Hello all!

It has been a long long time since my last blogpost. There were several reasons for that, but I'm not really gonna go into them. Instead, I'll just pretend like it hasn't been so absurdly long and tell you what has happened in the past couple of weeks.

This story takes place in a Spanish city called Malaga. Some would call it a tragic love story, but I would like to think of it as a bittersweet symphony.

It starts out with our hero Allard, a tall brown-haired dancer from Holland. But he is no ordinary dancer. When the sun settles and the darkness of the night takes over the land, he puts on his cape and grinds out the pokergames online. And it was in one of those nights that he managed to secure a ticket for the Estrellas Poker Tour. Allard gathered with his super best friends Captain Koen (aka cowboykoen) and me and the three of us took off and flew to Malaga.

Unfortunately we didn't have a camera, so no cool pics, but the Captain is the most handsome viking you will ever find


We arrived at our hotel, and everything looked very nice. The weather outside wasn't frightful so we decided to get a tan on our muscular bodies. During this sweatsession we met some fellow Dutchmen. We went to the opening party (hello hot girl with tooth piercing, weird but so hot <3) and then we went to some other places. Our hero Allard knew the places to be, as he had been in Malaga before. And that is where our true story begins...



The last time Allard went to Malaga, he had met a girl. And just like Allard was no ordinary boy, she was no ordinary girl. Charming, sweet, elegant. She was something else. Call it coincidence, call it fate, but when Allard, the Captain and I went to Malaga, she also happened to be there... Sadly, this is not a story with a happy ending. Although they were clearly eyefucking the shit out of each other, nothing happened... Or so we think. The Captain and I were a bit dissapointed, because we were hoping to get our silver wings that night, but we did not succeed in winging our hero. We still have good hopes to get them someday, as we know that this can't be the end of their (love)story.

The partying was good on all days, except for the final day (or rather, night). Because, during all this, Allard managed to get deep into the tournament (i busted on beginning day2). Everything seemed to go great, he finished day 1b as the chip leader and kept on pounding on the other players to reach the final 13.

It was with the last 13 players where a horrible beat and a retardedly played hand took place. I do not recall the blinds or stacksizes, but I'm pretty sure they were over 60bb deep. UTG opens (7 handed) Allard is the only caller in the BB with 44. Flop 743rainbow. Allard leads and UTG tank-raises. Our hero shoves and UTG tank-calls with A7s. The pot is for a commanding 1.5x chiplead. No direct outs. Everything looks great. But the serialkiller with the skinny fingers pulls out a runner runner flush and as they had equal stacks, Allard is out as 13th.



After that we went to the center of Malaga. We had dinner at El Pimpy's, and it was really really good. We had a good amount of Jamon Iberico (most awesome ham i ever tasted) and good tapa-like things overall. Poor Allard also lost the CCR. After dinner we tried to party, but things weren't the same. So we went back to the casino. We were having some fun with roulette and blackjack and Allard had a pretty epic run. He was down a couple hundred and had 2.50eu left, but table min. was 5 euros. So he split with another guy on the blackjack table, won, and managed to turn that into 600.

All in all a really fun trip even though poker sucked. I ran good where I needed to (CCR, and some bets I made with Koen including Real - Barca which we watched in a bar with like 6 costumized bachelor parties (they called them ' hen-parties' ) going on. Dios mio. Also Koen and I fell in love with a girl named Martha. Martha, if you read this, come to holland!


Well, that was the tale of Malaga. I feel like I have a ton more to tell, but it's getting too long already. Probably shouldn't have written that much bull inbetween. I'm perfectly sober too -.- Pokerwise 2010 hasn't been too great for me, I had a 120k hands downswing, but I got back from that and am up a bunch of buyins now. Hope it continues to go the right way During that I learned quite some things about myself and about poker. I'll talk about that a bit in a vid or in a future blogpost, but some interesting things happened for sure.

Hopefully I'll be able to update more regularly and write up some more serious stuff as well, whether pokerrelated or not.

Take care,

Denny