

Dinner, wine and... a tattoo !

2011-06-16T15:34:00.003+02:00

Another random afternoon/evening with my Princes Ina took place yesterday, it really can end anyhow, this one ended, after dinner and wine, with me getting a tattoo, well I been thinking about it for a while so it’s not a huge shocker, but For Ina to suggest we go and see if he is open and then 1 hr later come out with a tattoo, well, lets say it’s good to have a strong heart in our company!

Here is a picture while he was doing it, i post a better one when its healed. And its healing good, haven't been any complications at all. So dont worry mum, your youngest done far more dangerous stuff :)

Poker Live Adventure Malta 2011, Road To Finaltable

2011-06-14T04:32:00.011+02:00

Phuaaa.. now i feel slowly my energy coming back, been exhausted by the big Italian poker crowd that entered the island last week for the GOLDBET's tour and now this week next batch is on its way for the People Poker Tour.

Madness i been informed :) yeaaay! We like! Place is Portomaso casino, and i must say they really stepped up, big congratulations to job well done!

Evil tongues in the local poker crowd said its only lucky people who can reach the final table and it has nothing to do with skills, also heard my final table seat was worth nothing as i folded myself to it. Am very surprised to hear these things really, since they played with me for 3 years and know if anyone like to play aggressive its me, and i never hesitate to put my stack up for grabs and in all fairness are doing quite well, so if i sit still for 4 hrs doing nothing they should know i have not got anything to do a damn thing with. Pushing any two would not win the tourney, neither can one win the tourney until the last day.

I finished 7 th of 350 players and with my stack there where no options, seeing only crap hands, and knowing i get called as being so short stacked on FT i wanted at least to hold an ace in my hand or any suited connectors. UTG i look down on A5 and is no hesitation am all in, folded round to BB he has to put in another 160 k and with his 1.5 million stack he dont even look at his card, he calls, i would do the same. He has K6 flops 2 pair and am out. But still very happy to make it so far considering all.

A few hands that sticks out during the tour is ofc the day1A hand where i get very lucky with 77 against Giuseppe Bevilacqua's KK but i honestly though i had the best hand, sure turn was a lucky card for me but... ah well see for your self. Also to note.. preflop when he raised i joked and said now i will crack your aces, we both laugh take on our sunglasses and make fun.... :)

Blinds are 150/300.
Am SB and have 77.
UTG + 4 (not UTG as the forums writes it) raise to 900, he holds KK. I call, its another 750 for me with a middle pair, nothing odd at all on these blinds.

BB calls as well.
Flop: 2-4-10 two hearts.

I check, BB bets out 1000, Originaly raiser makes it 2500. Here i honestley really think i got the best hand, putting him on AK and sure BB can have a 10 but i also know he will get out of the way. I pop it up to 7500. And i think here he should have pushed with his KK, i would have folded then.
He calls and pot it now around 20k. Turn 7.

I check again, He bets out 8000, he is left with 12 000 behind. If i take an all in and lose against him, i still will have 30 k on this levels of 150/300 so i decide to do so, and push him all in. He calls remaining 12 000 and shows KK, he also had K of hearts and turn was 7 of hearts so sure it was as bit scary, but river lands a 10 and pot it mine. Big drama :) and am sooo lucky accordingly to everyone, well yea sure turn was a very lucky card, my repop on flop was a move to see where i am with my 77 and since he just called it.. ah well... i won :)

A bit later i get moved, we are still on day1, the table am moved to looks hard to me there are 3 players i know very well from here in Malta and one is Jacques Balzan Demajo, a very agressive strong player, and he sitting with chipleader stack of 170.000 and i got around 95 000. so i dont really want to battle with him. I also feel am getting super tired, its last 2 levels of the day and am close to falling a sleep. I pick up a few small potts and lose a few other small ones, basically folding staying out of action as am really tired. Then i for a reason god alone knows i decide to play a crap hand, am in mid position and should really just throw this hand away but i decide to open up with 57 of hearts. dont ask me why , i dont know :) was not even spades haha!

Everyone folds to BB he calls.
Its a player that had a big stack but taken some hits last 30 minutes so i sense a bit frustration from him.
Flop comes K K 4 two hearts. We both checks.
Turn 8 i bet out to see if i can take it down here, he calls.

River 3 of heart completing my flush. I check, after all my flush is not very high and there is a pair board, sure he was BB he can have K9... i check, he bets out, almost pot size of 22 k.
I call he shows J high. I win with my flush and ofc am the donk here in all ppls eyes but seriously, if he wants to fight with that he should make much stronger appearance on all streets. Its not like i bad beated his K he had J high. Get over it ppl :)

My seat draw for day 2 was a good table, some familiar faces and several new ones, i had Max Rosa on my right and that was a really nice experience, a nice man that clearly knows poker very very well. Seated on the table was also Salvatore Castorina that i know from the final table in prince of poker, and we clashed in a few hands, this one is a fold from me that i will remember for a while :)

I open utg for standard raise, blinds 3000/6000 he klick me, i call.
Flop comes 2-4-J two diamonds. I got QQ, i check it to him, since he re raised me, and yes he put his stack in the middle. If i call here am left with 70 k, if i fold am left with 190 k.

It was not an easy fold but after some thinking i folded and he showed me AA. I felt only hand he can do this with is KK, AA or possible AK of diamonds. some of the poker players here in Malta that i play on regular base in the casino told me it was a very bad fold, and i think it shows we think completely different, i think it was as good fold, i folded because of many things, mostly also because i played him before and i know he must have a very strong hand to do this action to me. In fact, if he check and turn is blank he prop get my stack, so thx Castorina :)

In order to go deep, you JUST as well as to play your cards hard and pick positions need to know how to fold a big hand.

I enjoyed the tournament a lot, nice ppl, and got to know so many new Italians and again saw so many familiar faces. And these floors, supervisors and dealers that are here now are very good, i really appreciate playing with them on duty, i really respect this crowd, they are firm, clear, speak good English and also very very pleasant, can take a joke or two and still have a lot of respect with themselves. Big big thumbs up to Rodolfo Zirio, Nicola Mazza, Luca Vivaldi,Daniele Catalano and all their crew.

And... really ... the tie's they wear are great, i wanted to steal several of them! In fact, i think i will, they be here for this weeks tour as well so... hold on tight to those Belissima Cravetta :)

Also a big improvement to have Christine with us now at Portomaso, she is an excellent supervisor and a very good friend, and super service minded.

I enjoyed playing in the old pokerroom, its silent, no slots, but the air condition really needs to be on or one cant breath in there, its been like this several years and i know its hard to change, in fact the AC is a weak point in the whole of Portomaso, even upstairs, strange it cant be done better in such great facilities. Also they need to have lots of waitresses coming over so one can order drinks, it was really understaffed and the poor girls where running their feet of for us. Well done to them, especially Dani that is such a adorable sweetheart.

Now.... a days rest and next batch of flat handbags, Espresso drinking drama queens surround us - cant wait. It has become an addiction , and soon, soon, i can feel it, one of these days he be here, my Italian, cos everyone should have an Italian once in their life i been told!

Lots of love to ya all!

C4Q

Special thanks too:
http://www.assopoker.com
http://www.pokerforum.pokeritaliaweb.org
http://www.italiapokerforum.com

-for excellent live blogging and photos, Sambuca is on me, always !

Poker Live Adventure - SAMBUCA time!

2011-06-11T12:25:00.005+02:00

Alright people, time to wake up and have some fun

Day 2 of GOLDBET's Poker Live Adventure here in Malta is kicking of in a few hrs and hep hep .. wait for it.. wait for it… yes am in, and of the 150 playing day2 am 6 th in chips, so now its just to keep on building stack.

127,900 chips, Average 58.000. Starting on blinds 1000/2000. Good luck me :)!

Been a very well organized event so far and I really like playing in the old space at the Casino, I think they created a very good extra space there for these ‘smaller’ tours. Well done Portomaso!

The adorable little kitty cats that walk around in an outfit that reminds me of catwoman in collaboration with superman is an added value and every time I pass them I just wanna give their cute little bumps a catchy slap, but I control myself as the mature woman I am and just smile.

And oh yes BTW, am THE WOMAN.. google translate is funny, The Italians blogs calls me an equality to ‘madam’ and Google translate that to THE WOMAN, not even A WOMAN but yes, THE WOMAN, so just so you know, am the one, THE WOMAN!

Its almost became an addiction, having the espresso sipping flat handbags drama queens here, its so refreshing and gives me a big boost. When they go home its quiet , dull, dark, and depressing, no drama, not so much shouting, (ahh well we still got Giovanni for our daily dose of that) not so much smiling and definitely no flirting, I mean after all I am THE WOMAN I need a certain amount of attention to be happy.

I seriously need to learn Italian, even though some of the charm actually is they just speak and speak smiles and hug and kiss you for no reason what so ever and you don’t understand anything, its very relaxing, I don’t have to do anything then smile, wave my hands once in a while, sometime shake my head or put it slightly tipped and am all in the conversation. But hey hoe, perhaps time to man up and learn some espresso language.

My beautiful, gorgeous Princess Ina played the side event yesterday and placed in top 5, they made a deal that was in benefit for her so am super glad and proud of her! Well done, and I enjoyed every second railing you, screaming for you and your 1010 against KK and QQ with a big beautiful 10 on the flop was almost as good as some action in the bedroom. Well not Italian bedroom action that is, no words can describe that I been told. And I can really believe it, they have a certain way of stirring you down with those dark eyes so sorry rest of the mankind, you gotta man up. An Italian is da shit , I heard. Am still to explore that, and am waiting less and less patiently dear God, I really really think its time soon.

Also hands in the air for my friend Jacques Balzan Demajo who is Chipleader with 179 0000, we had a good afterski in the bar Thursday night/ morning and a simple drink turned into many but its worth it when its Black Label, it really is some good stuff that one! Get in :)!

Buckle up folks, we are on the go!

Good luck me and see you in the bar in each break… SAMBUCA TIME!

xxx

C4Q

Top 10 chips entering day2:
Balzan Demajo Jaques 179500
Severi Stefano 143300
Gioe' Gherardo 139200
Corso Marco 130400
Ponzo Giuseppe 128000
Colley Anna 127900
Carla' Federico 118500
Koops Hendrik 113900
Mifsud Gordon 113800
Bernat Nicolas 108100

Helloo Prostitudes

2011-06-08T16:05:00.003+02:00

After some feverish days with pain in my neck from casino air-condition I decided to yea, let’s go to the casino and enjoy some air-condition – again. Why not.

It was time for Oracles 300 euro buy in tour, with no doubt biggest buy in they ever had there, as it’s the mecca for 10 euro rebuys, it’s our wild wild west casino here in Malta and I love it, always put a smile on me to see this crazy hands out there, and make me remember poker should be FUN, else don’t do it. Yesterday for an example a man folded his full house because he didn’t know trips where a less good hand, seriously so funny and makes me handle tilt and bad beat very well, it’s my very own therapy center, also don’t to forget the awesome floorman who can stand all these originals, I swear some of them don’t even have teethes … they are so cute!

I got a ticket to this tour in a satellite where we were 10 ppl, unl rebuy 1 hr and it generated a price pool of 650 Euro, :) says it all me think.

Anyway, tour started out crap, all my big hands got cracked, KK, JJ QQ one by one taken down by a massive ACE, because at Oracle it’s a death sin to not play ANY ace so, we do that because Dear God, we do NOT wanna be sinners do we?

In some remarkable way I managed to turn it around and ended up splitting 3 ways.

Afterwards me and Princess Ina, my gorgeous best friend said we don’t really want to end it just here so we entered the big mighty center of Buggiba for a few drinks. It was nice, as always with Ina.

On our way walking to the car, the funniest thing happen, and pls bare in mind both Ina and I are enormously gorgeous classy women,so it really was funny. We met a group of perhaps 10 chicks in age 16-18, drunk. They pass us and say something that I first thought I heard wrong, but clearly didn’t since Ina heard same thing....... wait for it.. wait for it... ... :

-Helloooo prostitutes….

Haha, WTF?

Ina and I look at each other, keep walking and conversation goes like this

Ina: - they too many, AND they have a black chick with them
Anna: - yea, we have to let this one pass
Ina: - don’t...feels right though
Anna:- I know, next time
Ina: - yea

It was just one of those moments :)..... lots of love to you all.. and Spades!

Dearest, gorgeous sweetest ‘lil sis’ Emma

2011-06-06T13:10:00.002+02:00

This blog entry are dedicated to my dearest, gorgeous sweetest ‘lil sis’ Emma!

There are no words to describe how much I right now would want to be by her side in Sweden Casino Cosmopol, where she is about to sit down and play final 2 table of the Swedish championship of Texas Holdem 2011.

I should be there; I owe it to her, and me, TO US! :)

For an example, not only would my life be so enormously less good without meeting Emma several years back in a casino in Tallin but also, I most certainly would not won Malta madness tour in September last year, neither would I have had so much fun doing it. When 6 left she pull me aside and asked me what am I doing, -I don’t know I said, i feel i am getting run over from right and left! She was at this point slightly tipsy and I was sober, so she decided we need another gear.

Said and done, and no point protesting if Emma made her mind up, she keep coming with Rom and coke in a very even flow, and friends that looked at the live stream texted me asking why I was drinking ice tea, as I don’t really do that, I explained its Rom and coke, but just very little coke! After a few of those strong ones I found my aggressive game back on and manage to win in the end, and again, sorry Luca, you where indeed the best player.

Anyway back to Emma, or my Memmis as I call her, endless are the poker times we had on the Maltese casinos and she is in several of my blog posts. I really do miss you so so much Memmis!

But now you’re in Sweden and am so sure that you go really deep in this tour unless getting into a set up, because you play super steady, good poker, and your very patient. I cant wait to sit down and hear all about your keyhands and discuss them.

And with no doubt you are the most prettiest of them all sitting down, no one can ever beat you on that! Below from EPT Cph, Ladies event, Emma worked for Bet24 then, now she works at Ongame.

They starting 14.00 and here are the chipcounts:

1	Jesper Höög	274500
2	Karl Rudwall	267500
3	Christopher Norgren	249000
4	Andreas Hultén	235500
5	Peter Kvisthammar	227000
6	Felix Wictorin	186000
7	Emma Wikberg	182000
8	Emil Westman	176500
9	Johan Berg	172000
10	Louis Nyberg	149500
11	Ahmed Riyad	127000
12	Mehrdad Sayehban	117500
13	Daniel Nordström	97500
14	Pontus Khosravi	86500
15	Sventa Holmgren	75000
16	Leith Abdelamir	54500
17	Sven Åke Willix	43000

IPT Malta May 2011

2011-06-01T15:09:00.000+02:00

They were here, again.

Loud voiced, widely waving their hands, wearing flat handbags drinking espresso and 3 betting NEVER folding Italians where back on the rock for another taste of the Poker at Portomaso Casino.

It’s been a very good weekend, many familiar faces and many drinks, :)

Dear God I WILL stop taking sugar in my Espresso starting today, as a bartender kindly advice me it’s not good for me, however he said nothing about the triple vodkas we ordered all the times. But after all he was a bartender, I guess he don’t have the same standard on what’s healthy as most people do.

I didn’t play IPT just some cash games now and then and had a good time doing just that.

IPT was won by Marco Figuccia, congratulations to him, very well played! My favorite for the win on that final table was Marco Bognanni who I watched play during the days and he made a very strong impression. Also a very nice boy, and come on… what’s really up with these boys!?? I can’t for my life remember boys where this cute when I was 20, WHAT are they feeding them in Italy? They all are super charming and got the cutest dimples ever and the fact they don’t understand anything I say makes them just even more cute.

As per usual there were some language barriers but how boring would this world be if there were not some misunderstandings, and how could I know that pronouncing Corleone wrong turned into Coglione, and make my sentence: when I come to Sicily you show me around like the godfather Corelone; turn into something completely different. Ah well…. The guy took it well and I really must stop bringing up Don Corelone all the time as this is the second time it went all wrong. It’s my fault entirely.

No more Godfather.
No more show me Sicily.
I drive around myself.
Thx :)

Bless ya all and lots of love and smiles all around !

Its so hard to communicate sober

2011-05-27T13:54:00.005+02:00

-its really so so hard to communicate sober.

Late last night i got an text... and this is how it played out lol. I was more or less clueless but i guess he wanted to have a drink, that much i did understand :)

Italian: Hi Bella, you drink?
Me: Hey there champ, yea sure do drink now and then but are you here now?
Me Cool, :) Playing IPT?
Italian: it’s possible to telephone
Italian: go for drink now
Me: woot? you played today? Survived to Saturday with good stack?
Italian: out of casino
Me: hmm okay.. you out? Sorry :(. Am not playing, but I pass by in weekend and find you to say hi.
Italian:20 min?
Me: am afraid you lost me mate, what you want?
Italian: Saturday I pass, ok.
Me: okay, you survived to day 2, Saturday?
Italian: now no possible
Me: so you did NOT pass to day2?
Italian: pass now, 20 min?
Me: haha no not today, am in bed already :)
Italian: good. taxi, you live sliema. Me go.
Me: no no .. am in bed.
Italian: yes. Taxi sliema.
Italian: I pass Saturday. San Remo me place xxxx no possible see hotel?
Me: ahh you came xxxx in San Remo? Great, am super happy for you, well played!
(took the place out as else its easy to figure out who this is )
Italian: you play ?
Me: no I pass this one.
Italian: no pass, play. Now 20 min ?
Italian: go for drink. Now.
Me: haha no no :) I come watch you play Saturday.
Italian: no not possible. Now! come!
Italian: me go taxi ?
Me: NO. Am in bed I find you Saturday and rail for good luck karma.
Italian: yes me play Saturday si si . I se now only 30 min? I go taxi.. sliema.
Me: no no.. pls . Saturday.
Italian: not possible. Goodbye.
Me: okey :) bye bye! Good luck in the tournament.

after 30 min.....

Italian: now? I go slima?
Me: hahah nooo you said goodbye, remember?
Italian: no remember
Me: go to bed! :) night night.

******

Ah well.. this one was not my Italian, please Dear god am still waiting, slightly less patiently.
Fingers crossed he is in this Batch coming over :)

Rude bitches on the lose in Malta

2011-04-07T16:10:00.006+02:00

Last week and weekend here in Malta, www.Betpro.it have been having a live tournament at Portomaso Casino and its truly been massive, they really have not saved any money anywhere in making this magnificent. I think the TD’s that been in charge been good and efficient and the lightning of the room was really something different and special. The tour itself attracted over 400 players and is the biggest field so far here in Malta. I played day 1A and so looked forward to this event due to structure and deep stack. Starting off with 50k and 50 min levels is nice!!

I had a very hard table; a few really good players that I also know since before and some just completely reckless playing as it was a 10 euro rebuy tour. First 2 levels we had several pots on our table around 80, 90 k and that is just sick in a deepstack tour starting of at 50/50, in just few hands I had a clear chip leader, on my left and he stayed chip leader for all of day 1.

I always think and yea well say aswell I guess, when ppl tell me they didn’t get any cards at all and totally card dead that : hey do something with the card you getting then, mix it up!

I will never say that again.

This was my first tour being extremely card dead, and I really mean it. I love playing suited connectors the smaller the merrier :) and am not scared for getting involved and pushing trough but this table along with my bad cards and no connection on board made it really difficult. Last 2 levels of the day felt like running a marathon. Every hand I tried I get 3 or 4 betted and if seeing a flop I get pushed out of it. Analyzing my play and the table and how things where played I think looking back, I should have taken a gamble in level 1 or 2.. but it just didn’t feel necessary to do so not being sure one had best hands or the odds on your side, also thinking there surely must come a better opportunity along the hrs. Sadly it didn’t. I busted the last hand before they announce they play the last 3 for the day. I had to do something or I come back day two with 7 BB, and I picked up a decent hand and pushed on the button called by SB. End of my Malta poker dream.

It was a super well organized event, massive participation and everything worked smoothly. Congratulations to Fabio Albamonte, that I railed over the live feed the whole finaltable, he played very well and after insane amount of hrs could claim the title!

I also played the Ladies event of Malta Poker Dream and it was really not a pleasant experience, I think of myself as quite experienced playing with many different nationalities and I don’t see it as a problem, I have long time ago accepted that during the Italian events here its Italian spoken and it’s my choice if I want to participate or not. Am fine with that, fingers and showing with chips get you a long way.

But, what is allowed and what is really not allowed around a poker table?

I got a high thresher hold with this, I can even be quite harsh myself sometimes, but am not rude or mean and I don’t make it personal., because in end it effects me in bad way but yes sure I talk a lot if the company is good, but more and more I turn into sitting quiet with my music. However am sorry, but far from a very few Italian women I met, for an example, Cristina Pietricola and Carla Solinas who I have the very deepest respect for, the Italian ladies are extremely bad behaving and rude to play with, not in an event with men around the table but playing ladies event they for some reason turn into something that is not suitable at all. Strange actually, grown up women behaving as 12 years old insecure bullies.

You all know my stand when it comes to ladies event that I don’t think it should be divided in men/women event but it’s good for the game to have tours to attract more females to play and try out live game. But if this is the kind of behavior they met it’s definitely not at all a good thing for our ‘sport’. I can just ignore them but I feel I have to speak up and complain for those who don’t feel secure enough to do so. I think to team up 2-3 ppl to curse and scold someone at a poker table in a language you know the person can’t understand and defend her/himself in s so coward there is really no words for it, and don’t bring anything good for anyone. I have seen a lot but this ladies event was by far stepping over the lines more than anything, it was even worse then colluding as it was personal attacks, and colluding in poker is about as bad as it gets so for this to be worse says it all.

Am very disappointed that the dealers that overall did a very good job, to let this go on, some even smiled to it. They should have instructed the ladies to behave or called the floor, it’s not so easy for us foreigners to call floor when we don’t understand 100% what is said on the table, and one should also know that when calling floor it gets into a huge drama with these Italians, and not everyone can handle this, some girls played for their first time even. It’s sad that such a great massive impressive event should leave this for ppl to take home as a memory. Am doubtful I will play them again these ladies event, but ah well I guess I will … donkaments :)

And big big respect to my friend Graziella Vella who placed 3th, am very happy for her and super proud!

And for those who wonder, yes I would thought the same of these rude ladies even if I won it :)

Malta Poker Dream a world of Espresso, Sambucca and some poledancing!

2011-03-30T12:08:00.002+02:00

THEY are here... again, more than ever, they are here, there and everywhere!

Loud, well dressed, nice smelling, cute and very flirty, yea yea of course am talking about the Italians. It’s the Malta poker dream coming up, a 5 days long tournament and its for sure going to be a massive loud drama, they are very loud :)

In Sweden we have a saying, something like your life is not completed until you have had your Italian, well I still haven’t got mine so am very excited and hopeful! They are adorable cute with their flat little handbag hanging across the chest while worldly zipping their Espresso and the sidekick Sambucca..

But this is not just a ordinary tournament with standard suckouts and crazy moves. During the tour they are making a movie, not a documentary but a real cinema movie and the plot is too funny to not tell

Two Sicilian brothers, one hot bad bad boy one cute autistic genius, fall in love with same girl, her name is Anna, and I BTW take this as a CLEAR sign that my Italian is on his way! Anna is however a bit naughty, works in a bar (always wanted to do that) and at night she is a pole dancer (always liked that too ) And BTW seems like the perfect girl for one of my robber from cardamoma town, Kasper, you listening!!!???

As it happens, this chick knows many dubious people in the underworld of Milan and hook the brothers up with some douchebags to help them be propoker player in order to save their sick little sister that needs expensive care. The brothers fall apart over the love of Anna, of course, needless to say, pretty obvious they would, an Anna is an Anna. They both however travel to Malta to play the massive Malta poker dream, the dream of 1 million Euro and to save their sister. Of course they end up Heads up so must be a win win!

-Two opposite characters ... The same blood ... Only one goal ... Victory!
( quote from the website, i seriously cant make that up)

I am pretty sure we see a few familiar faces on this final table as they been using locals as well in this move. All day yesterday and today they been filming and also will film during the event itself, so we all get our chance of 15 minutes of fame, yay!

For those who want to read more about it check this site out: http://www.pokergeneration.it

Ahh well…. Time to toss em in and hope for the best. Day1A kicks of 16.00 and this chick will be seated, ready to rumble with the Drama queens! Good luck to me!

Below a favorite :

Hello Kitty with her robbers from cardamom town strike again

2011-03-28T13:22:00.003+02:00

This weekend it was time for a tournament in one of the smaller Casinos here in Malta that also are quite new to poker, they have smaller tours and many new beginners playing, but i like the place, the atmosphere is nice and ppl friendly, Oracle casino is in Bugibba, a smaller sea town that are loaded with ppl in summertime and a quiet in winter. The tour went well, after 7 hrs play we did a deal and played for some smaller extra money for the winner, It was the Casinos first bigger buy in tour.

However whenever one think one seen it all one just get reminded that there are just as many different styles as there are ppl, I think I never seen so many odd play and weird explanations but hey hoe, am not there to teach anyone so keep it up champs ! However colluding s not something I ever will tolerate, agreeing to check it all the way preflop just because its against someone you know and in end flip over a hand that gave you top pair on flop, 2 pair on turn and full house on river…. Ghaaa.. back in the days in Texas you been shoot for that one! Strangest thing was dealer heard them say let’s check it all the way and didn’t react, I was busy with a waitress so didn’t reacted until card where flipped over and I then said wooooot??

They then kindly explained as the most natural thing in the world that they agreed preflop to check it all way and I was also told I should have protested. dohh.. What a completely odd thing to say! Am being nice now, I wanted to write retarded fuck shit moron thing to say, but I didn’t say that, you dint read that :)

Its not my thing as a player at a table to check every hand, every pot, every change or every word spoken, its really tiring that Casinos in Malta seem to think it is. The dealer said, he thought it was ok since no one protested.. bhaaa! And floor didn’t have the guts to say anything just stood there.

Ah well, all good that ends good, took my 3 th live tour win in 7 days, not big tours but still a win is a win and as always, spades beats all and the 9 is awesome! Afterwards i stopped by a friends bar and had a few drinks, Hello Kitty with her robbers from cardamom town where indeed rocking, but starting to catch up with drinks around 03 is sooo stupid really : )

''Langt, langt borte i det fjerne ligger Kardemomme - Utenfor byen bor de tre røverne Kasper, Jesper og Jonatan som bare vil gjøre det de vil og ikke bryr seg om å være grei og snill. De tre røverne er spesielt glad i Bakerens saftige bakervarer og Pølsemakerens smakfulle pølser. Kasper, Jesper og Jonatan er ikke særlig glad i å vaske eller å lage mat, så en dag bestemmer de seg for å røve noe helt spesielt… ... ''

Cheers!

Spanish Deepstack @ Venezia Casino, Malta

2011-03-25T16:45:00.006+01:00

Last weekend it was time for the first really deep stack on the island, was hoping for lot more players but it got 35 runners and was good practicing, especially since BetPro’s Malta Poker Dream coming up next week. Fingers crossed i be seated in that one to enjoy 4 days of close up with the male drama Queens,with their cute little flat hand bags, Sambucca and Espresso!

Ended day 1 at the Spanish deepstack with a decent stack and day 2 run smoothly and could wrap it up and call me the winner in good time to get a big amount of drinks as well Saturday night : ) ghaaaaa… too old for that! But hey hoe wobbling home 08 in the morning in bright sunshine one are ever so grateful for coming from a poker tour earlier as sunglasses always are in the bag. Tess was happy seeing me.. poor little furry one.. we went to a park and woke up all the outdoor sleeping ppl, not sure they appreciated that as much as Tess thought it was fun- mum mum come and see its ppl sleeping here!

Thumps up to Christine who run a very good floor and super well organized tour. Its nice at Venezia, no slots machine making awful noise in the background. Lot of poker in Malta these days and it’s a good place to live if one likes live poker.

Play well and remmeber spades beat everything, its really not harder then that :)

Nice smelling chicks in da house!

2011-02-23T18:27:00.005+01:00

I played the Ladies event on IPT Malta the other day, I didn’t really plan to play or wanted to, one can say I played under protest, yea yea I got a double moral regarding ladies events. Kill me.

I very strongly think poker is a game we do on equal terms, well that is if one exclude the lucky donks that always hit what they need, they play on totally different terms of course BUT as a gender issue we do play on equal terms so therefore lady’s events are not really something one should encourage.

BUT, its good PR and who doesn’t want to play among chicks only, nice smelling, soft sweet gorgeous creatures that smile and say sorry when they win. It’s so refreshing, especially the nice smells and gorgeous faces and who don’t like boobs? Girls who say they don’t lie. All girls are somewhat little bisexual, am very sure of this. Am yet to experience that part of life as the scared old fashion double moral preacher I am. But, am sure.

OK side tracked, I know. Happens.
Back to the poker, was hitting insanely good first 2 hrs, almost ashamed.. naeee who am I kidding with that statement, absolutely no one that knows me, am a bitch yes. Sorry. Got into complicated hands, called a few all ins too light and then struggled down to bubble where river send me out giving another lady, not so nice smelling or happy or friendly, and no nope nada nothing good about her if I think about it… a one card flush. Suuucks! But very happy my friend Cristina Pietricola won it, she well deserved it!

Also it was a nice event, chilled and nice, yea still some colluding Italian ladies but hey hoe colluding can only take you so far and they will eventually realize the negative sides of that getting out there in the big world. The event was super well organized in the big congress hall of Hilton. Big thumps up to Portomaso Casino and Pagano events that where the organizers. Nomination for best organized tours I seen will still go to Neil Kelly in Ireland but this was close … Neil… miss you and your bedroom voice in the microphone gliding around the tables! Soon soon soon I need to get back to my lads in Ireland for some good craic!

Craic- everyone knows what it is but no one can explain it.
Toss em in boys and girls and remember spades always win, follow that and you do well.

Libya Versus A Pig

2011-02-23T17:50:00.005+01:00

News values to me are fascinating, interesting, sad and sometimes completely not understandable..but perhaps thats just me.

Right now a lot of bad things goes on all over the world. Here in Malta, we are of course quite concerned about what happens in Libya, not only since many Maltese ppl live there but as its very close and Malta seems to be looked at as a neutral little rock in the Mediterranean and a first step to the ’real’ Europe . And haters stop puking words out now; I know Malta is part of Europe. :)

Among all these serious stuff going on with Fire flights landed and pilots asking for asylum and war ships outside our coast and planes circulating not allowed to land but directed back to Libya,- in middle of this things demanding my attention from the computer screen I also listen to Swedish radio and its news every full hr and the biggest news for today,( being announced every hour! ) is somewhat to me in big contrast to what goes on in other parts of the world. The biggest news in Sweden today is that a pig might have been slaughtered ‘alive

Am proud to have a university degree in agriculture and worked many years in that sector both practically and theoretical and am absolutely think it’s very important with human treatment of animals of all sorts. However this made me a bit… I don’t know.. Silent?

The process in a Swedish slaughterhouse is to put the pigs to sleep with chemicals before they get emptied of blood and into the scalding tank, which is intended to soften their skin and remove their hair. Apparently this pig was not proven chemical dead before entering the scalding tank, the pig was a sleep but not dead.

Yes that’s not good. In fact it’s horrible, cruel and not at all necessary in order to feed us humans.

However.. I dunno… but it just feels a bit surreal watching videos from the streets in Libya and other very serious things happening all over the world, surreal to hear that the biggest thing that happened in Sweden today 23 th of February was the issue involving a pig. GGWP.

A Legend stepping down

2011-02-15T14:45:00.004+01:00

I believe even if you dont have the love for the game, you can appreciate a great athletes action during his years, no wrong, MANY years of being on the real top of the mountain. Its a sad sad day indeed.

Peter 'Foppa' Forsberg has announced he is steeping down his amazing carrier, he has been injured on and off and its time to realize he can no longer do the game he love so much, as he says 'if i cant give it all my best i cant do it, i want people to remember me as someone who maybe not always was the best player on the ice but always DID his best.

I remember during my years in Africa running around hotels finding a satellite dish that can show me some World Cup Hockey. sitting alone watching ice hockey on a small black and white TV in 30 degrees sunshine drinking a local beer. Locals shaking their heads to the crazy white lady sitting there watching that. In Africa its only Football that counts.

Its very touching to see how emotional he is announcing this:

Below is a tribute to a legend, i get chills all over seeing some moves again and they can for sure be seen over and over again. Thank you 'Foppa' for many hrs of entertainment, drama, action and joy!

Date Fixing & Trixing

2011-02-08T18:02:00.009+01:00

I like to think one should help friends with whatever they need.

Am not so sure that the two i just tried to help think the same BUT... if one dont try one dont know and i think they would have fun together. To be respectful i changed the names, people are so sensitive sometimes. Below is the mail i send them. Happy freaking Valentines!

He-ya both!

Catrine met Thomas, Thomas met Catrine :)

I think you two should go out and have a drink (Thomas is reaaally good at drinks Catrine!) Or perhaps you could eat some food, Catrine loves a nice steak, and she is also the best i know getting others drunk

You are both retarded gamblers so am very sure this must be a super date, well I cant call it date cos then you both be angry at me, but can you just please do this.. for me?

Kisses & Hugs

anna panna

One of those Maltese things

2011-02-07T15:45:00.001+01:00

Only in Malta

Yea thats a saying well known among ppl here, as a lot of things happening here are a bit different :) yes am nice today! Different is a good word.

We all went to lunch from office and when the orders came out, there was a mistake, 2 of the guys ordering the same crispy chicken burger and out came one of those and a grilled chicken file burger instead, the waiter looked at it and realized the mistake, said:
-ah well this one is better anyway, left the plate on the table and left.

Hilarious!

I actually agreed with him, it looked much better then the other.

Heeeep

Thank god the Italians cant get enough

2011-01-27T18:39:00.010+01:00

IDRA poker event, kicked of today!

This particular chick are playing day 1B, and that is tomorrow!

So time to relax get ready, shave legs and tone up the Sambucca tolerance!

Hep hep!

Pannan

Lesbian week with italian princes and lots of Sambucca

2010-12-19T10:29:00.001+01:00

Prince of poker, how does that sound?

Well..it all goes back a week in time when i realizes that among poker people in Malta am considered to be Lesbian, i don't really mind that, no no not at all, am quite open minded but to get our facts right from start, am not Lesbian :) yet anyway. Am still battling for the team of the weird species called men.

Ever so often to the little rock called Malta they come, full of hope, new poker moves and huge craving for coffee. Yes. THE ITALIANS.

They often come many at the time, this time it really felt like many, but perhaps because all Scandinavians on the island gone home to Santa land to pet Rudolf and make snow angles... loooovveee snowangles :( However, this time it was DIFFERENT. It felt like they where different Italians, or maybe my lesbian week made me more open minded, probably. Or perhaps they all where so happy escaping xmas shopping with the wife's so they all where in extra good mode, cos they where nice, sweet, smiling, funny, still completely impossible to communicate with as i can no Italian and very few of them English but somehow it works, Maybe i can ask for a video from Casino Portomaso when i try to explain to a very flirty man that no i cant go with him to his hotel room cos i haven't shaved my legs, am quite sure that one would be an award wining peace on youtube. He took it fairly well, so am quite sure he didn't understood. no big deal. He smelled very nice. Am an after shave junkie, think i need to smell him some more, i couldn't place it :), anyway, Thanks for the drinks.

Ok so to the tour:
500+50 euro, 20 000 Start stack, 40 min blinds day 1, 60 hr blinds day 2 and 3.
100.000 euro guarantee. (by www.princebet.com)

Tour is held at Portomaso casino and been very well organized, big up for the crew behind it. Very profession. Raffaele Maria De Nicola is TD and doing a great job, as always, we really miss him on the island. Also thanks to Josef Borg who kindly let me bring a friend to the buffet, complimentary of the house, much appreciated.

There are so many hands and situations so i could seriously write forever but it will not really anyway give it the right feeling, one gotta be there cos playing with Italians are a bit like playing online just that you actually see the ppl screaming and have to duck for the chairs coming. Love it! Poker should be done with passion! They seem good at that.. the Italians , PASSION! ( note to one self, shave legs) And they dont feel bad and start excusing when they suck out they just rub it in and ship the pot and clap the table to say well done to them self's, i LOVE THAT TOO :) its so refreshing, all these nice players saying soo soo sorry for that, well they lie, they not sorry. Italians way is the way forward.

Toss it in, hope for the best, and fuck the rest. On your bikes ppl!

Just one question: whaz up with the ski pants?
Many of them have like skipants with hangbump... is this like new fashion? Italy is know to be land of fashion, well, am not much into fashion and honestley guys the skipants thinghey,total turn off. No amore ther nop no nada zipp zero. A man, a real man, should wear jeans, prefarable wrangler :) and smell good.

14.00 its time to battle it out again, we are 10 left and am sure it be good fun, and i can honestley say of all tours i played this been the most entertaining one, if it has to do with my Lesbian week or not i dont know, but it has been a pleasure getting to know some new faces and i really really hope you all come back again and again, in jeans.

Chips, starting on 4000/8000

Marco Viscomi 583,500
Marco Romoli 536,500
Anna Colley 345,500
Antonio Filocamo 336,500
Salvatore Castorina 329,000
Antonio Bellini 276,000
Riccardo Mazzitelli 275,000
Jonathan Pyartt 191,500
Alessandra Cravero 133,500
Steven Van Zadelhoff 72,500

Feeling a bit 'badmotheroftheeyear' title coming up, day 2 kicked of already 12 yesterday, WHO decided that by the way? Bhaaaaaaaaa! No room for nightley activities at all... i woke up 11:15 and no time to take Tess out for a proper walk, its a dog not a child for you who now are starting to dial social service on me, and i wasnt back home until after 10 hrs, yes i know, but she is ok, she cuddled down under the duvet and snores. And i got her 3 burgers from burger king :) as a bribe, see thast A MOTHER of the year thingey hep heeeeeeep! girl at Burger king looked at me weird when i say i get 3 of whatever you got ready, she started to explain what that was, and what was on the burgers ehhh.. i said hold it right there, no need just give it to me, am not eating it its for my dog. A short moment it looked like she would refuse to give me the burgers, like the pizzaman in sweden, remeber that one, blog post? July 2007 , Festival in town and battle with mr pizza man. My god THAT was a odd pizza man.

Tess forgave me and eat it all! All that matters.

Toss em in and hope for the best!
Lots of love to ya all!

C4Q

Random Malta Pictures

2010-12-17T13:27:00.000+01:00

The Cougar Era

2010-12-08T23:41:00.009+01:00

An Era refers to a long period of history. So its written, Wikipedia knows it all.

So I guess it’s just to face it, am now past quite few Era’s in my life I kind of missed to peak in any of my era’s so THIS is the one!!Or?

The childhood one was busy screaming for attention with older siblings, yea you know youngest * rolling my eyes* really hard job especially if your stubborn. Next up: the teenager Era, well there i fought the fight of the underdogs being chairman in my school and sitting in community boards representing the Younger voice!

After that, college Era where I was very busy trying to be the best and also sitting in boards in different groups making myself feel super important I also did a lot of hard work keeping horses and riding so leisure time was slim, very slim. However I did arrange a lot of parties in these boards, glory were the 80’ies and the funny hairs and cloths. Glory glory glory!

University Era was indeed sweet, I lived in a house that had 22 rooms, it was 21 men, me and my dog. It was a good era. Every Thursday we had university pub and I can without lying say I don’t remember a single Friday for 2 years. I can also very shameful say most of our exams where on Fridays, how that puzzle actually manage to go well in end is still a riddle so hard to understand so it would take an Era just to get the strategy planning done, so I left that.

After this it was carrier and working Era, something I enjoyed and suddenly a day I realized i was married, yes it was just like that actually so without knowing it I was now in the married Era, and yes ofc, Baby wanting Era, been there done that, temperature, eggs, cycles and lot of practicing.. However I guess my soul and mind where awaiting another Era, my PRIME time Era.

Because no babies, just another dog. Beloved darling Tess.

After this am a bit uncertain what to call it, divorce Era sound a bit harsh don’t ya think? So let’s say testing my wings Era? Leaving a government job and starting to work with poker, Yea sound insane I know, but I blame all my prior Era’s for this drastically change and it was time to fly high, and what a ride! Oh yea baby, hotels, casinos, crazy sidebets, more hotels more casinos and learning to see good in dark, as one don’t sleep at night working with this. Perhaps it should be called my vampire Era. Properly more correct.

So now am ready for next Era. Bring it, ship it, toss it all in and hope for the best!

I guess it cannot be called anything less than the – Cougar Era

Wikipedia’s explanation gives me hope:
-Cougar - The term is commonly applied to women who are forty or older and pursue younger men-

So now good ppl you all know what Era I am in rest of my life, cos it ends here right? The Era shit.

NO one gets a set heads up!

2010-11-28T12:41:00.004+01:00

Rise and shine! Sunday bloody Sunday… well no in fact I was in bed sleeping 02 so am feeling energized and rested!

The heads up tournament started out well, won my first match and then had to wait 1.5 hrs for my next one and see here I think my opponent already started to rig the whole thing. During the waiting time everything was already written in stone. Betsafe lounge, yes you heard me, full of booze games and nice people and sweet Saraha. BTW who was that sexy tall finish (?) guy? Come on is there even hunk’s in Finland ?, se on learn something new each day, hallelujah!

Soooo after a few waters  there it was time for my second game, and yea ofc Erik from Betsafe was on the other side of the table. Amazing value, how did he win his first game?

That’s was also my first question, he said he sucked out so fair enough, I already here decided to give him a few walks, to make him happy.

Well the day to honor I had my golden shirt on so what can possible go wrong, also Erik gave me some really good tip before we start. No ONE has a set in heads up. Thanks. I really must thank Betsson crew and the entire casino for being on MY side, and wuupti Betssons formidable VIP manager our very own sidebet master genius maniac, the crazy Norwegian brought us vintage beers on silver plate. The whole casino stopped and the main event was far back in peoples mind like a blurry cloud, on the agenda was only one thing.

Anna beating Erik.

Ok, well however as no one get a set in Heads up I thought I did very well. But a flush cannot beat a full house, not even in Italy. So when the naughty little ugly 3 of hearts hit the river, only hearts that couldn’t come, bhaaaa, not only did I get my flush but Erik his full house. So NH GG well done.

Erik won, Anna lost, MY GOD it hurts sooo bad to say that, but right is to be right!

Now time to get walking shoes on and take Tess out and also grab a coffe somewhere and later on Venezia Casino for Sunday tour and there amazing Buffet, no one can bust before dinner break its just as sure as no one get set Heads up, so ok NOW I jinxed this one too.. merde.. When will I ever learn?

Isn't he sweet, in his new golden lucky shirt?

Hep hep
C4Q

GSOP Malta - Heads Up side Event!

2010-11-27T18:00:00.005+01:00

Its been so many good live event in Malta last few months and hence winning the Malta madness tournament in September I got ofc the thrill back playing poker, I had a very long break before that one.

Right now we have the GSOP going on and I really must hand it to Ongame in close cooperation with some of the partners on Ongame, that they done a super good job. Its good organized and small little extra things that really makes difference. I beliave Betsson is the ones doing a really good job here so Thumps up to Heidi, Tellef and the rest, very well done!! And since everyone knows i complain just about anything... its a huge compliment :)!

Betsafes lounge upstairs where also a cool place for players to hang out and Saraha and the lads doing it really good entertaining their players.

The side events where not so good structure so I passed on them, and main event I didn’t plan to play, one can’t play every 1000 plus tour coming here, or I can’t, unless I sell% or do a deal so one have to pick among them. However GSOP are having a side event that are heads up tournament with max 64 participants, and as one can’t so often find these Heads up live tours I though it be a good practice as well as good fun, so am registered for that one starting 20.00 tonight and my seating is Table 1 Seat 1 and I take that as a good sign and jinx myself already YAY!!
GL to ME!

GSOP main event is still being played and my freind Erik Smith is on my nr one list to take this one down! He plays very steady and won a side event to the IPT few weeks back, so go get em! And besides i was there earlier giving him 'skruuuub' bananas so how can he NOT win???

Toss em in!

Panna

Oi Oi

2010-11-26T01:14:00.001+01:00

imperfection is beauty.
madness is genius
being absolutely ridiculous is better than being absolutely boring

/panna

Girls drunk poker evening!

2010-10-22T13:48:00.002+02:00

So it was time, time for the more experienced girls to take seat in Colley casa.
And it turns out they were more experienced in more than one thing. For an example drinking more wine, I make it my pride to never be empty on such things but here I have to admit that I miscalculated because in fact all my wine storage besides a few bottles of well hidden expensive red wines are left. With this said, i am glad, because all storage needs cleaning once in a while and what can be better doing so an ordinary Wednesday with some chicks and poker : )!
Well if you have a better time, let me know.

And it can’t only be Sofia’s fault as she actually was there on both occasions, even though am pretty sure without her we all be drinking water, she is such a life saver our Sofia! Never seen anyone with such an eye for a glass being just below half full and wuuptu she is there, I don’t even have to pay her for these excellent waitress skills it’s built in her like super natural. Yay! We all love Sofia . Maybe little less day after but we truly love her right there, right then.

The poker?

Yea right, ok, hmm well.. we destroyed 2 deck of cards, made 70% of the chips wet with wine, ended up splitting the small added pot we all contributed too when 3 left because everyone where too drunk .. There where peanuts everywhere and the table poker cloth is now circulating around for the third time in my washing machine….yes poker at Colley Casa is always interesting!
BTW who gave my dog all that food so she had to go out early in the morning, there are rules girls, rules!!

However, neither the less we had 4 seats to Malta Poker Open sponsored from different sites, Mermaidpoker sponsored 2 seat, Powerpoker one and Betsafe the last one, so big thank you to these sites for thinking just as us… the rock is ours and no beauty’s with designer sunglasses can come and take it away from us! Basta. Even though I think if we let Sofia lose on the day of the Ladys event running around the tables with drinks for us, we are doomed. But doomed in a good way that is since what better way to go down is there then to the taste of alcohol and a buzz dizz in your brain and just say ok this is over – what’s next?

But.. am pretty convinced we going to defend the colors on our little rock very well, reading the villain’s blog am pretty convinced we have a rock winner well deserved to win! And we also decided we all play with tiara as I heard a rumor that’s the price anyway so we just make it easier for the boys at XL bet to crown us! Yay.. always wanted a tiara… *dreamish look in my eyes*

And for yours all amusement, some pictures below, however it was not many of them I can actually dare to make public since for some reason and I have really no clue who said this *rooling my eyes* we kind of got some insider information that the 3 gorgeous girls arriving to our little rock have good attributes and we did some training on how to make our own attributes (read boobs) could look little more impressive, yes this is what we did when we were 4 left, so you who left might know to next time, stick around to the bitter end, it be worth it!

But as they say it’s not the size that matters, not that much anyway. And in poker it’s the one with most chips I end who wins anyway : )

Toss em in!

C4Q

Girls poker training

2010-10-14T13:49:00.002+02:00

Living in Malta and being quite active on the poker scene here i figure it’s time to defend the colors, and get some more chicks ready for the coming Ladys Event at Malta Poker Open. We can’t have any gorgeous models to fly in and just win it no no…. the rock is ours!

We have accepted the challenge so keep on the practice girls!

Said and done, a few days ago I had the first event in my home and we were 15 girls, 10 playing and 4 that acted as coaches helping out on decisions and yes ofc, filling up the wine glasses. We all have our skills and one of the coaches had her own tactic getting her protégé to win and I surly must agree that Sofia with no doubt are the best wineglass filer ever as so many chicks went home quite tipsy and the chit chat level during the evening was quite high! XLBet had sponsored with a first price, entry to Ladys event and other prices where sponsored by me and Sobar/No4 a bar restaurant where the welcome party for the Malta poker event will be held and also a place owned by 3 close Friends, two of them very well-known Danish poker players, ‘Kipster” and “Jesper P “

Am not saying it’s an easy task this, but be sure we are going to be ready J and sweet lord do we have fun!! But don’t be surprised if there be some strange calls as the hands value seems to be the hardest thing, the best comment of the night and a real epic one goes to all our sweet lovely Fran:
-But Sofia, why can't I make a straight with Q, K, A, 2, 3..? It is 5 cards and you said 5 cards make a straight...

And in all fairness… its not bad thinking it shows something indeed is going on! And it is, we are going to have a few more sessions and then let’s bring it on!

Coming Wednesday its time for next event, but this time it be 10 experienced female players from the island and we will be playing for 3 tickets to lady’s event ( so far), sponsored by Mermaidpoker and Powerpoker.

Below few pics… : )

Until next time, Toss em in and hope for the best!

C4Q

Malta Madness day 2

2010-09-29T22:53:00.002+02:00

We started of 27 players and I really did not have a very good stack and getting absolutely no cards, so a lot of folding and some re steals, that’s all. But in good mood feeling very patient and just taking things cool.

When being 16 left I picked up 1010 in a mid position, in an already raised pot, I called to see a flop and was lucky to hit a set against a guy that had a flush draw ( initial raiser folded saying after wards he had JJ, lucky me as a J hit on turn ) we ended all in and no flush so there I felt I got a break and actually was with an ok stack to do some more moves. Viktor Dedek that I had on my table from start day 1 and also after a while on day 2 as well really took the lead, he got some serious nice pots with half good hands and knocked ppl out one by one, well done : )

At final table I sat down with 3 th biggest stack and a few really low stacked, I suggested we made a deal that nr 9 will be paid as well, at least buy in back, I think in these bigger events FT should really all be paid. Everyone agreed so bubble got quite painless, I actually looooove playing bubble games so bhaaa… : )

Quote from www.maltamadness.com : Chip leader Luca, continued to play his aggressive style, but soon was increasingly crossing swords with Viktor and Anna who had been consistently building her stack through aggressive raises & re-raises.

Yes true, he was very aggressive but a very good player so know how to fold, I did several re raises against him and he respected them. Also took one big pot where I raised pre he re raised and I pushed, he thought long and folded, those pots matters a lot on this stage as it’s a lot of chips involved. We have not been seated on same table until FT so he had no idea how I play or me him for that matter, not more than i already know he have some massive respectful results in his back. In all fairness I had shity hands for two days and then on FT it all changed and I got much better hands and also connected flops. Then poker is so much easier : )

Really impressed by Luca’s play though and also a very humble and nice personality, with no doubt the best player on the Final table but was very unlucky against me with his AA where I hit another K on flop holding KK, but its poker, ce’ la vie, and no one of us could do anything, played itself but yes that was a K that cost him 10 k Euros for sure. We were down to 3 players and blinds are 22 000, I sit with perhaps 300k so definitely nothing to even put a second thought to. Been a lot of fuzz about that hand as well as my winning hand against Dedek, people saying I was very lucky, yea I WAS in 2 hands, but they forget I played 20 hrs of poker to get to those hands, that both happened in the very last hr of the tournament.

And very big thanks to my Emma who so loyal was with me all final table play handing over very strong rum and coke drinks, bless ya babe, without you I probably busted earlier and thirsty as well so must say it was a win win situation! We headed out for some breakfast with 20k in my handbag, that was a bit stupid bit on the other hand the trophy I got I could actually have killed someone with as it was shaped I a funny way and extremely sharp, so not that worried after all. Taxi driver looked a bit big eyed when I pulled out the envelope with 20 000 euro in order to pay the ride, and I was quite drunk so bless him for avoiding getting stabbed by my trophy!

Quote from www.maltamadness.com : Her style of play drew many comparisons with Annette Obrestad, so we may have discovered the next Scandinavian female poker superstar. Congratulations to Anna.

Ha ha but LOL! Am not in any senses close to play as good poker as Annette but yea thx! Am blushing!

Hep hep!

pannan

Malta Madness Day 1

2010-09-27T11:54:00.001+02:00

A week ago i got a nice text. Well it does happen i get that sometimes, but this one was just a little nicer.

A friend of mine, CEO of www.Powerpoker.com Erik Smith asked me if i wanted to play in his place at maltamadness event as he had to travel to New York New York, and yes he said that twice. I didn’t do a spelling mistake, even though I do them on regular base.

I haven’t played a bigger tournament for quite some time, have actually not been playing much poker at all last year as I lost the fun feeling for it and also taking too much time of my life so quite surprised he asked me, but why bother thinking so much of that, so i said -sir, yes sir, let’s do it!

Maltamadness event is played at Casino Venezia here in Malta and if you know me, you know I really dislike this casino, for so many reasons, so I was quite curious to see how they run an international event. To my biggest surprise, they didn’t use their big nice poker room holding close to 30 tables in a really nice newly decorated room. Well done on that new room. They kept it in the smaller poker room, and what a huge mistake this was, however no shadow to be fallen on Venezia for this it was Pokeridol, the company behind the event that wanted it this way, and why? Yes, here is where I really starting to get confused.

Reason was, I did ask, of course = ) anyone surprised over that?
No didn't think so. They are live streaming the event and have big cameras and big lamps and it would be so much better for them to not be in the proper poker room. Again as seen so often before, companies think more about their own short time benefit then the long time benefits of having happy players that go home and speak great about the event or maybe they just trust in the faith that after a while people only remember the good stuff and forget about the bad, well, I never be one of those. But you know that by now.

Firstly it was incredible warm due to the lamps and too many people l in the room to be comfortable sitting playing poker for 10 hours, people where sweating, cards full of fingerprints, and completely 100% impossible to get out from the table unless it was a break, since it was really squeezed in to fit everyone. The lamps for the cameras where in people’s eyes and I for one sat for 8 hours having to cover my eyes in order to see the board because of these big lamps, I say 8 hours since some dealers where very kind and pushed the cards higher up in order for everyone to see. The lamps also reflected on the chips in the pot and one could not see and estimate how much was in pot or what players betted by looking at the chips values, now as it happens am an ok counter and remember what happen on the different betting rounds so not the biggest problem for me, but one get awful tired of stirring into a very bright Gestapo lamp for 10 hours and one stop following players hands and stick only to the one you are involved in, and that is a huge loss of information seated on a table.

But then again, working in the Igmaing environment as I have for quite some time now, I can UNDERSTAND these things if one get PR and marketing value out of it, I don’t think it’s EVER ok to sacrifice players experience at no point but I can understand it if it gives a good return of invested effort. So did it? Give a good return of invested effort I mean, well that we don’t know yet for sure, but I am blunt saying I don’t think so, for the organizers I hope am wrong.

So why do I say they don’t get this return?

Ah well, let’s start with a quote from pokeridols webpage that by the way now says 45 min blind level but been saying 1 hr blind levels since up and running, but information on the crazy wide wild webb is not so important and no one is perfect, right? And after all, that thing called marketing and getting something out of it is not so important either, just some humbug someone made up*.

Start quote: The Main Event is not just another tournament held inside a sparse card room. PokerIdol is going to transform the gaming floor into an evil themed arena, where the mood lighting and creative decor will make this an event to remember.
Dress to impress as the event will be fully televised, with the final table being streamed live over the internet with full commentary. Magazines from all over Europe will also be attending, allowing the most creative and striking figures the chance to really become a PokerIdol. End quote

So as for starters the ‘evil themed arena’ I think they mean the green welcome drinks that no one bothered to drink, maybe because no one offered them to us, I don’t know, or maybe they were not for drinking? As a décor they looked good standing on the little table in the corner for 10 hrs. So let’s agree they were made for decoration in order to spare ourselves some bitching.

‘Mood lightening and creative décor’, yea the mood lightening was indeed achieved, but how strange a commercial company that survives on the base concept happy returning customers as a proof of well-done job, wants to create such mood as, warm, annoyed, tired sweating, half blind players to make their PR after the event. But then again, what do I know about marketing. Probably nothing.

Never get stuck in negativity, what good have that ever done for mankind so let’s move on: ‘Magazines from all over Europe’ , am not quite sure what this mean? Anyone? I did saw one press card but got no clue what magazine he worked for; in fact I actually think he didn’t. And even if there where press, they couldn’t access the tables as it was so thigh of space. Fraze: ‘All over Europe” yes yes i know, Italy is a huge country.

‘fully televised’ I do believe here they mean the live streaming, but as I understand and heard from a lot of sources, the streaming don’t work, its lagging all the time and focusing only on one table is ok fun for those knowing some of those players but not anything to gain for the general mass. And the live chat is a splendid idea but awful boring to read after the event, with no pictures to relate to. Live event blogs are being used many years after the event so there must be a hidden agenda here I can’t see? Tell me, tell me…

One shall not give feedback in case one have suggestions on how to change things, and it’s really not so hard, easiest thing hence being in Malta, would be to work with www.maltapokerevents.com as they are very good. But if not, one could for an example sort lots of the problem raised here automatically if the tour where played in the proper poker room where air-conditions worked great and more room for players to stretch their legs or go to bathroom and press to move around. Or did they really expect 30 tables of cash gamers in that room? Maybe.*

Sure cover one table with cameras, but why don’t walk around with the camera a bit and make a more interesting streaming, and streaming that works is obvious on the A list if having it, else why bother.

A tab on the webpage showing pictures and some reporting from the event, 100% more appreciated then a lagging live feed, no one can bother with that really. And why on earth is there no chip count, seating’s and payouts listed anywhere, should ALWAYS be done before you close for the night, crazy one can’t find that anywhere, to an international 1100 euro tour. If a tab on the webb is too much to handle, use your Facebook page for the event, you know, the big site that has millions of visitors? All those signed up for the group will get notification when you post and see it on their common wall, and most of them are interested in gaming…... This is free marketing boys, FREE as in good, great marvelous like like LOOOOOOOOOOVE Free!

Anyway folks, that was my recap of the evil themed fully live streamed arena where the mood lighting and creative decor will make this an event to remember. –Forever!

And about Casino Venezia itself: absolutely no shadow on you guys so far. I still am not convinced of the place and how its run, but I am honest and fair. The events tournament directors Christine Sammut made an excellent outstanding job hovering around my table for 10 hours, but guess I earned that special hawk eye treatment having opinions in the past, so no worries I won’t get a restraining order= )The dealers except one that where playing and throwing chips from the pot around as he was the king of chip tricks where outstandingly correct and very well trained, he was fairly cute so he got my friendly personality asking him to please not do so, he stopped , thanks, so end of story. The Buffet where one of the best I ever had, insanely good, and bar crew was fast and did a marvelous job considering there were no space at all for them to pass the tables, they were not so accurate with what they brought back all the time, but that’s a minor hiccup, as long as it’s a drink I don’t complain, however trying to charge me 45 euros for a red bull/vodka was a tiny bit overpriced IMO.

Today’s hero as so many times before, lovely adoring loyal committed Tess railing her man Gordon for hours and hours, I just say one thing Gordon: this one is a keeper or I kick your behind, not many chicks out there that would stand you, meaning you being a devoted poker player that is of course, nothing else. BTW Gordon, you owe me a drink, whiskey is fine, cheers. I scared the pants of some very nice Norwegian’s informing them you are Malta’s best player and difficult to play against when they asked who the only left Maltese guy was.

United we stand against the rest of the world on the small little rock, yay!

So people, buckle up and get ready to rumble, play resume 16.00 today, good luck to reamaining 27 players! Including myself – yay!

Ciao!

* Irony used, in case someone didn’t get that. I live in Malta and here one don’t use the irony mood, it’s more of an on off mode, quiet or loud. Just trying to be helpful guys, you know I love ya!

Yea baby! Howl your way to Heads up!

2010-03-03T01:32:00.000+01:00

The neighbours to my office that BTW are two great ladies that play a loooooot of live poker here in Malta. Well… they have two dogs. That’s great.

When they leave to go to a tour in any of the casinos, the dogs start to howl and bark for about 10 minutes, then I know, ok its some good poker going on tonight, I text and ask Dragonara or Portomaso, they answer and am feeling all informed and ready to rumble, one can say we worked out a pretty good routine for this.

Lucky enough office is also situated exactly in between of both casinos with a 5 min walk.

THIS scenario is exactly, no more no less, what happened last week and I ended up in a tournament with 36 players at one of the casinos here. I ended heads up in the end. Yea yea… then you know I didn’t won because if I did I would write that.
GHAAAAA!

SO NOOO I didn’t win. I lost heads up against a French guy that kissed and hugged me TWICE after he won. WTF, HE won and he wants to kiss and hug ME too? Talking about playing with fire and asking for much! Jesus!

BUT I played a round of good poker so am ok with the second place, and I got a chance to study the human VERY odd behavior on this rock, and drink 6 beers so hey hoe who cares about winning.

I also managed to irritate a few Swedes, one Italian, 2 Maltese and one silly little brat from Norway so pretty much had a great evening and got paid for it! Ha!

Boobs & Poker @ EPT Copenhagen

2010-02-26T01:20:00.009+01:00

Ohh yea i haven't reported back to you all about the Ladies tournament, yeaa well let’s say it was a good party. It indeed was. And yea i know, i get the good gigs :)

Who freaking cares about a 2678 Euro worth bag excising in only two exemplars. Would just booze it away anyway. Thank god I didn't win it, I would have feel so bad losing it.

I tried so so hard making a deal with Frida (Zupps girlfriend) who actually won in the end, that IF I win, I trade the bag for her hat or MÖSSA as we say in Swedish, I got a thing for MÖSSOR, maybe because the word is so sweet. Probably.
She desperately wanted the bag. BUT she didn’t wanna give up her MÖSSA. That tilted me a bit and I ended up fourth…..Big contratz to Frida, she played a well aggressive and stubborn game, note: she was also the only sober when 5 left. Good on her!

Lovley, funny and so down to earth Frida

BUT on my way I actually manage to do some true suck out’s and few bad beats…first against sweet sweet Denize (Neubuchads former girlfriend) WTF is this a GOSSIP Colum or WOOT?

Denise went all in on the button; I had the BB and looked down a pair of lovely fours. Somehow I just sensed the 4 will come, when you know that you can’t fold. I called. She had AA. Horrendously Shockingly the 4 didn’t come on the flop and I feel cheated on my instinct, but when it arrived on the river all was back to normal again. Day after someone where mumbling about a K4 later on but I can honestly say I don’t remember.

Sweetest girl around, Denize

Also the drinks around the poker table where a bit different then one ordinary sees on an EPT. As someone i know would had said about the boys side of the room: How Boring!

Most disgusting drinks around, eh ? Casino, ever heard about champagne for chicks?

My dear friend Emma, she is dear to me for many many reasons but one is she is never ever boring to be around, and she never says no to few drinks, dont matter when or where or how or what! We had a good time on the FT table during the tournament, in need of celebrating a side bet worth more then the fist price indeed. Two crazy Danish players that always have sidebets, did just that between My Emma and the other guys VIP manager, also Called Emma. He actually flew that Emma in from UK over the day only for this tournament and to beat MY emma out,but what where HE thinking?

Emma finished 3 th and got 10k Danish for that, well done!

BTW, Jesper 'Kipster' Hougaard (two bracelet winners in same year and one in WSOP one in WSOPE) that lost the 'Emma' bet, against Jesper P (Jesper finished 8 th on EPT FT CPH this year) actually lost another side bet against his own brother, a last longest, the one losing had to clean the other ones apartment i saw a very nice video made about it yesterday! I more or less laughed so i cried.

My pretty darling Emma! <3

As I said it indeed was a great pre party and all sudden we were in a group of blonds with some boobs issues, but who complains. Not me.

Clearly a logotype problem going on here or woot?

A party bus took us to club middle of Copenhagen and the utz utz where a clear statement!
Tilt, aces, fours and kings AND bags AND MÖSSOR (maybe not the MÖSSA :( ) long forgotten and blonds everywhere!

Nooooo comments :)

Thanks to the great Danish poker media, pokernyhederne for taking the pictures so i could steal them, love & peace, drinks on me!

C4Q

Red Porno Drapes!

2010-02-19T01:19:00.002+01:00

Hey!

Ages ago really!
I sat down to write a blog, not that nothing happens, trust me it does :)But the time seems to fly of my hands ....

Ok its time for a roadtrip again, long time since now but its EPT copenhagen and i got invited to play (inofficial) European Poker Queen. Ahh well, its not as dramatic as it sound its 20 selected girls fighting out over a 60 000 DKR price pool and added prices for 22 000 DKR some silly YSL bag... i just lost them when am drunk anyway so hey hoe that one i give away when i win :P

I arrived yesterday and as soon as the pressbraclet where on i jumped out around the table hugging and kissing soooo nice to be back on my home turf!

Anyway, geting the press braclet one have to go trough security, they kind of know me well, he said
-Anna you arrive late this year?
-yeaa, only come for the good part!
-*smiled* hmm yea sounds like you.
-Why are you so friendly ( i said and smiled) you normaly just yell at me.

-WEll anna, its becvaseu this year i got the day shift!

WTF??
Am i really that disturping?? Anyway, insta ignore him and jump into the games!

In few hrs its time for the Tour, starts around 17:00. I sooooo soooo hope Anette dont bust out of EPT i dont want to face her, but we actually decided that we will not take it too serious *hygge game* TV2 is coming to film a bit, and we been order to put on coctail dresses LOOOL no fuc***g way i said, am a rockers girl am here to kick as not to look sweet!

Anyway, meeting some of my poker lads for lunch so better rush off.

Ciao!

C4Q

ohh yes yes you all wonder about the heading, cos that's why you start reading ?yeaaa i know, bad of me. My room got red porno drapes,in velvet! My dreams last night where a bit odd, in fact a friend of ours would say: horrendous, NOT boring!

heeeeeeeeeeeeep!

Sentimental Melt down

2009-12-22T01:14:00.003+01:00

From suffering the strongest souls arise with the most massive personalities, scars are just scars.

Get up, get moving and enjoy life!

Am defrosting my freezzer so i can make lots of ice, always get emotional seeing things melt.

Copenhagen Get Ready!

2009-10-07T23:56:00.002+02:00

Copenhagen GET READY! Am in town! Rockstars warning.... you know how it ended last time!

It started really well.. arrived to the casino hotel Monday 22:00, send the reception up with my bags and went straight to the bar, i mean i know how the rooms look at this hotel and going to get feed up of it anyway before Sunday!

Its Danish open and am here to work, and here is where it gets funny, work means in most cases,papers, computers ect, but in this case, it means mingling, drinking partying bhaaa.. hard life alright!

Yesterday was crazy funny! Danish people are good party people and we ended up in a shity little bar in Nyhavn singing along to the karaoke and long time since i laughed so much. Funny to see people that you normally see on poker tables all over the world just kick lose hahaha... i wish i dare to post some photos but i think i need to respect my mates and keep them for private occasions lol.

Got a vague memory we rang up Icebear in London doing some serious peptalk and advice about today's FT table hahaha.. yeaa quite sure he appreciated it enormously!

Also got a vague memory of some crazy sidebets about beard growth, like who got the longest beard in 15 day lol, so if you wanna see who between its just to watch the poker scene in Europe and look out for the hairy ones!

Anyway...a bit tired now, haven had a decent sleep for ages so room service is ordered and Mr laptop and i will crawl up in bed railing Icebear on Ept live.

Tonight am off with the gang to a local little poker club to play a 'hygge' tour and share some beers. Most of the gang plays EPT ish tours so this 300 Dk rebuy tour is not their biggest win or lose for sure but MAKE no mistake is deadly serious, there are sidebets going on worth a small car!
Poker players ARE fucked people :)

Tomorrow Danish Open main kicks off and we got 28 player starting :) maaanyy drinks phewwwaaaa!

Goooooo Goooooooo Pete!

ciao

A piss taker, HOT parrot and a furry lapdance

2009-10-02T23:58:00.000+02:00

OK

I should write about the ladies night at casino yesterday as it was weird, the mid age was around 65 and the game.. well.. lets say i wish they come for a proper tour!

I made finaltable even though it was the weirdest game i ever played. EVERY hand and even in hands, they discussed among themslefs what they folded and showing cards to the left and right. Hillarious i mean i cant tell a 70 yrs old to ******** and shape up. Well floor manager that i know very well asked me before the game, pls anna just take it as a joke its most first time playing, i give you a bottle of champagne.
- sooo who am i to be rude and say no?

so i looked at gran kids pictures in their phones and said ohhhh how pretty she is, and it wes a he. WTF, they all look the same small anyway, wrinkled and old looking!
And i said ohhh and ahh and this and that. ... ect ect
I got some cooking recepies on rabbit.
Ty so so much.
I learned some new words. Sorry juha not for you, way too nice.

I bluffed more then i ever done ever in a tour before. I think i scared a few. But seriously, call call call call call... one called a min bet on river with the nuts.. wooot happened just here i said?

Well i asked for one more bottle to stand this shit, got it, and got tipsy so mission completed. Went to see my geeks behind the blue door, wanted to take em out for some beers but they where hooked on some war games and am more a loveeley dovleey girl so i left them doing their war thingheeeey and went out alone.

Anyway, am too tired and working like a maniac so these clips made me laugh hahahahahah, specially the first one!

Hahhahahaha listen to it! Its so funny!Or maybe am tired, could be. Who cares anyway. Mazeltow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl7yDVy9swY&feature=player_embedded

ah well.. at last he GETS shagged! FFS! ( no am not desperate, no no no no! but something wrong with my guestroom, people do it there all the time, maybe i should start sleeping there? its an idea.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY&feature=player_embedded

One of the 'exotic dancers' in one of local joints here on the rock posted this on her FB well am wondering a bit, was she googling lapdances to develop her self, and found this or what really happened here?
And dont ask why i have them on FB, i never go to these sinful places, they must just added random friends.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56DRuHwnuqQ&feature=player_embedded

Malta poker challange 2009

2009-09-15T00:03:00.002+02:00

Long time since i played a proper good structured tour but MPC been in he calendar for long and I warmed up with a few wins in the Casino week prior so felt it could be a good one.

Buy in 550 Euro
Starting 92 players

I sat as chipleader most of both days and ended on final table but couldn't keep it up and busted fast as nr 10. Sucked at the time but consider the field of Scandinavian players that where here from this occasion i guess I proofed to myself i have improved my game. :)\

I have a few hands we maybe should discuss, or well i at least happily take feedback on them

Hand one is maybe 5 hrs into the tour on day one and i am chipleader with 60 k. I just been moved to a new table and pick in the second hand hand up 55, am on cut off position and its folded to me. I do a standard raise, and its folded to BB that makes a standard don't steal my blind rerasie. I figure he wants to show me i cant boss around, he sits with 50 k so i ofc need to be a aware of the fact he can cripple me badly.

I call and decided that unless i hit my set or get it cheap i give up, i have no clue how he plays or how the table is. Flop actually comes 95J two hearts. He acts first and shove all in instantly.

Here is i am a bit in doubt, he can have pretty much anything, JJ 99 bigger pair, smaller pair, flush draw... i think for quite a while to be honest, i feel i got a good stack and shall it really be risked here on the lowest set on such draw board? To be really honest i considered folding, as i have no information about him at all. But then i say to my self, FFS you HAVE to call, why are you playing that hand else?

So i say to him i think your drawing a flush right? And make the call. He is he has two hearts Q high He get furious shouting slow role lol, but i don't care about that, i didn't slow role i took my time thinking about a decision that was for almost my whole stack.

My set holds up and am now very ok in chips. The whole table telling me it was an easy call the way he been playing, but as its my second hand at table i cant know and i never underestimate a player, its a big mistake doing so.

We play down to 20 players that day and its a long day and I lost a bit in end, and the drinks with the boys taste ever so good :)\ so it get to be a loooong night haha!

Day two is kicking of good for me wining my two first hands and really increase my stack, sitting with 160 k average is around 45 k i believe.

Hand two: is me on BB (3000) and remember i have 160k. Round fold to Cut off that has 11 k in total, 9 more for me to call, i need to call any two here but looking down on worst possible hand, 82, hoever its in SPADE my ultimte saver :)\ so i say sorruyto the lady, sorry if i win and then I make the call. She has a AQ hit her A on flop, turn 8 and river 2. Then poker is easy all right.

Hand three: Am losing a few pots and down to 120 k when i in BB pick up QQ, first decent hand i seen for several hrs. An Italian at the table is extremely tight he folded KK preflop even..... he is on cut off and make a standard rasie, he has AA about 5 times last 2 hrs so he cant bloody have that again i say to myself, think typical AK and then small blind goes all in, i know he can do that with any hand there, he done that a lot so i am pretty sure i have him so i push, to get the italian to fold, and i make a very stupid mistake here i don't take time to really check how much stack he has, i think even if he calls i win most of SB stack, but he suddenly lift up a whole stack of blue chips from the behind his stack and i know this is not good, if he win he win both and am very crippled maybe 40k or so left.... and i know he would have folded AK so i was only wrong in the fact he didn't have AK hahahaha.. he bloody well picked up AA again!

The Italian has AA, SB has JJ and my QQ didn't manage to find a mate so hey hoe am crippled, down to 42 k.

I regret i didn't take my time thinking trough the hand, i just acted, and of all the hands in the tour this was the only one i didn't take that time, and it costed me, not sure i could have folded but still its better to think it trough proper. And in all fairness,,,,, maybe QQ should gone in the muck there.

But it was the bubble play and i was so so sure i had the SB and hoped Italian to fold. I was wrong :)\

Finaltable and i have 10 BB have 78 spades UTG and stick em in, its my favourite hand and its also two live card i figure against any ace. Folded all around to BB that is the Italian guy and now he has QQ .

Ahh well.... overall happy with my play, had a few discussion with players i respect that played with me several years when i lived i Sweden, we run a poker club together. So discussed a lot and i got some very good advice, they study my game for hrs, i really appreciate that a lot for experienced players taking time to study me and help me.

I really appreciate that mates, you know who you are :)\ love and peace!

Next one down here in Malta is EMOP, a bit heavy buy in for a low limit grinder as me so might have to sell some % to get that one on the run :)\ but lets see...

cheers
Anna panna

Relax, sit back and enjoy!

2009-07-07T01:11:00.001+02:00

Ahhhh.. today is a very good day!

Out walking my dog i stumbled over the most refreshing trash bag ever, it really really made me happy!

In Malta getting ride of your trash you place it outside on the street, and my neighbour just did. bingo.

Am just little puzzled why he had the bag to start with but i choose not to think about that too much and just enjoy the sight and FACT he used it for his trash!

And yes.. i did run up after the camera, and yes people saw me on my knees taking these photos, and yes i like to think am refreshingly weird :)\

Relax, sit back and enjoy!

I blame my neighbour

2009-07-01T03:07:00.002+02:00

Bloody Air condition on Casino made me sick... fever and pain in my throat, and BUBBLE, Jesus!! As one of the things isn't enough! And i was so unbelievable hungover both Sunday and Monday so that gotta stop! The hungover i mean ....

A tip: Dragonara serve breakfast to 20:00 and its freaking fabulous marvelous as kicking good! My table order it for me to the break. Along with a big beer! What can i say, my old poker dudes there likes me!

And is it really ok to drink 2 bottles of wine per day?
And 3 nights a week get totally blaaaaastered?

Changes panna changes.. but when?
IMO ..Its too hot now to stand it sober and in winter its too cold! -so wooooooooot?

Actually i blame my neighbor, she walks her dog pass my place every evening and i thought instead of me getting up opening the doorbuzzzer all the time, i gave her keys its very handy indeed, she comes in shout 'haloooo chicka' down to my computer room where i most times are, goes to fridge opening a bottle of vine take two glasses, pull the power cord to my pc and says: enough, balcony, with me. Now!

I really love her ....a lot!
But we have negotiated about the power to the PC as its a bit hard IMO so now i instead stand up straight i her that halloo, and if i don't, she give me some warning. Thanks, most appreciated.

I had a wooden group of table and chairs on my balcony but its was not my idea really, its not that big and besides they where not very uncomfortable and i figure if one BBQ one can just as well sit at the dining table 1 m inside the balcony door so i throw that group out, got a chill sofa and two cozy chairs instead... my sweet landlady had this group in her summer house in Meliha but wanted to throw it, hmmm well when she said that i got little superstitious, she is NOT the throwing type so i though - how do they look?

But its ok, not new ofc, but the better then one can PARTY LIKE a ROCKSTAR and play 'luftguitarr' standing in them. You might not believe this, but am pretty sure if you ask the people on this street i make an awesome Smoke on the water and ABBA's Waterloo to singalong program. Well anyway, i think its absolutley bloody awesome, Milena is a bit more skeptic, but HEY, not everyone can sing like her FFS!

One thing though, am quite tolerant with colors, only one i cant stand is light blue, arghhhh yes ofc the pillows in sofa are light blue, but i will track down someone who can make me new covers, at least i got a sofa! Found some nice groups of furniture but they where all to big so this is okedoki and for free- me like !

Saturday we had a Salsa night, a bit spontaneous, and that's the best! Spontaneous Utz Utz are the best ones, everyone knows this, its not a life NASA secret. However, I might consider leaving my camera home, I don't know what happen but my mistake probably I hit the video function on it, so well just let say its not gooood!

Annefrid & Frida

Frida & Annefrid

And I realized they actually on purpose neglect hitting on the air condition on Fuegos! Salsa should be hot, sweaty and slimy .. obvious logic since people also buy more drinks then. NH GG WP

We also had a great night celebrating Junior! I can for my life dont understand why he even concider playing SS&P omg... Junior can we have some tactic thoughts behind this, too me it seems like a typcial strategi made by Sir alex ' in the end of the day' Ferguson who trains those scums. Keep your day job mate, SS&P will never make you anything but drunk

Night night

Not again!

2009-06-24T02:16:00.000+02:00

Home made Appelpie, vanilla icecream and Baileys....yes can cure anything !

Had yet another bang boom crach meeting with Maltese custumourservice today so after lying at the floor hitting my head blue and green it was either to bake something or break something more, and as i already have a broken pinkey toe ( ) right now so i figure i need to change strategi!

Am still so annoyed how ignorant an unservice minded they are down here so i have to do 'pannbiff med lok, potatis och brun sas' tomorrow!

If this keep up i have to open a bloody resturant!

Pannas Kitchen ( close to be hells kitchen then)

cheers!

Why didnt i buy the book?

2009-06-23T02:15:00.001+02:00

December 2007 i went to Sidney to play the APPT Grand final.

I had an amazing 10 days with poker and traveling, both i love. The poker was worst suck out ever, already written about it here so wont go into that boring part. Floped quads against better quads.. on the river. bhaaaa!

One day i went for a long walk, and ended up in a park, in the park they had an exhibition of 'photos from the above'. Am so amazed by these ones, i really can study them forever.

( See my from my blog dec 2007)

I bought a book to give away to a special friend, that took care of Tess for me while away, but how stupid i was to not buy a book full of these amazing pictures to myself, i would have the perfect place for it now, in my Maltese balcony, places on a 'painters staffli' i would change one page every day, read about the miracle shoot and enjoy the picture.

But i didnt buy the bok. And been lazy, i could prob order it online.but.... not the same...somehow... maybe wish if for xmas!

Its photos taken by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, he fly around our earth and take photos from the above..... its strong beautiful amazing photos. The organization where he is chairman made an movie called : HOME (Yann Arthus-Bertrand are the photographer)
Its very long but, if one take time and watch it, its stunning pics, preferably i listen to it without commentators just music cos some of the stuff she says is.. well.. don't go with my theory anyway.

But i did hook it up one evening to my TV and sat there in the dark watching these amazing colors, it was nice. Also the lasagna that i cooked that day, eaten in sofa, (love eating in sofa BTW ) was nice, and the red wine was a filthy expensive bottle my boss send me in a packet of 10 bottles for my birthday, i enjoyed it but i still would have enjoyed having the book even more

Now i feel bad!

2009-06-10T02:18:00.000+02:00

Omg... i just yelled at someone at Vodapone so i almost feel ashame, long time since that happen, i mean not that i complain lol, am a bitch, but that i feel ashame over it.

I feel close to sick.

I scream at him and told him ok lets do it the maltese way then!! Lets scream as you small pastitzi boys do.. lets scream and be rude! I even cursed him in maltese.....i feel horrible now..... i told him he should go and **** a goat

BUT i hate the fact they dont shut up and listen but just keep on emphezising their own voice, and then ask can you repeat that madam? Makes me furious, you know what i mean if you ever tried dealing with Maltese people buisness wise( not privatley)

so i among many other things i told him no i cant repeat, if you listen you know what the question was! and then it continued... and esceladed to a level where i belaive they could hear me at surfside!

arghhhhhh fuck now i feel so bad! i mean i like Malta and Maltese people, now am confused, but i really really hate vodapone!

And i qued for ages, and they connected me wrong 4 times, and i had to explain for 4 people before they tell me no madam not here, next department. And answer the question is it regading a blackberry .... 10 times... and i scream NO its about a 3G mobile internet device!! and they say all of them...

What kind of mobile phone is THAT madam?

drinks anyone?

Wicked afterparty on the Rock

2009-06-08T02:13:00.000+02:00

What a wicked weekend this been!

Thursday and Friday turned into some spontaneous balcony wine drinking and Friday I got so wasted. I really don't get THAT wasted anymore, am bit too old for that, but drunk as an animal, going to a charity thing, yeaaa nh gg wp. Well, only one way to cure a hungover.... and was invited to a bigger party out in Marsa golf and polo sports club on Saturday so just to shape up and start it up.

Em and Millena joined me and I took the very clever decision to drive out, and IF getting too much to drink I leave the car and come for it day after lol. Well its sick, in Sweden I wouldn't even dream of thinking the thought IF , I just leave the car if I have one glass of wine, Malta however is a bit different indeed.

Ity was a niiiiiiiiiice party with such cool music, some of the best Dj's on the island for sure jumped in and did spontaneous play, the party was a birthday bash for Toby Farrugia, Dj and music producer in Malta. It was great fun and besides all the Maltese girls hate stirring eyes, well they don't like western girls for sure, but we ignored that and had a blast. As we where the only one not being Maltese we kind of got max attention anyway and danced all night and had weird discussions with people. Around 4 it closed down as that's the official close time in Malta..... however it don't stop Maltese people alright.

After some calling and driving around with Toby and some friends, we got the right location, it apprantley changes from day to day this place ....We ended up in an industrial area somewhere in Valettta, and to me well... after party are more like 10 ppl drunk in an apartment solving the world problems cooking pasta and hot dogs, but in Malta it means something else... it mean Utz Utz for sure! Loud , massive and most likley 80% of the crowd on stronger shit then alcohol but that's their choice, don't work for me but I don't judge them. Am high on life!

About 200 ppl totally partying it out with nice music in an illegal club with full bar, 100% sure without a license but don't matter to me. Really a nice one to experienced. We left around 08 due to starvation! Took a nice beef fillet with pepper souse in st Julian, by the water fall, its nice one can have beef fillet that time alright! We where drunk as animals and oh my they gotta be feed up with drunk people eating there early mornings!

Walking Tess while getting home, its about 09.30 and I met a whole English sports team of some sort.. probably here on training camp and out for the morning exercise.......bhaaa they look at me as I was from planet mars, well could be the fact I didn't have any shoes and telling Tess all about the evening, what is it with me and shoes anyway!

I love partying in flipflops... yepps.. the other chicks had 10 cm heels I shake my head and said, ehh.. you going home 01? Millena was a routinized chick though, 03 she magically from her bag picked out a pair of flip flops and joined me in the 'we who love partying in flip flops crowd'

Flip flops I really hated living in Africa, but I kind of learned to accept them here. Noo.. love em

Now its work work work, I am a bit behind, and need to put in some massive hrs this week! Its ok, I love work. And jesus... 17 of our players and few staff went to playboy mansion this weekend, not fair getting text messages and pictures from kandyland, sooooo many boops, oh my! I would been so confused.

Max it babes!

/C4Q

Love you too- she said!

2009-06-03T02:07:00.000+02:00

Been a while, but damn if my life is quiet and still. I kind of wish it slow down sometimes but I guess we create it ourselves so hep hep...work work, i LOVE to work!

After being homeless a week living in hotel and with friends and shipping Tess till a friend in Mosta for some pool relaxation, yes they have pool, and Tess lived in it for a week, I finally got her back Friday, slept first night in my new home, among paintbuckets, sand and tools. Strictly ordered to be out all Saturday so they will fix the remaining of flat so woooooot to do?? * scratching my head*

Ahhh,, Tess and I had breakfast at a cafe... I ask the waiter if it was too early for a beer, he said no, I trusted him, big mistake, BIG mistake!
Omelet and two beers, and Tess ordered water and sausages. First he was skeptical when she order but I said it was ok, she cant drink beer that early, she is only 4 !!

So I went to the rocks to read a book and let Tess show every one she owns the sea and if anyone wants in they need to pass her, it worked.. not so well... she tried to pimp me up with a bunch of german and then a spanish men and I told her, noooo go for english, swedish, danish ish.. she couldn't manage to find any of that kind to shake her water on so nope no luck!

Melinda and Therese showed up so we cuddle in sun a bit, don't we just love girls cuddle then we moved on to surfside to get some food and as it was waaaaay past breakfast i took the cheekey smile on and asked the waiter if it was ok to order a bottle of wine... he said yes.

Ok, Yes .. you see where this is going right?

After a while Em joined us, and as always when she is coming we bet what color her dress is, she never has skirts or trousers, DRESS, I won, it was red 'ish and she as always look so sweet. I always win, but thats cos i text and ask lol, the others havent got that yet. *shaken my head* a win is a win!!!

Melinda and Teherese left after a while to do beauty afternoon nap. Thats not for real people id say so tunred down the offer to join them, even though the though of us three in bed was quite tempting. I decided to walk Em home as I was strictly forbidden to come home before 18.. so wooooot to do?

Halfway to Em's place she announces she is hungry, well, she is born hungry, its a passion of hers, to eat, yet she is a skinny little spicy chick. Sooo I said ok, I can drink. And when Em is hungry its just to take first place, she get awful crancky else.

Somehow the waiters misunderstood this, am very sure we never asked for 4 bottles of wine, but yet they never ended and just keep coming. Am confused. Its started to be blurry. Tess was chasing sun reflexes under the table, and we also order an Italian platter, so many weird things on it to eat so Tess helped us, waiter came after a while with a big bowl water and said: well now the dog eaten, meskina, she needs water.

We where stunned to silence sicne we where sooooo sure not even NASA's satellites pictures could see we where giving the food to Tess, well somehow the waiter detected this, maybe he works for M5 or something, I dunno. Very sharp eye IMO.

Phone rings. Blurry agreements are made. Taxi get ordered.
Driver convinced Tess don't bite, and that she is Maltas numbero one best dog in tipping.

We end up in a nice penthouse I sweiqie, no clue who lived there, but at that point it didn't matter, but it was so weird, so many polish people, I think I played the guitar, at least I realized waking up day after I cut my nails on left hand off, and got a fade off memory of a stunning version of smoke on the water and ulf lundells oppna landskap and some glowing BIC lighters in the dark of the terrace. Hmmmm... good I don't know who lived there, am quite sure I sang too, and lets just say am no Susan Boyle but its from the heart, my mum always says that's what count. Ohh mum by the way got a third congratulation last Sunday, ON THE REAL MUMS DAY.. whoooo!

Anyway... Tess where sitting and sleeping and as the very responsible mum, well you might think not as she been party with me all day but hey,, at least she is there with me AND eating fancy Italian meat on Fresco .. well as the responsible mummy I am, I said I go home now, very early just around 21.30 ish I think, really not sure..so we left... 3 chicks and Tess, and driver was first quite unwilling to take Tess in car, but after some convincing he says ok then, Tess thanked him by burping in his face sitting on my lap at front seat, then she closed the deal with a kiss too, not sure he appreciate it though, Maltese people are difficult to please.

Em and Monica in back said well done girl kiss him again , go go go... and the taxi driver said you are some weird people.

What in earth did he mean, WHO in earth did he mean?

Soo I stumble in my new Casa a bit tipsy, lets just call it tipsy, am a girl after all, pisst drunk don't sound very nice and graceful.

And blimey, the apartment where ready!
I managed to text my adorable landlady a thank you and I love you kind of text... she texted back I love you too and I hope you have a good time in the place. And reading this day after it was quite confusing as my phone ( such crap one, my real one broken) don't save messages unless I order him to, so I don't really know what I wrote her, I kind of didn't even remember that I in fact DID wrote her, but as she repliaed am quite sure i did! But am very pleased she loves me, I hope she still do after my house warming party that you all ofc are invited too.

Sunday was relaxed and cured the hungover with CSI and pizza hut home delivery.

Monday was.... not a very good day... but lets come to that another time, when I know if it be alright or not, for now I stick my head in the sand.

Hep Hep

Well....

2009-06-01T02:12:00.000+02:00

I blames Movies for their unrealistic expectations of men...and porn for their filthy ones

.... and i MEAN it!

A Bit of this and that

2009-05-29T02:10:00.000+02:00

Long time.. sorry i been drained of energy !

Now its close....

Been some crazy weeks and my move drag out looooooooooong, and i been homeless since monday, stayed 3 days at inter continental and took som chilled day by poolside and are now done the base tan and discovered, passion mojitos, omg,, how nice!

Tonight am sleeping first night in new casa. Whoooooo... still not ready but ready enough for me, i want my home! I see if i got energy to upload some pics later on tonight... you seen the mess so you need to see the result too housewarming combined with delayed birthday bash is coming up so get your party mood on, still havent decided on the theme, suggestions accepted glady!

Watched CL final with some Maltese friends on the roof of Slimea car park, cosy little place and it was perfect, not a red shirt on sight and Barca RUN THEM OVER, i think thats how Junior so humble put it.. moooooaaaaa! After that we moved on to PV and i think we shouldnt order the last 30 shoots but, LIVE life without regrets so cheers!

Am a bit puzzled though.... if i am at a place with 500 people and there are one coloured, read african, man in the crowd, i can swear one million dollares he go for me. WHY? And wendsday i got soo irritated on one of them that wouldnt give up, my friends had to go in betweeen even! So i asked him right out.. he said its god gifts to me to give me huge as!! ...... ehhh.... what a stupid answer! I know how it was in africa, there its like that and it was hard to go out alone to buy bread even. But WTF when they got out of that part of the world into some more developed places, .... drop it ffs!

Poker i havent played for a 100 yrs it feels like!
But did take a few buy in on Dragonara cash game yesterday , did a sweet suck out with my pocket AA, he floped a K high straight and i rivered him for A high straigth he wasnt happy but what can i do.

"heqq memx taghmel" as we say here in Malta, am trying to learn this langugae, its not easy even though i do most language quite easy, they got so many letters that not even make a sound, so why put em there?

I can also say: fu** you mum full of sp*** and then fu** a goat. Not sure when i can use it but hey hoe... my 'private' teacher said i need to know it, soooo ...what do i know . Also the lessons take mostly place after 02 and after a conciderble amount of alkohol so i cant be sure am tought right though, but i like to gamble!

Tonight Tess is coming back to mummy.. and i miss her so so much, silly yes, but who cares, its my life and i miss my dog!

Cant wait to get my desk and pc set up runing again and get back to work, lot of exciting things going on, got some good news today about a project that been in the pipeline for long so now its decided Boss Media take it on and i do it for them, will be interesting and hopefully can be to good value for all skins on the network to create more gamiing!

Hola chickas and banditas....

/Anna panna

Be ready !

2009-05-20T00:58:00.000+02:00

In Malta you need to prepered all the time :)\

My colleque/boss who also live here but never here really... called me and said he arrived last night. We decided to met at my fishermans place for a coffe.. well we had good intentions!!!

3 hrs later i think that coffe was never served, instead they served both beers, shoots and bozze,, not sure who order them but i do know i drank them.

But we had good work talk and 'bollplanks diskussioner' so nh gg wp...it was worth it. I also think we just took over thge world. At least the discussion was clealry about that. He was not used to the sun though and had to go lay down mooooaaaaa!

Me?

ehh.. PARTY like a rock star NOW!

Me want

hep hep

Typical ManU player on the 27 th

2009-05-16T16:45:00.002+02:00

This is a typical ManU Player on the 27 th of May.

Please dear god dont help em win, please please please, i swear i be a good girl for the rest of my life !

It WILL be nice.. sometime, my Casa!

2009-05-13T16:04:00.027+02:00

Oi Oi !

Am chocking you with two blog post same day and even one yesterday! Omg.. is she bored or what, noooo, just that packing doing laundry and cleaning is not my favourite thinghy.

Time for new photos from my beloved home to be... i kind of realising moving in next monday (4 days lol )is out of the question. It complicate things a tiny bit as i need to move out from here monday and Tess cant stay with me if i stay with the friend that i had as a back up plan sooo.....

Ah well.. problems are there to solve, challanges i call them no big deal, but the workers said 3 weeks more, but i ignore that, they said that 2 weeks ago too.
My adorable landlady said one week and there be only small things so lets go for that. Sounds better to me!

This is my stairs up to the apartment, its only two flats in the house.

From my hall out to stairs.

This floor they did today. Its my office room, with few steps to the right and then your in the livingroom/kitchen. If you turn left you be in the black and white tiled bathroom. You confused yet mum?

This the best with the whole place :) rooom also has a little balcony of its own and will also have a spare bed.
Office Balcony. Green garden outside.

Yepp here i will sit in evening sun drinking my wine with feet up. I know its no terrace but it be a beautiful old balcony and i will put some pots with pot lol NOOOOO.. :) some pots with sunflower and tomatoes i mean, i dont eat tomatoes but the plants keep mosquitos away and the tomatoes i can give to some old person on the street.

This is guestroom and to right my laundry/iron room, not sure i spend much time in that room to the righthy but am ever so greatful they made it a little place of itself :) then i can close and say night night laundry room see you another time.

These tiles are very sweet,its same pattern in the white aswell, but how one can destroy a whole apperance by putting the zink so low it looks redicolouse and then say: maltese standard you know we not tall people. LOL.

I DONT care about peoples hights or looks for one second, but why not think a bit further is for me juuuust one of those things that PUZZELS me :) AND also.. why not put the zink in line with the tile, then it be few cm higher up and look great in line with the tile. women should be handy men not men, they dont see these things, unless they are gay.

And again its itching my fingers to RENOVATE a house of my own, and i have found it just QUITE impossible to get hand on bhaaa nothing new under the sun, i call it my blue corner house, i take pic next time passsing. Anyway...take a look at this picture, see anything you do different? I do.

I would never chop a tile like that around the window, i put full tile on right and full tile on left side and underneath window i cut a smaller ones all way down to floor. Or even make it so both walls have smaller ones instead. This wall is first you see entering the bathroom, and it hook my head up right away , but then again,, my head are not like others.

This is mainbedroom, and to left is the windows with red doors and to right is first the Maltese Balcony and right right.. is into a smaller walk in wardrobe and inside that one is mainbedrooms bathroom. I know i lost you now mum :) but you will see.. it be nice!

I was quite worried and devestated coming home today from this, i thought they be further, but am ok again, it be so nice am sure so why worry so much, life is hard as it is to create a lot of worrying. One dont have to create one owns problems others do that so perfectley well for ya anyway :)so let em do their thing and just do your thing. LIVE LIFE WITHOUT REGRETS.....!

I sort it, always do ... stay tuned folks!

hep hep
/a

Me Disoriented? ehh? Come on!

2009-05-13T13:02:00.005+02:00

Well good folks over the world, listen up now!
They really gotta stop making up all these extra day for being nice, you know like mums day, dads day, my day, your day, his day, arghhh... - OR organize them!!!!

Now i send my mum flowers on two occasion wishing her happy mums day and noone of those ones where the right day.
ITS NOT MY FAULT!

She is ever so happy though, but it starting to get rediclouse.

I watch the chanel 'Living' cos they have CSI, Criminal Minds, ect. Also 'comedy chanel' due to having 'two and a half men' , hahahahahah, love that one, crack me up all the time!

These one got UK commercial sooooo being pumped with mothers day jayda jayda i jumped up my chair 12:50 on the 21 of March to make an order (they close 13:00) and was so so proud i remembered. 22 of March is mothers day in, yes UK, not Sweden.

Mum rings me in evening saying - thx sweetie but why? Then it already striked me it was wrong day so i said - your my mum, do i need a reason? Kisses & Love!

Great. A clear win win situation.
However later on i told her the truth as one should not lie to ones mum.

But as i live in Malta seeing all the comercial about mums day i got affected once again. To send flowers on the wrong day. Of coruse, nothing else are to be expected! 10 th may is mothers day in yea, Malta, not Sweden, still.

So phone rings again: -Sweetie, are you sure Malta are good for you, it seems you getting disoriented.

Mooohhhaaaaaaaaa!

And in all fairnress she might be right.

I ship flowers to right and left for no reason, i wake up in my guestrooom for no reason, my nicest happening each day are talking sign language to a 90 yrs old fisherman without theeths. Am moving into a place on monday that are a building construction site whooooo, i got a dog that today almost attacked (in a happy way) a person stealing his waterbottle, it was empty but still! (he was quite hunky so good one Tess, pimp me out yay yay) I put energy on wondering why dogs drink from the toilettchairs and i also wonder alot on how complicated they do things down the water when moving the small boats around. Why?
-does the small boats get bored being tied up same place?

Dont make sense!

So maybe Malta are making me disoriented.
But one should be happy, at least Maltas seems to stoped hating me a bit, i havent got injured for a really reaaally long time now, no broken fingers toes or feets. No black eyes or knifestabbing. No exploding showercabine or dead mouses in the aircondition.

So am indeed greatful for being only disoriented.

Keep it up Malta Darling!

A & T

-incredible, spring-fed porcelain fountain! huh???

2009-05-12T13:30:00.009+02:00

Ah well.

Somethings just puzzles me alot. Sorry.

I recentley read in a book why dogs like to drink from the toilet, well mine dont, she prefer me pouring her drip by drip from a bottle, bhaaa, not time wasting at all right. *rooling my eyes*

But however she wants to watch the water, so sometimes she sits there waiting for me to just flush to keep her happy, this is our evening routine i brush my teeths and flush few times to entertain her. She STIRRS down the water like a rabies drewling maniac, so if ever they make movies about what people/dogs/creatures/bandits ect have seen in life, (actually think this can be a big seller idea, i have given it some thought) like if they have a chip operateted and take out to show on their funural, well, there be loooot of water in hers. Tess for sure are Maltas bathing babe numero ono, rushing into the sea every possible chans given and gracing me aswell as others with a shake of it, of course

But the explenation they had to this toilet thinghy made all just perfect sense, and i never really thought about it, fair enough. I cant think about everything my mind is overloaded already as it is with nonsense stuff and details.

BUT how come some people gave it a serious though and also publish a book about it?
That amazes me little.. not much but hmm..yea a little.
Maybe some smart ass out there now say - well you READ the book!
Yea go figures! There are so many wise people right?

Shut up!

''' Dog's consider toilet an incredible, spring-fed porcelain fountain. From a dog's point of view, toilet water is better because its fresher, cooler and hasent been standing around in a little bowl for houers. Its magically changed, refreshed, renewed with every push of the handle. The water stays cooler longer becasue of the porcelain container, and because of the larger surface area of a toilet bowl leads to greater evaporation. And toilets are made of material that doesent alter the taste of the water the way metal or plastic can '''

I wonder if anyone ever send toilet manufactures a thanks you note on behaf of their dogs, as clearly this must be like made for a dog! And wonder if they thought about the 'dont alter taste' bit when constructing em?

I once send a complain mail to a toiletpaper manufacture in Italy, ( Blog -where are the hidden cameras, december 2008) as their emballage was so crap and 54 roles was on my floor and i chase them along with Tess and also being on krytches it was quite annoying...but maybe i should send thank you emails instead to all these amazing tools and grande solutions all over the world instead of complaining.

Need to think about that a bit more.

It also puzzles me why i wake up in my guestroom all the time?
Even when am going to bed perfectley sober, cos going to bed drunk there is a deeper meaning to it as guestroom has a bathroom. But latley i been waking up there and other day i even had brought my duve and 2 pillows with me and i have honestley and for sure no memory of doing this.

And i woke up thinking this is not right, am i even in my home? Now note dear fellow bandits over the world, i dont have habbit waking up in other peoples home so this feeling chocked me a bit and i lay very still trying to figure out things, then i realise, because Tess kind of uses the guestroom bed to nurse and cuddle and also hide her toys, so i found myself sleeping on 2 chewingbones, one fotball, one tennisball, 3 teddy bears and her ultimate favourite, 2 halfliters waterbottles, dont matter how many toys i give her, empty waterbottles are THE ULTIMATE BEST BEST!

So i woke up by a very frustrating annoying dog who of course just desperatley needed the exact TeddyBear that was stuck under my pillow. The look on her face when i told her to BUGG off, for sure gave a new meaning to:
- noooo comprede si si, veeeeeery blond and pretty si si?!?!

Some times she is for sale, she is so so stubborn.
Wonder who thought her that?

AND why cant she keep her toys in the basket i bought for her? And put em BACK! She empty that one upside down several times every day, how come the best TeddyBear are in the bottom, ALL THE TIME? That also puzzles me!

We started to pack (takes long, Tess NOT helpful she thinks we are playing, me put in box, she take out box)and amazing how much things to pack? I mean, ehhh.. i moved here with 2 suitcases, i dont get this. Who left all this stuff here?

Fcking hell was not ME!

A&T

My New Lovley home

2009-05-08T14:42:00.016+02:00

Ollrighthy!

Yearly day of massive attention are over and done, and as pretty much expected i dont remember a thing and woke up in the guestroom holding my shoes in my arms :)and bruises everywhere, i so wonder how come one always get bruises?!?!?
And how can body be so so tired of sitting drinking?
Feels like a did a marathon and i dont know much but i know i didnt do THAT!

Thanks everyone for a job well done! Bless ya!

I thought i share some pic of my new castle its really making progress ehhh... am moving in on the 18 th so they got 10 more days, bless em! I am not even worried, i mean come on, its going to be great, who cares if its not great day one or even day 30 of my time there. I hope you see the potential, i did! And still do.

Loverpooooooooooool red! And again.. if you cant see differnece between this red and filthy ugly ManU red, stop reading this blog, told you already other day!

Actually this tiles are one of the most beautiful i seen, but i guess you wont bealive me :) heheh! Come visit!

Yea can do with a cleaning and a candle allright !

My bedroom, Bring beach toys, i make the pinacolada!! Whoooo! Making love on the beach yay yay yay.. its Malta baby!

Yearly attack of massive attention

2009-05-06T09:02:00.002+02:00

Oh yea.. time again.. yearly day of massive attention :)

Happy happy happy birthday anna panna!

I got congratz emails from 4 pokerforum and 5 pokersites so far. Feels amazing.
I really feel so so important to them.

Meeting at 11.00
Lunch 13:00
(with Tam and little Gambler,so so adorable with lots of hair :) )

Later on..... Drinks :)

Planing housewarming and birthday bash in my new Casa... date to be confrimed... be ready ALL days ALL houers of the day, i work in the speed of lightning you know lol and not much for long notice planing stuff... CARPE DIEM!

knuser & knus

A&T

Apartment Junkie Detox

2009-05-05T23:55:00.000+02:00

Hiya there!

Long time no seen :)

After feeling sick for almost 3 months i finaly found out why, my apartment had a bigger amount of mold, and to cut it short, am moving....

Whoooo... i never really did feel home in this one anyway, its just so much lookalike all the other apartments here, nothing personal at all. So now Me and princess Tess will, thanks to a very stubborn (almost worse them me.. blimey) property agent that insisted showing me an apartment that not at all had what i asked for or in the area i wanted, am now going to move in there. Great!

Well.. just to face it am not 18 anymore in FACT its my birthday coming up soon (weee cant wait to get those random standard email from all poker sites and pokerforums wishing me happy birthday) and am far from being 18 id say! So living in middle of that IBIZAwannabe area would properbly freak me out after a while anyway, and huge BBQ terraces well, who needs that?

Just pack a basket with wine and goodies and go to the beach and do your BBQ, am in love with the sea anyway so why not.

This is a ok quiet street so i can go out and talk to my old people :) yes i know am silly with my old people, maybe cos i dont have a family close and havent for so many years i dunno .... BUT its nice, they have great stories, just that here i cant understand them, but am working on that.
Mr Fisherman and I are doing progress, indeed we are! I cooked for him other day :), i tell you next blog....but he liked it!

Anyway back to the apartment, i was really against even seeing anyone in this area but was pushed/forced/armed twisted/theraten by a gun/knife on my throath, in that direction by the agent Mr Best Best(www.belair-malta.com) that BTW is very good at this, if ever in need of an agent on this island let me know i put you in contact, he is however not the best in parking though (bhaaaaaa) but who cares, its malta, and actually i would actually say one can turn it around and say: he is REEEAAALLY outstanding super skilled in parking as he dont like walking and dont really respect rules, so one gotta see the positive things in all. As per ususal.
Besides he makes me smile so i dont care very much how he parks. Go figures.

Aparantley this apartment would be just soooo soooo me, lol, no he is not gay, even though that remark is giving clues that way. I actually asked him, maybe one cant ask that but, i never do things random, and his own house where so nice so i had to ask if he was gay, quite fair and logic question in MY world, he however took it fairly good :) already understanding he most likley not dealing with a perfect normal someone on this one.

I guess people working with showing other people places to live automatically records ones reactions seeing certain things, and respect for that really, because it was true, indeed it was my home. 100% sure. (well.... he bloody well should knows whats ticks me of after 72 apartments, i think i got the record and BARE in mind good people, in just 7 work days, where's my price???? )

The souls of the place spoke to me, you know me i hear things others dont. Then imagine what i SEEE that others dont... moooohhhaaaaa!

Even though it did not have the things i listed. But it had charm and personality and a hall and NO corridor, and I will also now have one of those maltese balconys... AND ITS RED!

Not filthy dizzy ManU red, but lovley ' never walk alone red' and for all you who says, whats the difference? Please stop reading my blog.

And even better: I will also have a little office and thats nice, maybe i can even get proper work hrs now, not seeing my pc everytime i cant sleep turning around in my bed thinking i can just as well go up and check emails. I will also have the sweetest landcouple, so nice people. Putting my name on the contract took a few hrs and a bottle of wine :) it feels like she is decorating the apartment FOR me. Weird, and i have not even seen it ready, japps you heard right i have only seen it be a construction place full of people running around doing things, but sometimes one just know, and i mean, come one..... you all know am weird anyway so this is not the worst i done. Far from.

Am best best! It be Best best. We are ALL freaking Best best allright!!!!

Right now the bedroom has like 2 ton's of sand on the floor :) Tess would love to keep it am sure but i am in all fairness little sceptical, you know how annoying it gets with sand everyhwere ;) so lets keep my bedroom smoke and sand free....
.....for now! Am not fuzzy, i can compromize if its important.

The furnitures arrived today (5 th) and what i saw was okedoki, yes i was there inspecting haha, but my landlady seems to like it, she said i can come daily and chase the workers for her, they where quite chocked when i informed them am moving in the 18 th :) and said impossible madam, ohh nooo i said and promised drinks if they work hard. In Malta drinks are solution to soooo many things i realised, how come? It puzzles me. Just as it puzzlez me its so many gay people here, or have i just not seen them before? Or they like mold more then other people? And just as it puzzelz me Maltese people cant go outdoors if it rains, its like they get doomed down their chairs. I love rain. I also love sun.
But you get my point, one cant let the weather decide for you!!

It took 72 apartments to analyse before i knew it was right, this one however i saw as nr 58 but heeeeeeyy i turned into an apartment looking junkie in need of her daily fix so one had to slow down nice and easy.

I still feel a bit shakey in need of some property fix now and then so was pretty close on concidering changing my work to be a property agent and get high every houer seeing new places but then i thought twice, because it would mean cant be in my home so much and i am going to be happy there, am sure.

OR.. i just start looking again. ... is that ok Mr Best best Agent? lol.
NOW he defiantley move abroad quickley!!

anyway....
Your all invited to ' laa mariane catrine Loley" Casa, - bring wine :)

knuser & knus
from me to you
My little darlings all over the world!

NB: still cant get how they make my name at europas biggest hospital , Madre Dei, to sound like this: laa mariane catrine Loley"

I admitt, thats first step!

2009-04-24T17:23:00.000+02:00

ah well

Am admitting.
I got a problem.

Thats first step right?

Am an apartment looking junkie.

I cant get enough!

Saw nr 61 today, since last thursday.
Its so bloody hard, if one can pick something from each, and the best one is in Sliema, where i dont wanna live

ohh my.... you think it helps getting wasted? I mean maybe i will have some outside body vision extraterestial life experience.... its worth a try right?

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Why go out if your not ready to F*ck ?

2009-04-13T04:55:00.008+02:00

Easter 2009

Yes now its over, thank god! Not that i dont like yellow and fethers and egg and chickens, its allright, its just so weird we need a lot of hollidays i mean, i work everyday anyway, only differences these hollidays do to my poor soul is more alkohol.

Am just home now, started out to be THE most boring eveing in PV ever, i couldnt even manage to steam some hooligans up for kick boxing telling them how much i dear and deepley hated ManU, when not even THAT work, then one know its hard. BUT then something weird happened...and it started already saturday....:

I had a kind of weird conversations saturday at Native.
And its weird, because this started out to be somone i really didnt like, but he was very stubborn and in end it turned out to be someone i KNEW, small world!

Him: you want a drink?
Me: No, thx.
Him: come one, pls just one.
Me: no am ok, thx.

I continue rocking things with my girls.

Him: So whats your name?

I try my best to ignore, its hard, he is very stubborn, you know its the wolf houer, where everyone who havent got lucky are desperate and just step up a noch or two to sort it.

Him: whats your name?
Me: its Ester
Him: Esh? what?

lol

Me: Ester as in easter.
Him: ok whatever, you live alone?

I dont answer that one, none of his buisness cos he NEVER going to see my place anyway. (even though he actually looked allright, selfsure and hooligan kind of type, didnt smell of puke and seemed to be in legal age so lots of important boxes ticked but nope)

I gotta give it to him either he is very depserate or he is just determend to win this one...anyway...

Him: Easter Girl, come one.
Me: what?
Him: we both know this is bullshit talking, lets just go home, am tired
( actually this CAN work on me, i kind of like a man that is straight forward, but if am not interested its going to be a world war 3 before he gets lucky)
Me: Good luck.

Him: nooo dont be like that, why you go out then?
Me: am gay, am here with my girls

Here he seem to think a bit, like taking the information in, and well am not gay but i think you know that. However he kind of decided that this information was not of that big importance for his mission so he keep on:

Him: no fu*king way you are, then God is a fu*king mental case (english people swear a lot, i think)
Me: no he just had a ruff day making me, couldnt make his mind up.
Him: but they dont dance like that, i been watching. And they dont really have sparkling eyes. (ehhh woot? is he joking with me? noone says these things, seriously noone....its year 2009)

Me: give up, its not going to happen.
Him: bitch.
Me: Excuse me?
Him: bitch
Me: soooo just cos i dont want to do YOU a complete stranger am a bitch?
Him: yes. WHY go out then if your not ready to fu*k?
Me: ehhhhhh, what a idiotic thing to say
Him; bitch.

He is kind of starting to make me angry now, i know i should just ignore and walk away, but for some reason i cant and we end up argueing, angry, loud and silly, so phatetic, i throw my drink on his face tell him to **** off and left. But that was good, the girls and i moved on to shadows where i run into the CL boys, nice but i didnt stay very long, we do a better party like a rock star next

THEN tonight, after trying to whine those Man U fans up i turn around and who is there if not that annoying person, seriously NOT funny. Just my luck.

Him: ohh angry green eye girl with funny name ( he was aparantley not THAT drunk as i thought, if one can remember someones eye colour one arnt)
Me: you deserved it
Him: so they say all the time
Me: good
Him: you want a drink?

lol

Me: ohhh no, here we go again. NO THANKS!
Him: no no i never try to get you home ever again, i swear but cant we just have a drink?
Me: but why? As am not ready to do what you want this is quite time wasting right?
Him: no am curious, girls are normaly not like this
Me: am not really a girl, i think woman is more accurat
Him: i think your weird and funny
Me: i think your stupid, and that shirt is ugly and you should shave better
Him : i know, i dont like it either, but noone ever told me its ugly. Is it really UGLY? And if i know i meet you again i shave
Me: ok good for you, i dont really care.
Him: of course you do, you want me.
Me: no i dont
Him: your funny. Lets go, i get a taxi.
Me: so you still think you can make it?
Him: yes
Me: Your waisting your time, if you wanna get laid, go harress someone else

But now i actually starting to think he is a bit funny, but i cant really give up my mascho no no attitude now allright, thats weak.

Him: i have no problem getting laid. But they are just pretty little girls without cloths, not what i need
Me: well if you want to find wife material this is not the best place.
Him: can you do scrambled egg or omelett? I prefer that in morning. And bacon.
Me: of course i can, but i wont.
Him: come on, please?
Me: will you leave me alone if i have one drink.
Him: if i say yes i lie and thats not a good way starting something.
Me: lol
Him: only poker players actually SAYS l.o.l
Me: ok well am damaged then.
Him : so what, so you play online?

He IS little funny, so yeaaaaaa i agree to a drink, i mean what harm can one drink do!!!

Now... am not good in having one drink so we have quite a few and actually having fun, he is from London here on buiness combined with some days vaccation and seem to be quite ok actually, imean with brain, not as i first thought, plain idiot.

THEN ...Its so so weird. it turns out we played eachother so so many times both on Boss and on cryptologic where i played a lot 1-2 years ago, he tells me his nick and i reqocnise it straight, i tell him if he ever remember playing ********* ( i dont wanna put my nick out, sorry) He remembers, both that nick and 2 other nicks, so so sick. Even remember what i used to say to him around the tables, hahaha i can be quite rude sorry. World is really small.

Or maybe its just Malta being small.

Sooo.. what started out with me throwing a drink in his face, yea sorry am a bit impulsive i know, ended up quite ok anyway. He be playing EPT San Remo next week and as i might go over anyway we decided he can treat another drink.... or two.

He walked me to Wembleys, sorted a taxi out for me, opened the door lol
(WHO does that? ITS year 2009 .. still...)

Him: sleep well green eye big bump girl
Me: thx retard with ugly shirt

We kind of sliped into the online talking, like around tables, it dont mean anything to me said like that, just funny, but the taxi driver looked a bit suprised, but its Malta i guess they heard and seen it all.

Him: if you want me to join you just say it, but you have to SAY it.
Me: i will never say it
Him: so then it will never happen
Me: no, unless you give me many drinks, then it might
Him: ok thx for the advice
Me: your welcome.

And now am home, so silly this evening turned out, but as the very nice chicka bella i am i decided to fix him some breakfast

I know his name and i assumed he stayed either on Hilton or Continental as he didnt needed a taxi and i know the stakes he play, so it gotta be one of those two. So i phoned the recepitions, found him, i can be very stubborn so they told me, and then i order breakfast for him to his room 08 a clock, scrambled egg and bacon. They charge my card. It was not cheap, and if he dont get its me, he is daft and dont deserve it anyway.

Am silly

and tomoprrow when sobering up i probarbly most likley erase this blog

night

Getting even! Fair and square!

2009-04-05T06:31:00.002+02:00

Its been one of those crazy weeks, and as always when being somewhere i make imposible schedules, and run around fitting all in. But i like stress, organized chasos makes me happy. Proparbly cos i feel important solving it :)

I love the kind of job i have, am very blessed, i work with something that interests me and also sort of my hobby. Thats very fortuned. I know.
And am greatful - for sure.

Friday was set aside to travel to the town where i lived several years, and when moving to copenhagen june last year i stored all my life (lol) and stuff into my storage room belonging to the apartment, i rented the place out to a sweet little girl with big brown eyes and said: hasta las vista baby!

When moving to Malta in november i let her have the contract of the apartment, i got no plan ever in this lifetime live in that city again. My ex live there still.

Seperation was like 100 yers ago so its ok, imean WTF it happens, people move on and life is there to live, and i have not said a bad word about him, even though i surley could allright, and my friends and family where swearing over him, i just think liek this: we had some awsome years aswell, so if i start to talk bad about it, then those years get dirty too, and i dont want that. Things happen for a reason. And i leared so so much going trough it, and its up to each and everyone to create ones happiness, cant expect on others to do that for you and remember: Happiness isnt a place its a journey! Fuck am such sentimental bitch! Grow up!

HE anyway, lived in this apartment with me for 4 years and he hasent even put one hr in helping me emptying it down to the seller so now he just had to, and actually we last 6-7 months been on speakable terms even had fun and joking, so all good, i thought!. This town is 2 hrs with train from copenhagen so up early. finaly there and rented car, trailer to move all this shit to a leased storage room where noone can tell me with 2 days notice move your stuff, wich the pretty brown eyed girl did a weeka go.

Ex came, he said hi, moved 5 boxes and left. lol. Yepps! (puke)

Now it all came very clear to me again, THANK GOD, as he plan to come to Malta and visit me, now i really can say NO, why we are not WE anymore! Besides all lies and betrayls, he is still a selfish, lazy bastard. Why he had to leave?
Someone dying? Emergency? Nooooooo: TRAINING!!

Arghhh.. serioulsy, i live in Malta, i come home, i got ONE day to do this! I know, he is an elite athlete and need to train 3 times a day, I KNOW, our whole life was about that. But COME ON!!! I really dont like lazy people, and he is lazy with everything exept his training, i dont expect people to work 18 hrs a day as i do but arghhhh.. i dont often ask for help, this time i did. So am left there its even lots of furnish i cant move it my self, impossible. But i sorted it. Out of pure anger.

A girl in the house that i know since long came by seeing me, and i said hey dont you need anything (lol) she asked me if i joke. I said nope, take whatever you want need i cant care less. So she took a whole serie of bookshelfs with glasdoors and about 1000 books , i had a whole big wall with books. I also had about 200 books from late 1800 in leather that i been running around in old shops finding one now and one then so i got a whole serie, i had it valued some yers back and it was worth so much so i even upgraded my home incurence, so i gave her thoose too.

I said: listen, Am in love with these books, i been collecting them in small shops all over sweden for several years every town i come to i look in small antique shops, they mean something to me, they are so so beautiful peaces please dont burn them, take them and sell them and travel, and please have a shitload of drinks (lol) and send me a post card.

She promsied she will send me a postcard, so thats nice, thanks! (puke)

Whe done, Its an understatment to say i was totaly exhousted and pain in muscels i didnt even know i had, or can fat also have pain?

Ex texted and called 12 times wanting to know i was ok and sorry sorry sorry sorry, i of course didnt pick up just deleted his fu**ing messages! Word dont count, what you do counts! HE of all people know i cant do these things, some days i cant even open a bottle myself, thats what arthorithis does to you. And he knows.
Well, bye bye Mr super mega elite 3 times Olympic Games participation MASTER.
Your erased! You proofed your self once again. (puke)

Soo.. around 16:20 the travelcompany decided to bless my wonderful day with a phonecall informing me the flight i booked to get home to Malta has been canceled.

I never heard that, delayed but totaly cancelled and 24 hrs ahead? Well, not my problem i told them, just sort it. She says no we have right to do this 24 hrs before take off. And she actually did call 24 hrs and 10 minutes before take off NH GG WP, i gave her a very sincer compliment knowing the company rules so so well and told her that it really must makes her feel superior (puke) then i hang up.

Cant be bothered, i fly home another day then FFS!
She phoned back in 10 min and had fixed it, but next problem is, they cant take swedish or malta card, so the flight was paid by a colleque in denmark earlier that morning, just to be able to get the ticket. I have a danish card as well, but no money on it since i dont use it . And now she really chocked me, (concidering how rude i was earlier to her, but i was really feed up on this day so she got for it) she said: no its ok, give us a ring next week and you can pay the difference then. -, what? Weird. Because its not a compnay we use all time for travel its just one of those online companies.

So finaly in my hotel in copenhagen, longing for a hot long bath and a glas of wine. I beliave i deserved it. I turn on the water and go and check my emails i only had over 100 being away a day, sick. Then i get lost in some conversation, and suddley i noticed it sounds weird from the bathroom and FUCK yes my bath! Arghhh...

And this room is a suite, as we had meetings we needed space. I dunno how to explain but the bathroom has a step down about 15 cm ....... and yepps.. water all the ways up to the step! And HOW can one build a bathroom with out any place for water to get away?? There isnt any!!! My god. So dressed only in a bathrobe am trying to get my way to the bath tube to atleast close the tap. Yea sure.

Why i think this would be ok i dont know, nothing else this day been ok. I slip. Hit my head, manage to not fall but it costed me a trip into the zink, so i got noseblood. This is not funny Martin, stop laughing! Yes iknow you! your laughing now!

I start my swearing,am really good at that, took same one as i have in store when my AA get cracked, its not nice, i can assure you all that. I find some ice for my forehead and then while in middle of all this, it knocks on my door. And i know who it is and what he want, and if i dont open he just go in! He done that for 2 days now. Its the water man. Yepps .. seeeeee people living in suits get lot of important revolving life changing bennefits, one of them are the water man.

Every day 20.30 ish, he comes around to give you an extra bottle of water (HOW silly is that, if i badly want a bottle of water and the minibar dont have water i drink something else OR CALL room service or?) i just dont get this.
And he knock again. ARghhh..

So i stumble out, nosebleeding and the white bathrobe looking like i killed someone, bloody and all wet and holding a towel with some ice on my head. To be honest, am not in my most frindley mood. Actually, in all fairness am quite irritated. And am still swearing. Very foul words. I open the door, and i have to give him some credit actually, he didnt even blinc, (lol) he just said in that very special english accent people from India got:

-god evening madam, your water is here.
(here, HERE, like i was sitting waiting for it, jesus christ)
I said: THANKS!!!

I dont need more water, i got the whole freaking bathroom full!

I somehow got to remove the water from the bathroom it cant be like this, but how? Am not going to crawl around here on my knees after a day like this with a coffe cup pouring it into the zink!

I take as much as i can away. Used all towels there where, even those extra ones in wardrobe. And then i crack the genious idea ( sometimes am suprised myself how smart i am) to use the floor heating, the bathroom got floor heating, of course, people living in suits cant be expected to step their precious feets on cold floors while stumbling out there in the morning so, great! I turn it up on full speed, take my shower, go ut, close the door and say night night bathroom.

Then i jumped into bed with Mr Laptop a very faithful and trustworthy partner, had a few glases of wine, played few tables of poker, did some amazing sick suck outs that made me fel so so soooooooooooo great, and told them : Ty most appreciated. They hate that.

I woke up saturday morning with lap in my arms (lol) i really love him so so much.

So left to say about this trip is just: am prepearing for next one Mr Jinx Master so you gotta be very good next time, cos am getting even, fair and square.

cheers!

/panna

NB: sickest thing is - there is probably not one thing in that storage room i would ever miss or want again, exept those books. Carpe Diem!

Playboy mansion - i got a question

2009-04-02T00:10:00.000+02:00

Well….. This has absolutely nothing to do with poker :-)\ but am a bit puzzled!

This program Playboy Mansion, where the camera follow these three stunning beautiful girls on their hard days (lol) at the Hugh Heffner Mr Playboy Mansion.
Am really confused.

Well... I took early night yesterday was tempted to go to casino and do their 20 euro rebuy, thats how bored i was even, but ended up bed to watch TV and got stucked in this program to start with.

BTW, does people in Malta don’t have TV in their bedroom?
The guy installing the cable connection in my bedroom back in November was very doubtful to it, he asked me 3 times
– Madam, (WTF lay of this madam shit now) you want TV in bedroom as well as living room?

He was very veeeery cute and was some sort of deep sea or if it was skydiver, lived up in north, had a Swedish friend visiting day after to do diving (why do people tell me all sort of things?? Happens all the time, I did NOT ask)
Ahh well as he being so cute I figure he deserves an answer else I simply ignore those questions, as in all fairness it’s not his business. But I told him, yes I need TV bedroom I watch a lot of movies late at night. AND then I stir him straight in his sweet little innocent eyes with a slight of tinkle in corner of left eye (lol so funny to see his reaction)
He said: oh.. and BLUSHED!!! Hahaha he thought I watch adult movies,,, well I got the big Cable packet and so far have not been able to stumble over something even close to that so not likely. But then he actually regain senses pretty quick, he gotta have credit for that, and said: well then Madam ( arghhhhhhhh,, pls) I better get to work then, and he blinked!! Haha… I said
- yepps get right on it!

We actually ended up drinking coffee after he was done so I don’t believe I scared him too much. Even though am pretty sure he tells his work mates, there is a nuts MADAM (this gotta stop, I hate being called madam) living on nr 32. Pretty standard, heard the nuts part before, it’s ok, I don’t care, not much anyway :P

OK, back to Mr Hugh Heffner and the blondies without brains, am not sure why I started to watch this crap but when living in Copenhagen it was on so many channels so one couldn’t avoid it and TV is always on when grinding the tables so for some reason I got stuck in it. But am really reaaaaally confused. Honestley.

First of all WHAT is it with this old man walking around in a bathrobe all days????
-WHY CANT HE GET DRESSED?

Second of all, how does it WORKS, I mean, they are all his girlfriends, right?
And one of them Holly is like first lady of the house. I get that part.
Hmmm well.. Do they all **** him?
Sorry but I don’t get that part?

And do they take turns sleeping his bed then or, I mean the bed is huge sometimes they lay there all 4 watching a movie ordering room service but:
-is it the first lady who sleeps there at night?
And if he wants to attend the other two, does she leave then or does he visit their rooms?

Well, every time I see this program in the background I wonder these things *shaking my head*

But what is it with this man in this bathrobe?

Anyone get it?

25 things about me

2009-03-24T00:52:00.000+01:00

My friend Lina ( “pokerskribent” of the year in Sweden) send me 25 notes about herself and urge me to do so too, it’s supposed to be 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you.

Things that most people right now in your life don’t know about you.

So here we go:

1. I moved out from home when I was 17 years old, to school far away, never moved back after that.
2. I used to work for the Swedish government before working with poker
3. I got a university degree in agriculture management and economics
4. I played some sort of cards or boardgames my entire life; in my family we did that to socialize so not my fault I need my daily fix of poker
5. I am a good chef but hate to cook for one person. Homemade Lasagna anyone?
6. I used to play volleyball on little higher level (a lifetime since though)
7. I dont sleep much and love to work, longest I worked in row without sleep is 72 hrs
8. I have never had a one night stand (well once so don’t think it count)
9. I milked more cows then any of you lived days
10. I love airports
11. I have written a child books series of 4 books
12. I hate christmas but love to buy presents to people
13. I lived in Africa for 4 yrs (winters)
14. I hate lies incredible much and am often too straigth forward
15. I have once asked Robbie Williams for his last name when he gave me his phone number. (note this was in the peak of his carrier, lol)
16. I Love old peoples stories
17. I am good at drink lists :)
18. I cant ever live far from sea, good i live on a rock in the Sea then!
19. I've seen all episodes of 24, season 1, 2, 3 and 4, almost in a row
20. I once lost 50 kilos in weight during 6 months period, on purpose and won a bet.
21. I believe in God or destiny maybe better to say
22. I sold my last horse 5 yrs ago
23. I once held a total stranger in my arms until she died
24. In a relationship I think respect is THE most important thing, the rest one can work out if only there are respect
25. I love falling asleep by someone writing words on my back

Just another saturday, one of them

2009-03-23T23:44:00.004+01:00

A Saturdays adventure…..... one of em :)

I was invited to a birthday party bash some weekends ago, but skipped it, I just didn’t feel like dressing up in 50‘s dress and freezing my as of in short skirt. And that was the theme, and I think one should respect the theme so I said I meet them later on instead.

Or am I just a sick gambler who rather goes to the casino and play there Saturday tourney and use that as a warm up for party, yeaaaa most likely.

Anyway, I played the tourney (ofc lol ) and it was not so many people so it turned more or less out to be a 10 seats STT 50 euro buy in and rebuy and add on, and all made rebuys and add so price pool was ok for a warm up party before the evenings adventure

Had a very nice guy from Sicily on my left and I mange to both spill a drink and a coffee on him AND ask him to show me his testicles, well I TRIED to say show me some places where they filmed Don Coreleone (godfather) when I come to Sicily soon, (going a weekend with my Em)

-Arghhh how can I know that if you pronounce it slightly wrong it means testicals????

Well he took it fairly good and just said yes of course no problem I show you around.

Lolaments.

Actually he played very well, for being an Italian, I took him out tough but that’s not more than fair, limping K5 off UTG in a STT is like mortal sin.

HOWEVER I didn’t manage to win i came second.

And my railing boy came to watch!!
Amazing. Have I told you about my railing boy ? no?

Ahh well… he comes on Saturdays and rail. And I found it odd; I mean HOW FUN is it to rail a poker tournament a Saturday, NOT. He is very shy. So last Saturday after seeing him there so many times and last Saturday both me and Em where more then tipsy, id say like more very (un)charming drunk. Soooo after he stood there for 6 hrs railing and it finally where final table I tried to talk to him.
Tried= me talking him saying yes no.

Veeeery shy. But hey hoe, I tried.

And he left.

Lol and I thought about it aaaaaaaaall week, naee maybe not but I did think about one or two times that I might have offended him asking why he was railing, I mean Its nice people railing I just was curious why?

SO when he showed up this Saturday as well I said
-Hey (and his name) soo nice to see you! (lol)
He was very surprised I remembered his name and am not sure due to my drunkenness state last time or if he just surprised in general anyone remember his name, HE IS very shy!

So I teased him a bit saying now I get luck ***** is here. Bla bla bla. And i also asked him why he left last time? And if I scared him home? (I know, it’s so not nice of me to be so direct but FFS he is around 30!! He gotta learn how to talk to chicks else he lives with his mum rest of his life) anyway he said

- No it was late really. (lolament)

THAT I don’t get, he rail a tourney from 15:00 to 23:00 and miss out last hr??? dohhh!

BUT here is where it gets funny…. I asked some of the regulars what’s the story here, why he come and rail? They said he played some smaller tourneys’ and busted and now he don’t want to play anymore until he learned a bit more so he is railing. Well that’s respect but in all fairness, learning on Casino Dragonara???? From who????xxx the 90 yr old never let go of a draw player or xxxx “I had a pair” or the proffesoor best best in the world??? OR even worse loud Max that don’t get we are playing texas holdem, I guess as he plays so bad.

And now it gets even more funnier. Apparently He phoned one of the regulars asking if I was playing?? Huuuuuu?? Come on! He is so so shy, he doesn’t even dare to look at me. Lol, poor him, next time I give him my card and say phone me straight instead and ask tiger! Lol then he die. Am herby making it my mission to UN shy him. FFS, he got to go with the Malta fase!

COS I MEAN… seriously…. Ibiza wannabe area am not going to be a frequent visitor in, or well, at least not in summer time, it has to smell so so bad. Walking up there to meet the Girls I saw 7 people puking. One was puking while his friend eat a kebab beside him, they where both sitting down on the street. NH GG WP

Well the best with that area this time was I found a drink that reminded me of pear milkshake with a drop of bailymint the one who guess which one get a price.

We took that one and a cuba libre so we get two each every time ordering, it was a long que, can’t be bothered to WAIT when I want drinks.

And am honest really surprised that people just take anyone to get laid, that’s what it looks like indeed and I saw so many odd things and especially last hr, like desperate hunt game starts NOW. GO Go GO!

Trust me am so so happy am good alone not the slightest ashamed over that. Seriously I rather do that then going into that swamp hunt. NEVER.
Am hereby declare that anyone who sees me go home with anyone from that swamp can come and get an expensive price!

I never have been a one night stand girl and after seeing what I saw Saturday I won’t ever be, I done one night stand once in a my lifetime and to be honest about that we were so drunk and had a fun evening together so it was just natural but then when finally there we just laughed at it more or less.
AND we are friends still so no worries.

And as a top on the cake, walking to Wemblyes for a cab, we saw a girl puking, standing bend forward puking like crazy AND her boy for the night doing her right there like that. OMFG.. AND his friend was standing few meters away peeing like nothing.

I got little worried thinking this is really not good, she is so drunk and puking she clearly has no idea what is going on, this gotta be close to rape. But no nooo.. Suddenly she wakes up from her puking and I hear her tell the boy to grap her tits. Omg.

Well.. I might be too old to appreciate the Ibiza wannabe area, so instead of whining I should just avoid it or close my eyes, I know. But I had to get it off me

Play well!
/panna

Just not good enough :(

2009-03-22T00:50:00.001+01:00

Well i think if one can’t win with the hands I got tonight one cant do much really.

I played so much live games and I laugh my ass off at people busting first level, how can one even go broke when blinds are 25/50 1 hr blind and stack 15 k????

I busted after 32 minutes.

We played 10 hands in those 32 minutes.

I was in those 10 hands dealt in following exact order:

KQ suited
JJ
-
-
KQ suited
-
AK
AA
AA
AA

And last AA brought me out.
Disgusted.

They call with 74 off preflop aswell as 49 off, is this Italy’s best players?
Then I want to move there. Instantly.

Most annoying part, they feel so good, when they play so bad. I feel ashamed if I play a hand like that and win, because i want to play good. But we are all different

I spend first 1 hr in the bar beating myself up, I seriously did, I mean a bad beat now and then WTF no big deal, one can take that but these hands boom boom boom that’s pretty too much. And I really mentally prepared so well for this game, perfect structure for me, I NEVER get tired or bored around a table live. I got the sickest stamina in live tours, I can be awake 70 hrs in a row without even feeling tired, I can be without food and drinks for 40 hrs if I have too and still be focused. Am not bullshiting you and am not saying this to hear woow bla bla bla, its fact. And I know myself and my limits as person and as a player well.

I was bit surprised when bartender gave me the bill of 16 triple vodka redbull after 1 hr.

I didn’t even feel slightest dizzy I just felt sick to my bone over the play.
I should know better than to go broke on first level in a deep stack tourney.
It’s just not acceptable.
It’s just NOT at all acceptable.
Never.

Its poker and I work with players on daily basis talking them trough these things, I know its variance and I know it’s just poker and I know it happens, am a proo in helping my players trough bad times, just not very good handling myself.

My phones, all 4 of them, are never off, regardless where I am or what am doing I NEVER refuse to pick up when one of my players call me, and I listen for hrs, we discuss and we talk. I don’t always agree, and I know sometimes that’s what they need, but that’s not right, I say my mind, and sometimes we fight but in end it helps. Sometimes I close account down for few days and that’s a border line what I should or should not do, after all we earn on rake, but we don’t earn on broke players do we? Most of my players have also become close close friends over the years, and its more than just business. So i know very well its variance and just to move on, but if i dont analyze the play i did and discuss it with people i respect i cant get better. And i am not doing anything in this world without aim to get better and better. If not having that aim, its IMO not worth doing.

Tomorrow is another day and there be new hands to play and take decisions in.
And am right back in it.
For sure.

Just very gutted when the game strategy don’t work.
AA 3 hands in a row and out after 32 minutes, it should be a price for that even.

See you around the tables.

panna

Portomaso Live madness

2009-03-20T00:47:00.002+01:00

I think after all live games I ever played, tonight was THE weirdest, by far.

And for the record, I played a shitload of live games, I used to help run a poker club in Sweden, we had tourneys 5 evenings a week, I am experienced both in ruling, TD, dealing and playing, so I will never accept wrong ruling in key pots. Or any pots, but I can let it go if it’s not of any importance.

OK…. It’s the Malta Series Of Poker this weekend at Portomaso.
Today I played the 330 one and not much to say, I got my KK cracked after 3 hrs play for a respectful pot and was low after that. Folded and waited patiently for 1.5 hrs and looking down on AK on my BB where there are two limpers and one all in, stick em in and are in good shape against his AJ but with J on flop. Thanks and good bye. No problems. Ohh one funny thing… after first hand are dealt one player at my table says in Italian very upset (I got it explained for me ) that he only got 2 cards, he should have 5 so what kind of poker is this?? Hahahahahah.. he never even heard of texas holdem, NH GG WP!

OK… play some cash game but they smoke like maniacs in there so I can’t really stand it, especially not now when being treated for pneumonia as well, its difficult so I skip that and Em and I place our self’s in the bar :P we good at that.

After a while a friend come and say we missing two people for a satellite for tomorrows 550 game come one girls, well, I am playing it anyway and I cannot be bothered with a satellite that takes forever and anyway end in bingo bingo and I end up paying more for the tourney then getting straight in. Arghhh but ok, we are bored and poker is fun! So we say ok. 20 ppl, 4 seats win.

I double in hand 3 and that’s really important in satellites as the structures are often crap. I limp in with 23 of diamonds, just can’t resist it ehh :P and one Italian wants to raise to 500 (blinds 50) (lol) but forget to say raise so it a call, so whole table limping (lol). Flop says 236 I think he has KK, QQ or so and he will pay me of so I check, he raise, all fold to me, I re raise, he go all in, all after my plan and I call, he shows KK and my little hand hold up and he hates me, that’s hater nr 1.

Trust me there be plenty more before this evening are over.

1 hr later… Am on button and have KK. UTG goes all in, smaller stack, so I only call hoping to get some more in, I get BB in and pot around 5000.
Flop comes A 28 Check check. Turn another diamond making it 3 diamonds. Check check, typical satellite game bhaaaa. River another A. ok…… so now… BB shows his cards, the all in guy show his card, and dealer ask me to show mine,
I say: why?
He says: so we can see who won !

Funny!

I say: but who says I have checked? Am not checking this board.

AND now the fuzz start and those of you who live in Malta knows how Maltese discuss so add that with 100000 million times that’s how it is to play with Italians, it’s really really tiring. Ok floor come and the BB guy who has an Ace (lol) are very angry. And Floor says I need to show my card and that’s it. I refuse. I can be very stubborn if I know am right, no way am accepting that. They discuss forever!! And call the TD from the big tournament and he instantly says ofc she cannot be forced to show her hand, she has the option to act with their cards face up. So I bet 3000 and the man with the Ace folds, I can’t resist showing my KK and NOW am almost scared how much they hate me and I know now I need to focus and play well they hunt me in every pot I go. LOL LOVE THAT!!! And they scream in Italian and it’s very chaotic to say the least. They hate me and Em badly.

Hand after Em is all in pre against a guy, and he flops a straight, Em says: naee don’t worry I get Q on river and get a better straight. River= Q . omg he get angry splasching his chips lol. Hand after that, she is all in again against a small stack that flopped two pair and again she pulls a miraculous card to get trips (lol) they really hate us now. It’s going to get worse.

We are down to one table and they make a redraw, and this is funny, if you make a redraw and everyone get new seats, then you can never be sit out on button to wait for your turn, as you normally can if they move people into another table, you all understand what I mean right? Soooo… who do they make sitout first round? Me of course. I don’t say anything am just simple can’t be bothered, its one fecking hand, but Em goes mad (lol) and try to explain the stupidity in this. Some other people on the table also try to explain the stupidity.

I ask them: ok guys I don’t care, only thing I care about is if you going to discuss stop the clock.

The guy that folded the Ace against my KK are THE most angriest man in world history and tells ME, that has not even said a word a long long sentence in Italian spitting his saliva like a rabies dog and pointing his finger, (lol) I smile and say- it was really nice weather today don’t you think?

He doesn’t understand anyway so I can say whatever. ITALIANS can’t speak English at all, seriously, I thought French people where bad but this is silly bad. Anyway, game continue, me sitting out, I don’t care. If I was small stack I prob would care. Em says to Jackie, an Maltese woman who plays a lot, we know her well, she says something to her in English, and they are not even in the hand any of them, and it’s about something totally not revolving poker. And then a new hand is being dealt…. And SUDDEN a little man that sits in a corner with a computer and a camera, a BLOGGER! Jumps up behind me pointing his finger at Em and SCREAMING, literally SCREAMING

- NO ENGLISH ALLOWED AT TABLE. YOU HEAR, FROM NOW ON, NO ENGLISH ALLOWED. YOU HEAR!!!!

What?
Jackie the Maltese woman says say, what??? She doesn’t even understand Italian.
The dealer says what?
The railing crowd says what?

Ok, Not only did he make me close to deaf!!!, he also pisses me off, who are he to come and even breath in our direction, he is not in the tour, he is not the dealer, he is not ANYTHING. HE is a blogger.
So ask him to please leave us alone and go back to his little laptop and continue his geek sad life not having money to play poker. (well I got angry, sorry) I mean, how can they refuse us speaking English, when the Italians speaking Italian ALL the time. He goes mental!! Completely mental.

Floor comes AND also announces we can’t speak English because the dealer doesn’t understand it. HOW can that be our problem??? Official language in Malta are Maltese and English, English is spoken EVERYWHERE on every poker scene around the world. It’s just so bad run all of it.

Thank god a English girl who works for the Italian poker site that arrange the weekend see the ridiculous in this and stop the farce and give us a dealer who can speak both English and Italian. There are a lot of people railing all this fuzz trust me and they all say same thing, this is crazy, how can he come and even interfere in anything and act like this. I let it go, cos else I known it’s going to tilt me out of this tour, Em is insane angry and I understand her, he pointed at her and directed very angry bad bad Italian words to her, I do understand quite a lot actually but they don’t need to know that. And he been following her around all day (she is very pretty) taking pictures putting on his stupid little blog, pictures that he now been forced to remove, by Em, (lol)

I call the floor and calmy informs him that 2 weeks ago I emailed the organization of the tourney in order to get confirmation other people then Italians are welcome and English can be used and I have that black in white in an email (and luckily enough I remember the person’s name and say it, I also did email regarding that as it’s an Italian tour arranger so am safe and sound ) so I will ofc take discussion with him regarding this tomorrow. So pointless to waste time on this now as I understand the floor don’t really have any authority at all so let’s just play.
THEN he tries to say sorry this and sorry that, I say I rather take that discussion with someone who is in charge so if we pls can just get some peace and play this sat to finish.

After another 30 minutes the floor comes back announcing there been a misunderstanding we can ofc speak English. Clearly he been told from higher instance he is way out of line.

THEN this hand happens. We are down to 7 players so its starting to get edge and every move is huge important. Am in BB and actually thinking of going all in and steal the blinds with my A2 spades.

I do a mistake here, I for some reason, but its messy everyone is screaming all the time so easy to get confused, there is a raise, not very big but hardly worth it for me unless someone else calls too, and I mistakenly think it’s me to act, not seeing someone already called his raise so I say fold after some thinking, and then dealer stop me saying it’s not my time to act, ohh sorry I say and look proper and see there is a caller to the rasie, and SB to act, he fold. So now its back to me, and here they go bananas again, screaming I have to fold I have to fold, (lol, they know i can stick all in with any two and not scared doing so so they want me out of the hand, i cover them all as well) dealer says I can call the raise but I can’t re raise. I ACTUALLY wants to call now, as that caller in too I can see value in paying that on top of my BB,with my suited connected Ace, A2 spades. They almost start world war 3 here over this, and I just sit quiet and ask the dealer as he are the one in charge really, - what are my options? He says you have to fold. Now he changed his mind (lol) Iot of people are saying the same as he said first I can call but not re raise.

I don’t fight here the atmosphere are really really angry around us, almost uncomfortable, and also ther can be different rules her for different places actually so i respect that, I ask the dealer again and if he is sure my only option are fold. He says yes madam. Ok I don’t argue I just fold I don’t want to get killed on my way home by an angry Italian donk. I would of course won the hand if in, no one had ace, and ace on flop and check check check all way to river.

THEN the Dealers says after the hand, he made mistake as my cards has not reached the muck I didn’t have to fold. NOW we go bananas again, not me I just shake my hand and ask for a waitress. I really need a drink.

But the others are wacko caco and floor comes running, and then he starts to explain to me, I tell him I don’t care I didn’t complain and ask him to get me waiter. He continues in poorly English explaining, and I again say I don’t care, what is he going to do? Replay the hand????

This goes on FORVER, and then the English girl working for the site that luckily heard and seen all says- seriously get real, she didn’t complain, she didn’t say a word, its everyone else it’s the Italians making all the fuzz so pls stop this now. He then back off.

I say loud and clear to Em across the table- jesus they really are scared of us so they need to use all sort of nonsense stuff, but I understand they play so so bad really. Well I can’t help it, I get bitchy after all this hazzle, and it works they get more and more tilted over the fact they can’t tilt us.

The English girl came up to us afterward and thanked us for being so understanding and taking it so good, saying we been really good about it. Well in end we contributed too for sure, i know, but one can’t sit and take shit, I would never do that and I know I play better poke then them so yea better to show our skills there instead, yes that’s correct true. Bhaaaa! But I won’t ever take shit, ever!

Now I need sleep.
And yes, I took one of the 4 seats. So tomorrow (today) is freeeeeee! Or i save some of the buy in to the 2200 instead, as they kindly agreed for me to move the seat worth 550 into the 2200...dunno yet. It starts in 8 hrs.... bhaaa. night night

Hep hep!

Play well!
/panna

EPT live stream in bed

2009-03-13T00:44:00.000+01:00

What a nice Friday evening :)\

Connected the lap to the TV and cuddle up in bed to see the EPT live stream
I mean that’s a normal Friday right? Lol. No shit Sherlock am single. Whoooo!

It’s quite funny to hear the talking in the break when William and Johan think the cameras are off and discussing the crazy Russian and how to correct spelling mistake in their blogs hahahahah.. humour on high level!
eh.. you know now i got this program that makes the words red if they are wrong, so its easy hahahhaahhahahaha.. welcome to the computer world!

Am so so pleased Johan is on this final table finally he so deserves it, IMO he is one if not the best and definitely the most pleasant and nicest Swedish MTT player.

And its so nice that Thomas Kremser is TD again, he was not in Copenhagen and I missed his very respectful person. And stand on his feet looking totally perfect for 5 days in a road a 14 hrs a day, He is THE Td in the business but charge over 2000 euro per day so hey hoe, why should he complain about aching feet’s

My girl Em, which I often bring into my blog, got an email from him other day, he wanted her to deal in Monte Carlo, however she can’t, it’s a conflict of interest in her job. Too bad, it be an awesome experience. And Anna panna would ofc go along and tyake care of the drink list :P ALL TO what they do best best!

OK break over am back railing!

Go Johan go Johan, and yea Wille too ofc! Just Johan little more :)\
Sandra is an underdog that be a great win for the poker industy if she wins, as she also won the EM in poker a few months ago!!

/panna

a hand that sucked a litttle..

2009-03-12T00:39:00.000+01:00

Its hard to stay positive against donks like that even if i WANT the call.

Seat 2: Enemy (€481.40)
Seat 4: Hero (€513.60)
Seat 1: (€765.00)
Seat 3: (€374.00)
Seat 5: (€342.15)

seat 2 posts the big blind of €4.00
Seat 1 posts the small blind of €2.00
seat 5 is the button

*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Hero [Kh Ah]
Seat 3 folds
Hero raises €14.00
Seat 5 calls €14.00
Seat 1 folds
Enemy raises €60.00
Hero raises €160.00
Seat 5 folds
Enemy calls €160.00

*** FLOP *** [3d As 7d]
Enemy checks
Hero bets €95.00
Enemy goes all-in with €321.40
Hero calls €321.40

*** TURN *** [3d As 7d] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [3d As 7d 9s] [Ks]
*** SUMMARY ***

Total pot €975.80 | Rake €3.00
Board: [3d As 7d 9s Ks]
Hero won (€0.00), mucks
Seat 1 won ($0.00), mucks
Enemy won (€975.80), showed [3s 4s]
Seat 3 won (€0.00), mucks
Seat 5 won (€0.00), mucks

NH GG WP

-cant win em all !

2009-03-10T13:04:00.000+01:00

Ah well…. One cant win em all right!

Thursdays tourney at Dragonara, I busted just before FT and my girlfriend Em did well and manage to slide into the money :)\ whuiuuuuuu.. Em best best!

Well done. It was a really nice evening though, and NO we didn’t manage to stay away of the vodka in the redbulls. Am really crap keeping my promises to myself.

I picked up Em in a taxi, yes lazy, but it was pouring rain and I just set up company account, so need to try that, no not really but arghhhh.. come on, rain?

In taxi Em says she is pretty tired working like maniac all day, yea well we get us a few red bulls and that’s sorted I say, nooooo worries.
(I have lot of faith in this drink but am convinced now, it don’t help, it’s all in your mind)

She looks at me like a sweet dog pup with big brown eyes and say:
-hmmm is it going to be vodka in them?

(she’s from north of Sweden and her dialect here need to be heard to understand how absolute adorable it sounded)

I give up, never can resist a begging sweet someone, dog, human, male, female, ahh well am actually better resisting begging men for some reason as I find it very much “ turn off” with weak begging men, “my way is the fucking highway and u the whole lot can just fuck off” attitude is better, then and am all lost! If they also occasionally tell me to shut up and take some decisions of their own, Well then I could even be close to break the 4 yrs of no no. But i guess it takes a hooligan to get along for me to even consider that. Now I lost subject again. Sorry. Happens a lot.

Sooooooooooooooooooo.. Straight to bar to have a drink before tourney, I order for both of us, at least I thought so, silly me, should known better with this chick:
-two redbull vodka, thanks.
-yes Madam ( arghhhhhhhhh,, they gotta stop this seriously)

Em, says:
-and two for me.

I spin around and look at her and for second and for a little amount of time in world history I mistakenly thought she was joking, she was not. Lovely, started well this all right. Not.

Ah well… lets just say we had a good night, and manage to drive one of the male dealers so completely nervous and confused so he had to be swooped out, that was funny! It was a mistake putting the two of us on same table, as we clearly couldn’t help our self flirting with him when seeing he got so nervous -poor boy.

hep hep
/anna panna banana