Holla!

Sorry for the lack of updates, no real excuse other than my laziness.

For all the german readers who don´t allready know, I have a german blog at www.overcards.de now, a blog founded by newly bracelett owner Thomas Bihl, who managed to group some of the best german and international players, which makes for regular updates.

Anyways, what have I been up to.

Not too much, while in Australia I got a little homesick and decided to hail back to Europe, went to Amsterdam for a couple of days to play in the Master Classics of Poker, where I dropped both in the tournament and in the cash games.

Afterwards I went back home to lovely Vienna, where I am right now, and despite the snow and the cold, I really enjoy it. Doing what, one might ask…

Well… nothing. It´s so nice.

I wake up early, watch movies all day, go shopping and take it easy, go for breakfast/lunch/dinner (something different for everyone of us) with friends and go to bed early.

I have become very lazy, and excuse this as some sort of gaining power for the upcoming Aussie Millions. Before that, I´m going to play a few other smaller events, i.e. the APPT Sydney.

I´ve also played quite a bit online last week, with very poor results.

Haven´t quite figured out why that is, on one hand I feel like I´m running worse than ever, one the other hand I sometimes play too long and start tilting…

Running bad is very tricky for me, because the lack of confidence really messes up my game and I become a passive victim for the good players.

Now I´m waiting for a wire transfer to get in to give it another shot, the games seem softer than ever, we will see how I will fare in them.

Anyways, if you are german check out Overcards.de , take it easy and thanks for reading-

Niki Jedlicka

G´day!

A little update, I didn´t feel like writing a blog and have been very busy the past couple of days.

Little recap of Melbourne:

Played some poker, broke even there.

Couldn´t win anything in either the 50k or 25k sngs we played, but won in all 3 cash game sessions I played in.

Eventhough I made no money here, this still gives me confidence for a couple of reasons.

1.) there were some though opponents in those games

2.) we played all sorts of different games I usually never play, but managed to hold my own in all of them. We played Holdem NL, PL and Limit; Omaha Hi PL and Limit; and Omaha Hi/Lo Limit

Aside from that, what made these games so nice were just the people, all of them very nice and entertaining. I don´t like to regard poker as work, but that is what it is when you are not enyoing yourself at the table. Breaking even in such a game makes me sick, while I´m totally fine with it in an entertaining game.

I also played the Pokernews Cup 3k MainEvent and just left after a while because I got bored. I was playing with 8 online freeroll winners and it was pure torture. Another 3k completely wasted, a lot more in equity, since this was probably the easiest tournament to make a big score in.

Anyways, I still got out with a nice profit thanks to Baccarat!

Just so you know, it is a stupid game and I plan to never play again. It can be quite entertaining if you play with a group of friends, but the mood also swings with the stack sizes.

There is one advantage to playing High stakes table games:

Everything gets comped. I didn´t pay for my hotel suite, my flight, restaurant bills, drinks, laundry.

So if I stick to my plan and leave my fingers of the house games, I would be one of the lucky people who got away from them with a profit.

Melbourne was great, nice and friendly poker, people and good food.

I then flew into the sunshine coast yesterday, and I´m loving it.

When I got of the plane, I was immidiately overwhelmed by this feeling of happiness that warmth triggers in people. A nice wind was blowing at 25°C in the evening.

I checked into a nice appartement, did a little walk down to the beach, got some sushi at a place I allready knew from my trip in March, and eventually fell in my bed with a big smile on my face. God, do I love this place.

Now I just woke up, did a little walk again to get some breakfast, and sit on the terrace right now just watching the waves.

LIFE IS GOOD

thanks for reading-

Niki