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Like Disneyland for adults

My friend compared Las Vegas with a Disneyland for adults and he couldn’t have been more right ;) I arrived late on the 23rd super jetlagged. I never get a jetlag when going over the Atlantic this way unless I don’t sleep at the airplane and this time it was impossible. Not for the guy I came here with since he slept all the way but I didn’t get many hours since we had two big groups of guys in their 30′s who probably had left their families and kids back home to have an insane week in Las Vegas with the boys. The party started already by takeoff and they didn’t stop ONCE during the eleven hour long flight. Sadly they also were spread out everywhere and three of them sat right next to me…

I’ve been waking up really early but it seems like it’s getting better each day. Yesterday I woke up 5:30am and today 7:30am. I really hope I will be able to sleep to nine tomorrow. I wish I could go down to the pool with the rest of the Swedes today but I was to incautious with the SPF yesterday and burned myself badly. It’s ok now but a day without the sun seems like a good idea. Since M who I travelled here with is gonna play the $1500 WSOP-event today I don’t know what to do. I might head down to the poker room at the Venetian to play some later. We’re staying at the Palazzo and it’s just as nice as last year. The plan was to check in at the Rio by the 3rd but I think we’re gonna stay here as long as M is still around so might not move in there until the 8th.

After some shopping and dinner yesterday we went to Rio to buy in the boys into the tournament today. The tournament areas at the Rio are INSANELY big. Not kidding. It almost gave me goose pimples just imaging those areas full of players for the main event. It’s gonna be heavy days reporting thats for sure.

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The boys playing Chinese poker by the pool

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Turista

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We tried the oxygen bar at Fashion Show Mall yesterday…an odd experience

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Fashion Show Mall…home sweet home ;)

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One of the two tournament rooms at the Rio

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The amazing view over the strip when you walk out from the convention centre at the Rio

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We are to close to the ice cream-bar here at the Palazzo for my own good

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Congrats William!

One of the people in the poker world I count in as a really good friend is William Thorson. He’s not just an funny guy to be around, he’s also a good friend and an excellent poker player. He’s also one of the few people who’ve been at almost every tourney I’ve reported on so of course I’ve spent loads of hours following him, specially since almost three years ago when he signed with PokerStars since I run the Scandinavian poker blog there. I’ve watched him busting out in 13th place in the World Series Main Event 2006. I’ve seen him on final tables but up until now I haven’t seen him winning a big tourney. I’ve waited for it and I’ve been sure it was only a matter of time. For ONCE I wasn’t there when it finally came. In Tallinn late last night the big success came. He won the 222 player strong field in PokerStars Baltic Festival and €80 823. Sooo very nice. When I got the text yesterday I almost started to cry out of happiness. GG WP M8!

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It’s summer. Haven’t had time to play online what so ever. I played last Sunday and playing the WSOP qualifier on PokerStars tonight but apart from that I’ve just enjoyed the heat, the sun, the summer and being in love. On Monday I went to see my friends Alcazar performing at the LOVE2010-festival in Stockholm, on Tuesday a few poker players had dinner at a really nice restaurant. After way too many drinks we ended up at the casino for more drinks. I did play but only for 35 minutes before they closed. We were eight people going there and everybody won. Soo nice. We had to celebrate this. The celebration ended up with us all going fishing in the morning.

On Tuesday I invited a chef to my place and some friends came over. Anders, the chef, is excellent and served us amazingly good food. To this we also had a lot of great Amarone wine.

Yesterday we had a wedding in Stockholm. A wedding I think most of you have heard about. It was our crown princess in Sweden who had found her prince and the big wedding was taking place yesterday. The whole Stockholm was crowded by people who wanted to see the bridal couple. For me I had a whole other marriage to witness. It was my great old friend Jonas who had found his own princess Charlotte ;) Afterwords I went out with some poker people (like usual). A very WET night with a lot of crazy things going on but we had a lot of fun. Been really tired today and now I’m gonna take it easy until I go to Vegas on Wednesday.

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Alcazar on stage

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Sorry, sorry, sorry…the bitch is back ;)

I don’t remember how many times I’ve written this in a blog but it’s true. I’ve been a bad blogger the latest . I’ve had so much other stuff going on…mostly family stuff. Now we’ve had my grandpas funeral and my family is slowly getting back to basics…

WSOP started over a week ago. Been trying to follow it as much as I can but it’s not the same thing not being there. I miss Las Vegas loads and looking forward going there in 1,5 week. My plan was to go there on Monday but I rebooked my flight and now going on the 23rd. Gonna spend the first two weeks at Palazzo just having vacation with my friends and from the 5th I’m gonna be at the Palms and covering the main event. Really looking forward to the vacation since it’s the first one I have since like eight months when I visited my father in Spain for a week. Probably gonna go to Rio to look at the tournaments while I’m there but mostly gonna stay by the pool and having fun with all my dear friends who’s gonna go there at the same time.

What has happened since last time we talked? Hmm let’s see.

We’ve had Elitloppet which is the biggest horse race in Sweden with horses from all around the world competing. During this we also had a lot of parties with celebs both from poker, trotting and other sports. On the Sunday we had a major party at Undici (Tomas Brolin’s place) with people like Peter Forsberg, William Thorson, Mats Sundin, Johnny Lodden and Erik Adielsson (who’s one of the biggest names in horse racing in Sweden). A great party. Ended in my apartment until seven in the morning ;) (so did a lot of parties that same week…can’t be very popular with my neighbors anymore).

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Johnny and Mats

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Me and Tomas

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We did it the Vegas style on the way to my place and took a white limo

Last week I was down in Nyköping along with some friends on a wedding party for the best gay couple there is. Magnus and Lars got married like a month ago but the actual party wasn’t before last week. Had so much fun. Afterwords we stayed at Tessans parents on the county side. It truly was amazing waking up there hearing the birds twittering and watching over the lake.

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Lovely Lars and Magnus

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Stockholm is so beautiful at the moment. Probably because I’ve spent the last three weeks with an amazing guy I just met. I’ve known him over a year since he’s one of the guys who runs my favorite poker club but it wasn’t until I actually got to know him he got my heart. The best thing is that my son really loves him and that’s the most important thing. On Wednesday my son graduated first grade in school and we celebrated this with going to Gröna Lund which is the amusement park in Stockholm. Finally Casper is over 140 centimeters tall and can go on all the roller-coasters and attractions…so we did. We tried them all and it was so much fun. Afterwords we tried the luck on the wheels. Well. Maybe you wouldn’t call it luck when we bought half the wheel every time but Casper loved it and we won loads of candy ;) After Gröna Lund we went to my friend Caroline’s restaurant (where she’s the head-waitress) to have dinner. A really nice day overall.

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I LOVE my terrace. I knew I probably would since I bought the apartment because of it but I couldn’t have guessed exactly how much I would love it. It’s amazing and as long as it’s not raining I’m spending every single day out there. We have dinner there, I play online there, I have wine nights with my friends there, I have breakfast there, I also have a sunbed any trying to work on my tan for Vegas (but been a little bit lazy going up in the mornings so missed out on the actual sun *s*.

Poker wise I’m cold like nothing else at the moment. Yeah I’ve won two bigger tourneys online latest but other than that I haven’t been able to win ANYTHING. Sucks big time! I hope my luck will change in the WSOP qualifier next week. Not that I can play but $12 000 would be lovely pocket money for Vegas *s*.

GL at the tables!

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The first raid in my life

As I told you guys before I LOVE KRUKAN which is my local poker club in Stockholm. When it comes to the Swedish law this is an illegal poker club…or? Over the last few years I’ve watched and read about those raids at poker clubs. I’ve also read about the trials in court where the prosecutor hasn’t really had anything real to come up with and how they’ve been in court with not a real case cause when it comes to poker they’re clueless. When it comes to those small, really innocent tournaments they haven’t had a case. So last year we all read the verdict and there it was, what we’ve all been waiting for; the verdict that says: tournament poker is about skill not about gambling which it’s all about.

We have a law in Sweden. The gambling law. If you are not Svenska Spel (the government owned gambling operator) you are not allowed to have anything to do when it comes to gambling or lottery. They are the only one’s allowed. But here was the leak. We got them to proof that tournament poker is about skill and thats why they couldn’t give a conviction.

Krukan is a nice and warm place where I even took my father to so he could experience what it feels like to play poker for real. I couldn’t take him to the government owned casino. The tournaments they have there is a joke and he never tried cash games. Krukan is a place where people go to just to meet their friends to play a tournament for small amounts of money and more for the fun of it than anything else. The people who runs it are normal Swedish guys who cares about others. This is something you don’t see at the casino. They don’t care about anything else than to make money. They only want you there cause of then money you bring. You don’t go there just to hand out. People go to Krukan and to other poker clubs all around Sweden just because of this reason nothing else. They actually don’t care about winning or losing. Sometimes they won, sometimes they don’t but it doesn’t matter. They do it cause it’s their hobby.

Last night I went to Krukan to play the Friday Deepstack. It’s a nice tourney with approx $75 buy-in and with 90 people in it. You have to play for at least six or seven hours just to make it to the final table. After three hours in the tournament with half the field left I was just picking up my chips after winning a pot and suddenly I see this police men standing to my right. She told us all to just sit tight and wait for further directions… I then saw like 20 other uniformed policemen’s in the tournament area (we were like 100 people in the club by that point).

After few minutes they told us to hold our hands so they could see them. “Is this a joke?”, I said to my opponent. “Who does she think we are?”

Then they started to talk to all of us one by one. First we had to show id’s and then they wanted out chip count and not in the way I normally do them on the tour ;) “How many pink chips do you have? How many red?” etc…

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Interesting chipcount

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One and a half hour later they let us all go apart from the owner who’s a guy in my age. A typical normal Swedish, sweet, guy who are still in remand prison. Yes. This is not a joke! It’s more than 24 hours now and he’s still there the poor thing. The only thing he’s done wrong is to rent a place for us all to play poker in and to arrange those tournaments who we still don’t know if they are legal or not… Until it’s been in the Supreme Court from the last couple of cases there’s nothing to go on here.

The sickest thing here is that Sweden is a part of the European Union where it’s against THEIR law to have monopoly on stuff. They’ve already given Sweden warnings when it comes to the monopolies we have but Sweden has ignored this and still runs their thing…

I really hope that this in some way will give open the eyes of the European Union again. Me and loads of others are now gonna push this really hard to make a statement bot national and international. I’ve written some really controversial blogs about it in Swedish (read HERE) and started a Facebook group (had 170 members after the first hours) and this is only the beginning. I’m really upset at the moment and I wont let this go until we’ve succeed to get tournament poker in Sweden (outside the casino) legal…TRUST ME ;)

While waiting I today spent the night at a friends house with a barbecue and a home game. I brought my kid and his friend who had a great time the whole night…and so did we *s*. I didn’t win the tourney but I won the slowroller side bet after thinking for a minute before calling myself all-in pre with aces. They got cracked by tens but it was soooo worth it. My first slowroll in my life!

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Chill on the balcony…a really nice one at one of the nicest parts of Stockholm

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The best kid in the world…mine ;)

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We we’re 14 in the S&G…

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RIP Grandpa!

Today I came home from Dalarna which is placed in the middle of Sweden. I almost consider myself grown up there since I’ve spent the most of my summers there as a kid on my grandparents bridge weeks. My grandpa might have been one of the most important people there is for Swedish and European bridge tournaments. He’s been a ground-setter when it comes to where tournaments are today. He was a tournament director in Europe for the World Championship, European Championship and at big tournaments in Sweden at the 70′s and 80′s. You could say he was to the bridge what Thomas Kremser is for the poker today. He also started some really popular brigde weeks all over Sweden together with my grandma.

I was basically grown up with a deck of cards in my hand. When I was four months old I was lying on his shoulder while he walked around at tournaments and from then I’ve been at those tournaments three or four times per year. He was always my favorite as a kid. At the age of three I said I was gonna marry him cause there wasn’t anyone who could measure with my grandpa. Same thing with my son. His real grandpa died when his father was two so for him there hasn’t been another one. He’s still one of the nicest and smartest persons I ever met in my life.

My grandpa passed away on Tuesday and it broke my heart. There’s no words that can explain how much it hurts… My grandparents has been just as close to me as my own parents. When he died he also left my grandma alone for the first time in 64 years and if it wouldn’t have been for the bridge weekend we had this week I’m not sure how she would have held up. One of my grandpas last wishes was for us to continue the planning for it and he was even involved in the planning while at the hospital until he got to weak to even to talk. In Dalarna my grandma got other stuff to think about and was surrounded by people who almost feels like family. The couple who won the whole weekend there now has been with us for more than 50 tournaments over the years.

I took over what my grandpa should have done up there if he would still have been with us and I’m so happy I could and did. I know it meant a lot to grandma and it was nice to spend the weekend staying with her in a really nice little house at the holiday village we were at.

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Sooo nice up there, sadly it rained a lot the whole weekend :(

Today me and dad drove home pretty early to get in time for the poker tournament on Krukan. He really loved it there the first time and wanted another go after finishing on the final table bubble on Monday. They even served Sunday brunch which was soooo nice. I finished ninth after getting three outed. Not much to say. Pretty used to it. Played some Omaha cash game waiting for my SCOOP-event on PokerStars to start and won some money…always nice since I really suck at Omaha ;)

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Even if I had a great time at Krukan I left when my friend (one of the Hammarby Sjöstad-cougars *s*) called and offered me some wine and chill on her balcony

Oh. I forgot to say I won my first big online tourney while in Dalarna. 3000 players in. It was nice. Long time ago. I won more money finishing third like a month ago but winning is something special. Not just about the money. The little popup that comes saying “Congratulations you won the tournament” is a great feeling :)

Back to the SCOOP grind. Started really slow but now I found my game again and running the table over…mo ha ha ha…

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The same procedure as every year…

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One week after Vegas: “I’m never going back there.”
One month after Vegas: “I might go back sometime.”
Six months after Vegas: “I might go there next summer.”
One month before World Series: “Im going there for a few weeks.”
One week before World Series: “Let’s book a month shall we?”

The same procedure as last year, miss Sophie? The same procedure as every year, James…

I just started with this summers Vegas planning with my friend Cicci. We’ve spent the last three summers together there and after last year we’ve promised each other to at least trying to behave this one ;) Every night out was the same way; we promised each other to be home before eight in the morning. Never happened. This year we’re gonna try to be a little bit more professional and actually visit the pool area more than five times in three weeks *s*. I also promised myself to not spend two months salary on shopping and to not have more weight in my bag back home than I can carry onto the flight myself (last year my poker agent had to take one of my bags, the year before he took two and even though I had one bag too many and a perambulator).

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I shall NOT start the days with a captain morgan buffet by the pool…

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Damn we had a lot of fun last year ;)

Yesterday I took my father to my poker club here in Stockholm and he really had a great time. He final table bubbled which was sad but still a good performance for his first live tournament. When I busted out I hung out in the bar catching up with some friends and watched the high stakes table. Sick action. Not that surprised with Fredrik Halling (H@££INGGOL) and some other sick local guys who really like to gamble. I saw Fredrik and my friend Jocke get it all in on a T-7-4 flop in Omaha. Jocke had 4452 on his hand. They ran it FOUR times. Fredrik didn’t win ONE! I think that’s what you call running bad even if he never showed his hand.

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Ladies only ;)

After almost four weeks of hard work I took a “sit out” yesterday to go out in Stockholm with some friends. I normally never go out here. Not because night life is bad or anything but since I travel as much as I do I have Casper when at home. Yesterday tho he was at my mothers and I tried a new and very popular restaurant among with five others. Really nice but have been really hungover the entire day and I blame my friend Sara who gave me way too many shots and vodka redbull’s yesterday. I shouldn’t do VR and definitively not shots but when on alcohol I have no stop ;) All my common sense disappears with the first glass of wine *s*.

Some pics take with Hipstamatic (app for iPhone and I’m addicted)

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Iris and Cecilia

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Cicci and me

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This is where it all went wrong…

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No wonder I’ve been hungover today

Tomorrow I’m gonna take my father to play his first live tournament ever. He’s been playing online for almost two years but never live. I think he’ll like it a lot and I’m gonna make sure his opponents treats him well or else… Obv I will take him to Krukan (the best club there is).

A few years ago my father watched me play online for a couple of months. My stats at that point were ridiculous…I had 495 percent ROI on MTT:s and I guess he thought: “that doesn’t seems so hard. I’m gonna give it a try”. I gave him 50 bucks on PokerStars and said: “you may only play one dollar sit&go’s”. I wanted him to learn how to play and the best way to do it is actually to play for real money than for play money cause they play like maniacs.

A couple of weeks went by and I didn’t hear much from him but then one day he contacted me on msn asking for another 50. “What? How have you’ve been able to spend 50 bucks on just one dollar sit&go’s?”, I asked. I looked him up on OPR and yes he’d only played $1 S&G’s. I gave him another 50, after a couple weeks more 50 more and when I had given him 300 dollars I almost gave up. I looked him up and he was down 296 dollars on ONE dollar S&G’s!!!! After this I gave him two poker books hoping they would help. I don’t think he even opened them actually.

I started to watch him play and gave him some tips on what to do and not. At the same time I gave him the last 50 and said he’d had to quit after this cause poker didn’t seem like his thing. He’s an excellent bridge player but poker looked like an dead end. After this I didn’t hear from him during the whole summer. I spent seven weeks in Vegas and another three in Spain but not a word asking for more money. After two months I asked him on his progress and got the answer: “I found something else that suits me better and it’s a tournament where you buy in for five dollars and if you win you get a seat into a bigger tournament and i unregister from this and now have loads of money on my account”.

Another month went by and then I came up on my msn asking why some of the players had 1500 to start with and others had 3000. “It’s because it’s an rebuy tournament dad”, I said. “What’s a rebuy?”, he asked… Sadly I told him cause after spending only five he now started to spend 15 every time but still winning tho but just not as much ;) Today he’s actually a pretty good poker player. He still does beginner mistakes but he’s enthusiastic and play almost every day. On Friday the both of us played a satellite and actually ended up at the same table. This is not the first time and NO we aren’t colluding. My father is way too competitive (he never even let me win when I was a kid playing games).

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Cougar Town

I have two close friends who lives really nearby. If you’ve watched the series Cougar Town on TV…that’s us ;) Tessan is a pop star, Caroline works as a head waiter at one of the best restaurants in Stockholm and then we have me with my poker and everything. None of us has a normal 9-5 job with routines etc but it works fine. We have dinners both with and without kids. We do power walks in the morning (just an excuse to have a latte at the coffee shop afterwords) and we have the best wine nights in the world (where we easily empty a 3L bag-in-box or two). We discuss how to loose weight the best way, how to cheat and stay home in the sofa eating chips but still call it exercise since we wore trainers and actually went to the store to buy the chips. We’re all singles and enjoying life as much as we can…

My life at home feels like reality and going on the tour is more like going into a bubble. Both are really nice but with my crazy personality (there isn’t anything I’ve wanted to do which I haven’t…) I’m not sure I would have been able to do what I do today.

€%&”&”%”!#!€! Just got sucked out on in my last tournament of the day. I had already given up on this one and started on this blog instead but managed to get a stack but got it in with straigt vs flush draw. Grrr! Would be so nice playing TNL without river sometimes.

Ah well that’s just a tournament. Poker is not my life and I never let it affect how I feel. I play it for fun and nothing else. Poker is my work and my hobby but has never been my life which feels really important to me cause I never have the pressure to perform or to play at all. I only play when I’m in the right mood. I’m lucky though. I’ve made good money both online and live which has paid for so much. It paid my car, handbags, shoes, furnitures and electronics. I never had a bankroll in my whole life. If I win a poker tournament the money is probably spent the next day or two on a handbag or a new TV…

Have you guys seen the Promo for Premier League Poker? I’m really looking forward to the air date on this one. Anyone know when that is? See it HERE!!

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I have five of these from Monte Carlo Bay. One from each year I’ve been there. Since I stayed at another hotel I had to steal it from William Reynolds at an after party (same party where Negreanu and ADZ kissed and made up) ;)

My Swedish “Gossip”-blog will change over the next week. Can’t really reveal what it’s all about but it’s gonna be something HUGE. This means I will start blogging more often here which I hope is appreciated ;)

Time to get back to work. Writing about all the SCOOP Events for the hurdy-gurdy-blog on PokerStars (the Swedish one)…cya!

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SCOOP it ;)

Finally home. Never felt better to be in my own sofa, watching my tav and just chilling with the Sunday tourneys. Woke up this morning (again) by the cars in the Grand Prix (think it was like a veteran race or something this weekend). It sounded like they were driving right outside my window at the Meridien ;)

My grandpa, who’s really ill, survived while I was away. Wasn’t sure he would but so happy he did and that I can go to the hospital tomorrow with grandma and see him. He was asleep the whole time she was there today but when she said I was coming home he put a big smile on his face <3

It's been two and a half weeks of hard work but also loads of fun at the Riviera. I really enjoy what I do but if it wasn't for all my readers this wouldn't be as fun as it is. I look at the numbers on my blog and realize so many people come back every day to follow the tournament through my eyes. That's a cool feeling. That's what keeps me going even when it's really hard, long days and exhausting.

The best day was definitively the first day in the High Roller. Damn that was fun. All the funny quotes I got, all the interesting hands, all the gossip ;) It didn't matter that was an insanely long day. It was all worth it and I had a lot of fun the whole time. Hard not to when watching the poker elite I guess.

I don't know what it is with me but people tell me stuff even though I have the work I have. Might be because of my blond hair, blue eyes and my innocent look *s*. Nah. I guess they all know me by now and know I would never reveal anything that could hurt them. My blogging is only to entertain. I try to never be mean, there's loads of others who does that better than me. I've been into serious blog war's before but over a year ago I went out in public and said I don't want to be a part of the soap opera we have in Sweden (or nowhere) anymore and so far I've stood by my word no matter how hard it has been sometimes when people given me reasons to give back. Since they had discussions about my sex life and other private stuff I also stopped reading the forum's. Sometimes I go to 2+2 though. People there are insane and soooo funny most of the time. Right now there's a thread where they are photoshopping a picture of Phil Ivey. Been laughing so hard tonight. Sooo many good one's but this is my favorite:

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Read the whole thread HERE.

This week will be all about family, friends and tons of writing about the SCOOP on PokerStars. Gonna try to play some too but only when well rested. Know how much I suck online when I’m not. No patience what so ever. I’m also gonna go back to the life style I have when at home (and never on the tour) with healthy food, loads of exercise (meeting the PT tomorrow) and long walks with my friends who live really near by.

Pokerlistings in Sweden have a “All-in and suck out“-list every week. I was up there again this week ;) Weee! I’m thinking about celebrating it with winning the 100k guarantee on PS tonight…chip leader atm.

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EPT Awards was held at Karement on Friday

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Happy award winners

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Me and William’s girlfriend Johanna

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My friend wanted to buy this one but it was 18 000 euros…

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Instead he bought seven bottles of these…had me testing every bottle too which made me wasted and leaving the party at 1am

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Tried to get William and ElkY to do round no 2 in a drinking game (first one was in Barcelona and easily won by William)…ElkY said he will never challenge W again *s*

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Nick and James having a breakdown at EPTLive…couldn’t resist taking a photo off them and laughing loudly at them while this happened. They laughed so much they couldn’t do commentary for almost a minute (now you know where the silence came from *s*).

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Tony G vs Viktor Blom

All of you have probably seen Tony G in action. If not just search for his name on youtube and you will find clips that are amazingly funny to watch. Not kidding. I wouldn’t like to be his opponent when he’s in that mood but being a spectator is hilarious. What happened today should have been on tape cause it would have had 10 000 viewers in one day.

Tony G and Viktor Blom ended up at the same table. I highly respect Victors skills when it comes to poker and I surely think he would beat Tony heads-up by any point but today Tony really managed to get the young kid on tilt big time and I was there for the whole thing.

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It was after Viktor bluffing away 75 percent of his stack to the german player Tobias Reinkemeier on the river and this is when it all started… Tony went M-A-D. He started instantly saying how bad Viktor played in the hand and how obvious it was he was bluffing there. Viktor defended himself by saying he’s been tight the whole day and never bluffed and never bet this much when he didn’t had it. This was the first time. The argument continued and Viktor finally said: “I don’t think you have a clue”. Right here I was so sure the whole thing would stop but no no. Tony G knew he had managed to get Viktor where he wanted him and continued. He said he easily could win this tournament if he’d play his normal game and that he’s a really talented player but he’d now blew his chances etc… Tony continued saying how bad most of the field was and how players donked off their chips. By this point we have an all-in situation at the table where another german bloke had bet his russian opponent Kalshnikov (yes that was his real surname cause I copied it from his passport) all-in on the river with the board J-T-7-J-5 (two hearts on the flop). The russian guy calls for the rest of his chips with A5 of hearts. It’s actually good cause his opponent has a missed straight draw (KQ) and wins the pot. “See. He didn’t come all the way from Russia to fold when making it on the river”, Tony laughed and so did the whole audience plus the rest of the table (apart from Viktor and the German).

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You can say what you want about Tony G but he’s the best when it comes to the skill of getting people on tilt that’s for sure.

If you know the hurdy-gurdy language (Swedish) you can read this and a lot of other fun stuff from today HERE.

Tomorrow will be another long day I reckon but at least I have the EPT Awards-thing looking forward to. It’s time for sleep. 14 hours I spent in the tournament area today with lack of sleep and oxygen. It was fun cause of all the great players playing the high roller but damn my feet hurts…

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