Often I went deep in tournaments but did not quite get the result I expected. But it never hurt more than in Berlin. One year I got a big stack of chips and then made a superb hero call for it. He had the nuts.The next year I got a big stack of chips. Then I got it in with over 90%. He rivered two pair.

But this year I am going to win it. No doubt.

And Berlin is going to be the best place to have that celebration. That ONE TIME has to be in a city where I can choose the music I want to hear, the drinks I want to have, the price I want to pay and still have a couple of options to go out.

Even close to the Casino and Hotel there are a few choices. Rebuilt not long ago the Potsdamer Platz features modern architecture that I can accept and a few places to dance that are ok. I rather go shopping there or to the movies at the Sony Centre and get my portion of indie later, but for a poker tournament it's a fine place.

For a meal I go across the street, a burger or fine dining at the Hilton. They say Berlin is the best place to have a Döner. A German/Turkish dish. But with the choice of food in Berlin I would eat that one in Mannheim and instead go for the small international restaurants. For example the Taiwanese Lemongrass in Anklamer Str. is a good example. Just off the grid multikulti flair that makes Berlin what it is.

Before the tournament starts I'll go for a tour at the Pergamum museum. That will root me to old mythology and make me unbeatable. Probably not. But it's a great place.

A quick change of clothes, as the German casinos often feature a coat and tie policy not seen in American casinos. They are a little less stiff nowadays with the poker crowd, but a shorts and tanktop style that would not lift an eyebrow at the Rio in Las Vegas does not get you in.

Sitting down in my scarf I will play that analytical German poker, right in between the ego + math American and the ego + maniac Scandinavian. If you subtract that, I am going to be a math-maniac. That gets you far. Or not.

All in all it is going to be a big one. For everybody.

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This year, we've seen Peter Eastgate get close, but so far, German George Danzer is the only one to snag a bracelet through the first 37 events. He did it in the Six-Max PLO event.

With that in mind, we asked George to give us some of his thoughts about what it's like to win a WCOOP bracelet.

by George Danzer

It is hard to keep the concentration.

After my victory in the Six-max PLO tournament (with one rebuy and add-on) I am too eager to get chips in the first levels of the subsequent tournament--although i should know by now...you win tournmnets in the last levels.

Tournaments are usually very frustrating. You can give it all you have to do as good as possible, but inside you know that, with the blinds getting bigger, there will be a point where luck can take over. There will be a situation, where a coin flip--or even worse scenario--has to be won to continue the run.

And then maybe there are fifty people left and you have decent chips, but this thing is far from won.

And then there is another one of those situations and you have to win it again.

And this is all after a grueling fight not to bust out early. And then you may not cash at all, like in most tournaments.

Now say, you have overcome all that, gotten lucky a couple of times and got deep in a big event. You think that is satisfying? Try these scenarios.

Final table, total motivation, adrenaline pumping through me like I'm skydiving...and the third hand I push A-Q into T-T and bust. That's what happened last spring during SCOOP. Chalk up a sixth place.

Then there was the time I made the final table of the PokerStars Sunday Million. I pushed 4-4 into A-K and went bust. That was a seventh place.

And there are ten other examples like those and they all suck as much as busting in the first hand with KK vs AA.

There is only one result a poker player is satisfied with. First.

I know a lot of good players who have never achieved that in a big one and I thought there was a chance I would never achieve it.

But even when you do not expect it, there is still hope, still a chance fate is going to go your way. All the fighting and all the frustration will come to an end.

You win one.

That I get a WCOOP bracelet for the effort is great, because I can now call myself a world champion.

Back to the anxiousness.

After this victory I have to go back into a grinding mode, because trying to gamble it up in the first levels is not going to give me a good chances of going so deep again.

I hope I have realized that soon enough to make an honest effort in the bigger WCOOP events that are still there to be played. As I have a chance of winning the WCOOP Leaderboard with another good result, I am going to play them all.

Wish me luck or sit down and try to beat me.

The important thing is to have fun and never give up.

George Danzer is a member of Team PokerStars Pro 2009's only Team PokerStars Pro bracelet winner...so far.