Austrian Classics

I haven't been doing much the past few days. I played a few hours of cash game, went out to the movies, celebrated my birthday at a club in Vienna and have just generally been taking it easy.

Yesterday was the Main Event of the Austrian Classics, which was a €2000 buy-in tourney that CelebPoker sponsored me for. 125 players showed up with the top 18 getting paid. I started off the tournament well when I doubled up with 9s7s against AsTd on a Ts5s4s flop. I then continued to cruise until Florian Langmann took away half of my chips with a set against my kings. I was able to recover, though, and found myself shortstacked at the final 3 tables.

I was at a super aggressive table and just could not find a good time to get my money in in an unraised pot. I finally got my chance with just over 6BBs. I was UTG+1 at a 7-man table, which is basically an any-two situation. As expected, the UTG player folded and I shoved J2o, only to get called by AKo. The flop came down TJQ and I was looking dead. The turn came down a 2 which gave me a shimmer of hope, but the river blanked and I was out in 20th place (ironically enough, I finished 20th in this tournament last year as well).

We then played a pretty long chinese session with Sebastian, Pontus and Richard Toth, where I ended the game up 30 points. Tomorrow night we'll all travel to Baden together where the next EPT tournament is to be held. I'm just going to try and play my A-game and see what happens...