Next month is the EPT Grand Finale in Monte Carlo.

Last year Gavin Griffin took down the title and over $2.2 million. Aside from WSOPE, I believe this is the most prestigious tournament in Europe. I suspect the prize pool is going to increase a fair bit this year too, with poker growing in Europe, and Pokerstars running plenty of satellites.

Despite still enjoying my time around home, I just can’t miss this tournament. Aside from the €10,000 buy-in main event, they have several smaller prelim’s as well. It’s been awhile since I’ve played a live major and I’m getting the itch to put up some good results. I’ll be staying at the same hotel as last year (which was beautiful, the Monte Carlo Bay) with Michael (Sir)Watts.

It’s always kind of hectic planning these trips. Especially dealing with international travel. I might try to stop by some nearby destinations in Europe before I get into the poker mindset and land in Monaco on April 11th.

-Adam Junglen

The other day I spoke with the Editor-in-Chief of Bluff Magazine, Mr. Matthew Parvis.

We discussed the possibility of having me write for Bluff. After discussing some personal terms I had, I'm happy to say I've managed to leverage my general reputation, as well as raw writing talent showcased in my blog, and put myself in a position to write for one of the biggest poker magazine's out there.

Similar to my approach in MTT's, I'll only be writing when I really feel like, so nothing will be forced. I find the result of this approach seems to equal low quantity, but very high quality - which I think the reader will appreciate more anyways. I already have my first article in mind, but expect everything from trip reports to strategy articles, and everything in between.

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Next up on the schedule is EPT Monte Carlo. I'm not 100% certain if I'll be going, but we'll see. It's one of the last European majors until I'm 21 (WSOPE too), but I've got a lot to do around home, and just aren't sure if I want to make the trip there. We'll see though, I gotta make up my mind fairly soon as it's from the 12th-17th of April.


That's just about it for now. Thanks to everyone who keeps up and reads my blog, as you've clearly had an impact in getting me the opportunity to write for Bluff.

I appreciate it,

-Adam Junglen

Sorry for the lack of recent updates. To be honest, there hasn’t been anything terribly exciting going on.

I really don’t like talking about insignificant results, but on Sunday I managed to make 2 small/medium sized final tables. Before Sunday it’d been about a week since I played, or even thought about poker deeply. Sometimes taking a mental break and really thinking about things is worth a lot more to me than playing the nightly MTT’s.

The two tournaments were the FTP $50 1r/1a, and the Cake 30k. I took 5th in the FTP tournament for around 2k, and 3rd in the Cake tourney for $3.6k. It felt good to play again, and making two FT’s certainly didn’t hurt that feeling.

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Besides that, I’ve just been slowly getting stuff around my apartment finished. The day I landed back in Cleveland (a week ago now), was right before a huge snow storm hit Cleveland. Ray’s flight back here was delayed a day, as they completely closed down Cleveland Airport for a night. Although it’s clearing up a little more everyday, we were hit with around 20in of snow. That was a nice sight to come back home to.

Guess that’s it for now.

Later,

-Adam

I’d like to think the title of this post pretty much sums up Las Vegas. Currently in a massive STD scare. It’s obviously all over the news here, I’m curious as to how much press this will be getting when I arrive home tomorrow night. It’s really sick that one of the biggest cities/tourist destination’s can't maintain clean clinic's.

Oh wait, no….that sounds like Las Vegas.

I’ve had a good few days here in Vegas, but I don’t think I’ll ever spend time here without thinking how backwards this place can be. Obviously the incident of the HIV/Hepatitis malpractice was coincidental, but there’s a lot of things that could be considered “morally grey,” or just straight up wrong, around me. Maybe it’s the fact I had such a solid family upbringing with good values that makes me kind of tingle when I see a gigantic billboard (with the number) to file for a divorce.

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Anyways, the PokerVT filming went smoothly. It was great to be able to talk about the project in person and become more knowledgeable about the poker industry in general. I went over some critical hands I’ve played, did some basic bio stuff and answered some Q&A. I’m really looking forward to the launch of VT next month.

That’s really it for now. Lookin forward to gettin back home.

Later guys,

I vividly remember my last trip departing from Las Vegas back home to Cleveland. I told myself I'd never return to Vegas until I was 21. While I had a good time with my friends for a few weeks last summer, it was overall a gigantic tease. Watching huge live events play out everyday (WSOP/Bellagio Cup), was practically torturous.

Well GUESS WHERE I AM!

Haha, I'm currently at the Bellagio (which is v. nice might I add). I'm not here to visit friends like I was last year though - this time around I'm here for PokerVT filming. I didn't sleep on Sunday night and just stayed awake til my flight left at noon on Monday. I got a couple good hours of sleep in on the flight, but I'm obviously still exhausted. I'm currently just relaxin in my room, might hit up the hot tub.

Tomorrow I'll be going over some of my instructional material for PokerVT, as well as random media stuff. The more I realize the potential of this project, the more excited I get. I'm really unsure of how much I'm supposed to "give away" about this project, but I can tell you we're on schedule to launch in the near future. It should be a great opportunity, and something to keep me busy until I'm 21.....

Well, I'm just gonna kick back and relax, probably goto sleep a little early tonight. I've got a massage scheduled for tomorrow morning, and then it's showtime in the studio.

Later guys,

-Adam Junglen