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Trip Report, Unibet London
So many impressions, so much fun. Dunno were to start. Someone said that ”the beginning” might works so I'll go with that. I got on a plane ton London late Wednesday afternoon and despite me being slightly afraid of heights me for some reason I took the place by the window. Our first decision was that on the way home he'd sit by the window and I could be busy closing my eyes and reciting “If..” by Kipling in my head. That poems is basically a lot of statements starting with “If” and “if you can” etc and then it ends with; “Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and – which is more, you'll be a man, my son!”. It really speaks to me since I like the stoic undertones and as far as people I look up too and try to listen to as long as he should have some idea about it my father is probably the first I can think of, so the ending that explains that it's a father figure talking to his son probably gets me a bit too. The passage I kept coming back to was;
“If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,”
and I figured that even though I've never had chlamydia (also halfway relevant later) and so far I haven't been to Ireland I've had a pretty decent life and if the plane was to crash, well, it could've been worse. The flight went fine though and we got to Heathrow without any problems worthy of mentioning. From there I decided, in all my wisdom, that we should take a cab. Now the flight was fairly ok, 5 minutes of me closing my eyes and looking like a retard. No problem, no worse then getting a bad blow job from someone you're a bit afraid might have shape teeth and a temper. This however, was really crazy. YOU GUYS DRIVE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF THE ROAD! Also, the driver had a habit of ignoring traffic rules and solve all deputes (of which it was quite a few) by giving other cars the finger. Thought I was for sure going to die. Since some heavenly father, Lady Luck or more probably superman was watching me and keeping me safe we got to the hotel without in one piece. Since this trip I consider my life a freeroll, I clearly should be dead. Said hi to some unibet people, got to the room, played some Dota with my friend and got to bed. To not be kicked from the Nordic games I flooded the chats with statements about how much my network sucked and how it kept saying I was from great Britain which was sooooo super weird. Suckers.
“If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, “
Got up the next day, rather tired but not to bad and we went for some English breakfast on the way to the Casino. The eggs, bacon, beans and such was nice but English sausages seems to suck a fat one (please no jokes etc). Also ordered Coffe which sucked even worse. Only way to get decent coffe in england seems to be to import it yourself. The tournament started, everything seemed fine except that when I sat down some dude in a cardrunner's hoodie looked kinda familiar so I introduced myself as a Cardrunners member and he told me he was Timex. Great. Guess who's videos I've been watching to learn how to play donkaments? Ohh well. He was supernice and I talked to him some more later on the airport. Owned me pretty hard in the tournament, but whatever. It happens. I coldflattet QQ vs a EP 3bet, flop came Q98r 3way and someone bet/shoved 98o vs me and I got the early chip lead. Then I flopped a set of 888 on A87ss as the UTG-raiser vs the bb who had called me with T9o.. The obvious turn and I was back to just over my starting stack. I also met fazi which was nice. Sad that I couldn't hang out more with him. A couple of misreported hands were I sucked out on shortstacks and some stealing later I had maybe 30ish k (starting stack was 10k) and moved table.
I think me and Timex busted almost all people form the original table who didn't get moved. So great, the only guy I wanted to get rid of stays until the table breaks, and had me covered almost all the time. New table was better. Got next to drunk finish dude Markus who was supernice and we both managed to chip up a little bit. Play ended, I borrowed the fin like 300£ or so for some omaha game he wanted to sit in and went get some food. My roommate was in a 1 / 2 £ game and I had half his action. He told me he had missed in total 2 hands during 13 hours of live play and was up 500 or so. Got back with the food and he was down 70. A worse sucker for flush draws are hard to find. Had some meat and salad that tasted really good at the casino, went home and got some sleep. Woke up the next day at 3 pm when the hotel people called us and wondered if we intended to get away so that they could clean our room up. We took a trip to Regent's Park and it was really cool. Got some nice pics I'll upload some day. Then we went home, got my money back from the Fin, ran into Pulda and Blizzy and went for a drink with some Unibet person. Drink was nice, Unibet person was nice and but I still excused myself after a while to go hang with the Slovakians. Had some champange, beer and such at the hotel bar, then we got hold of a deck of cards but no chips and we were to many to play chinese so I just logged on to prima and did some serious drunk-stoomping while Pulda mostly cried for me to “PLEASE DON'T CALL” and Blizzy looked somewhat appreciative of my 4way floats with K-high and such. Their friend Martin (?) seemed to feel that something has to be wrong with these stupid kids. Had a lot of fun and got to bed at about 7am. Got up at 11am and got some food before day 2. Hungover as hell I go say hi to Zografa who was also in the tournament. Sat down at my table and saw that Ket was two seats to my left and that he had a big stack. Introduced myself and tried, without much luck, got get him to pronounce my name. We agreed that “Dusty” probably would work just as well. Ket was shitting all over the table so I had to be semi-tight and after like 2-3 hours I shoved KTs over a raise for like 30bb (was antes) and some guy who I think won some earlier Unibet Open tank/called 99. Flopped a king, he rivered a 9. Just as well, was hungover and felt like crap anyway.
“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same”
I thanked everyone around the table for a good time, shook their hands grabbed the glas of wine I had ordered while I waited for the guy to call my shove and grabbed my roomie. Kinda wanted to stay and rail Ket for a while but I wanted some food. Called up the support people and asked them what was up. They told me they were going to the London Eye and would then grab some food. I obviously grabbed a shirt and we jumped into a cap and found them. Got a pic with the Swedish former greco/roman wrestler Ara Abramhovic who was supernice and then I refused to go on the London Eye and went and got coffee and a sandwich instead. Then we all went to some really cool buffé on top of some building in central London and then got to some club quite close to Piccadilly circus with an open bar. Got home like 3-4amish due to an open bar and got home the next day. Felt like shit, woke up with 3 packs of cigarettes in my pocket (I don't smoke...) and checked out. Got to see Hyde Park that afternoon and took a late plane home. Ran into Timex on the airport and talked to him about some hands for 5 minutes.
Overall I had a ton of fun and I'd like to say thanks to my roomie, all the Unibet people, Markus, Pulda, Blizzy, Martin, Zografa, Fazi, Ket, e3ro, GutsforGators (or whatever his name is) and everyone else who made this trip a total blast. I would've liked to hang out some more with everyone (especially Fazi and maybe talk to Ket for 10 min) but as the great philosopher Jagger once said; you can't always get what you want.
Also, I recommend all british people visit Sweden. Our girls are much hotter 
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k2o4 United States. Jul 20 2009 13:52. Posts 4803 | | |
If is my favorite poem, memorized it when I was younger and kind of use it like a prayer =) |
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same here actually. Works really good. |
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tapatapaz Brasil. Jul 20 2009 14:58. Posts 1279 | | |
oh my GOD man, i too keep reciting this poem to myself sometimes... cannot describe what i felt after seeing that you were really talking about it |
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| And what does self awareness have to do with anything you retard? srsly stfu. - baal | |
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Spitfiree Bulgaria. Jul 20 2009 15:59. Posts 9634 | | |
I saw pics of zografa and you
upload ur picz later ?  |
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Can't find the Cable, but I'll try. My friend have a lot so ad me on facebook and I'll point you at them. |
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longple  Sweden. Jul 20 2009 17:04. Posts 4472 | | |
indeed our girls are hotter |
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You're such a luckboxxxx!!!! =P |
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MangeJao Sweden. Jul 23 2009 07:08. Posts 94 | | |
Sounds like a pretty cool trip  . 2bad you didnt make it to FT xD |
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hoylemj United States. Jul 23 2009 10:47. Posts 840 | | |
Dang, man...hell of a poem..thanks! |
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Trillske Sweden. Jul 24 2009 22:01. Posts 9 | | |
if youve never had chlamydia youve never had sex (with a girl) |
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| | On July 24 2009 21:01 Trillske wrote:
if youve never had chlamydia youve never had sex (with a girl) |
Explain that pun, never understood it. Have had sex with a few girls, but only one that I consider fairly risky as far as STD's goes. |
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