So another month passed pretty quickly. I still havent gotten a reliable connection here in London (should be here early next week - knock on wood) so I haven't played much online this month. Actually I think October might have been my lowest online volume month since Vegas, according to Sharkscope I only played 465 games (four-five sessions) and managed a profit of 12k. Most of the month have been spent travelling and playing live poker though, first I went to Copenhagen to play in The Danish Championships, I busted in the middle of day 1 to the eventual champion Simon Ravnsb¦k in a chiplead pot with AK vs AA. In retrospect I think we both played it pretty badly (with me probably playing it the worst) and I probably should have folded but its certainly not a hand im gonna lose any sleep over. Congratulations to Simon for winning the whole thing, a lot of people picked him as the favorite before the tournament started and he didnt disappoint, a very desserving champion.

I also played EPT San Remo main event and a bunch of sides, I was very happy with my play over the week and had some pretty good runs. I made three day 2s (busted the main in the last level) and ended up having two cashes on the trip to make me about breakeven. One was 7th in a 1k sideevent where I 3-bet/called nines from the smallblind vs. a cutoff open and ran into aces, the other was a mincash in a 1000+1000 turbo bounty tournament.
The bounty tournament was actually pretty sick as half of the prizepool goes to the bounty the optimal strategy is a lot different than in a regular turbo and covering people becomes a lot more significant and you have to make a lot of calls that are -cev because of the bounty equity against shorter stacks. You start with 30k chips in the tournament and I managed to get my stack to 445k (!) without getting a bounty by basically losing every all-in against the shortstacks and doubling through all the bigstacks. I have taken a little break from live and decided to skip EPT Loutraki to settle into our new apartment and get a chance to grind some online again so my next tournament is gonna be APPT Macau which I am really looking forward to.

One thing I am really looking excited about is a danish campaign that Pokerstars are running the next week called "Poker for Rwanda" where the players, media and team pros are gonna try and raise money for the organization Educat that helps educating locals in leadership and entrepreneurship in a way that can make them less dependent on development aids and emergency reliefs.

Pokerstars have given both me and other danish Team Pro Theo Jorgensen a 4000$ bankroll and we then have from monday until thursday to see how much we can turn into and whatever is left is going to be donated to Educat. I am pretty excited about the opportunity and I am looking to put in a lot of volume (planning on playing whenever im not sleeping) while practicing solid bankroll management so I expect to play a lot of 180-man sngs and low-mid stake tournaments, wish me luck!