In the last quarter of 2009 I was playing a lot of PLO at Everest Poker leaving only sundays for MTT. This year I'm giving full focus to MTT, at least for now, and haven't played a single cashgame hand yet. I started the year grinding online from Budapest, Hungary and results were fantastic. I staked a friend and he won me about~8k (tytyty) and couple days later I started cashing myself aswell, leading January to somewhere around $25k profit.
For live action I competed in Everest Pokers Live The Dream campaign in Vienna but failed to claim one of the ten $100k sponsorship deals. A week or two later I flew to Paris to play in my first EPT in Deauville. I made it to Day2 with a decent stack and when there was around 200 players left (bubble 106) it started getting interesting. I was in seat 1 and Dario Minieri was in seat 5 and he opened from utg or utg+1 pretty much every orbit so I started to 3bet him light. I got him to fold or call+check-fold couple times before he finally 4bets me when 3betting him again, this time with AKo. I go all-in fast and he takes some time and decides to call me with his A4s after asking if I'm French
. Flop comes 688, the turn gives Dario a 4 and the river splits the pot with another 6. Couple orbits later Dario opens from utg+1 again and gets 3bet by a french guy. I think it's a good spot to shove with my TT here. Dario folds quickly as expected and french guy is taking minutes to decide if he should call or not. Finally he piles the chips and makes the easy call with AKo and knocks me out as the turn comes a K.
After busting out I registered for the €2,000 side-event starting at the same night but getting KO'd on the second hour with my AA against xx doesn't leave much of a story to tell. Since Deauville is dead on wintertime I took the train back to Paris early next morning and spent the next 24hours sightseeing the city before boarding my flight back to Budapest. I always thought Paris was overrated but now that I finally saw Eiffel, Arc de Triumphe, Louvre, Notre Dame etc. I have to say I couldn't have been more wrong, Paris is awesome!
I guess people hate long opening posts so I'll end it here and make a new one soon about EPT Berlin and how I blew all my January profits in February
Also, I'm gonna upload some MTT videos asap and hopefully a PLO article too.Arc de Triumphe
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La Tour Eiffel
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