Who will I stack or by whom will I get stacked? Who will I interact with? Each day is a party. One of best things abt playing poker professionally and living in Vegas is the novelty of each day’s experience. He also made the final table of the WSOP $50,000 High Roller for $436,412, the third-highest score of his career. Poker Open with four cashes for more than $500,000 in total. Among his many significant results, he went on a heater at the PokerGO U.S. While 2023 has yet to heat up for Shorr, 2022 was an absolute monster for him as a Vegas local.

“Thankfully, so much stuff is coming through Vegas these days so I can make a living without having to travel a bunch,” he continued. It’s a good area we live in Vegas, seems like a good place to raise a family so I’m pretty excited. “And we knew we wanted to start a family so it’s actually working out. So my now wife, then fiance, and I decided we wanted to just be in one place a little bit more, and it worked out being in Vegas,” Shorr said. “I spent basically a decade traveling worldwide, and that was awesome and so much fun, but it was pretty exhausting. A few years ago the Alabama native relocated to Las Vegas to refocus on poker, and tournaments in particular. Shorr has plenty of reasons not to sweat what may be a current downswing. But yea, it’s always nicer when it’s going well than when it isn’t.” I don’t put too much stock in any few-month period of time. It’s been a little slow, but thankfully, the last several years have gone really well. “Actually, ’23 hasn’t been so great,” Shorr said.

Results that any player would envy.īut as many tournament players can attest to, sometimes looks (and results) can be deceiving. A fast start to 2023 found him booking back-to-back five-figure scores at the PokerStars PCA in the Bahamas, and he recently followed that up with a runner-up finish in a $3,000 WSOP Circuit event in Las Vegas for another $53,561. “That was pretty cool, saves me a buy-in,” Shorr said with a smile in the aftermath.Ī look at Shorr’s recent results it would seem that there’s been a lot of things going right for the longtime pro. Shorr rivered a much-needed diamond and right before bagging for the night, he tripled up to a healthy stack heading into Day 2 of the $3,500 WPT Rolling Thunder main event. And on the last hand of the night, Shorr got it all-in against two opponents, looking for his flush draw to hit in with one card to come.īink. But Las Vegas’ Shannon Shorr had been here before. It was a long day of grinding a short stack, one that would test anyone’s patience. Shannon Shorr playing at the 2022 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

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