School, Poker Going OK

by Shannon Shorr | Published: Jan 13, '08

So it's Sunday night. I've completed the first week of classes, which started on Wednesday. It looks like it's going to be a lot of engineering homework and stuff, but I look forward to the challenge. I have some pretty interesting professors, including one who claims to be amongst the top 100 birdwatchers in the world, heh. It was a really weird feeling walking around campus the first few days, as it's something I hadn't done in a long, long time. I expect to meet a lot of cool people, and everything should work out just fine.

I spent the weekend watching the NFL playoffs and going to the bars and binge drinking like the old days :) Saw a lot of old faces. I think I broke about even or maybe am a slight loser in poker since I posted last week. I've been trying to get in a lot of cash. I've had just a few losing sessions, but this weekend two of those sessions were painfully bad. I made the amateur mistake of playing after I'd been drinking. This is something I've prided myself on not doing throughout my professional career, and I'm really upset at myself for it. I don't expect it to happen again. Today I played very poorly in cash and played and ran like death in the few online MTTs that I played :( I want to really limit the amount of time I spend playing poker this semester though, as I wanna do other things with my time. I've been playing Nintendo Wii with Tim and we're addddddddddicted as hell. That said, I plan on going to Tunica this weekend for the WSOPC event. The event starts Saturday and runs through Monday. Monday is MLK Jr. Day, so I conceivably could win the event and still make it back to class on Tuesday.

Thanks for reading. I'll update when something exciting happens.

Shannon Shorr is a professional poker player from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He finished fourth in the Card Player 2006 Player of the Year race. You can follow his progress at shannonshorr.com.

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