Busted

1500$ event didn't go too well... chipcount constantly went down, didn't get any hand for the first two hours and got busted after 4 hours with pocket tens facing QJ... well. At least "ElkY" went out before me one table further :) Yesterday i managed to cash 1k in one of the satellites which kind of cheered me up.. Let's see, if i manage to cash anything today i might play tomorrows 1500 to do better (which should not be too hard).
Watched the German match with the others this morning at hofbrauhaus,7 a.m. And lots of beer and German supporters... Surreal :) nice performance by the german team however. Let's see how far they go

Viva Las Vegas

After 24 hours trip we landed in Vegas yesterday... first flight to Chicago was okay and on time, we just landed before a huge thunderstorm kept us waiting in the plane for 1.5 hours and prevented any flights from leaving.. we were lucky to get a connection flight to Vegas, alternative would have been to go to a hotel 40 miles away (no shuttle pickup) / sleep at the airport and take a flight to Vegas via San Francisco (!) the next day. However it worked out and we got our connection the same day, arriving at Vegas only 5 hours late, 2 a.m. local time. Nice thing was, our hotel room was gone, so we were upgraded to a penthouse free of charge. Jaccuzzi included :) Didn't sleep well, though ... today we had to change back for our normal rooms and went to WSOP to buy-in. Didn't expect it to be so difficult to withdraw more than 300$ per day from the cash machine, so to get the 1500 was a bit tricky... in the end it worked, so I will play event number 45!!!

Will try to catch some sleep now as I'm really tired, so cross fingers tomorrow from 12.00 ... should be something like 21.00 eastern time :-)

jetzt gehts los!

After stopping over at my parents' place close to Frankfurt, I'm not getting ready to go to the airport ... flight is departing at 14.25. Let's hope everything will be smooth ... changing planes at Chicago we should arrive at Vegas 21.xx local time. Enough time to still get a drink and see what the next days bring!

Nach kurzem Zwischenstopp bei den Eltern in Hanau gehts also heute los ... erstmal Richtung Flughafen und von dort dann mit Flug AA23 über Chicago nach Vegas wo wir kurz nach 9 Uhr abends Ortszeit aufschlagen werden. Hoffentlich halten diesmal die Airlines ;-)
Ob die Zwischenstände vom Deutschlandspiel durchsagen??

Three days to go ..

As you probably know I'm heading to Vegas on Wednesday 23rd to play some poker. I was lucky enough to qualify for this during Pokeridol German Open in Munich this May - they pay flight and hotel and all I have to do is blast a nice amount of cash I get on top. Thanks for that! In this blog I will keep you updated on my trip, which events I'm going to play and everything else I experience during my first time in Vegas (and the states).
As for now I still have to organize some things, pack my luggage, watch "the hangover" and find a way to watch the last German match (of the group phase...) while we're up in the air ... so stay tuned!