Challenge, The Review

I played my final session for the challenge yesterday:

Played hours: 2.2
Stacks: +1.24 (€1111.63)
Total stacks for the challenge: +25.34 (€22807.58)

Now it's official. I won the challenge and made a decent amount of money while doing so. I'm pretty happy with the results, I was aiming at 15-20 stacks before the challenge started. It was a great motivation to sit down and play every day, even though it became very apparent that I was going to win a couple days into the challenge.

As for the reward, I probably am going to choose skydiving. It's something I've always wanted to do and probably would never do alone so I'll take this opportunity to do it. We'll wait until Spring '08 when the weather is a little warmer, if anyone else wants to jump with us just let us know.

Before the challenge started, I said that anyone could drop me a comment and predict the winner of the contest, then I'd choose one winner at random who would get the choice between Super System II, The Theory of Poker and the FTP Strategy Guide. Well, rather than just picking one, I think I'll give a book to everyone who voted for me. So if you are one of these people, please send me an email to cortkm at berlin.de saying your comments name, your real name and address and which book you would like:

dublette
magru
voodoo
nonameff
gerlihard
Danny OC
ilyas
crazyhorse
arthur
metmaster2
maumaus
mayor84
olli
koort
bustedufish
figool
sutti
werhamster

I guess you can also call that a list of smart people as well :)

By the way, as some of you may have noticed, I took some shots today at the higher games at CelebPoker. I was splitting the action with a good friend of mine, and I won my biggest pot ever to this date. This was €50/100NL

Alright, time to pack my bags, my flight leaves in 8 hours and I have achieved nothing so far! Once again, thanks for the support during the challenge and we'll see if we can work out another one next year some time. My updates during the next 3 weeks will be sporadic because I'm not sure how much internet access I'll have during my stay in the States.