This means nothing to me (oh Vienna)

Just a quick update before I'm away for work for two weeks. Off to Vienna in a few hours, doing my usual trick of staying up all night, driving to Heathrow while the roads are empty and then hopefully sleeping on the plane. That's for a golf tournament and then I fly straight back to London on Monday for the Stella Artois tennis at Queen's Club.

Good news is that the world famous Concord Card Casino is just 20 minutes away from my hotel and I had a great couple of nights playing there last year. All the dealers spoke more than enough English to help me at the tables and they even let me charge my mp3 player while I played!

http://www.pokerpages.com/directory/houses/display.php?PokerHouseID=119

Austrian/German players are pretty horrible and I ran well to scoop a decent score. Hopefully this time I then won't oversleep at the airport gate and miss my return flight on Monday morning!!

Been running well since redepositing at FT on Friday, running my $380 up to $1900 thanks to some HU PLO, 8/16 limit hi/lo and PLO tournaments.

Finished 4/195 last night in the $2.5K guarantee for $390 and was chip leader in the same tournament tonight until running into some bad luck at the end and busting out 10th.

I ran really well earlier on, picking up AAxx when relative shorties found KKxx and were forced to get it all-in pre, and for a while used my big stack carefully to pick up a few orphan pots.

But then it all went a bit Pete Tong. 3 of us called a really short-stacks all-in, I flopped the nut str8 but the board paired on the turn so I didn't fire again and the other big stack made a flush on the river. Best one though was when a terrible player raised on the button, I rr from the BB with AAxx and he calls all-in for his tournament life with K742.

Obviously there was only going to be one winner there :)

As I said though, I ran well earlier so not complaining and was also going well in the HA tournament I think Ryan won recently. Seemed like it was full of weak players so look forward to playing in that again.

Thanks to those who railed last night/tonight and fingers crossed my baggage survives the worst efforts of British Airways at Terminal 5...