(Un)successful in Vienna

The €750 Freezeout on Wednesday was over rather quickly for me. At night, another €20/40NL game started up and so I bought in with all the cash I had with me at the time (6k) in order to get max value from the three Russian fish who sat down to play as well. Don't ask me where they get their money from, but there definitely does not seem to be any shortage of it. To make a long story short, I ended the night down €1.5k after playing for a solid 12 hours. I witnessed the sickest action I've ever seen in an NL cash game before and I wasn't able to capitalize. All in all the Russians (one in particular) probably dropped somewhere around 30-40k to the table.

The €1500 Second Chance Freezeout on Friday also didn't run that well for me. After having a pretty tough starting table (Markus Golser, Michael Keiner, Philipp Roch) I lost a signifcant chunk of my stack with KK vs QQ all-in pre and then shoved J8 as first in from the cutoff with <10bb. I can't even remember what hand called me but I do remember that I didn't suck out :)

I did manage to make a score in our private NL200 game we opened up at CCC. I always love playing those private tables, it's some of the most fun poker you can imagine. I also hit a couple nice flops so I ended up around €1700. Not bad for 1-2.

As a whole, this was the first trip to Vienna where I went home without a profit. Matter of fact, this trip was even quite unprofitable. Still, I had a good time as I always do in Vienna. CCC is just the absolute nuts when it comes to European casinos, if you've never been there I would highly recommend it! I won't make it for the tournament week in the summer, but I'll surely be back again this fall for the Austrian Classics.

*Congrats to Philipp Roch for final tabling 4 out of the 6 tourneys he played (!!!), Stefan Jedlicka for taking down the all-round leaderboard and Tobi/Brian for their 1st and 2nd place finishes in the 1.5k tourney!