Well my goals of March being better than February are off to a rough start after bricking 3 live tournaments and being part of a robbery. For anyone who hasn't heard, EPT Berlin got robbed by several armed gunmen right as registration was closing for the high roller(the time when the most cash would be behind the cage), I've heard lots of numbers about how much they got away with, the most common is 800k euros but obviously I have no idea. There are lots of videos floating around 2+2/youtube that should be pretty easy to find if you're curious. There's also a giant thread on 2+2 if you want to argue about whether or not you'd have been a hero and single-handedly fought off all the robbers just like all the other internet tough guys, feel free to do that a well!

Anyways, I started the high roller at noon and the field was a little smaller than expected but not a big deal or anything. I definitely didn't have a soft table, but it wasn't an absurdly tough table by any means either. I had won one or two pots and was up to 23k from 20k when we heard some commotion outside. The tournament area was in a room at a hotel and the registration area was just outside(and the doors were closed so you couldn't see much)... at first there was a rumor that there was a fight, then that people had seen guns. I think the high roller players were more aware of situations like this than a lot of other people and despite being some of the further tables from the only safe exit, most of us were able to get out of our seats and head to the back of the room fairly quickly. I figured if it was a hostage situation I'd be a pretty top candidate in Germany so I snap took off my FTP patches. All of a sudden you heard people yelling that they heard shots fired, and the one robber was shouting he had a bomb(neither of these were true) but this caused a fucking stampede of people to get out the one exit. Some people got trampled on, some people stuck around and hid under tables, table(s?) got flipped, the set of the televised table fell over, it was absolutely nuts. It was also scary since we really had no idea, like I was probably one of the first 20 or so people to get out the back exit, and I had no idea whether we could run into a gunman trying to use the same exit, or even if there was gonna be a safe exit.

Even once I got outside I had no idea what to do, there were people running everywhere, and the street I was on was unfamiliar. Obviously the robbers would end up on the same city block as us, so even now I had no idea what to do to be safe. If I were by myself, I'm pretty sure I'd have just kept running , but ended up going with some friends into a restaurant to call the police. After this my adrenaline was going like crazy and if I could have had the opportunity to cashout from the high roller(like they did in the 1k and ladies event) I would have probably done so(maybe not since I had increase my stack 15% and I'm a huge nit, but it'd have been a close decision). Once I got back I was kinda feeling the come-down from the adrenaline while my heart was still pounding and just got really tired all of a sudden. I ended up getting coolered a bunch and then losing a flip to bust and then took a 5 hour nap which I recently woke up from to read more about the happenings online.

Anyways, I am really beginning to doubt that Berlin is as lucky for me as Dortmund. I'm really glad to hear everyone's ok, and am wondering about hearing more details in the future(whether people get caught, exact amount stolen etc etc)

If anyone has any more questions that I may be able to answer(could have forgotten things) feel free to pm or post as comments, I obviously don't have much more info than you can get online, but I'm sure people will be curious about this