The pod people kids are /away this week, and Anne was out most of the day, so after I ran a bunch of errands, unsuccessfully shopped at the mall for the coolest watch in history, and did my laundry and the dishes . . . I rewarded my Big Boy behavior with a little online poker.
I’ve been playing the $22 SNGs at PokerStars.com for a while (thanks to the Sit-N-Go chapter in the 3rd edition of Lee Jones’ Winning Low Limit Hold-Em, I’ve finished in the money in each one I’ve played over the last two months!) and I thought it would be fun to play a little bit today while there isn’t a gorgeous wife running around who I’d much rather play with . . . and I wanted to fill some space on the blog with the two best things about it.
Thing the coolest happened on the first hand of heads-up play:

Seat 6: michael97045 (11265 in chips)
Seat 9: Wil Wheaton (2235 in chips)
michael97045 said, “ok… now that it’s just me and you…. are you THE wil??”
Seat 6: michael97045 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 9: Wil Wheaton (button) (small blind) collected (450)
michael97045: posts the ante 25
Wil Wheaton: posts the ante 25
michael97045: posts small blind 100
Wil Wheaton: posts big blind 200
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Wil Wheaton [Qc 3c]
Wil Wheaton said, “i guess so, yeah.”
michael97045 said, “i didn’t want to be the nerd guy to ask”
michael97045 said, “lol”
Wil Wheaton said, “wait. unless you mean Wil Smith.”
michael97045: folds
Wil Wheaton collected 250 from pot
Wil Wheaton said, “I’m the other one.”
michael97045 said, “i’ve spent most of this game reading your site”
Wil Wheaton said, “are you serious?!”
michael97045: calls 100
michael97045 said, “lol”
Wil Wheaton: checks
*** FLOP *** [3c 2h As]
michael97045 said, “yep”
Wil Wheaton said, “that’s totally going on my blog”

Thing the next -coolest:

PokerStars Tournament #11618125, No Limit Hold’em
Buy-In: $20.00/$2.00
9 players
Total Prize Pool: $180.00
Tournament started – 2005/08/22 – 15:42:24 (ET)
Dear Wil Wheaton,
You finished the tournament in 1st place.
A $90.00 award has been credited to your Real Money account
Congratulations!
Thank you for participating.

Yeah! I was out-chipped 11000 to 2200, and I managed to claw my way back and win it. It was teh awesome.
I’m going to put together a private WWdN tourney real soon now, with a $10 +1 buy-in, so it’s affordable for most people to play. If you’re interested, sign up for PokerStars, and watch this space for tournament details in the near future.