The beginning of the 2008/2009 European Poker Tour season has just begun. Stops on the tour include Barcelona, London, Budapest, Warsaw, Prague, Bahamas, Deauvil
le, Copenhagen, Dortmund, San Remo and Monte Carlo. Michael is presently in London playing at The Grosvenor Victoria Casino. It is a five day event with Day 1 being split into two separate days -- Day 1a and Day 1b. He just completed Day 1a and ended up as one of the chip leaders with 72,200 chips. Now he has a day off and returns on Friday for Day 2.The beginning of this trip was not without any drama. He was to leave on Monday on a 9:00PM flight and planned on registering for Day 1B which would have taken place today, Thursday. Early in the day on Monday, he found out that the tournament was sold out. Apparently, this is a small casino and they had limited the entries to 500. There was a lot of back and forth calls to London all morning to see if there was any way he could get in. Apparently the big wigs at the casino met and decided to expand the cutoff. At that point, Michael was 105 on the waiting list and, as he boarded his plane that night, he still wasn't sure he would get in. He arrived in London at 9:30AM, dropped off his luggage and went straight to the casino to see if he could get into the tournament.
When h
e got there, the news was good and he was to be an alternate which means as people dropped out, he would get in. So after flying for 7 1/2 hours and waiting another two hours to get into the tournament, he finally got to play.....in the same clothes he had on since the night before. I don't know how he was able to focus because I know I would have been so tired at that point but he said he felt great. They ended up playing until about 1AM and it turned out to be a very successful day for him.
e got there, the news was good and he was to be an alternate which means as people dropped out, he would get in. So after flying for 7 1/2 hours and waiting another two hours to get into the tournament, he finally got to play.....in the same clothes he had on since the night before. I don't know how he was able to focus because I know I would have been so tired at that point but he said he felt great. They ended up playing until about 1AM and it turned out to be a very successful day for him. This is a picture of him taken by blonde poker....one of my favorite foreign poker sites. They have correspondents that report on all of the European events and they do such a great job.
He's been so successful playing in Europe and we're all hoping we get to see him at another final table. More news to follow after he plays again on Friday.
1 comment:
I had no idea that people were not registered in advance for these tournaments. Seems kind of risky. What if no one showed up?
How long does the "season" last?
I hope he slept all day today!
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