Next week, I'm going skiing in Utah with my Kung Fu master and a few friends. I'm definitely looking forward to stepping away from the online felt and relaxing. The past couple of months have been very interesting, to say the least! I've been insanely busy training new students at Ari's training center, went crazy in December playing 15 plus hours a day to insure I won Bluff Magazine's 2008 Online Player of the Year Award, and I've only played maybe 9 or 10 days since the new year, but have already had a couple of big licks. My plan going forward is to play less volume and higher stakes mtt's a couple days a week.
I've looked at the 2009 WSOP schedule and am planning on playing somewhere around 20 events (double what I played last year). My confidence level has skyrocketed at games other than no limit since I've trained with some of the best PLO and PLO H/L players in the world. I've recently won a PLO rebuy on Pokerstars and got second in Absolute's Saturday PLO H/L...keep in mind that I was an inexperienced beginner a couple of months ago. I plan on playing the vast majority of the low to mid staked no limit, PLO, PLO H/L, limit, pot limit holdem, and mixed games...I'm setting aside six-figures for the 2009 WSOP.
I'm very thankful that I moved to Vegas, as it's opened up so many doors for me in such a short amount of time. Out of the blue I received a phone call and invite to play in a live cash game that was filmed and is to be featured on PokerVT in the very near future. The game featured myself, Daniel Negreanu, Josh Arieh, Jason “JCarver” Somerville, and Nick Rainey (Patrik Antonius' former manager and definitely a world-class talent). It'll make for interesting watching...I get it all in bad and suck out for a gazillion chips against the most aggro player at the table, JCarver. Negreanu and his team at PokerVT are top-notch and I'm extremely happy and honored to say that I've signed on as one of their featured pros. Already comprising some of the top online players in the world such as Annette_15 and Adam Junglen, it's great to see that they recently signed Moorman1 (I've offered to trade him all of the tricks I've used in my success in live poker for a glimpse at his unreal online game...I hope he takes me up on the offer). Unfortunately, Daniel's mom is very sick as of late and I know that is a heavy burden for him to carry...hopefully, she'll recover very soon. Our thoughts are with Daniel and his family. Thanks for reading my blog and as always, comments are much appreciated.