Ok here goes...
We first met on the 14th of November 2007 in a little known place called Compton Bay...
In case you're not sure what Compton Bay looks like, here's an example, it's quite stunning:
Ok maybe it wasn't that Compton Bay... :P
More like this one:
(Btw take a look at the chat box )
This was me:
And this was her:
So we met on PKR. It's a 3D online poker site. The previous month I punctured my lung for the first time. It was a Tuesday, and it was only the second week of my second year at Uni. This was where the real work started as far as Uni was concerned because the marks from Year 1 didn't count towards my final degree... yet as I was driving home from just my 6th day I felt a sharp pain in my chest. I was 10 minutes from my house but somehow I made it back, breathing heavily. My Dad took me straight to hospital and I was diagnosed with a punctured lung. I was kept in overnight and told to take 2 weeks off Uni and just rest.... great :|
Ok so not the best start to "starting the real work" at Uni then...
I get through any Uni work I've got to do in the first day or 2 so I'm left completely bored now, not really allowed to move around too much, and in some discomfort when I do. So I remember my older brother showing me this cool poker site a few months back, it was a bit different as it was in 3D so I thought I'd give it a go....
I quite enjoyed it and played most days... soon enough the 2 weeks was over and I could get back to Uni. Thank God. But I left PKR installed on my PC but didn't play it for a few weeks as I tried to catch up on what I'd missed...
Then one night I decide to fire up PKR and play a couple of games (I only ever played with play money back then btw...) You were allowed $1000 play chips every time you went bust so I set myself a little challenge of trying to reach $1,000,000 chips.
Then on just my 2nd night, I joined a table called Compton Bay. It was an arbitrary choice, I could've picked any of the other tables but little did I know that this would be a decision that would dramatically change my life...
I hadn't made any "friends"on PKR yet. It's a nice community of friendly players there though, so you always get lots of banter and chat, plus the 3D element and the fact you've got your own character kinda adds to the whole experience. But that night I made a whole bunch of friends. I played for hours on end and had a really great time. Not least when a blonde girl from Finland who went by the name of "chikatozuka" joined the table (who I suspect was a little bit drunk... )
She was very flirty and bubbly whereas I'm pretty quiet and shy in general, even more so back then... but a whole group of us added each other as friends, and chikatozuka was one of them...
The following night I logged onto PKR and saw that chika was online, so I joined her and we started playing... bearing in mind that this was only the 2nd night we'd ever played with one another... check this out:
It's a text hand history from the last hand of poker that we played together that night:
Table #4916563 - Fair Ambassador 6
Starting Hand #241678264
Last Hand #241676690
Game Type: Hold'em
Limit Type: No Limit
Table Type: Ring
Money Type: PLAY MONEY
Blinds are now $50/$100
Button is at seat 3
Seat 1: akashrek - $0 (away from table)
Seat 2: stormram - $850
Seat 3: evertonian88 - $53872
Seat 4: BurnleyFC1882 - $40018.37
Seat 5: pokerdiva1 - $6950
Seat 6: paulenas - $1000
Seat 7: XxxChIrMafiAxxX - $10000
Seat 8: Pato54 - $4250
Seat 9: vakond11 - $48574
Seat 10: chikatozuka - $99114.68 (away from table)
Moving Button to seat 4
akashrek: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx chik
pokerdiva1 posts small blind ($50)
XxxChIrMafiAxxX posts big blind ($100)
Shuffling Deck
Dealing Cards
Dealing [Js Jh] to evertonian88
chikatozuka: ok good night and good luck everyone
Pato54 calls $100
evertonian88: you're a man magnet tanja
vakond11 raises to $900
Pato54: thx
chikatozuka: haha
stormram calls $850 (all-in)
evertonian88: love you
BurnleyFC1882: u going again lol
evertonian88 raises to $7300
Pato54: good night
chikatozuka: love ya too
chikatozuka: yep
evertonian88: night
BurnleyFC1882 folds
pokerdiva1 calls $6950 (all-in)
BurnleyFC1882: cya xx
chikatozuka: see you soon i hope
XxxChIrMafiAxxX raises to $10000 (all-in)
Pato54 folds
vakond11 folds
evertonian88 calls $10000
chikatozuka: but not tomorrow, cause im gonna be wasted!
stormram shows [Ad Tc]
evertonian88 shows [Js Jh]
pokerdiva1 shows [Kh Td]
XxxChIrMafiAxxX shows [2d 8d]
chikatozuka laughs out loud.
Dealing Flop [6s Qc 3s]
Dealing Turn [6c]
Dealing River [As]
XxxChIrMafiAxxX has One Pair: 6s
evertonian88 has Two Pairs: Jacks, 6s
evertonian88 wins $6100 from side pot #2 with: Two Pairs: Jacks, 6s
evertonian88 wins $18350 from side pot #1 with: Two Pairs: Jacks, 6s
chikatozuka: so bye
stormram has Two Pairs: Aces, 6s
stormram wins $4350 with: Two Pairs: Aces, 6s
Seat 1: akashrek - $0
Seat 2: stormram - $4350
Seat 3: evertonian88 - $68322
Seat 4: BurnleyFC1882 - $40018.37
Seat 5: pokerdiva1 - $0
Seat 6: paulenas - $1000
Seat 7: XxxChIrMafiAxxX - $0
Seat 8: Pato54 - $4150
Seat 9: vakond11 - $47674
Seat 10: chikatozuka - $99114.68
End Of Hand #241678264
Haha! Seriously! We both told each other that we loved each other! LOL!!! We often joke about that
Just to explain that man magnet comment - she had LOTS of guys chasing after her on there hehe :P
Ok, back to the story... man this is long already... and we're only at the 2nd night haha!
Basically we keep playing with each other on a regular basis for a couple of weeks when we decide to swap email addresses and agree to send each other a photo of one another, well actually just a photo of me that needed sending because she had a blog and and MSN space or something so I saw her pic quite early on...
I didn't have a girlfriend when we met but it hadn't crossed my mind once thinking about her in that way, I just saw her as a fun Finnish girl I played and chatted with... and we continued to chat for a little while when she said she wanted to show me something, and she sent me a picture of a little girl and told me it was her daughter...
I was really shocked, we'd never asked each other about if we were in relationships or had kids or anything for some reason, I suppose cause we'd always just gone on there for a chat and had some childish fun, it was never anything serious with us back then.
So I asked her if she was married, she said no but she had a boyfriend who she lives with and have been together for 7 years or so, I thought fair enough, she is bloody gorgeous! :P
So a few more weeks down the line and we've been talking every day, usually for hours on end and we start to get to know each other a bit more. As it happens her relationship is not quite what she wants it to be, she wasn't sure if she still loved him etc
I tried suggested talking to him and trying to re-build things with him but it soon became clear that the spark was fading if you like. I don't think I helped her confusion as I was always complimenting her :P
Fast forward a little more to our 37th day of knowing each other (you know what's coming babe )
She told me that she was falling in love with me, she wasn't herself that evening and I knew something was up, once I sensed that she had something she wanted to say, I knew exactly what was coming. I knew she really liked me but she wasn't sure about telling me. She finally decided to come out with it after a lot of talking and even though I knew it was coming I didn't have any words ready. I didn't feel the same at that point, despite enjoying every second I spent talking with her.
Maybe a week or so later and I've not been thinking about anything else except her this whole time, I'm wondering am I falling in love with her too? I think I was... and I told her as much on New Year's day. With hindsight that feeling was nothing compared to what it would grow into, and so I doubt if I was falling in love with her then, knowing how I felt a few months down the line. I like to think of that day as when the seed of her love was planted in my heart, and it's grown every day ever since
In the weeks and months to come we start sending each other lots of emails, pictures and video clips we've made for each other, spending hours and hours every single night, staying up until the early hours regularly, we just couldn't get enough of each other's company!
Fast forward to April, I've had a few more episodes with my lung and along with my doctors, I decided that enough was enough, I'd punctured my lung 6 times in 6 months, I need to have surgery and put all this behind me. In fact, I should mention that in December, prior to her telling me she loved me, I punctured my lung for the second time while I was talking to Tanja online! I typed something along the lines of "oh god, i'm dying" (too dramatic...?) then "brb" then 5-10 minutes later "hey i gtg to the hospital..." - needless to say I could've handled that better haha!
But she stayed up until 3am that night waiting for a message from me, but we hadn't exchanged phone numbers and I was the only person who knew about Tanja, she was a secret if you like. So she had no way of knowing that the hospital were keeping me in overnight.... poor thing
The reason I'm telling that story is that I think she realised how much she liked me that night. She was worried sick... :s
We first met on the 14th of November 2007 in a little known place called Compton Bay...
In case you're not sure what Compton Bay looks like, here's an example, it's quite stunning:
Ok maybe it wasn't that Compton Bay... :P
More like this one:
(Btw take a look at the chat box )
This was me:
And this was her:
So we met on PKR. It's a 3D online poker site. The previous month I punctured my lung for the first time. It was a Tuesday, and it was only the second week of my second year at Uni. This was where the real work started as far as Uni was concerned because the marks from Year 1 didn't count towards my final degree... yet as I was driving home from just my 6th day I felt a sharp pain in my chest. I was 10 minutes from my house but somehow I made it back, breathing heavily. My Dad took me straight to hospital and I was diagnosed with a punctured lung. I was kept in overnight and told to take 2 weeks off Uni and just rest.... great :|
Ok so not the best start to "starting the real work" at Uni then...
I get through any Uni work I've got to do in the first day or 2 so I'm left completely bored now, not really allowed to move around too much, and in some discomfort when I do. So I remember my older brother showing me this cool poker site a few months back, it was a bit different as it was in 3D so I thought I'd give it a go....
I quite enjoyed it and played most days... soon enough the 2 weeks was over and I could get back to Uni. Thank God. But I left PKR installed on my PC but didn't play it for a few weeks as I tried to catch up on what I'd missed...
Then one night I decide to fire up PKR and play a couple of games (I only ever played with play money back then btw...) You were allowed $1000 play chips every time you went bust so I set myself a little challenge of trying to reach $1,000,000 chips.
Then on just my 2nd night, I joined a table called Compton Bay. It was an arbitrary choice, I could've picked any of the other tables but little did I know that this would be a decision that would dramatically change my life...
I hadn't made any "friends"on PKR yet. It's a nice community of friendly players there though, so you always get lots of banter and chat, plus the 3D element and the fact you've got your own character kinda adds to the whole experience. But that night I made a whole bunch of friends. I played for hours on end and had a really great time. Not least when a blonde girl from Finland who went by the name of "chikatozuka" joined the table (who I suspect was a little bit drunk... )
She was very flirty and bubbly whereas I'm pretty quiet and shy in general, even more so back then... but a whole group of us added each other as friends, and chikatozuka was one of them...
The following night I logged onto PKR and saw that chika was online, so I joined her and we started playing... bearing in mind that this was only the 2nd night we'd ever played with one another... check this out:
It's a text hand history from the last hand of poker that we played together that night:
Table #4916563 - Fair Ambassador 6
Starting Hand #241678264
Last Hand #241676690
Game Type: Hold'em
Limit Type: No Limit
Table Type: Ring
Money Type: PLAY MONEY
Blinds are now $50/$100
Button is at seat 3
Seat 1: akashrek - $0 (away from table)
Seat 2: stormram - $850
Seat 3: evertonian88 - $53872
Seat 4: BurnleyFC1882 - $40018.37
Seat 5: pokerdiva1 - $6950
Seat 6: paulenas - $1000
Seat 7: XxxChIrMafiAxxX - $10000
Seat 8: Pato54 - $4250
Seat 9: vakond11 - $48574
Seat 10: chikatozuka - $99114.68 (away from table)
Moving Button to seat 4
akashrek: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx chik
pokerdiva1 posts small blind ($50)
XxxChIrMafiAxxX posts big blind ($100)
Shuffling Deck
Dealing Cards
Dealing [Js Jh] to evertonian88
chikatozuka: ok good night and good luck everyone
Pato54 calls $100
evertonian88: you're a man magnet tanja
vakond11 raises to $900
Pato54: thx
chikatozuka: haha
stormram calls $850 (all-in)
evertonian88: love you
BurnleyFC1882: u going again lol
evertonian88 raises to $7300
Pato54: good night
chikatozuka: love ya too
chikatozuka: yep
evertonian88: night
BurnleyFC1882 folds
pokerdiva1 calls $6950 (all-in)
BurnleyFC1882: cya xx
chikatozuka: see you soon i hope
XxxChIrMafiAxxX raises to $10000 (all-in)
Pato54 folds
vakond11 folds
evertonian88 calls $10000
chikatozuka: but not tomorrow, cause im gonna be wasted!
stormram shows [Ad Tc]
evertonian88 shows [Js Jh]
pokerdiva1 shows [Kh Td]
XxxChIrMafiAxxX shows [2d 8d]
chikatozuka laughs out loud.
Dealing Flop [6s Qc 3s]
Dealing Turn [6c]
Dealing River [As]
XxxChIrMafiAxxX has One Pair: 6s
evertonian88 has Two Pairs: Jacks, 6s
evertonian88 wins $6100 from side pot #2 with: Two Pairs: Jacks, 6s
evertonian88 wins $18350 from side pot #1 with: Two Pairs: Jacks, 6s
chikatozuka: so bye
stormram has Two Pairs: Aces, 6s
stormram wins $4350 with: Two Pairs: Aces, 6s
Seat 1: akashrek - $0
Seat 2: stormram - $4350
Seat 3: evertonian88 - $68322
Seat 4: BurnleyFC1882 - $40018.37
Seat 5: pokerdiva1 - $0
Seat 6: paulenas - $1000
Seat 7: XxxChIrMafiAxxX - $0
Seat 8: Pato54 - $4150
Seat 9: vakond11 - $47674
Seat 10: chikatozuka - $99114.68
End Of Hand #241678264
Haha! Seriously! We both told each other that we loved each other! LOL!!! We often joke about that
Just to explain that man magnet comment - she had LOTS of guys chasing after her on there hehe :P
Ok, back to the story... man this is long already... and we're only at the 2nd night haha!
Basically we keep playing with each other on a regular basis for a couple of weeks when we decide to swap email addresses and agree to send each other a photo of one another, well actually just a photo of me that needed sending because she had a blog and and MSN space or something so I saw her pic quite early on...
I didn't have a girlfriend when we met but it hadn't crossed my mind once thinking about her in that way, I just saw her as a fun Finnish girl I played and chatted with... and we continued to chat for a little while when she said she wanted to show me something, and she sent me a picture of a little girl and told me it was her daughter...
I was really shocked, we'd never asked each other about if we were in relationships or had kids or anything for some reason, I suppose cause we'd always just gone on there for a chat and had some childish fun, it was never anything serious with us back then.
So I asked her if she was married, she said no but she had a boyfriend who she lives with and have been together for 7 years or so, I thought fair enough, she is bloody gorgeous! :P
So a few more weeks down the line and we've been talking every day, usually for hours on end and we start to get to know each other a bit more. As it happens her relationship is not quite what she wants it to be, she wasn't sure if she still loved him etc
I tried suggested talking to him and trying to re-build things with him but it soon became clear that the spark was fading if you like. I don't think I helped her confusion as I was always complimenting her :P
Fast forward a little more to our 37th day of knowing each other (you know what's coming babe )
She told me that she was falling in love with me, she wasn't herself that evening and I knew something was up, once I sensed that she had something she wanted to say, I knew exactly what was coming. I knew she really liked me but she wasn't sure about telling me. She finally decided to come out with it after a lot of talking and even though I knew it was coming I didn't have any words ready. I didn't feel the same at that point, despite enjoying every second I spent talking with her.
Maybe a week or so later and I've not been thinking about anything else except her this whole time, I'm wondering am I falling in love with her too? I think I was... and I told her as much on New Year's day. With hindsight that feeling was nothing compared to what it would grow into, and so I doubt if I was falling in love with her then, knowing how I felt a few months down the line. I like to think of that day as when the seed of her love was planted in my heart, and it's grown every day ever since
In the weeks and months to come we start sending each other lots of emails, pictures and video clips we've made for each other, spending hours and hours every single night, staying up until the early hours regularly, we just couldn't get enough of each other's company!
Fast forward to April, I've had a few more episodes with my lung and along with my doctors, I decided that enough was enough, I'd punctured my lung 6 times in 6 months, I need to have surgery and put all this behind me. In fact, I should mention that in December, prior to her telling me she loved me, I punctured my lung for the second time while I was talking to Tanja online! I typed something along the lines of "oh god, i'm dying" (too dramatic...?) then "brb" then 5-10 minutes later "hey i gtg to the hospital..." - needless to say I could've handled that better haha!
But she stayed up until 3am that night waiting for a message from me, but we hadn't exchanged phone numbers and I was the only person who knew about Tanja, she was a secret if you like. So she had no way of knowing that the hospital were keeping me in overnight.... poor thing
The reason I'm telling that story is that I think she realised how much she liked me that night. She was worried sick... :s
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