My Poker Weekend

Saturday:
Saturday afternoon I went to the Hertha - Hannover game, which was really cold and ended 1-1 after a last minute goal from Dick van Burik. After the game, I came home and played two hours of online poker, during which I lost $248.63. After that I went out with a couple of friends to the Spielbank Berlin, where I managed to lose €40 at the Roulette tables. We were there to celebrate someone's birthday, though, so the money did not mean much to me.

Sunday:
On Sunday I had plenty of time for online poker. I did not have one single thing planned for the day, so I started playing at around 1pm. It started off rough at the Celeb 2/4NL tables. At one point I was stuck over $700, and then two hands later I won $500 back. It was just one of those up and down days.

At 8pm I entered the Bodog $100k Guaranteed tourney. Only 800 some players signed up, so there was around $20k of overlay! Unfortunately I wasn't able to get my hands on any of it, after about an hour of play I was out.

Almost parallel to the start of that tourney I also entered a $50+5 MTT at PartyPoker. 643 signed up, and after 4 hours and 45 minutes of play I finished in 8th place for a total of $643! That's right, 643 players and I made 643 dollars! The end was more than disappointing, though. First place paid $7k, and I had a good shot at the money. Here is a screenshot of my last hand, we were all in preflop by the way:
Adding insult to injury, the VERY NEXT HAND there was a 3-way all-in and two players were eliminated, making everyone's guaranteed payout $1.6k. Oh well, I was in it to win, and I tried my best. It definitely felt good to make a score, after a not-so-great weekend up until this point.

Because the CelebPoker $1000 Freeroll was cancelled, I also played a $20+2 Qualifier for the EWSOP Main Event in Vienna at PartyPoker. Some of you who have followed my blog for a while might remember that I played one of these a few weeks ago and qualified for the $270 Qualifier, but didn't make it to the Main Event. Well, I made it to the $270 Qualifier again today. The tournament is on the 2nd of February, and I'm hoping to make a better showing than last time. I got painfully close last time, and this time I want to go all the way!

So with those two scores my weekend turned out not so bad after all, here are my results wrapped up:
Sunday $623.50 - Saturday $248.63 = $374.87 winnings for the weekend