Google Calendar – WSOP 2006
April 21st, 2006 | Published in Software, Tournaments
All of the cool kids are using Google Calendar these days, and frankly if you’re not then you’re different and strange and people will not be attracted to you.
One of the many good things about Google Calendar is the ability to share calendars with friends or with other users. In fact, Google have used the iCal format popularised by recent MacOSs, so you don’t even have to be using Google Calendar in order to view a calendar created in Google Calendar.
So anyway, a bit of easter weekend boredom prompted me to create a calendar that contains all of the events at the 2006 World Series of Poker which I’d like to share with all of you, so that you too will now be able to locate the lone Stud event in amongst the dozens of NL Hold’em tournaments.
If you’re already using Google Calendar, then the easiest way to add my WSOP calendar is to do a search for ‘poker’ and you should find it on the first page of results.
Otherwise you can click on either of the two links below to get an RSS feed or iCal calendar instead, although I’ve tried the RSS feed in Bloglines and it looks, well… rubbish.
Frankly, given the eight hour time difference between my house and Vegas, I’m not sure how much notice I’ll be taking of the live updates, unless of course the final table takes like three days to finish like it did last year, prompting runner-up Steve Dannenman to admit later that he was happy to give up the $7.5m first prize because he was bored of playing.
At some point I’ll probably do some other calendars for major tournaments in Europe and the US.
If anyone has any trouble with this particular calendar (either finding it or using it) then leave a comment or mail me and I’ll see what I can do.
