It is absolutely killing me that I can’t talk about playing in the WPT Hollywood Home Game last night.
I’ll have to save the specifics for the forthcoming story (working title: “lying in hollywood”) but I think I can safely say (without violating any of the NDAs I signed) that I had an incredibly good time, and that everyone involved in the production of that show: the Travel Channel execs, the series producers, Mike, Vince, Shana (sigh) and all the poker pros . . . every single person there is So. Freaking. Cool.
It’s a classy production they’re running there, and I still can’t believe that I got to be part of it. I can’t wait until I get to play with them again!
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Lucky. I’m getting a withdrawl on hold’em. What’s some good places to play (cheaply) in LA? Any 1-2 tables?
-Chris
I probably won’t get to see it*. When can you yak?
*Canadian Wil Wheaton Fan Curse (CWWFC)
Well, since you can’t talk about it, I suppose I shouldn’t repeat anything I heard from a friend who works for WPT – but she said you were nice, and ….
well, glad you had fun ..
Ditto Reena’s comments. We should form a club.
When is it planning to air Wil?
WPT?
World Poker Tour, I bet.
and, it doesn’t look like it is scheduled until at least October? Unless they kill a few reruns and put on a few episodes. Hello, people? New is better than old!
Can you tell us who the other players were?
Hey Wil- I am glad you had a good time, it sounds like it was a blast!
~M~
I want more poker exploits! Better make that WPT report a good one. 😉
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Oh, and Jeri Ryan’s ex-husband dropped out of his Illinois Senate race:
AP: Illinois’ Jack Ryan abandons Senate bid
Not likely any Republican candidate will win in that state, but still, this is a setback for them.
So I take it you won, eh?
That’s good that you got to play on the show. I don’t usually watch the celebrities play but I’m sure it’s fun for them… Last year Dr. Buss owner of the lakers was on the wpt championship and that was fun, yet the idea there is not to let a “novice” beat you and he lost of course.
I think your a good actor, I see you from time to time on TNG. And it was good to see someone who was young and friendly on there. I hope you recieve better roles in the future.
I would like to ask every one who,like me, e-mailed the Producers of WPT Hollywood Home Game to “Please invite Wil Wheaton to be on the show”,that you send a follow up e-mail thanking them for having him on.Congratulations Wil on hosting Talk Soup…er…Playing in the WPT Hollywood game.Might need to update your wish list there “DUDE” heh.Yeah,I said Dude.
Hey Reena and Geoff….I’m canadian too!!!
I hope I can see it on one of my channels. I love reality shows best when that put celebs on…..makes them more real.
When does this air? Hopefully I will catch it. I have watched most of the celebrity poker games. They are usually much more entertaining than the pro games. (Especially if Nicolle Sullivan is playing.) I hope you stomped their asses Wil!
Did they talk about the episode where Daniel Baldwin acted like a total nutcase?
Wooohooooo!
Rock on! My brother is trying to get poker legalized in Georgia. He worked out a formula to prove that it’s a game of skill rather than luck–he just needs a little more data to prove his theory.
Wil, you gotta…
Know when to hold ’em
Know when to fold ’em.
Know when to walk away
Know when to run.
You don’t count your money
While you’re sittin’ at the table;
There’ll be time enough for countin’
When the dealin’s done.
Freeman 🙂
IMO, the important thing isn’t whether you won or lost, it’s that you had a good time there, and it sounds like you did. It’s good to hear that the show is a class act for the participants as well as for the viewers. I’m very much looking forward to seeing it when it airs, and to reading “Lying in Hollywood” when you are able to post it.
So, are you planning to get in any poker time during the convention weekend in Las Vegas next month? 😉
I’m no poker expert, but I think I can’t wait until I get to play with them again is a pretty big tell indicating Wil won the $25,000 buy-in to the WPT championship next year. Best of luck, Wil…
either that, or else he’s saving up for next year’s tourney… 😉
personally, I’m debating whether or not someone over at Bravo needs to be shot… it’s BS that Wil’s not there, but then again, the Celeb Poker Showdown sucks as a show….
I’m just waiting for ESPN & the WSOP ’04. 🙂
Being Canadian, I have the pleasure of waiting until who knows when before we get to see it. Did I say pleasure?
There should *really* have a ST:TNG match. I’d just love to see who can really play poker from that group. I bet Gates would do well, because she’d be under estimated. But then, I don’t know her from a hole in the wall, so what do I know. Brent would probably be hilarious to watch play. I bought his album you know. (well, actually, my mother in law bought it, and I accidentally hit record and made a tape of it, accidentally.) I realise I’m rambling, but it’s really just because those spores got me from that planet I was on, you know, the one where Spook got cuddly with Charles Bronson’s woman. OH wait, wrong series. Nevermind.
w00t!
Rock on, Wil! Hope you did well. The way you’re straining to hold back talking about it, one would think that you at least had some measure of success like you did in the Odessa game. Speaking of which, did that ever pan out into a return trip, since you did place third?
Maybe this will spawn yet another JAG companion book, “Lying In Pasadena?” And not lying to Anne, mind you, either…
“Wil, you gotta…
Know when to hold ’em
Know when to fold ’em.
Know when to walk away
Know when to run.
You don’t count your money
While you’re sittin’ at the table;
There’ll be time enough for countin’
When the dealin’s done.”
Heck, I count my money, every other player’s money. How much is in the pot. The percentage of the pot that my next raise will likely be. I calculate the percentage of the amount my opponents will have in the pot. I count the percentage of what my opponent’s bank will have to bet.
Hi Wil,
Love your blog, yup yup.
I know this is the wrong thread, but have you seen this gmail thing?
http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/
Can’t wait to hear how you did! Although the poker blogger community is disappointed you didn’t get a chance to drop the HAMMER. Maybe next time.
I’m also glad you played in the WPT version of celebrity poker and not the shameful Bravo version. That one tends to be an embarrassment.
I wonder if you used your “consult a pro” option 🙂
Wil,
So, you had a great time. Good, I hope that means you won. Well, to bad you can’t write about any of it. Maybe next time.
FG
I know this seems kinda random, but I was just watching TV, and noticed that you and NASCAR driver Kurt Busch bear a resemblance.
(Are you really a NASCAR driver in your spare time?)
CmdrTaco you sick, sick fool. Lets hope Wil a) doesn’t take too much notice of your depraved ramblings and b)gets to remove your post before too many people get a chance to read it.
Pauly P.
Again huh? As far as I know, the only way you get to play in the WPT AGAIN is…
Ruger
Wil,
Exactly ten years ago the final episode of ST:TNG
aired and in the final scene the bridge crew was playing poker, including Captain Picard. Too bad Wesley wasn’t there. You could have beat them all. (If it had been in the script.)
Freeman 🙂
Nice thing with the gmail stuff, gongrats!
I so defended Wil Wheaton’s honor this weekend. Someone was all like “Wesley was just some producer’s nephew who weaseled his way onto the show.” Then I laid the smack down. It was awesome.
My Kentucky license plate is very cool and unique for a vanity plate.
7 OF 9
Yes, I have a license plate that says “7 OF 9” – I got it a couple of years ago, long before this whole twisted soap opera of Jeri Ryan and her ex husband and now soon to be EX-SENATOR Jack Ryan.
I’m sure I don’t need to convince you what an asshat scumbag Jack Ryan is. And knowing that now, my heart goes out to Jeri Ryan and the pain, both physical and emotional that she went through being married to hypocrite bastard Republican.
How ironic that the movie EYES WIDE SHUT is on as I am posting this. This movie just makes my point easier to illustrate as it is verly likely the kind of thing Senator Ryan is involved in. Perhaps Senator Ryan took his ex-wife to just those sorts of masked sex parties.
I curse Stanley Kubrick for making Eyes Wide Shut his last film. I am a fan of most of his other works, but I will instantly change the channel when that movie is on.
It’s not that I’m a prude…well…maybe I AM a prude? But to me, the idea of a masked sex party where the rich and powerful elite gather to induldge in their twisted desires. For a Po’bunker like myself, those kinds of events fill my heart with rage and disgust, that the rich and powerful get to have their fancy orgies.
Such organizations do exist as seen in that movie. THAT is what disgusts me the most. That rich bastards like the Bush crime family, people with money and power, they live a totally seperate existance. For them, these kinds of parties might be the only way for them to have sex. One of George W. Bush’s nephews, Neil Bush, had his wife divorce him because of all the different hookers he had sex with during their marriage and the similar sex clubs that Neil Bush was involved in.
Obviously Jack Ryan would be someone in attendance of one of those types of parties, in a hooded cloak and mask like Tom Cruise. But would he be sleazeball enough to try to make his wife parade naked around the guy in red with the cane? My guess is he probably would.
What stunned me the most about this whole bizarre soap opera this past week were two things. One, the so-called “moral watchdogs” of this country, namely Pat Robertson, remaining SILENT about this scandal.
Had Jack Ryan been a Democrat instead of a Republican, Pat Robertson would be on his television soapbox every night leading a crusade to have Ryan removed from public office. Kinda funny how Pat is so quiet and forgiving when it’s a fellow conservative who got caught thinking with the little head instead of the big one. Makes you wonder if Pat Robertson isn’t going to those masked sex parties himself.
Remember what Sydney Pollack says to Tom Cruise in the scene in the billiard room the next night. “If I told you the names of who was at that party, and I’m NOT telling you, but if I DID, you would not sleep at night.”
The second thing that shocked me was Jeri Ryan’s endorsement of her ex-husband, saying that despite his shortcomings, that he would still make an excellent senator.
That’s like if you were selling someone a house and they asked you what kind of condition the house was in, and you said to the prospective buyer, “Well, it has no floors, no walls, no ceiling, no electrical, no gas, no plumbing, no sewage, no foundation, but it’s still an EXCELLENT house to raise your children in.” – My thought was that Jeri Ryan was coerced into giving the endorsement.
Ah well, good thing that Farenheit 9/11 is finally out in theaters. Now that the people see how not only does The Emperor Bush have no clothes, he has no mind either. Hopefully when John Kerry is elected President, this country will get a lot better. It’s about time we had a President again who was a JFK from Masschusets!
Yeah, because as we all know, only republicans can have odd sexual fetishes. Get real.
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Wil, I couldnt find the appropriate blog about your book deal, so let me use this one. I’m so very happy for you! Your experience has been a roller coaster ride and I’m so glad to know that good things are still happening in your life. I’m a writer, a grandmother — and a big fan of all the ST crew, especially you. I wish you all the best always, Ann
PS In fact, I think I’ll attribute my next blog to you 🙂 http://thestarsthatilove.blogspot.com/
I really enjoy Hold’Em, but playing “no-limit” even with friends is always a recipe for disaster for me. This is due to the fact that even if it’s a really low buy-in ($20 or whatever) that $20 is “worth” a lot more to me than my friends who seem to have a lot more spending money available, and losing $20 for me basically means a month of having no spending money at all! That said a good 1-2 game is a whooooole lotta fun. Just have to stay away from the “no-limit” games.
How many WPT winners have shacked up with Jennifer Lopez? … the list is growing.
That’s just weird. I went to Atlantic City this weekend with a bunch of friends, and while we didn’t play poker (it was blackjack for us), the recent popularity of poker in general and Texas Hold ’em in particular was definitely a big topic of conversation!
Wil, watching you on the WPT is going to be a hell of a lot of fun – keep us posted about when it’ll air. As Andrew asked – can you at least tell us who our opponents were?
I hosted my first no-limit Holdem poker party this weekend – so much fun, and it was great to put to use the set of 13-gm poker chips my excellent hubby bought me. Now if I can just get that one-handed chip shuffle down, I’ll be an official playa… =)
Actually… Ben Affleck didn’t win a WPT event. He won the California State Poker Championship… that’s not a WPT event. It does, however, guarantee him a spot in WPT championships. Um… unless you’re saying Wil won, and he shacked up with J-Lo…
Heh, that was supposed to read, “who YOUR opponents were”.
Can’t wait to see the episode. Hope you were shark among little fishies. Please tell me you didn’t act like a goof ball (ahem, like Fred Savage last season) each time you won a monster pot.
Quick question: How much taller are you than Negraneau, Jen Harmon, and Shana?
Gov. Rocknar:
“It’s not that I’m a prude…well…maybe I AM a prude? But to me, the idea of a masked sex party where the rich and powerful elite gather to induldge in their twisted desires. For a Po’bunker like myself, those kinds of events fill my heart with rage and disgust, that the rich and powerful get to have their fancy orgies.”
The middle class and not-so-powerful have orgies, too. You have to know the right kind of people to get invited to them, but they’re there, all over the country–even in Po’bunk, I’ll bet. And they’re not fancy orgies, but sometimes they do put out a nice buffet.
I’m sorry that the idea of lots of people having sex at once disgusts you and fills you full of rage. But as long as it’s harming no one and everything’s consensual, I don’t think that the idea of orgies is “twisted”.
I will pray for you.
Wil,
Thanks to you and “lying in odessa” and all of your other poker entries (like this one), I totally try and watch WPT every chance I get, trying to guess what should be done, what I’d do, etc. But I think I should remain an armchair poker player because I have an addictive personality, and I lost $300 in Vegas learning how not to play craps on my 24th birthday.
Eeee! Wil, I’m delighted you were included in the Home Game! I was watching the latest Celebrity Poker, and I enjoyed it, but was crestfallen at what you’d said, that they wouldn’t be interested in having you on.
But WTP Hollywood Home Game is obviously ten times better! Play for charity *and* play for a buy-in to the big tournament.
… Is “The Lovely” a legal part of Shana’s name at this point? 😉
Congratulations at being invited to play, Wil. There’s lots of poker on the TiVo, but we’ll watch that one immediately when it comes ’round.
Can you tell us what episode it will be billed as? Camryn Mannheim, for example, was in WPT Hollywood Home Game episode 3, IIRC.
bhart – you’re so right about bloated, pervy, crazy Daniel Baldwin on WPT… He could kinda play, but dude might consider cutting back on the blow a bit before his next TV appearance.
I’m confident, though, that Uncle Willy will have represented just fine with his sly wit and mad poker skillz. Question is, what are the odds that we’ll catch him ogling the cocktail waitresses? 😉
COOL STUFF WIL! You rawk supreme and in my next life I wanna be your friend 🙂
I can also see why you so often remove comment capability… what the heck is with all this yap over Jack Ryan WHO CARES? Spare us all the long winded diatribes or save them for your own damn blog!
For those who hadn’t noticed the sign on the door it reads Wil Wheaton Dot Net, nuff said.
I watched an episode of poker recently where Sean Astin got totally blown out of the game in a VERY short time, something like three hands! You need to call Sean, Uncle Willy, and teach him how to not go “all in” on a bluff!
I had to vent my anger about Ryan. What got me really spewing bile was the fact that Ryan promoted himself to be a man of “family values” by his own campaign website. Ryan himself saw nothing wrong in such clubs. Is that someone concerned with family values.
Jack Ryan learned a lesson in BORG family values!