Classics Schedule

Poker ran surprisingly well today, believe it or not but I am even up for the month of September. If I can just build on those numbers a little bit I will end the month a happy camper.

Speaking of ending the month, we'll be leaving for the Austrian Classics in just two more days now. We arrive on the 27th, which is the €80 + rebuys Limit Hold'em event. I highly doubt I am going to play that tournament, because limit tournaments suck and I'd rather use my time playing some cash games.

The very next day (28th) is the €200 PL Freezeout, which I will most certainly be playing. I would prefer it to be NL, as most people underestimate the difference between PL and NL. There are some strategic adjustments that need to be made while playing PL, some (or most) of which I am not all too familiar with just quite yet, due to my lack of PL experience.

On the 29th is the €100 + rebuys NL tournament, and I will decide on playing that or not based on my general mood and/or success in the first couple days. A tournament like this can get pretty expensive pretty fast, but I would definitely like to play.

A €500 Freezeout begins to tickle me as far as how much money I am willing to fork up on a single buy-in, but similar to the rebuy tourney, I will decide this while I am there. It's not that I don't have the funds, it's just that I need to manage them wisely. Bankroll management is key to a poker player's success, and the last thing I want to do is to get out of my comfort zone.

The €500 PL + one rebuy tournament on the 1st of October is a tournament that will be played without me. I'll reserve this day for cash games and flop bets for drinks (bring it on!).

I would have played the supersatellite for the Main Event on October 2nd, but as it turns out, that tournament will no longer be necessary. Nothing is set in concrete yet, but it looks like I will be playing the €3000 NL Freezeout Main Event on behalf of Celebpoker.com. Pretty exciting stuff!

The 4th of October is the final table of the Main Event, and it also happens to be my 21st birthday. If there ever was a good sign, this was it. Let's hope that the stars align just right and I can make something happen!

We fly back to Berlin on the 5th of October, and then it's just a matter of a couple days before I fly to America to see my family for a little while. More on that later.

I am really happy that so many people from the Poker-Tester Forums will also be in Vienna during this time. If you are one of these people, be sure to get in touch so we can meet up! I'm certainly looking forward to a great time... I'll try and take some pictures of this trip and hopefully get them published on the blog, provided that everyone is OK with it. It's nice for people to be able to put faces to the screen names they read every day.