Championship Week

This is my second favorite week of the sports calendar (next week being my favorite). Thursday through Sunday the next three weeks there will be wall-to-wall college basketball and I will be lucky to get off the couch for more than an hour or two a day.

I'm hoping to miss a couple days of the action in favor of intense late-game tournament poker. The Bay101 Shooting Star WPT main event started today. I play day 1b tomorrow along with some friends. I haven't been quite as excited about this one as I usually get before a 10k event. Still there is plenty of motivation:

• I haven't cashed on the WPT since 2005
• I probably won't play another 10k event until July at the WSOP
• As usual, this is probably my best chance ever at a huge score

It's a 10k event. I don't think I will ever get over the excitement of plunking down ten grand to play in a poker tournament. If I ever do, it will be time to do something else.