It's me, Guy Keston

It's been a long time since my last update, so this one may get somewhat long. Sebastian and I decided to extend our stay in London to support Flo at the final table of EPT London. He went into the final table as the chipleader and eventually finished in 2nd place for 346,500 GBP after a rollercoaster at the FT (you can read his report of it here).

His win also secured me just over €32k, thanks to the 6.5% share I had with him. Originally I only had 3% and Seb had 10%, so after Day 1 I suggested that we "flip" for 3%, giving me either 6% or nada. He agreed and so we flipped a hand in 9-card Omaha, which I won with relative ease (little did we know it was a flip for more than €15k each!!!). I then purchased an additional 0.5% from him for a great price, so we both had 6.5% of Flo to sweat for. Seb made a ton of that money in chinese poker against me in London though, so he has no right to be upset!

We then all went out with Flo to party and eventually ended up at some club that played pretty decent music and was packed with attractive girls. To get into the club, our host gave us all "fake" names of people on the guest list who didn't show up. It was pretty funny to hear a bunch of Germans with strong accents try and convince the bouncer that their name was Gary Singleton, Larry Kendall, or Jay Bergen. I myself was Guy Keston (hence the blog title).

We partied the night through and took an earlybird flight to Vienna at 6:15am the next morning. I was way too tired at still play the €500+ 1 rebuy tourney that night, so I just got some nice sleep and then headed over to the Jedlicka's house to play the WCOOP ME. It was a $2.5k buy-in with an amazing structure. Starting stacks were 20k and blinds just 25/50. However, being the donkey I am, I managed to bust out in the first hour with JJ on a J97 flop. My opponent had T8 (obv) and I was sent to the rail.

Yesterday was the €200+rebuys at CCC, but I wasn't able to get much going in that tourney either. €5/10NL cash game went alright for me, I made just about €2k after several hours at a pretty soft table. Tonight is the €750 Freezeout and if I bust out of that one as well I'll probably just head back to the cash games, just because it would be a huge missed opportunity to pass up on the free money.

My birthday is coming up this Thursday, but I doubt I'll be partying too hard because the Main Event (€2k buy-in) takes place the very next day. Still, I'd like to go out and celebrate a little bit, we'll see what happens. Oh and speaking of the Main Event, CelebPoker made a nice gesture and decided to sponsor me for it.

One final note: While in London, Seb and I made a prop bet which I won. Now I get to choose his new Pokerstars/IntelliPoker avatar for the rest of the year. I don't want to blow my chance on the first thing that came to my mind so I'm taking a little time to make sure I get something really good. If anyone has any suggestions I would love to see them :)