That’s basically the conclusion of my trip. On Tuesday, the day off, I decided to visit Omaha
Beach. Omaha Beach was the code name for one of the main landing points of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France. It’s a really interesting and impressive landscape out there. Afterwards I went to the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. It’s a World War II cemetery and memorial in Colleville-sur-Mer, that honors American soldiers who died in Europe during World War II.
On Wednesday, Day 1B, I went to the casino just to see that I was seated on the featured table, sitting between Dario Mineri and Søren Kongsgaard. So my chances of being the aggressor were small. I started out playing pretty tight but extremly aggressive pre - and postflop. There were some small pots against Mineri but I took them down preflop by reraising him. The first real hand I opened was J10s from Middle Position. A French player called and we saw a flop of J10A. He reraised my bet and I had to surrender to a huge bet on the turn when a possible flush appeared.
The last hand before the break was very unlucky. A not so feared french player opened in Middle Position, Mineri called on the button, so did I from the big blind wit 109o.
The Flop came Q92, I checked, the preflop aggressor lead out and Mineri folded. I called hist bet in order to see what he does on the turn. On the turn there came a 9, so basically had trips. I check-raised him all-in and I was drawing pretty thin, actually he flopped a set of Queens and turned the nut Full-house. So i was crippled to something about 5k of chips with an average of 11k.
A few hands after the break I started out reraising some players and built my stack to something between 8-9k. Then I got dealt the magic aces. A player in early position raised five times the big blinds, so while sitting behind this player in an early position also, I just smooth called to induce some later action. Unfortunately that didn’t happen, the player in the small blinds called as well, so we went three handed to a flop of 47J all of clubs.
Both players checked and I bet but got raised from the small blind. The problem was, that I had red aces, because with the ace of clubs there wouldn’t have been that many worries. So I tanked for a minute and put the guy in the small blind on something like QJ,KJ or AJ with one club and shoved all-in. He called me pretty fast and tabled QJ with the queen of clubs, so we were playing a 19k pot while average was at 11k. The turn paired the 4, so I had his two pair outs killed, but he made his flush on the river and busted me.
It was really a great time in France and I’m really excited to play the EPT in Dortmund now
that I’ve made my first experiences. Right now I’m wishing the best of luck to my buddy Christian Heich, who’s still playing the Aussie Million Main Event. GOGOGO
