Yesterday I arrived in Killarney, after having a trip that really should make me stressed. Lucky for me I don’t stress too much, but I would be lying if I said I didn’t react at all. I needed no less than three flights to get to Killarney and all of them were delayed. I met with Vibeke from Ladbrokes Norway in Oslo, and we travelled together from there.
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After about 13 hours of travelling I finally was in Cork and our original plan was to take a taxi from Cork Airport to the train station and then take a train to Killarney. But when we were on the way to the train station Marios from Ladbrokes in the UK called and said he wanted me in a small tournament here in Killarney and he asked us to take the taxi all the way to Killarney. Good for us, of course. It should take about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
We asked the driver to go to Killarney instead of the train station. He said that was no problem, but he seemed a bit insecure. He said he had to turn around to get there, which for us seemed fair. After driving for about 45 minutes on really small roads we started wondering where the driver was taking us. He then asked us to show where we should go on his map (!). He also now for the first time used his GPS. Wasn’t that a bit late for that? Of course it was! The GPS told the driver to drive right on every crossing. He didn’t obey and the GPS was “recalculating” quite a few times.
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Finally he ended up obeying. Only to get on a road that became smaller and smaller. A dirt road that looked as it was taken from a bad horror movie of the 80’s. I started joking to Vibeke about dying in the forests in Ireland. I don’t know why, but for one reason or another she didn’t like it.
After being on this road for a while the driver decided that this was the wrong way. And he turned around. He told us that the GPS wasn’t working. This was of course rubbish. But anyway, we continued on the same road for a while before Marios called me again. We had a few minutes before passed a sign that told us it was still 82 kilometers to Killarney and I told Marios that it would take another hour before we arrived. The taxi driver said “No, no, no, it will not take that long”. Little did I know at the time that he was right. It should not take an hour, it should take two!
We had in fact taken the southern way to get there via Bandon, Bantry and Kenmare. So we ended up using three and some hours to get from Cork to Killarney. I spoke to some others that said they used exactly one hour. The taximeter ended in the 330’s but we “only” paid 150. In my opinion he should pay us!
Well, enough about travelling. On to poker!
Author: Ladbrokes Poker Pro - Andreas Hoivold, Saturday 3 Oct 2009
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