Well, I haven\’t been around as much, but have still been writing about Poker.  After my last post, I went on to do a 5 page feature article on the $25-50 Pot Limit Omaha game here in Calgary.  It was published nationwide, including store rack sales, in Poker Pro Canada (PokerproMedia).

They also included a 3/4 page piece I was hired to write for the Big Slick Poker Tour.
  

Moving forward I had my hands full with Canadian Poker Player Magazine, but was able to pull a couple of Pokerweblog writers into the mix for that issue.  The \”Poker Princess\” and \”Hot Aussie Chick\” contributed full page articles and we were able to plug their blogs in return. The magazine is distributed across casinos nationwide, so hopefully they see some extra traffic.
For those intrested, all of these articles are now available online in a flip PDF than is identical to the print mag here:
I managed to write a good bit of content, having a couple feature articles and the cover piece, a Question and answer with Antonio Esfandiari.  This was a big deal to me, as his was the first poker book I had ever owned.  As well, I was lucky enough to do another Q and A with Annette Melton, the Aussie TV and Fashion personality who does 888 poker\’s \”Behind the Scenes\” video around the world.  I would most recommend checking out her poker commentary videos and pics here: http://annettemelton.com/ 
For the June Issue of Poker Pro Canada, which has just hit shelves, I did another 6 page feature on \”5 Canadians to Watch at WSOP\”
and a 2 page follow up on the highest stake game that is played regularly live on Canadian soil.
Right now, I am working on the Story of the Canadian Open Poker Championship, with the owner of the Canadian Poker Tour, Kelly Kellner and on profiling the 6 CPT Sponsered players. Many people might be surprised at the roots of the COPC as top well known players from Australia to Los Angeles helped put together the first 5k Heads Up event in 2006.  This year it will span 11 days and have 13 events over the series.  If everything goes according to plan, it will be the largest prize-pools and series ever hosted on Canadian soil.  This is what I will spending most of my time working on until the end of August and any in depth writing is going to have to take the back burner.  I will still be keeping players up to date on events on our \”Canadian Poker Tour\” Facebook page, on Twitter @CPTOnline, on my own accounts (Jon Harnish on FB and Jontm on Twitter) I invite everyone to follow our news feed on http://www.canadianpokertour.tv/and to check out the TV episode videos of the 2008 COPC 5k HU at http://www.canadianpokerplayer.tv/ 
My goal now as far as poker writing goes, will be to write a piece good enough to be published in Cardplayer.  I recently blogged this on their social network, and they are sending me a T-shirt.  Score!  
I will also be heading down to Vegas for 6 days in a few weeks, so I hope to have a little something to talk about after that.  Now that the poker world seems much smaller, this is the most important trip for me down yet.  I hope to actually get some time in on the felts, but I know there is much work to be done as well.  The Canadian Poker Tour will also take part in the Poker Exhibition on Freemont Street maybe I will meet some one who reads this there.  June 24-27th.
For now, it\’s time to keep my head down and focus on thee tasks at hand, but I needed to come back long enough to leave this blog.  Vince, you and the Poker Web Logs crew helped me immensely in getting this far in my poker writing goals, don\’t think I will ever forget everything you have done!


Cheers all!