Since we came back we started to play local tournaments right away. Arriving saturday morning from a long trip did not keep us from playing saturday night ;) Katja and I played four local tournaments since then, three for €210 in Casino Schenefeld with 30+ people (frequently sold out these day now) and one for €315 with 20 players. Katja won one for a little over 2k payout and busted out of the others early, I got 5th in two getting paid in one. I also went to play a satellite for the German Championships but got 5th out of 12 only. Actually I managed get my "suckout score" to 2:4 (two for me, four for my opponents) which is unheard of. A suckout here is defined as hitting a 2 or 3 outer on the turn or river when your money got in the pot with the worst hand by far. We did break-even in the cash games since then.

This autumn will be big in terms of tournament action in Germany and Europe. This is a list of events we will most likely attend:

September 8-9, Casino Schenefeld
NLH €750 freezeout, 45 min. levels with 7000 starting chips (!)

September 13-16, Casino Barcelona, Spain
€5000 EPT

September 16-October 1, World-Championship-Of-Online-Poker, PokerStars.com
September 16: Razz ($200+$15) $100,000 guaranteed
September 17: NL Hold ‘em ($500+$30) $1,500,000 guaranteed
September 18: PL Omaha (rebuys) ($300+$20) $400,000 guaranteed
September 19: NL Hold ‘em Match Play ($200+$15) $300,000 guaranteed
September 20: Limit Omaha High/Low ($500+$30) $300,000 guaranteed
September 21: NL Hold ‘em (rebuys) ($200+$15) $1,000,000 guaranteed
September 22: Limit Hold ‘em ($200+$15) $200,000 guaranteed
September 23: HORSE ($200+$15) $100,000 guaranteed
September 23: PL Hold ‘em ($500+$30) $400,000 guaranteed
September 24: NL Hold ‘em ($1,000+ $50) $1,000,000 guaranteed
September 25: Seven Card Stud ($300+$20) $100,000 guaranteed
September 26: PL Omaha8 ($300+$20) $200,000 guaranteed
September 27: PL Hold’em Six-Max ($300+$20) $400,000 guaranteed
September 28: Seven Card Stud High/Low ($500+$30) $200,000 guaranteed
September 29: PL Omaha ($500+$30) $300,000 guaranteed
September 30: HORSE ($5,000+$200) $100,000 guaranteed
September 30: Limit Hold’em ($1,000+$50) $400,000 guaranteed
October 1: NL Hold ‘em ($2,500+$100) $3,000,000 guaranteed

September 21-24, Victoria Casion, London
€5000 EPT

October 6-14, Casino Baden (near Vienna)
€5000 EPT
€2000 Baden Open NLH freezeout
€2700 European stud championship ("PokerEM")

October 20-21, Spielbank Hamburg
€525+R+A NLH Hamburger Herbstmeisterschaften

October 26-29, Regency Hotel, Dublin
€5000 EPT

November 3-11, Holland Casino, Amsterdam
Various rebuy events
€5000 NLH freezeout

November 16-18, Spielbank Berlin
€440+200+200 NLH German Championships

December 8-9, Casino Schenefeld
Some winter tournament, usally around €500-800 buyin

Definitly a tight schedule. I will provide my insights and opinions on almost all of those events here as usual and in german on pokerstarblog.de.

Oh and by-the-way: thank you Spielbank Berlin for providing legal advice totally free of charge for all of us with this popup:

If some court should decide on some future day that participating in online gambling poker is not as bad as you guys suggest I will happily sue you for all those missed winnings :)