Good weekend for me PS tourneys (brag)

[DDBeast]

Saturday: After busting out of the Barcelona EPT sat that I qualified for, I liked the structure so much (start 2500, 30 min blinds), I decided to buy in to the Austria qualifier.
It got down to last 6- top 5 got a $6000 package to Austria
6th place: $100
I was the short stack all in with QQ against JJ, I held up and was golden from there.

Sunday: I'd qualified for the $1050 WCOOP #8 and ended up taking 12th out of 1790 for $13,500. I was bummed about missing the final table and the $12,000 increase but I'm still happy overall. I took out ZeeJustin when it folded to him in the sb and he pushed 98o into my KK on the bb.

Anyway, I can't [censored] wait to go to Europe. I'll be missing classes for a week, so any idea as to what to tell the professors?

[KramerTM]

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Saturday: After busting out of the Barcelona EPT sat that I qualified for, I liked the structure so much (start 2500, 30 min blinds), I decided to buy in to the Austria qualifier.
It got down to last 6- top 5 got a $6000 package to Austria
6th place: $100
I was the short stack all in with QQ against JJ, I held up and was golden from there.

Sunday: I'd qualified for the $1050 WCOOP #8 and ended up taking 12th out of 1790 for $13,500. I was bummed about missing the final table and the $12,000 increase but I'm still happy overall. I took out ZeeJustin when it folded to him in the sb and he pushed 98o into my KK on the bb.

Anyway, I can't [censored] wait to go to Europe. I'll be missing classes for a week, so any idea as to what to tell the professors?

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Congrats man. Tell me more about these satellites/major tourneys? Dates? Times? What site did you qualify through? How did you qualify for the bigger satellites, etc.

Tell your professors that you qualified for a major tournament and have a good chance to become a millionaire. They'll understand.

[Che]

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I'll be missing classes for a week, so any idea as to what to tell the professors?

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Tell them you will not be attending class that week. Tell them why if you choose, otherwise not. You control how you invest your time, not your professors.

Congratulations,
Che

[augie00]

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I'll be missing classes for a week, so any idea as to what to tell the professors?


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Tell them you're playing a poker tournament on the European Poker Tour. It's an interesting talking point at the very least.

[yvesaint]

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Anyway, I can't [censored] wait to go to Europe. I'll be missing classes for a week, so any idea as to what to tell the professors?

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Yeah, tell them you're researching game theory and statistics in a hands-on environment.

[DDBeast]

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Saturday: After busting out of the Barcelona EPT sat that I qualified for, I liked the structure so much (start 2500, 30 min blinds), I decided to buy in to the Austria qualifier.
It got down to last 6- top 5 got a $6000 package to Austria
6th place: $100
I was the short stack all in with QQ against JJ, I held up and was golden from there.

Sunday: I'd qualified for the $1050 WCOOP #8 and ended up taking 12th out of 1790 for $13,500. I was bummed about missing the final table and the $12,000 increase but I'm still happy overall. I took out ZeeJustin when it folded to him in the sb and he pushed 98o into my KK on the bb.

Anyway, I can't [censored] wait to go to Europe. I'll be missing classes for a week, so any idea as to what to tell the professors?

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Congrats man. Tell me more about these satellites/major tourneys? Dates? Times? What site did you qualify through? How did you qualify for the bigger satellites, etc.

Tell your professors that you qualified for a major tournament and have a good chance to become a millionaire. They'll understand.

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This is all at PokerStars.

For the EPT events there is a direct qualifier, entry is $380. The packages are worth around $6000 depending on the country (including a $1000 spending cash and $5000 entry fee). The one I played, top 5 advance out of 85 entrants. You don't get extra money for flight/lodging it's all part of the $1000 which isn't enough.
Anyway, they run those sats Saturdays and Sundays I believe and all week you can play super sats to qualify for the $380 sat. The super sats are something like $30R MTT or a SNG for $50. I originally qualified to the Barcelona sat through a $30R or something but busted out of it and bought into the Austria one starting 10 min. later. The structure for the big $380 sat is sweet and long.

The $1050 WCOOP I played $139 SNG's and got 2nd,4th, and 1st. 2nd pretty much gets entry back 1st advances, so I don't remember exactly, but I think I spent about $300 to get into the $1050 yesterday.