A smooth weekend + Vienna

I finally hit a heater that paid off this weekend. It started on Thursday, when I was able to make +$1585 in just 3.4 hours of play at $109 and $215 the shorthanded SNG tables. I tried my luck again on Friday but managed to donk off -$927 to my opponents in 3.7 hours. I knew my luck would return on the weekend, though, and indeed it did. +$1199 on Saturday and +$1379 on Sunday were both a real confidence booster that I needed going into Vienna this upcoming week. Furthermore, because I've been playing so many tourneys, I'm expecting a rakeback payment of just over $1500 to arrive on the 1st of March, yippee!

Yesterday I also played the $700 Monte Carlo Final qualifier at CelebPoker after winning a ticket to it on Saturday. The final was just not meant to be, though, as I eventually lost with TT to KK with around 18 players left. They were giving away just two seats so I knew I had to be in it to win it, that was part of the reason why I made the "questionable" all-in call with TT. Oh well, there will be other qualifiers.

I also attempted the Sunday Warmup on Stars yesterday but that just wasn't meant to be either. After building up an intially nice stack, I blew it all off in a series of consecutive sticky situations that brought me down to the felt in no time.

Coming up this Thursday is the moment I've been anticipating for quite some time now, namely another trip to Vienna! As of right now we are booked from the 1st - 11th of March, but there are good chances that we will extend our trip if all goes well. I'm really excited to go back down to Vienna, it is by far the best-run cardroom in Europe that I've ever been to and the atmosphere is definitely inviting enough to keep me coming back. Also, throw in the gamblers who love calling people down with Ace-high and such and you have yourself a very profitable trip!