Hold'em time

Me and my boyfriend did what they call a ”loan exhange” with our apartment last weekend. That means that two apartment owners switch apartments with each other for a few days or more. We had seen some ads in the newspaper and had decided to give it a shot. I was a bit suspicious to letting some stranger live in our apartment, but after having viewed the photos from the other couples apartment I felt excitement anyway. It looked really nice, even compared to ours. We left Stockholm at Friday noon and took the train to the Gothenburg Central station. It took some time to find our way to the apartment, but once we found it we were really pleased. It was so light and beautiful! Just as I had thought after viewing the photos. After a shower we went out for dinner at some restaurant where we had delicious sea food. Since my boyfriend loves to play poker we decided to visit the casino. My expectations were rather low, but it was more pleasant there than I had thought. I won some money playing the roulette actually, and my boyfriend won some money playing poker. However, we spent those just hours afterwards on drinks and some snacks. The morning after we slept in, and then we went to the amusement park, called Liseberg. I had assumed that spending a whole day at a Tivoli would be less amusing than when I was thirteen, but I was surprised! We had one hell of a day with rollercoaster rides, carousels, the ghost house, a great hamburger lunch and lottery tickets. We didn’t win anything, but we were fine with that since we had performed reasonably well the previous evening while playing poker. When it got dark it was time for fireworks and they were actually really beautiful. I am surprised that Gothenburg was so romantic.

On Sunday we pretty much just had lunch, packed our bags and went to the train station. We were exhausted from the two late nights in a row, and I was a bit worried that our apartment would be wrecked by the time we got home. Luckily enough, that wasn’t the case, but they had actually cleaned it so that it looked better than we had left it.

I look forward to visiting Gothenburg again, and then I am ready to hit the poker tables with renewed forces…

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Among the poker books one can find on the market I have one favourite. It is a book in Swedish and if one understand the language the book is amazing. The book is written buy the two authors Olle Sundin and Martin Östman. The book is called "Vinnarstrategier för Texas Holdem Poker". It is a very good book and it really teaches you to improve your Texas Holdem poker strategy. I can really recommend this book.

One can find information about poker and Texas Hold’em in many different ways. I have read a lot of articles on the Internet for example. One can find a lot of interesting stories on the net. They can be very educational too. I have also watched some poker movies. They can be really thrilling. But the by far best way to learn about how to become a very good poker player is to read a poker book I think. I have read a lot of them and I could say that I have quite an experience when talking about good and educational poker books. I have some favourites. It is quite easy to learn how to play for example Texas Hold’em but in order to become very successful in the game one has to study some books.

To play Texas Hold’em you need to learn the basics, you can easily find those right on the web. But to really play it you need to find your own way to play and that might be quite hard as there are many and many different styles of playing Texas Hold’em. The smartest way to learn is to play without any money involved, with your friends, at the free online tables or just with yourself. When finding your game and feeling secure enough you might want to play for some money. You could take a weekend and go to a Casino or just play with your friends for some money, or why not enter a online poker site that there are so many of at these times. Well there are many ways to find how you want to play poker in your life. Try to find what’s the best and most fun for you.

Yesterday I saw a great movie about Texas Hold’em. I can’t seem to remember what it was called but I will tell you what I remember of it, I have no idea if it’s correct (I was a little bit tired and slumbering). It started of with a kid living in Las Vegas with his father who was a drunk and an addict at gambling. The boy grow up with the image of his drunken father in his head and was thinking all the time that he was not going to turn up like that. After a while when he was eighteen he decided to get a fake identity card that said he was twenty-one. One day he decided to try some gambling, just not as much as his father did and he was not going to get addicted. When he tried it the thing he noticed fast was that he was great at Texas Hold’em. He started winning a large amount of money and it was going really well. He decided to become a professional and was earning very large amounts of money, but the image of the drunken father was always in his mind. So he kept his foots on the ground so to speak and never drank a drop of alcohol. After a while he made a foolish choice and bet all of his money in one hand and lost. A couple of years went by and he decided not to play after that. One day a man enters his house and was willing to sponsor him to play in one game to make his comeback. It was a long and hard decision but he ended up thinking that he had nothing to loose from it and said yes to the man. He made a great comeback and made a large amount of money. I can’t remember anymore at this moment but that was the movie in overall.

Today I went to the Casino at Sundsvall in Sweden with my friend called Markus. It was completely wonderful and we had a great time. We started of playing blackjack where Markus lost like twenty Kronor so it was not that bad. We went to the bar to get a drink and we met the most stunning ladies, they were really beautiful. We talked to them for a very long while and forgot to play (which was the reason we were here) but we realised that quite fast. We went back to the gambling around eleven o clock and made our way to the Texas Hold’em table, because we used to play a lot of Texas Hold’em at home with each other and our friends. While at the Texas Hold’em table we started betting small amounts of money and were winning quite much. So we started betting larger and larger amounts of money and in the end we were going for ten thousand kronor a game which was not that quite good of an idea because we had not won that large amount. The big problem is that we lost those ten thousand kronor and that was not really fun. But it truly was an experience for both Markus and me. But I do not think that we will be heading back there for a long while after that incident.