I guess it's been a month since I updated. I'm not sure how many people are actually reading this right now since it's only at shannonshorr.com (I imagine most readers have shannonshorr.com/myblog bookmarked instead), and it's also not feeding to Cardplayer at the moment. My webpage should be ready in, like, a month? I just kind of wasn't motivated to write given those circumstances. It's entirely my fault that it's still not complete. It could've been done as early as December, but alas there were some things that I needed to do that I'm just now working on. Please note that this blog layout is just temporary, the updated page at shannonshorr.com/myblog won't be nearly as boring.

In the three weeks since I've returned from Spring Break in Austin, TX I've mostly been just going to classes in Tuscaloosa.  My Dad and I took a really great weekend trip to central Florida to check out a weekend's worth of spring training baseball games. That was a really good time as we caught 4 great games in 4 different cities in three days. We caught the Braves in Orlando, the Yankees in Tampa, the Pirates in Bradenton, and the Reds in Sarasota.  I spent another weekend in Birmingham as my sister  Heather had a stock-the-bar party for her upcoming wedding in June. 

Aside from that, I've been playing a significant amount of poker. Pokerstars had it's first annual SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker). It was a very expensive tournament series and fuck if I didn't play and run terribly, losing around $50,000 on the series. I got off to a hot start in 2009, but things have kind of gone to hell and I'm only a slight winner on the year at this point. Still, that is better than being stuck. It's would be unfair for me to beat myself up over not performing in the, like, 15 large tournaments I played during the SCOOP. So, I'm not going to. The fact that it was such an expensive series made it a little hard to sleep after all was said and done last night though. Obviously, that's kind of the time you want to run hot. Luckily, the hard work I've put in playing poker professionally over the last 3.33 years has provided me the bankroll needed to play the series, airball it, and not really even sweat it from a bankroll standpoint.

I've decided to drive down to Biloxi tomorrow morning for the WPT event. It starts at noon. It's 1:10 a.m. right now, and I still have a 4 hour drive ahead of me from Tuscaloosa, yuck. My mom's gonna go with me. I played four online tournaments tonight and airballed. I did turn a nice winner in cash games though. First day of classes went well. Time to sleep.

EDIT: I'm doing an interview with Cardplayer's Online Zone segment via phone if anyone is interested in checking it out. It should be on CP later today.

SS

Well, damn. Out in about 230th with 199 receiving money. I drew a pretty damn good table. I quickly got to 94000 by the first break. The second level didn't go so well as I dribbled down to around 78000. Level 3 was bad. I doubled up my roommate basebaldy with AQo vs his K7o on KJxxx. The bustout hand was a real stinger. I opened red kings from early and a fishy Euro called in the CO. Flop 7d5c3s. I led 9500. He raised to 26500. I moved in for 58000 total. He called and showed me 87hh. The turn was the Qc and my heart sunk when the dealer placed the 8s on the end. What was worse than the beat was having to witness the guys celebration scream and dance after the suckout. I'd've been slightly above average. It hurts, but it's whatever. I'm slated to begin classes tomorrow, so I may or may not be on the next flight out of here. Otherwise, I'll stick around, play the 5000 dollar event tomorrow, then eventually fly out Saturday.

SS