Although I love this event I have to back-off from this for 2012. It breaks my heart but sometimes there is only one choice and you can only do one thing or the other.

As I said in a former post - if you want to be successfull you have to devote enough time into it. In this case Poker has lost the race and I decided that something else (more about that in a future post) became more important to me at this time.

Going to Dublin would have meant to have fun at Poker …. but giving away that important time would have been a thing for me to regret in the near future.

Beside my absence I still reccommend this event to everybody who has an interest in good poker tournaments. This is by far one of the best structured events. Organisation is great and Dublin is wonderful place at every time of the year.

If you go there “enjoy your time” and say hello to my good friends Michael Lacey, Brian Lannon and Hanns-Peter Jacobi.

Even knowing that I made the right decision …  I will for sure shed a tear in early February realizing that I miss a great time!

Poker friends … here we are! After all that stuff about social media, Apple and Facebook here’s again something about one of my favorite hobbies.

I hadn’t posted anything about playing poker recently as there wasn’t too much happening since I came back from Vegas and the USA in July.

There was only one event worth to mention (the GUKPT Goliath in Coventry) were I cashed light. But this was basically also the reason why I stopped blogging at Wordpress and finally moved to the more lightweight Tumblr-Blog. I just couldn’t handle the time anymore devoted to the long blogposts. Hope I get more flexible that way now.

So now it’s time to give you a small update here at my new home about my next plans:

• Warm-Up in Kufstein: Although I originally considered going to the Pokertour event in Bregenz I now decided to play the 6th Day Bigstack at the Poker Royale Kufstein this weekend. It’s “only” a €66+6 Buy-In but a nice warm up to get back into tournament poker.
• On the weekend 21th - 23rd of October I will travel to Dublin for the International Poker Open (IPO). Looking forward to this as I had to miss it last year.
• With two dance competitions in November to wrap up the season I don’t expect much Poker in that month.
• But for Dec. 1st - 4th the trip to the Austrian Short-Handed Deepstack at the Montesino (organised by D4 Events) is already booked. Great way to end the year with one of my favorite tournament types.
• Some smaller events to come on short notice
• Outlook: Back to Dublin in early February 2012 for the European Deepstack Poker Championships