Well after all of those positive things Tikay said about me the other day ( but Genoa ??  huh ??  Florence, yes, Florence, San Gimignano, ok ) thought I might just drop in for five minutes and also throw a messy Vienna update here into the beginning of your Warsaw coverage.... Here we are down to 46, Markus Golser  busted very early day 1 with  against  after 'never winning a pot,' also defending champ Sigi Stockinger was out afer four levels, Joseph 'Beppi' Klinger the only man to win this event twice, made a move for roughly 9 K out of his BB early on day 2 with  after an early raise and two callers.... Andreas Krause called with  and that was that......  One David Ulliot limped utg for 400, button made it 1200, call, flop  , utg checks it, the button massively overbets all in, insta-call from the Fish who tables Tc8c,  the man from somewhere in the east (like so many) shows AsQh and is getting ready to walk, when it comes perfect turn  , river  .... after this '96% is not enough' hand we were all regaled with stories of monkies and the zoo, and after yours truly sent in his last 3 K with the monster  and backdoor flushed Devilfish's  the volume went up another wee bit.  'The only skill in these things is getting a big stack and running over your opponents'.... well true enough....

So Mr. Ulliot succumbed shortly thereafter, I hung on for another hour before going out with the  end of a coinflip....

Tony G. is still in there last I saw, notoriously aggressive and creative local Peter Karall has a good stack....

First time I ever played no limit hold em cash at the Concord was with those two.... Peter chopping me up while Tony would chime in "Gee Mark if you hadn't raised that last flop I would have busted him."   Years ago, when you could still find a table of Seven Card Stud here........