Poker in Europe is amazing.

I start the day at table 28 seat 2. Or so I thought. I arrive about 30 minutes late to find some other young euro dude playing in my seat. I say, "Ummm I think I'm suppose to be seat 2" and totally casually he turns around and says yeah I know, sorry 'I make mistake'. We get the floor over and it is explained that he sat in the wrong seat to start the day then decided not to tell anyone. I look around and the table is amazing so I offer to take what should have been his seat in 6 since nobody played a hand there anyways and that seems acceptable to the tournament director.

Some hands:

limp, I raise KK OTB to 275 both blinds and limper calls. J-10-5r checked to me I bet 750 or so, BB makes it 2k I call. Turn 8 check check river 5 BB bets 2k again, I think and make it 4200 leaving me with 3k or so. He calls and mucks.


This got me off to a great start at a great table. With Katja Thater on my right I basically get direct position on the donks to her right since an empty seat plays more hands, and the donks were fairly epic.

I busted the guy who took my seat pretty early in the day (that'll show him) and was up to 25k. Lost a couple flips and went back down to 11k or so right before dinner when I play this hand (Yes this was a real hand from an EPT event)

utg open to 850 at 150/300/25 called by limper in hand 1 and by new old man in sb with lots of chips I make it 2700 in BB and all of them call. Funny things about pf: 1. utg has K8o (found out after the hand) 2. The in position caller favors to have a worse hand then K8o 3. The Old man says to me before calling getting that sick price to close the action "Well I guess this is just giving money away"

Flop is 10s9s5h Old guy quickly leads 4k I ship the 7.5k or w/e more fold fold Old man calls. I'm pretty sure he has like some kind of decent draw here after his pf comment and flop play but nope, he's got the ooollllllll red AKo... back up to 25k

I tell Max in our room at dinner I am going to have to stack this guy.

After dinner, folded to Old man in sb (nice guy btw I feel like I'm being harsh on his play so thought I should mention that) he limps, I have Q-10o and make it 1300 more at 3/6/75 he calls. Flop Qh-3c-2c check 3k call. turn Qs check 7k, he thinks a bit and ships it for 20k or so total, I snap he's got the pocket fours and I'm up to 50k.

I lost some decent sized pots at the end of the day to finish at 36,900. I'm a bit disappointed in how I ended up considering the way the day went but very excited for today and happy to be above avg stack. Also I'm glad to be playing live still because the internet is so slow and useless that it is totally unplayable, oh yeah and cost of said internet: 75pounds per week. Day 2 starts in half an hour so I have to go get ready. holla


-Peter