Saturday, May 19

End day 1 Ireland

About models: Its a myth that they don't eat, Jesus!!! Just had breakfast with a few of them and they eat like elephants! I changed some email addresses, but dammed they are tall.

Ah well the weather her is amazing, like July in Sweden. So starting with the emission taking money out, I look for signs for an ATM but no shit no signs!! Anyway find one and started to press 500 E, this machine can only withdraw maximum of 400 E, ok, I push 400;this machine can only withdraw maximum of 200 ok,; I press 200: this Machine,, ahhhh FFS write me a SIGN telling me how much I can withdraw!! I ended up taking out 50 E x20!

I mean a sign would do me good here ;-)

So I take a stroll down town to get some gifts, found a great football book about Pele;, always get English football books for M when traveling, hard to get English books in Sweden, M would be my ex husband, yea yea I know am a nice ex wife.

For myself, heheheh ALWAYS just one thing. Sunglasses!!! OMG OMG I got more of those then people got socks. But I need them since I always misplace them or break them. Found a freaking nice pair so now I have to take the car for a spin ;-) and look a bit cool playing Van Halen loud, true, they are for some unknown reason playing Van Halens JUMP all the time in radio, hmmmm dunnu why! Also I need to go out to a computer store so better get moving, and then meeting up with Derek around 13.00 our time here. And I did get one pair of glasses at Malmö airport and 2 more at Dublin, LOOOL, but don't worry I only buy junk one since I always misplace or break them anyway.

You guys cant imagine how fun it is so drive on the wrong side of the road; it really put your concentration on maximum and the adrenalin pumping. And the car is so nice ;-) and dark dark Grey, I regret now not having dinner with the lad then he might have got me a cabriolet!

Abut SIGNS: I forgot one yesterday, when driving on the bigger roads once in awhile it comes a sign, you are over speeding you got 4 penalty points OK OK sorry.. but hey, wait a minute how would they know, because it wasn't like a digital one, they just assume and I did some calculation on how often they appear and I think am about up to around 100 penalty points. Where do I go to get my penalty? Asked around and if you get 12 points they take your license and they got 4 cameras over the whole of Ireland working ;-) so narrrrrh not that worried!

Tournament started 20.30 Danish time.

OK overall with my game, lost two monster pots just before ending day one else I would been top 10 now am instead just above average. But blinds periods are 60 minutes and we still just on 150/300 with 50 ante and I got a bit over 20 000 so hopefully I can do something with it. Our table where great, everyone talking taking turns buying drinks, more like a friendly home game. The floor manager with speaker where ever so often at our table, wonders why!

There is a guy called John Miihn, he is famous here in this part of Ireland for being a bit crazy,, all tournament every 30 minutes floor manager says in the speaker, -WOOW John Miihn still in.

Fact is, John Miihn has not yet arrived. Thats why he is still in!

So 5 hours 28 minutes in the tournament John Miihn arrives, everyone applauds and whistling. He is left with 10 700, and average are 21 300, he is BB straight up and goes all in!! Getting called and get busted, he stand up waves, every one goes crazy and then he goes home!

Funny man! I mean it did cost 550 Euro to buy in..............

Well our comments and replay around the table makes the 9 hrs play feel like nothing and our tables is pretty intact, a few new players arrive but 5 of us sit there all troughs those 9 hours.

But not an easy table to stack up, chips goes back and forward.
Today is a new day and I got a tourney to play!!
Need to double up pretty fast but I will, I will..

Game resuming in just some hour so need to get ready.

Cheers from me
Anna panna

Friday, May 18

Waterford, Ireland

My morning started with biting the filling of a tooth!! Really good timing eh? NOT. So noooo eating just drinking for the whole weekend I suppose!

Finally arriving at Dublin airport, delayed, missing my train to Waterford and starting to figure out a solution to how to sort that. A man waves me. He works for a rental car company and he waved me and said: you need a car?

Hmm well need and need but actually no bad idea so we started to talk and after realising he played poker and him taking a break to go and have coffee with me I ended up with very nice car and my only request was really: nice stereo, this chick plays loud! So, he gave me nice car for actually cheaper price then the train would have cost me back and forward and far quicker in time also. Weird, but he was a nice lad and am a nice girl so. =-) I normally get may way.

Okey. as we all know, in this country they drive on the other side of the road.. The first thing one sees sitting down in the car is a big sign on the panel:
OBS, drive on left side of road!

haha one have to laugh, like anyone renting a car NOT knowing that would believe that sign? I mean of they don't know that already would they believe that sign?

Okey. here we go, tuned in a nice station, turned it up and of we go and dammed, it was a nice car, a sporty model that is quick like a little rat! Well. said and done, out in the traffic and dammed this is huge city! But I managed and after a while I was cruising along M50 looking for signs to N7 Waterford, turned out well, feeling like a new born baby on slipper ice. Most tricky is the roundabouts, I mean one can get lost there even at home but this was so freaking odd. but I said to myself, ok anna panna as long as it feels totally wrong you know your doing right!

Last time I was in Ireland are almost exactly on the day 12 years ago driving down to Waterford I start to remember some funny things witch are : signs, and even remember I got 4 pages in a photo album at home with weird odd signs.

Guys!! This is the land of signs, one can really smile. I mean driving along a highway and it says no more sharp shoulders.. ok good to know that here don't live skinny people or what do they mean?

Or heavy plant crossing, I mean what do they really mean here? Heavy plants crossing the road? Palm trees?

Or this one warning blind people crossing Ehhhh? Come on.
old people crossing is another one.

And honestly the whole country are build of this signs, I could go on forever but wont, my sense of humour is a bit dry I know! So getting a bit hungry and fore most dying for a coffee I stop at Esso don't know with you guys but Esso is like flashback to when I where 5 yrs old. Anyway stopped there and wanted to visit ladies room before coffee, well, getting in there it's a big sign:
please flush toilet after using it Hmmm, well why does that sign even have to be there? It gets even creepier. on the back of the door it says:
Zink to wash hands outside to your left. LOOL, and I can add the toilet area where like the size of a very small small room so no chans missing it. But hey, am not complaining, thanks for the info Government of Ireland.

So standing there washing my hands I look up to watch my pretty face in the mirror but nope, no mirror, instead another sign: machine to dry hands behind you Now am seriously starting to think this is a someone making fun of me and i am watching for the hidden camera somewhere but ok I turn around to ue the air maschine, and guess what, above the machine it is another sign: Zink to wash hands are behind you Woot? ok like someone would go from toilette to dry hands first or what do they mean here? A little less mentally disturbed person then I could be here all day, wash hands, dry hands, wash hands, dry hands.

Got to Waterford and found my hotel straight on. Entering the lobby there are like loads of super freaking skinny tall very tall females, I swear some legs where from neck to floor!, Whats this?? And I automatically starting to look around for some signs that will explain it and oh yes reliable old Ireland, there it is:
Summer beach fashion show by top 25 Ireland models!

Jesus Christ! Talking about knocking ones feet of the earth eh? Wanting to take a quick shower but it started really bad, I mean there where NO signs, and the shower wasn't a walk in the park guys, it was a really tricky one OR I got spoiled by all signs. Anyway done and then out to the place where they tonight where hosting a super satellite to tomorrows event. 60 people playing and just lads, everyone stirred at me like I was an alien but after a couple of beers they realised I was human, little do they know am actually are more an alien then human.

Did play, figure better then being in my room. Funny structure, one rebuy if empty OR one add one, and if doing the rebuy you get 5000 and if doing an add on you get 10 000. My sweet cowboys couldn't hold up even so hitting my set and then pushed since my all in after flop got called by a moron with 910 hitting his straight on river so rebuy. and then first hand after break I look down at the famous hate hand JJ and small stack as I am considering all at my table did an add on of 10 000 I push All in and got called by AJ, with J of clubs,,,, board come with yes your right 4 clubs. I start to look around after the sign: complain corner but couldn't find any so I went to the bar and had some talks with some other poker morons.

Well starting to feel tired after a pretty long day and kind of a bit curious how my girls with the swimming fashion where holding up I turned back to my hotel, to find out that on the door into the pub by reception where a sign here you can buy beer Nice info, I mean unless someone mistakenly took it for a church or so.. The supermodels where nice and still very skinny and very tall but one of them got really drunk and did some kind of interesting hula hula tropic dance on top of the bar, pointless to say she got tipped pretty well! Guys are the same everywhere, and the man in the bar put a bucket on the disk with a ...YES of course A sign:
Tip here please

Anna panna Live Waterford may 2007