Sorry for the lack of updates in the past weeks. I didn´t really feel like sharing anything and was too lazy to think of something to write.

Another good excuse would be that I didn´t have access to the internet the past week, and I must admit that I´ve become one of those new generation kids who just couldn´t imagine a world without it, I´ve really become accustomed to all sorts of technology and feel a little lost if I cannot google any info I might need right away.

Anyways, here we go:

I was in Baden for there annual tournament series consisting of the EPT Baden, a 2000euro buyin tournament called the BadenOpen and the 7-card-stud european championship with a buyin of 2500euros.

I only played the first two of the events, and busted pretty fast in both of them, due to a lack of patience and motivation.

No big deal though since there were good side games awaiting.

We started with a 50-100 PLO game and soon switched it to 100-100, where it stayed for the rest of the week.

This may not sound too big, but with some real gamblers, big buyins and occasional live straddles there was lot of big action in it. Oh, and did I mention alcohol?

Anyways, I was winning big in the beginning but somehow gave a lot back the following days.

I don´t think I played my A-game at all times, but even my B-game should have been more than enough to beat this soft game for more than I ended up beating it, which is a measily 40k in 5 days.

I must come off like a big whiner in this blog, but I´m just not happy with the way things are going for me recently, which should be understandable considering I was running crazy hot before.

Anyways, aside from that it was still a nice trip, I met some of the people I can only meet twice a year, be it either Velden or Baden, and we always get very nice, friendly games with lots of action going.

I would´t consider myself to be in this business for very long, but I´ve learned to appreciate games where the players just accept wins and losses with a smile, have a beer and go on with it.

I also tried to get myself a little momentum in the big FullTilt games but it didn´t quite work out yet. Today I had a really big chance but after building a big stack I got into a massive 3way pot with DavidBenyamine, had to call a 60k bet on the turn with a 20card draw and missed on the river.

Then I lost another big pot where I flopped a set and got it allin vs open ender+ FD and “got” hit.

Perfectly normal Omaha hand, the game we all love ;)

I also lost 60k to a player named Sassi on 500-1k limit holdem, and he either outplayed like I´ve never been outplayed before or he just got hit by the deck.

Funny enough, I still cant complain, I finish the day up about 140k, could have been 500k with a little luck, but feels good to book a 6 figure win after a while again.

Aside from that, I don´t think I will be playing too many live tournaments in the near future, I just find it very hard to focus and motivate for them.

I´m generally very exhausted after all this poker playing I´ve done the past couple of months, and that´s why I´m considering taking a little break (from live poker anyways), rent a house at a beach somewhere and take it easy, play a little bit online not to feel completely useless and relax.

The most likely destination for that will be Australias East coast, where summer ist right around the corner now.

I strongly recommend anyone who likes to travel around to check out Australia and New Zealand sometime, it is beautiful down there, good life style and good people.

Not to mention the Aussie Millions in january, a cool tournament series with lots of action.

I´m not advertising for FTP here, I just really liked this tournament when I visited this year.

anyways, this is getting pretty long, I´m too tired to proofread this now, so I´ll leave it for now.

as usual,

thanks for reading-

Niki

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