Ryan Schmelzer

Poker has been pretty gross for me in the last… two or three months. I haven’t been playing poorly I don’t think as much as it has just been cold decks and bad beats. Last week one of my friends was watching me play in a six-handed sit-n-go and was laughing at how many times my hands were holding up. And by that I don’t mean AQ vs. K9 preflop; I mean AK vs. A9 and a 9 falling right on the flop. Yeah, it’s been nothing short of gross. So, I’ve had to drop down a little after moving up in summer when my hands were holding up. Hopefully my variance ends pretty soon.

Earlier this week I was unlucky enough to actually get sick after stating two sng’s as once (I normally play two at the same time to keep me busy). Well, shortly after starting I started getting effects from what I would later discover being food poisoning. I think I still played OK, but I could’ve focused better without the effects for sure. I ended up busting out without cashing in both.

Right now I am nearly done with the second week of my interim class. For those of you that are curious to what that is, it’s a class I have Monday-Friday for three hours over the course of three weeks. This class hasn’t been real bad at all other than the fact that it starts at 8:30 and my college sleeping schedule doesn’t fit in with getting up that early.

I was surprised to hear that Shannon Shorr headed back to school this semester. If you don’t know who that is, he dominated the Bellagio Cup two years ago and finished somewhere in the top 5 that year in the Card Player Player of the Year I believe. I’m not sure of his reason for going back to school after being out for a few years. I have to support his decision, though. If I took a break from school, I’d either never be able to get back into the groove or I would actually come back form the time off with the mentality of studying more and work harder. I wish Mr. Shorr the best of luck hitting the books again.