My flight to Berlin went well, I ended up arriving here at 8am and was expecting(but not hoping) to play day 1a 4 hours later. Fortunately I was able to get my starting date pushed back to 1b. I had a pretty long nap and then woke up to get food with DJK, Funkii, Mement_mori and JSchnett and Tufat. After that me, Funkii, Mement and JSchnett all decided to grind online. The session went really well for me(best or 2nd best so far this year) and I final tabled the 75 FO on FTP and a 54 on ongame,, got 2nd in the 33r on AP and got 3rd in the 216 turbo on FTP. I had regained all the motivation I had lost Sunday and was pretty excited for the EPT.

I get seated and only recognize 2 players at my table and overall think its quite a good draw. The tournament gets off to a great start and after 35 minutes I have 40k. Immediately after winning an 11k pot, I open HJ-1 to 300 at 50/100 with KdKc and a French player whose been very active(3 or 4 3bets already this tournament) 3bets the button to 850, I make it 2350 and he fairly quickly makes it 7k with 28k behind. I'll say right now that against 80% of people in an EPT I'm ~never stacking off with KK preflop 350BB deep but against this guy I'd have been comfortable stacking off JJ and AK. I thought that as agro as he had been, I doubt he's ever really 7betting much or heroing a 6bet and I think he'll make some mistakes postflop so I elected to call.
Flop: Js7s2d with 14,150 in the pot, check, check
Turn: Ts, I bet 8500, he jams 19k more, I call and he has 9s5s and I'm down to 4k

I hover around there for a few hours and then lose 88 to AKs to bust the last hand of 100/200. Maybe next year they'll move the Germany EPT back to Dortmund!

Anyways, I'm going to be grinding side events quite a bit while I'm over here, gonna go register for the 2k in an hour or so.