The last few days I’ve just been rifling through various movies, video games, and TV shows. Lots of time on the couch and by the TV - which was convenient, because Chris Lawton from the Wall Street Journal contacted me to do a quickie interview on my television installation. Not sure when it’ll be published, but I’m sure I’ll mention something once I hear word of it.

Other than laying around and doing nothing, it looks as though I’ll be going to Vancouver in less than a week to play in the Coast to Coast Championships at River Rock. Jeff and I were both invited to be bounties, so it looks like we’re gonna be making the trip (again).

That’s all for now.

Sorry for the lack of content recently. It’s been a difficult few weeks for my family and I.

I’ve actually been somewhat sick and out of it lately. I really wish that was the only bad news I have, but it isn’t.

Roughly 3-4 weeks ago, my Uncle John (my mother’s brother) was diagnosed with Leukemia. He was given 50% chance to live a year. News like this always hits hard, but John and our family seemed optimistic. About a week later, I visited him at the hospital to drop off some DVD’s and talk. He seemed to be doing alright, and I was fortunate to have a nice hour-long, “heart to heart” talk with John.

About a week after I had talked to John, I got a call from my mom informing me that John wasn’t doing well at all. His condition was rapidly worsening, and I’m deeply saddened to say that he’s no longer with us. My Uncle John (I believe 56 years old, I’ll fix later if wrong) passed away on Friday night. He will be severely missed.

I can only hope to be as good of an uncle to my niece, Anna (who’s turning 1 next month), as John was to me. She’ll be hearing stories all about my Uncle John =)

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I played a session of tournaments for the first time in a couple of weeks today, and despite not going deep in anything major, I felt great about most of the decisions I was making.

There’s a small TS series coming up from the 5th-11th in May, and depending on how I feel I might make the trip. TS is kind of mehhh, but I haven’t played a live tournament in awhile. I’ll probably decide about 2 days before it starts, haha.

Kind of a depressing blog, eh?

Thanks for reading anyways. Hope everyone’s doing well,

-Adam Junglen

World Series of Poker Europe is airing in Australia and some parts of Europe. Anyways, the episodes are available on Pokertube - which also has my EPT coverage, for those of you that missed that.

Here's a link to all of the WSOPE videos . If you're just looking for me, I'm on Episode 4, parts 1/4, 2/4 and 4/4.

While your there, check out my EPT Barcelona coverage if you haven't already. To get there, just click "EPT Season 4" on the right under "TV Poker Shows." I forget which exact episodes I'm in, but I bust out during Episode 3 part 1, so most of my hands are during episodes 1 and 2.

Oh, and for the record, my last name is pronounced just as it appears. Not "Younglen." It's Junglen....with the letter "Jay." Is it really that hard?


Later,

-Adam

I've actually been keeping fairly busy lately. That's right, the content that's found in these entries may actually occur!

Well, I'll stop with the sarcasm, but things are going great, and I'm doing good as well. With my last post being so negative (unable to attend EPT MC), I've been taking advantage of the positive attributes of the situation. Basically, I've been keeping busy.

On Friday, on a complete whim, I decided to the nightly tournaments. As far as online tournaments go, Thursdays and Fridays are a double edged sword. The fields are generally softer and smaller, but that's because there aren't any large buy-in tournaments on either of those days. I did manage to final table the Stars Nightly Hundred Grand ($150+12 buyin), but busted out disappointingly in 7th for around $4k.

The Sunday tournaments were beyond frustrating. It was the quarterly $1k Million, which was one of the biggest online tournaments of all time - 1st was $366k. I don't believe I ever had more chips than my starting stack (10k). Just nothing went my way. Then, in 2 or 3 tournaments with prize pools > 75k I lost either a coin-flip, or as a 70/30 favorite, for a top stack with 3-4 tables left.

So, pretty standard weekend poker-wise.


Things around the apartment are going well. I gave Ray my old desk, and rearranged my bedroom. I setup my "old" 37in LCD HDTV in my room.

I guess it's been 2 months since I started living here, and things are finally shaping up to how I pictured them when I first moved in.


That's all there is to share here for now,

-Adam Junglen

This really sucks, but I'm going to have to cancel the trip to Monte Carlo.

Sorry on the false report. I arranged a Dollar to Euro transfer and even could've roomed with Watts again. Unfortunately, for a couple of reasons I'm not going to be going (no, not busto). I couldn't find any reasonable flights (I found one with 2 stops both ways with a very long layover for 3k, lol), combined with the fact that I always hear about flight delays when going to France, and experienced one myself last year, landing 4 hours before playing the $15k USD event. I just decided to skip it.

Considering I haven't played a live major in awhile, I almost feel obligated to just deal with it and go - but I've got some work around here to keep me busy.

PokerVT is finally going to be launching next month, as you can guess I'm extremely excited about that. Daniel was recently on the 2+2 Pokercast - which is starting to grow on me. Anyways, he gave a good interview and answers a handful of questions I've received regarding PokerVT. Check it out.

Plus, I'll attempt to piece together my first Bluff Magazine article. I already have a couple of ideas, but if you'd like to comment on any ideas you may have, I'll take them into consideration. Again, I'm just brainstorming. Not in any rush to beat the deadline, but if something comes to me, then I'll let you guys know when you'll be able to check it out.

I guess that's about everything from here for now.