I winning something is a rare phenomenon in the likes of Northern Light and aliens. However, yesterday I had something that I guess can only be called beginner’s luck. We were playing Texas Hold’em at my new job, and I barely knew the names of my colleagues.
As I had never played poker before, and was just learning the rules, I was happily surprised to get good cards already from the beginning. I tried to bet carefully so that I didn’t make a fool out of myself. One of my colleagues was beaten out of the game and I let him watch my cards, but even though he was giving me advices, I rarely took them. I kept getting high cards, and the ten of us were reduced to eight, and then to six. My stack started to get bigger and bigger and at this point my colleagues started looking suspiciously at me. Suddenly I won over the boss, and then there was just me and two more left. Note that all of these guys plays poker regularly, both IRL and online. I realized I had nothing to lose (except for my pride) so I went All In. One of the guys folded while the other guy raised me. When we showed our cards I was thrilled to see that I had beaten him with pair in JJ’s over pair in 10’s.  
The other guy seemed to be very annoyed that I was still in the game, and maybe that it was he, in his frustration, was so easy to beat with pair in 9’s over pair in 5’s.
So, I found myself winning over 9 elder men, who all worked with, or took great pleasure in, poker playing.

I think that what this whole thing proves how much luck is involved poker. Or maybe just chance, if those two things aren’t the one and the same. And I reckon there’s nothing wrong with that, since chance applies on everyone. And you still definitely have to be smart with the cards that you are dealt, regardless of if you are being given them because of luck or chance. That is why the betting part is the most interesting part of them all, and every player has to be wise when he folds, calls or raises.  
Still, I think it is dangerous to say “this is a new player, therefore he/she must be a bad player”. That is, obviously, not the case.

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I am an experienced Internet user, like most people under thirty in Western countries. I love to be online, and I am very appreciative of all the things that you can find or do there. But:
I am so tired of the design on certain web pages. We have hit the 21th century more than eight years ago – can’t people catch up? I hate the surface of most online pages, apart from a few exceptions such as Rakeback Lovers and PokerLoco, and I feel that pretty much all the blog designs are hideous. I have tried to make my own webpages in Dreamweaver, but I can admit to not being the best designer either. However, I don’t claim to be. And those who do certainly aren’t. I used to play a lot online poker before, but these days I am too bothered by the look of the web pages. I just can’t focus on the game, it seems. Maybe I am not that disturbed by it when I have brilliant cards or have been winning a lot, but definitely most of the time.

In general, American web sites look better than Scandinavian ones, but it is actually web sites from Germany, Holland and France that looks the best in my opinion. And of course there are always exceptions to the rule – there are some web sites that are just magnificent, and a few of them even belongs to regular people. Young people that just wants to show off their skills. And I don’t mind, I just wish that poker sites and blog services could learn a lesson from this. I think that even Google could try to speed the development up, designwise. Sure, it is fun that sometimes the Google-sign is made out of silly little pictures, but we are all grown-ups, aren’t we? Considering that Google is the largest service on the Internet, couldn’t they try to be a wee bit more easy on the eyes? I wonder what kind of designers work at Google, and what their morning meetings look like.

I guess that I should take a course in web design and just make my own poker site or blog service. Maybe that is to trick to make some decent money. Hey, I think I will just try to find that out…

I have been working for thirteen years at the same job and I still enjoy my days here very much. The people in here have been coming and going, but almost all of them have been really nice. There is only one person here that has been working longer than I have, and that is a man who is retiring soon. I will miss him, but it is fun with new recruits as well. When I started here my tasks were to make coffee, make copies, keeping the place tidy and so on. But now I have on of the leading positions where I have my own meetings and I am the recruiting officer.
Maybe it is true what they said when I was younger; that the one who waits for something good can’t wait too long!
The same doesn’t go for my husband, who has decided to quit his managing job at a designer store where he has worked for many years. Instead he will study to become an architect.
The education that Stockholm can supply are fairly expensive, but on the other hand they are very good. With the previous experience that he has within interior design, I am sure it will work out just fine.

Our daughter has gotten some problems with math in school. Even if she is a talented child, he has a hard time with numbers. I and my husband have figured out a great technique to practise her math. We play poker with her almost every evening. All of us have always liked poker a lot and both me and my husband plays poker online from time.
We have already noticed a change in her math skills, which makes us very happy.
She wants to go to a central school that is supposed to be one of the best in the country, but I am concerned that the pressure on her will be too heavy there. Popular schools like that always attract people that are a bit obsessed with succeeding and I don’t wish for her to be around that kind of people nor become like that.
Several of her friends have already applied for that school though, so maybe it will be fine.

In the meantime I will follow my husbands interesting development when he starts studying to become an architect!

Doyle Brunson is quite of an idol to me because of his many skills in pokerplaying. He was born in Longworth Texas in August 10, 1933. He was the first pokerplayer to earn over a million dollars in poker tournaments. He has won ten bracelets from the world series of poker. Doyle Brunson, also called Texas Dolly, has written a book about poker from the mind of an elite pokerplayer teaching the people how to play like a professional pokerplayer. It’s called the bible of poker and is very helpful to a lot of pokerplayers out there. I have personally read this book a couple of times and the book is amazing. Doyle Brunson has played for so many years that he is one of the most famous players in the world of poker. He is called a legend in many cases in the poker world. When he was young he played a lot of basketball and ran until he suffered a knee injury at his summer job. After that he had to have casket for 2 years because that the bone was broken in two places and was slow on the healing. Still today he might need crutches sometimes. He wouldn’t be able to either run nor play basketball. So he focused on his studies instead. While he was in school he played poker and was able to pay for the school with the money he won in pokergames. In 1962 Doyle married a woman named Louise. They have four children together. The children are named Todd, Pam, Cheryl and Doyla. A big tragedy occurred in his life when his daughter Doyla passed away at eighteen years of age. She died because she had a lot of problems with her heart and Doyle still thinks about her every day and probably will for the rest of his life. Doyle Brunson is a man that’s very competitive and likes to bet on a lot of things. One time he even bet a million dollar that he would be able to loose 50 kilograms of his weight. That was one bet that he won.

Last Friday I was playing poker with my friends Peter, Lars and Michael. We met out in the city at 18.30 and went for dinner at a small burger place. Afterwards we decided to head back to my place to play some poker. On the way home we decided to buy some beer and onion rings to have for the night. We headed home and set the table up and started to play. We decided to play Texas Hold’em and I started as the dealer. Michael was really lucky and won most of the time. Lucky thing is that we didn’t play for more than approximately 10 dollars each so the losses wasn’t that major. After a while I actually won because of my great luck to get a full house without anyone having better cards. We played until about 02.00 so we were really tired in the end and it wasn’t going really well. Then we decided to call it a quit. The guys went home and I watched some Television and went to bed just a couple of minutes later.

There are many different games in the world of poker. You might like to play Omaha or 5 Card Draw but personally I prefer Texas Hold’em. It is a game of many strategies but you can learn the rules in a couple of minutes. To become a very successful pokerplayer you will have to practice many years and for some people a whole lifetime. You can make a very large amount of money in poker if you become a successful player but if you are unlucky and not that good at the game you might loose a very large amount as well. The best way to learn is perhaps to just buy a small poker set with some chips and start playing without any money involved.

The rules of Texas Hold’em is really easy to learn. I studied the rules for about one hour and then I started to play with my friends. Of course I did not win the first time, but as the time went by I became a better and better player. When you play Hold ’em you have a set of two cards and the dealer places the five cards in the middle of the table one by one so that everyone can see. Between every card the players make a bet and in the start as well, when the players haven’t got any cards at all. That is called the blind. If you have a good friend that can teach you about Hold’em a smart thing to do would be to ask him/her, but if you haven’t got anyone that can teach you there are a lot of interesting pokersites on the internet that you might want to check out.

I love the game of poker. It’s great fun to sit down for entire nights and just play poker with friends. It’s a lot better then just watching the Television or spending the night at a computer. You can just sit down and talk to each other with some beer and a deck of cards. It’s quite fun to see who’s the most competitive among the friends and to beat the ones who have no idea of what the game is about. The best is that if you spend a lot of time playing poker with your friends you will be getting better and better as they as well will progress in their game. Sometime you might even want to try going to a Casino and play for real money, but if you try that you shouldn’t bring more money then you can spare and probably leave the plastic card at home, if you know what i mean.