I flew to Paris from Copenhagen on Thursday to meet up with Ramzi, Michael Thureniec, Nichlas Mattsson and Patric Mårtensson and play the 10k euro event in Paris. They all played day1A and Michael, Mattsson and Patric got through the day with good stacks to day2. I played day1B and got a really tough first table. I sat out of position to Anthony Le Louche, Freddy Deeb, Elky and Elky’s girlfriend. This table wasn’t very bad normally but if you compare it to the other tables it really was terrible.

The structure of the tournament was great. All players start with 20k in chips and the blinds start at 25/50. Each level lasted for 90 minutes. Since I sat out of position to some guys that can play decent poker I decided to take it easy in the start and see how things would evolve. They went in my favor even though I dropped down from 20k to around 15k in a pot versus Anthony.

In that particularly pot a bad French player limped in middle position for 50 chips and I raised 250 with QQ on the button. Anthony raised to 750 from the big blind, the limper folded and I called. Flop was 633. Anthony bet out 700 and I raised to 1900 and he called. Turn was a 7 and Anthony checked to me as I bet 3400 and then he raised me to about 8000 to which I folded after some thinking.
After a while after this pot Freddy Deeb got short, Anthony went out and Elky got short. All really good things for me. Anthony told me that he had 45 for a straight in the hand versus me after he busted so for what it’s worth.

I grinded my stack for a while got moved and then got up to about 40k. After that I just raised a lot not really catching anything specific but I just had a really good table and good timing. I built my stack up to 145,6k as day1B was finished. I felt very good about the way I played and was really proud to have that many chips without any really big setups or spectacular cards.

In day 2 I continued to raise a lot as I got a really soft table. I built my stack up to 200k and got moved to a tougher table where I slowed down and took it easy for a while. After some hours we were down to the money and last 18 players. After that I ran into set with AK when I bluffed and miscalculated a players stack which sadly was a pretty big mistake. This happened when we were down to the last 14 players. After that I got my last 60k in on a coinflip which I of course lost and I was disappointed and out as a 14th place finisher.

I had a lot of fever the last two hours of my tournament and still feel very sick. I went home on the Sunday and now I’m gonna try to get rid of all the fever as fast as possible so I will be able to play the Swedish Championship in Tallin on Thursday.

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