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In Los Angeles for WPT Legends of Poker

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:35:07 +0100

As I type this I'm sitting in a room at Commerce Casino with my boy Jon Little. Later today we'll play day 1b of WPT Legends of Poker at The Bicycle Casino. This will be my 32nd career WPT, my first of season 9 on the World Poker tour, and the first one I've had time to play since January of 2010. They've dropped the buy-in for this one down to $5000 from $10,000 which I actually think is a good idea as far as drawing numbers.

Since I last posted I'm still not in my condo. There was a hRead More...

Wales Wrap Up, Birmingham, Condo, Poker

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:43:54 +0100

Since I last posted I played my heat in the Poker Lounge in Wales. Things pretty much went exactly as I expected, as the structure wasn't great. I fully intended on getting all the money in on a flip, and I did just that when my AT fell to Annette Obrestad's QJss 3 handed for 70% of the tournament chips. I enjoyed the experience and look forward to seeing how the broadcast turns out. Wales was also a pretty cool country. The people were very nice and it was definitely a quaint little place. IRead More...

In Newport, Wales. Playing the Poker Lounge Tonight.

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:09:38 +0100

As I type this entry I'm sitting on my balcony at Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, Wales overlooking the golf course on which the Ryder Cup is played. I traveled 17.5 hours to get here, arrived yesterday at 10 am local time, and promptly slept 8 hours. Later tonight I'll play a $20,000 6 player winner take all sit-n-go tournament 40 minutes down the road in Cardiff. I'm actually still unsure with whom I'll be playing. I've been told that as the online qualifier I'll be playing with 3 Full TiltRead More...

2010 World Series of Poker Wrapup - The Summer that Wasn't.

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:36:22 +0100

Where to begin? As I type this I'm 3 hours removed from day 5 of the World Series of Poker Main Event. I had high hopes as I entered day 5 with 1.25x the average and was feeling great, but it wasn't to be as I got two tens in against two kings on KT33 for a 2.5x average pot.

In total I played 34 WSOP events this summer. In 2009 I played 29 events, so needless to say I shattered that figure. This is a product of me becoming more adept at the mixed games, so I played a few more of tRead More...

World Series of Poker begins today! Updates on Twitter.

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Sat, 29 May 2010 13:27:16 +0100

Well, the time has come once again for the World Series of Poker. It's hard to believe, but this will be my fifth consecutive summer in Vegas playing the slate of events. Earlier this week, my roommates and I checked into our summer rental house. It is, in a word, breathtaking. The inevitable pain that comes from busting event after event will be eased by just how wonderful it'll be relaxing at this place.

I'm really geared up for the series this year. I feel like I'm playing really weRead More...

Thoughts on Graduating College + Where do I go from here? + Crushing Online

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Mon, 17 May 2010 16:36:36 +0100

In the time since I last posted, quite a bit has been going on. Nine days ago I graduated with a degree in Business Management from The University of Alabama. The completion of my degree comes a full 81 months after I first began college in August 2003. I took a 3 year hiatus and spent 3 separate semesters co-oping, so I'm not exactly the Van Wilder of The U of Alabama. I almost cannot find the words to express how happy I am to have finished school. When I walked across the stage to accept mRead More...

10 days until graduation, basebaldy 2nd in WPT Championship, FTOPS deep run

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 03:02:06 +0100

It's hard for me to believe, but my college graduation is just 10 days away. It seems like it was just yesterday that I returned to Tuscaloosa to finish my last four semesters. I have finished all but one assignment, and I'm going to take either one or two final exams next Monday (both are freerolls and neither can bring my grade down). After Monday I'll be done with all schoolwork and will just be waiting around playing the SCOOP tournaments on Stars until graduation on Saturday. I won't posRead More...

30 Days Until Graduation, Poker Going Poorly

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:35:35 +0100

I kind of forgot I had a blog, as I guess it's been 4 weeks since I last posted. For several reasons, I love having a diary about poker tournaments, so I expect to always write atleast a couple sentences about all tournaments I play; however, with the popularity of Twitter and Facebook statuses I can sort of write one sentence updates that are more fun and easier than blogging about my life outside of poker. That said, entries will continue to be infrequent unless I'm playing much poker.

Spring Break! + Graduation and More Poker Looming

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:46:40 +0100

Since I last posted 17 days ago I haven't had the time to play a single hand of poker. I spent the last weekend in February down in Mardi Gras celebrating the bachelor party of my high school friend Brandon alongside some other high school friends. It was a blast catching up and ridiculously good time as we were pretty much on the drinks on Bourbon Street for all but a few of 48 straight hours.

This past weekend I went up to Williamsburg, VA to visit my mom for her birthday. My sister HRead More...

A Winning Weekend

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:26:05 +0100

Since I last posted I've played a significant amount of poker, believe it or not. The FTOPS series was going on, so I decided to put in some hours. While I did have a couple top 35 finishes, I failed to make any real noise in the FTOPS event. I did have a very successful weekend in the other simultaneously running tournaments this weekend. Namely, I outright won the morning edition of the $100 rebuy tournament on Pokerstars this past Saturday after beating 2009 WSOP main event 15th place finiRead More...

Vegas, Tuscaloosa, Lifetime WPT Results

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:35:54 +0100

In the two weeks since I've last posted there hasn't been too much going on. I spent the last weekend of January out in Las Vegas celebrating Justin Young's 30th birthday and then taking part in a surprise party for Eric Baldwin for his 2009 Cardplayer Player of the Year victory. On the Friday night Adam Geyer and I showed up and informed basebaldy that we flew in last minute just to celebrate Justin's birthday. Adam and I were 7th and 8th wheels as we joined Eric, Cody Slaubaugh, Justin and Read More...

Out of WPT Biloxi

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:52:05 +0100

I was down in Biloxi this weekend for the WPT event there. I drew a table with Carlos Mortensen, Nick Shulman and a kid named Chase Steely. There was another good young player that I don't know by name, too. Things went poorly as I busted as time expired in the second level. Level 1 went ok. I quickly slipped to like 27000 after I valuetowned myself in a pot against a guy with KQhh vs his AQ on QJJxx. I won a couple small pots to climb back to 30800 to finish the level above the starting stacRead More...

2010 So Far

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:56:54 +0100

I guess this is my first blog entry of 2010. I brought in the New Year with some friends at a really cool bar called Rogue Tavern on Birmingham's north side. A few days later I headed out to San Diego with Adam Geyer to hang out for a few days. I really fell in love with that city despite only getting to see the Pacific Beach area. I could see myself living in SD at some point in my life.

On January 6 we drove two hours up to Pasadena and got settled at our hotel in nearby Glendale forRead More...

2009: A Year to Remember. A Year in Review. (Very Long)

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:17:16 +0100

I've been back in Birmingham the last couple of weeks. It's been a really nice time as I've gotten to spend some time with my family and friends. Christmas was excellent for my family and me, and I hope it was great for all you guys too. The past 3 years I've recapped my year in a blog post, so I figured I'd continue the trend and recap 2009 below:

I brought in 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana with my poker buds Adam Geyer and Mike Katz. Alabama played in the Sugar Bowl on January 2 vs UtRead More...

Out of $15k WPT Five Diamond

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:43:39 +0100

Pretty tough day. I battled uphill the whole time. I quickly got down to around 55,000 at the end of the first level. I climbed back to like 65,000 at the end of level 2, and 80k at the end of level 3 before getting moved to a new table and taking 60k into the final level. In the 30 minutes I was still in the tournament in the final level I doubled up Amnon Filippi for his 11bb in a spot where I opened AJo from MP with the BB out of his seat, and somehow AF actually had AQo. Then I got Read More...

Onto Day 2 of WPT Five Diamond with 84,075

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:56:09 +0100

I'm on to day 2 of the $15,000 WPT Five Diamond with 84,075 in chips. The average is in the neighborhood of 80k.

The day was just kind of whatever. I was at a table with John Monnette, Kathy Liebert, Tyler "tnetter" Netters, Cornell Cimpan, Steven Fung, Justin Young and Dani "ansky" Stern (whom I thought played spectacularly). I took what was given to me and didn't really play too big of a pot all day.

There was this guy in the 2 seat who literally put money in the pot lessRead More...

Semester Over, Bama to Pasadena, In Vegas for WPT 5 diamond

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:13:28 +0100

This has been maybe my longest sabbatical from blogging in the 4 years I've been doing it. Since I last posted I've been busy with school and some traveling. My sister Carly and I went to Auburn and watched Bama escape with a win, and last weekend some friends and I headed over to neutral Atlanta for the SEC Championship. A friend and I tipped a security guard $100 to get into the stadium ;) It was easily the most exciting sporting event I've ever attended as Bama cruised to a victory. As a rRead More...

FTOPS $1k recap with hand histories (Very Long)

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:57:32 +0100

As I said in my last entry, I wanted to share some hands from my two deep FTOPS runs. This entry will include hands from the $1k FTOPS event that I finished 4th in. I'll try to follow early next week with some hands from the $2500 FTOPS. Again, I'm excited to contribute some poker content as I know y'all are tired of reading about my otherwise uneventful life.

I'm not sure if the links are going to transfer to my blog feed on Cardplayer, so if you want to avoid having to copy and Read More...

40th in FTOPS $2500, 405th in FTOPS Main Event

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:23:00 +0100

It was a work infested weekend. I decided to sort of detox this weekend and just stick around Tuscaloosa and play the FTOPS series all weekend. Alabama football was 90 miles west in Starkville, Mississippi playing Mississippi State, but I decided against going. Last week Bama clinched and SEC Championship birth by winning the west, and this week they didn't stumble as they routed MSU in hostile Starkville 31-3.

Friday night I played a full slate. There was a razz FTOPS eveRead More...

4th in FTOPS $1k Event for $105,000

shannon@shannonshorr.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:00:45 +0100

I was leaving class on Monday night headed to the gym when my buddy Mike Katz called me. We were talking for a bit, and then he asked if I was playing the FTOPS $1k event. I didn't even realize that the event was taking place. I continued on to the gym, got home and then remembered having spoken with Mike. I joined the tournament 10 minutes or so late despite having a paper that I really needed to write for my Entrepreneurship class. 9 hours later I finished 4th of the 1366 entrants forRead More...