I played several events at PokerStar’s Spring Championship of Online Poker.  I was able to cash in the Stud 8 SCOOP event.  I know, big shock eh?  I came close in a couple of other events but towards the end I was not as focused as I could be.  The FTOPS event over on Full Tilt Poker is coming up and I will be playing several of the Mini-FTOPS events.  I feel good about the Stud 8 and HEROS events obviously.  I’ll also play a PLO Knockout event, a PLO8 event, a Razz event, the PL HA event, and the Mixed Holdem event.  Ill likely get deep in the Razz, Stud 8, HEROS, and Mixed Holdem.  I hope to do well in all obviously, but my PLO and O8 results are a mixed bad.

The biggest news regarding my job is that I picked up a new gig.  I am now writing for Pokerjunkie.com.  I provide some articles and I have a blog under my pseudonym compncards.  I’ve been there for about a month now and my “personal” blog there has been up about a week or so officially.  The big difference between this and my gig for thewsopblog.com deals with the fact that most of my articles are preselected topics that I must write on.  I am not responsible on the article topics, just on the blogs.  That is helpful, and at times a little hairy when I get article requests on things I am not real knowledgeable about, such as Vegas nightlife.  Fortunately I have some resources for those things.

The WSOP is just 3 weeks away now.  I will be attending this year, but I will not be working in any official capacity.  At least, that does not appear to be the case at present.  Instead, I will be playing in numerous events around town.  I am going to play Event #26 at the WSOP and maybe the Stimulus Event.  Yes, that means  I will play my first ever NL Event at the WSOP if I play it.  However, I will only play it if I either satellite or if half of the buy-in is put up elsewhere.

That leads me to another area I have been dabbling in lately, and that is staking.  I have been using ChipMeUp quite a bit lately.  ChipMeUP is an online staking site where you buy shares of people for poker events.  Right now I am up overall in my staking and all of my SCOOP events were 50% stakes.  I am trying to get some of my live events and my WSOP events staked as well.  I’m having some luck with the H.O.R.S.E. events, but not on the WSOP events.

I’m doing a lot better in my NL Holdem game lately.  I have been really working on my aggression in certain spots and it is beginning to pay off a bit.  The biggest difference has been in my Sit-N-Go’s on UltimateBet.  I am still trying to win my Main Event seat, and am now up to Level 5.  Yes, I know that is only half way, but I still have time.  The ultra-turbo sit-n-go’s seem to closely resemble the WSOP satellites and as well as I am doing in those lately, I feel I might have a decent shot at satelliting into some WSOP events out in Vegas.  We will see.

As far as when I am leaving, I have not made that decision as of yet.  I have a couple of things to take care of around here first.  I will likely head out around the 22nd to the 24th.  If I play the Stimulus Event, I will definitely head out then.  I will only be there until around June 22nd as I will be working 4-H Camp this year, and I will not miss that for anything.

Anyway, that’s what’s going on with me at present.  I’ll try and give some updates during my FTOPS and into the WSOP.  Check out my blog over at pokerjunkie.com and my work over at thewsopblog.com.

The same frustrations that I experience with a ring game of NL Holdem are still there, but it isn’t as magnified. Also, I am playing Sit-N-Go’s and not cash games, so that helps. That reminds me of a talk I had with a friend of mine Mickey last night. He expressed that when he is running bad, the game affects his overall mood. I tend to sympathise with him. One thing that I mentioned to him was the fact that I tend to get frustrated more in cash games as opposed to Sit-N-Go’s. In SNG’s, once I pay the money, I consider it gone forever unless I cash. In a cash game, I see the actual money going up or down depending on how I am running. I am not like some people where the money doesn’t mean anything to me at all, so there is I guess the added psychological pressure. True, this is all in my head, but at least I admit it.

My Stud-8 game has been running really well lately. I’ve only had 2 losing session, and 0 losing days so far. I probably need to work on my Stud 8 tournament game some. It is still hard for me to find the patience to sit for a long tournament online. In a future blog, I will go over my Stud 8 cash at Binion’s during my Vegas trip.

I don’t really feel like talking about much else right now, so have a good one folks.

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I haven’t played all that much, but for what I have played, I am down about $100.  Part of that is a tournament, and part is a loosing Omaha Hi Lo session.  I am playing way too loose in Omaha 8 and that’s the biggest reason for my loss overall.

There is a H.O.R.S.E. tournament at Green Valley Ranch, which is near where I am staying.  They run  it on Wednesdays and its a $45 buy-in.  I’ll try my hand at it tommorrow.  Ill probably spend most of this evening on Fremont, probably at the Plaza playing Sit-N-Go’s.

According to my boss, we did such a good job in New Orleans, we don’t need any additional training.  As a result, we have most of the week to goof off.  My first day of work at the WSOP will either be Friday or Saturday.  I haven’t been informed as of yet.

Anywho, not much else to talk about at the present.  I’ll update once something a little more interesting occurs.