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)

Iris and Cecilia

Cicci and me

This is where it all went wrong…

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).