Sorry for not posting a blog sooner but Ive been busy.

Im in London at the moment to play the NPL, a new televised tournament series, with a main event of 2,500 GBP, so about 5k USD.

At the smaller tournaments leading up to the main event (all of them also televised btw) the turnout has not been great and there has never been more than 3 tables. Oh well, its still fun to play and Im not motivated anyway.

Played 3 tournaments so far and not a final table yet.

Despite the whole NPL thing not being a great succes so far, Im still having a blast in London. I´ve met a lot of people I only knew from playing online, seems like everybody is in town because there are so many different tournaments going on.

There is the NPL, the Dutch Open, the Scandinavian Open (a televised cashgame with 2 “amateurs” who won their buyin in online satellites), some womens tournament finished a few days ago I think.

So far all I´ve done is playing the NPL tournaments, playing online, going out for food with a mix of cool people ranging from players, dutch celebreties and officials from online poker rooms, playing a little chinese poker with Roland deWolfe, Ziigmund and Luigi, who obviously won the most in the shortest time, but there were no big winners anyway. I broke even.

Online poker is going well for me, just finished a good session where I won about 330k, 160k of it in Limit Holdem. It could and should have been about 100k more with a little better luck and better play in the end, but Im very pleased with the result, especially since I am really enyoing Limit Holdem again.

Its good to have a 2nd game for times when you dont feel like playing Omaha or there just aren´t games running.

The few people playing the 1k-2k holdem game are David B., Hoss_TBF, AlRaysia, EDEE and myself, Im having fun playing it again and am winning about 400k in the game this month, but I have been running very good and wont be able to keep up this win rate for long Im afraid.

So far Ive been avoiding HU play except for 1 session against David where I took a small profit after just outcarding him basically. Maybe I´ll challange Hoss_TBF again, but the last time I did at the 500-1k game it didnt end well for me. We´ll see.

The Omaha games are great at the moment with lots of really passive players who cannot seem to find an answer to Davids or my aggressive style, so it is very easy to just gring them down.

Winning most of my money playing HU, took about 100 of Phil Ivey today.

I plan to play tomorrow night again after yet another quick exit from the NPL tournament, but I´ll probably get stuck on playing chinese.

Later,

Niki

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