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.

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

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…