WSOP, MSOP, Etc.

May 28, 2009

I won’t be in Vegas for this year’s WSOP – the first time since 2003 that I haven’t been around for at least part of it and the first time since 2005 that I won’t be working there. I do have a lot of friends on the ground in Vegas, though. I’ll be following their work on these websites:

Tao of Poker
Pokerati
PokerNews
PokerListings

There are also going to be a ton of people posting on Twitter. You’ll probably get a fair number of updates on the more interesting moments from the sites listed above, but if you want to get your news firsthand you should check out @FollowPoker on Twitter. Jay Newnum, another oldskool poker media man, put together this account that follows a very large number of poker people.

As a fan of poker, one of the disappointing things about working at the Series is that there’s very little time to actually play the game, so this year I’m going to take advantage of my considerably lightened schedule by getting some time in at the tables. Full Tilt Poker is running its Mini Series of Poker again this year, with buy-ins 1/100th of the corresponding WSOP event, and since that suits my meager bankroll well I’m going to play all of the PLO events as I can. I’m also planning to play the PLHA (pot limit hold’em/PLO mixed) event and probably a few hold’em events here and there. If I were to do well in one of the other events I might consider playing some of the other limit and mixed events, but for now I’m sticking with the games I know best.

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