Thoughts from Kim

I have decided to buy a car, but I don’t really have the money for it. I know that within a year I will have a lot more money than I do now, so I have decided to take a loan to afford the car. I have decided to buy a Mercedes that is both classic and functional. I have bought a house on the countryside, and I will save both time and money by taking the car instead of waiting for trains and buses. I am tired of spending a whole day on transports, waiting by bus stops and reading time schedules. With car it will be a joy to go to my house instead of a never-ending figuring out how to get there and home. Especially if there will be autumn- and winter journeys; then it is hopeless to wait for different forms of transports in the wet cold. Also, I think that the service is so poor on trains. Dry cheese sandwiches, rude guards and that smell of banana and plastic bags…

Two of my friends have the kind of car I am intending to buy, and they are both satisfied with it. I feel pretty comfortable getting myself a car like that, partially because I have gotten a higher pay, and because it is such a good investment. Also, lately I have been winning quite a lot of money playing poker.

The only thing that interests me more than cars is gambling – and poker in particular. It took a while for me to understand the charm that poker playing has, but now that I have gotten it I will probably love it.

And if I keep winning this much on poker I will probably have enough money to buy myself yet another car in a few years… Not that I would, but it is a nice thought!

I can’t decide what colour I want though. I was thinking about black, but I don’t want to seem to pretentious. Maybe dark blue would suit better… Or dark red, even. For some reason that I have yet to find out, my friends have really ridiculous colours of their cars; purple and yellow.

Regardless, I am going for this car and I am doing it with clear conscience. Now all I have left to do is to enjoy the ride! 

I saw a really crappy movie yesterday – “What Happens in Vegas”. I had read in the newspaper that it was a poorly made movie, but I wasn’t ready for how bad the film actually was. When I had seen about forty minutes of it I decided to turn it off. I mean, I like both Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, but this was absurd. I am actually amazed that a movie so filled with jokes could be so empty of laughter. I really tried to see the fun stuff in some of the situations, but it was just too staged, too rehearsed, too far fetched.

The movie is about a man and a woman, our anti heroes, who get’s married on a whim while getting drunk in Vegas. The morning after when they have already settled for an annulment, they accidentally win three million dollars. In court the judge claims that they have to give their marriage a real shot before getting any money what-so-ever, so after having fought in a couple of “comic” scenes, they actually start giving their accidental marriage a try. I didn’t have to see the whole movie to figure out how it would all end, and I sure wasn’t interested enough to do so either.

I am surprised that well-paid comedians such as Diaz and Kutcher actually agreed to make a film like this, it could very well be the end of both of their careers. At least if we are talking high budget movies. Who gave this movie a budget, I have no idea.

After having turned off the movie I went online instead. Lately I have been on the lookout for more exclusive online stores, but I haven’t found too many that can actually live up to my demands. I am especially searching for watch stores and jewellery stores. There is a couple of jewellery stores online that I like, but it wasn’t until a few days ago that I found a decent watch store. Now I am thinking about buying an Omega, but I haven’t chosen the model yet. I just know that they make the best watches.

Sooner or later I will probably buy like a nice gold chain or something, but I have to prioritize the watch.

There used to be a time when I was totally clueless when it came to expressions in poker. It was even more embarrassing since I was a fairly skilled poker player myself – I just didn’t have the terminology to apply it to. In secret, I tried to learn all of the new expressions that had been flowing over the poker table during the evenings, and slowly I learned most of them. For you who are in the same situation as me, and don’t know what is being meant with all the weird metaphors, this might be of service. Regard it a poker bonus:

Full Tub

This means that you have a full house. Like if you have two of a kind, and three of another. If you have a full house consisting of for example sixes and fours, you might call it “sixes full of fours”.

Window Dressing

This is when someone flashes a card from his or her closed hand by purpose.

Post-Mortem

This is the discussion that might arise afterwards. In a post-mortem, you discuss the game, what went right and what went wrong. Post mortem, as most of you probably knows, means after death.

Doyle Brunson

A hand in Texas Hold’em consisting of a 10 and a 2. Two years in a row Doyle Brunson became world champion with that combination of cards.

Whangedoodle

A whangedoodle is when you have a big hand (such as four of a kind) and have a round of jackpots after that.

Asian stud

Asian stud is a card game from Californa, in which you play five card stud, but with a stripped deck. As you know, there are many types of studs, among them seven card stud and New York stud.

Putting on the heat

To bet as aggressive as you can, basically. You want to put pressure on the other player, so you try to scare him or her off by raising and betting large.

Village People

Village people consists out of four queens. The hand, that is, not the disco group obviously The real group consisted out of an Indian, a police officer, a cowboy, a construction worker, a leather man – whatever that is - and a military man.

End Strippers

When you want to cheat, you can taper cards along the ends, so that you will recognize them. Then they are called “End strippers”.  This is usually not a good idea…

I am amazed by some of the poker players that are out there. A couple of weeks ago I read about this woman who had won a fairly big tournament while being in her ninth month.

That is nothing short of incredible. Maybe their motivation is the pregnancy. Like wanting to be able to provide for the child with money they win, or just too loose their anxiety by focusing on something else for a moment. What I have heard about pregnancy is that it makes you unbelievably tired. I could never play poker if I was tired.

Another really cool king of poker player is a man from California who was in a car crash and got blind from the horrible accident. His name is Jason Holbrook and he was only 21 at the time. Before this, he used to be a terrific poker player, but he lost his eye sight after the crash and was informed that he wouldn’t be able to see again. Instead of hanging his head for the rest of his life, he slowly started to fight this problem. He actually started playing again, showing the world that he hadn’t surrendered to his condition. He got help from a person whispering what cards he had and what the community cards were. He also whispered how the other players were betting, which of course is an important part of the game. However, he was not allowed to tell Holbrook what the other players were looking like (like, if they seemed concerned).

When the WSOP Main Event arrived Jason won $10 000 in it, through this way of playing!

He now says that he feels that his blindness is sometimes to his advantage, since it makes him so perceptive of other things. He has also developed a much better hearing.

There is also one guy name Phil “The poker brat” Hellmuth, who I am impressed by since he won the same competition at the age of 24. At that point he had won ten WSOP bracelets!

Today he has won like $5,000,000 from the WSOP alone and he has around $8.6 million in live tournament earnings. He is also very focused on his family life, which I think speak good of him. “Family always comes first”, he says, and I agree.

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