One of those Maltese things

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

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Thank god the Italians cant get enough

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

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

1. Marco Viscomi 583,500
   
2. Marco Romoli 536,500
   
3. Anna Colley 345,500
   
4. Antonio Filocamo 336,500
   
5. Salvatore Castorina 329,000
   
6. Antonio Bellini 276,000
   
7. Riccardo Mazzitelli 275,000
   
8. Jonathan Pyartt 191,500
   
9. Alessandra Cravero 133,500
   
10. 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

The Cougar Era

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!

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!

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

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

/panna

Girls drunk poker evening!

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

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