It has been a while since my last entry. I have been swamped in work and haven’t had time to sit down and write a blog. I still don’t… so this will be a short blog about funny Malta. I am also introducing my Golden Couch VIP Guest Series. This time Marcel Luske is in the hot seat ;)

So because of my busy schedule I never made it to Dublin for Irish Open. The downside was I lost the flight tickets, hotel and a good opportunity to party with Ed and the other guys from the Cake Poker Network in Dublin. Instead I had the chance to meet up with my old friend Marcel Luske who was in town a few weeks ago.

Rumor has it that he won a €50 Omaha Pot Limit tournament at Dragonara Casino and said to the press afterwards “This is my first step towards taking down a few WSOP bracelets this summer…” OK... I admit it - maybe I made up the last bit but I am sure that is what he would say if a journalist had interviewed him here and knew who he was. There is no poker glamour here in Malta and journalists do not show up to report from the tournaments but maybe that will happen someday.

So on to the funny bit. Saturday night in Easter I was going to meet up with Marcel at the casino. I went there with Dan and Keith from VictoryPoker to play some cash games for fun. I had as always forgotten my Casino ID-card so had to show them my driver license as ID.  This is how the conversation went it was pretty standard to begin with

Male Casino Receptionist (MCR): “Good evening, have you been here before?”

Me: “Yes” (handing over my ID)

THE MCR is looking up my ID on the computer while Dan enters the casino to get something and Keith politely waits for me. The MCR keeps looking at his computer screen.

MCR: “You have not been here before ta’?”

Me: “Yes maybe 50 times I live 2 minutes away from here”

The MCR keeps looking at the computer screen and typing in digets but surrender. The computer won the heads up against the MCR who hands over my card to a female casino receptionist (FCR). She looks at the screen for a while and returns to me…

FCR: “Sorry you are not in the system”

Me: “That must be an error”

The FCR carefully looks at my Danish Driver License for the 5th time and starts the sentence…

FCR: "Is your birthday two-thousand…"

Before she could finish the sentence I bursted out: “Ha ha ha ha!” since I realized what she was about to ask me: if my birthday was 2003, January 14th. That is when my driver license is valid from. I continued…

Me: "No I am not born in 2000 then I would be 10 years old but thanks for the compliment!"

The poor women got so embarrassed and forgot to check me in properly. She swiftly gave me my ID and I could enter the casino apparently looking like a 10 year old. We all had a good laugh. Normally I am polite and I would never laugh in somebodys face but that question simply amazed me :)

It actually took quite a while even though this blog makes it look like a quick incident. We were waiting for a long time for them to check the computers and I was losing my patience. Anyways just another random day in Malta.

A special thanks to the Portomaso Casino staff.