Hälsningar, Sweden!

Low Rollin' is HUGE in Sweden.

Väldig!
Jättelik!
Jättestor!
Kolossal!
Himmelsvid!

And since Low Rollin' is, by definition, all about the low stakes and rollin' on the cheap, we present to our vast Swedish audience...

this

Tack så mycket!

God Save the Queen

Really, folks. Thanks for all of the concern, but me and the Queen are still on real good terms.

BloggerPod

Mac Poker

I'm registered to play in the BloggerPods2 freeroll, scheduled for Sunday, March 4th at 7pm EST on Full Tilt Poker.

Shuck 'em Up and Deal

That this is happening in the City of Greer - within sight of the Greer Police Department, no less - amuses me.

Serendipity

So, many moons ago I was playing some mid-afternoon poker and as is so often the case in the high-stakes world of $.25/.50 NL, some smack-talk was going down in the chat-box. On this day, it was because of the name of one of the players: GabeKapler. The screenname bore a striking resemblance to a major league baseball player by the name of... Gabe Kapler. The smack-talker kept after Kapler, quizzing him on how he could be online playing poker at this time of day - a gameday, no less. Kapler politely answered the guy's questions - and kept playing his game. Finally, Mr. Googler was satisfied that it was, indeed, Mr. Kapler - Boston Red Sox outfielder.

Which brings me to this morning's G-Vegas News, and the headline at the top of the sports page: Kapler Hired as Drive Manager. For the uninitiated, the Drive is our local minor league, single A baseball team, afiliated with the Boston Red Sox. The team is housed in a classy, mini-replica of Fenway Park. Complete with mini-Green Monster.

Welcome Back, Kapler

Delivered

Greer

I guess hand histories and such are a bit passe in blogdom, but I can't let this one go by - my first NLHE Royal Flush:



All the micro-money went in the middle on the flop so, luckily, I was up against a pair of rockets, and it paid off a little.

It wasn't 30 minutes later, at the same table, that I flopped quad deuces:



With not much thanks to these two hands, I had more than doubled the table buy-in and decided to call it a night when I flopped a boat holding KQs. Luck was surely about to run out. Right?