I opened my facebook account the other day, and had a link posted on my wall that a friend sent to me. It was of Liv Boeree pretending to get angry at some poker news guy (well I think she was pretending, it didnt seem convincing), accompanied by a smiley face message.
All pretty average, except the reason my mate posted it, was not because it was interesting, or that he is a liv boeree stalker anything, its because of what happened at the WSOPE last summer.
Basically, I work in central London, the wsope was on, me and my mate were out in central, and decided to pop in and basically see what the low-down was. We popped in at around 7pm, and they basically went on a 1 hour break as soon as we got there, so we decided to come back later.
Went to wetherspoons, got quite wasted, and headed back to the Empire casino for the wsope. It was the £2,500 buy in day, a few days before the main event, and as I was watching negreanu with mild interest I noticed a very attractive young lady stood by me, who I had spied playing at the tables earlier (well its not hard to miss her, a hot 20-something girl in a room fall of mainly ugly bastard poker players). I start chatting to her, and I wasn't completely wasted, but I had enough to basically start talking to random people. This is more or less how it went:
Me: So how did it go?
Liv: Yeah ok, pretty standard, I ran Queens into Kings.
Me: Ah, bad luck. So what was the standard like?
Liv: Pretty weak on the whole, alot of fish here tonight
Me: So you gonna play the main event?
Liv: Nah, I am going to play the £6k buy-in main event in Aruba?
Now at this point, I thought she said "at aruba", and me being a completely numpty...
Me: Cool. So wheres that?
Liv: Aruba
Me: Isn't that a club?
Liv: No, its a country.
Me: Oh.
Liv: I gotta go...
Pwn :(
TBH, I'm pretty good with my geography, I know my guinea-bissaus from my guineas etc, but I can often work myself into situations where I just sound like a stupid twat. Especially if it involves ladies. Attractive ladies in particular. And in my defence, I had only just begun taking an interest in poker around that time, starting to play online instead of just home games etc., and I had only ever heard of Aruba beforein an episode of the simpsons I think lol
I felt like a complete muppet afterwards, and my mate keeps ribbing me about it everyone once in a while...still, at least she's not got a degree in astrophysics or anything like that, that would make me feel like an even bigger numpty ;-)
2 comments:
Hi there,
I have become a follower of your blog after seeing your link on my friend’s blog.
Had a quick read and I think its great, luv the story about liz.
I update my blog every day (well at least I try to).
My blog is about my poker exploits and my day to day activities.
I would be very grateful if you could drop by and become a follower of my blog.
I’ll also put a link in for your blog – could you possibly do the same for me and put me in your reading list?
The blogs that I read are listed by the most recently updated like yours so the more you update the more hits you will receive from my site as you will be top of my list ;-)
I have a comments section and I always return all comments.
Many thanks and hope to see you drop by soon
Steve H
www.steveholdenpoker.blogspot.com
ahahahha, smooth moves mate
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