TnT "Deepstack" in Bremen

88 players showed up for the Tnt Hold'em tourney in Bremen on Friday, creating a prize pool of €88,800. I expected the field to be generally weak, but I was certainly not expecting the field to be sooooooo weak. With the exception of Frank Koopmann and Tobias "PokerN00b" from 6thstreet.de, the quality of play at my table was at times painful to watch. Limp/fold, limp/call, 10bb openraise, 125BB all-in raise after two limpers, etc.

I didn't have too many spectacular hands on Day 1, but I was pretty disappointed to see how quickly the so-called deepstack tournament became a crapshoot. 45 minutes levels are alright and 10k starting stacks are also nice, but the blind increments were too extreme IMO. Of the 36 players who made Day 2, 16 of them had less than 10 big blinds. Anyway, I made Day 2 with just 12.6k, so I knew that I'd be pushing a ton of hands early on if the situation was right.

Indeed, the very first hand of the day I had QQ UTG and shoved, but unfortunately got no action. A short while later I shoved T9o and again received no action. A few hands later I shoved again with 99 UTG and once again got everyone to fold. Eventually I shoved AJo from UTG+1 and the SB found AK and knocked me out. Shit happens, life goes on.

I still had a great weekend (I was able to win credit card roulette for who pays dinner, who pays the hotel and who pays gas for the car, woo hoo freebies!) and am sincerely looking forward to driving to Hamburg/Schenefeld next weekend for the Herbstblatt tourneys. Sorry for the lack of updates lately, I've been grinding a ton online and have been very successful in doing so. Life is good!