After playing tournaments every day for almost a month, and then hitting a terrible losing streak, I just wanted to walk away from poker for a bit. It’s been a nice break, but I’ve recently started to get the itch to play again.
Anne and I went to Vegas yesterday for the opening of the new Blue Man Group show at Venetian (full review is coming soon — short review: it’s awesome). We stayed at Mirage, and though I was more interested in sitting with my wife than sitting at a poker table, walking past the poker room reminded me of how much I miss the damn game.
So, I think I’ll get back on the horse with a WWdN semi-private tournament, this Friday afternoon. It’s just a $10+1 buy-in, so it’s affordable for most people. To come and play with me and other WWdN readers, sign up for PokerStars and then when you log in, go to Tourneys -> Private -> WWdN: Where’s My Burrito? Invitational, or you can just search for tournament number 13722477. The tournament will happen on Friday the 14th at 4:00PM EST. I know this is a little early for West Coast players, but it should make it easier for international players to join us. The password is "monkey."
In easy-to-cut-and-paste-into-your-own-blog form:
What: WWdN Where’s My Burrito? Invitational
Where: PokerStars.
When: Friday, October 14th. 4:00 PM EST
Password: monkey
Tournament number: 13722477
Buy-in: $10+1
This tournament is open to anyone who reads WWdN or WWdN:IE, or who happens to know that the password is monkey. 🙂
It should be fun, a nice warm-up to the PokerStars Blogger Tourney, and if enough people show up (and enjoy it, of course) I will make it a weekly event, with the time (and buy-in) rotating to accomodate everyone who wants to play. As an added incentive, I’ll name the next tournament after the player who knocks me out.
I know two days is short notice, but I hope lots of you can make it. I’ll be sure to give more notice for future tourneys.
I hope to see you there!
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Bah! I’ll still be at work. But I’d really like to play – judging by the railbirds you get when you play, I’m sure there’ll be multi-week interest. I’ll catch it another week.
mbd, aka GoodRev42
P.S. No books or other goods from pokerstars for the final table/bounty from the Katrina Tournies. Any idea on their schedule?
Mike –
Sorry you can’t bust me again 😉
I’ll check with PokerStars to see what’s up with the Katrina bounties. I know most of the people who work on that stuff have been in Europe for the EPT.
Sadly, I’ll also still be at work–I’ve been considering getting in on the “real money” tournaments now that I’m not losing “fake money” anymore, but the timing for the game is a bit inconvenient.
Now, if you were to run something at 2 a.m. EST….
“Dr.” JSc
I would soooo play if I had the money. I’ll most definitely play in the near future… once I get my bank account set up.
As for the blogger tourny… I’m so there. 😉
I’m in. Finally got set up to play online (to think–I’ve been playing poker for a year, but never once online), and I might as well kick things off by playing in your tournament.
I’ll be sure to bring my hammer.
4PM EST would be a little early for me even if I was on the east coast, as I’d expect I’d still be at work at that hour on a Friday.
My Windows machine is currently in my garage, and I never got Stars to work on my laptop in Linux, anyway.
Maybe next time.
I’m on vacation this week so I should have time to go in. I tried to sign up and only had $10.70 in my PokerStars account. I went into a $0.02/$0.04 table until I got it up to $11.02 to register … *phew* … I’m all set up and ready to go … player #6.
i forwarded this info on to my dad. if he is able to play i will show up to watch.
First Poker Tournament
I’ve just signed up for my first online poker tournament.
ts 9pm BST, should have got dinner out of the way and kids in bed by then, just got to get permission from my wife!
I expect to be either busted out fairly early on, or find myself foldi…
Hey wil.. how do you buy in? CC? check?
I have been trying to find you on poker stars for some time.. keeps telling me you are not found. I am central time so maybe that has something to do with it.. but I am really interested in getting into your tour. 🙂 let me know email me please @ [email protected] if you can. Thanks, Misty Barnes
Are most of your foreign readers in Europe? It might be convenient for them, but for those of us on the other side of the world it’s really early.
That being said I might be up at that time (it being 5 am in Japan) but I can’t figure out how to get money into my danged pokerstars account. Another problem of being overseas.
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sorry
I guess I’m a comment hog
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No really
They’ve got some stellar acts signed and work hard not to dillute or whitewash any of the indie feel
I’ll be at work during this tourney, so I’ll miss it. But I’ll be watching for the next one, and I’ll be playing in the Blogger tourney on the 23rd. Maybe I’ll have time to build up the leftover money in my PokerStars account to meet the $10+1 buy-in, instead of having to make another deposit.
4pm EST. Yah, that would be when I’m at work.. on the east coast. For whom exactly is 4pm EST convenient? Maybe people in the UK and thereabouts…. Bermudians?
Will have to catch it next time!
Sorry – 3PM (CST) way too early. I’d love to do it though.
9pm in the UK, great for me 🙂
WWdN Wheres My Burrito? Invitational
What: WWdN Wheres My Burrito? Invitational
Where: PokerStars.
When: Friday, October 14th. 4:00 PM EST
Password: monkey
Tournament number: 13722477
Buy-in: $10+1
…
Yeah, I’ll still be at work too. (Central time) I’ve been raking in the cash in the play tables for the last few weeks. Been looking to get into some low end real action. Maybe next time!
Damn you, Skywalker.
Seriously.
Couldn’t let everyone else get home from work? C’mon! Commutes, man.
Damn!
I was the first to drop my 11 dollars for the tourney. Here’s hoping I’m not the donk that gets knocked out first… xP
Here’s hoping it boils down to a Wil/Pauly heads-up showdown…
PokerStars ID: SeedyV
Sure, make me work a few hours late tonight so I can leave early tomorrow (at least that’s the plan for now)! If it’s as big a hit as it looks like it will be, you may want to try a schedule like:
1st Friday of the month: 8PM ET
2nd Friday of the month: 6PM ET
3rd Friday of the month: 4PM ET
4th Friday of the month: 2PM ET
That will help your readers world wide make at least one game a month plus give you at least one Friday off a quarter!
I’ll be leaving work to play!
how do the private tournaments work for you, do you use the software to set one up yourself, or do you email someone? i hope to get 2000 fpp so i can set up private tables to run a league at pokerstars. if i get it going i’ll invite my favorite blogger! damm i wish the fpp could be built up a little bit easier…..
Like many others, I’ll unfortunately be at work.
However, I am signed up for the Blogger tourney on the 23rd. Haven’t seen your name there yet, Wil. Being a blogger and PS Team member I thought you’d be one of the first to sign up for it.
Meh, maybe you’re not interested in going to the WPT Caribbean event.
Dangit! Sometimes living in Alaska has its disadvantages, and timing is the big one.
Sigh.
Yeah, it’ll be -noon- when the tourney starts playing, but that just means i’ll be sitting at my desk eating lunch, and no way to play.
I like the rotating schedule, but you should increase the step from 2H to 3H at least… maybe even 4H, as that would let you span a 12H period over the month.
$11!!! Do you think we’re made of money?
hmmm, 4pm on a Friday. Will need to leave work early AND tell the wife she’s looking after the boy. Seems like a no-brainer to me.
Little early for the West Coast? This is early for the East Cost too, not to mention the midwest. We can’t all sit at home and write for a living . 🙂 On a weekday, entrants will be hard to come by this early, hope to be able to play another day.
Don’t worry if you can’t make it out guys … there’ll probably be other Tourneys that Wil will set up.
And think of it this way, you would have to lose your money to me! But if you really want to, you can just mail me your cheque for $11 😀
Hey will Tom Green (yes that Tom Green) thinks you are awesome. Check it out! http://www.tomgreen.com
Oops I realized I spelled your name incorrectly as I was posting the comment. Wasn’t able to stop it in time… Sorry about that Wil!
I’ll jump onto the “I live in EST and 4PM is still way too early for those of us with day jobs” bandwagon…
Secondly, what is a $10+1 fee? I mean, I’m sure that’s somehow different from $11, but how exactly?
Thirdly, I really really wish PokerStars would put out a Linux platform client. Maybe something in Java, that could run on any machine that has a JRE? Can you talk these guys into that?
10+1 means that 10 goes to the prize pool, and 1 goes to the house (PokerStars.com). I’m at home watching the youngest then, but have to pick up the kindergartener at 2pm Pacific. Either bust our early, or win enough to survive the blindings, but I’ll give it a try…
On the linux platform, I’m pretty sure you can play on pokerstars using WINE… In fact, I think thats what Wil does…
Also, although Java pretends to be platform independant, we all know that it isn’t even Browser independant, let alone OS independant… 😉 No Java, please…
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wil!!!
you are on tv right now, on channel 4 in this program of hollywood wunderkids, talking about river pheonix.
of course, you knew.
i swear i almost flew out of my chair when you suddenly appeared. and talked the most out of all the interviewees!
lookin’ good and sharp!
What Mudboy said.
I hear the complaints about the starting time loud and clear. The other tournaments I run will start at different times, so everyone gets a chance to play.
I’m also going to do different buy-in levels, too, as low as $5 +1 up to $30 +3.
I made a typekey account just so I could comment here :). Sorry to hear your website is broken..that sucks.
Those Blue Men really freak me out..but I am sure that their show is cool..
aw HELL!!! i’m STILL too young to sign up for PokerStars! *makes annoyed grrrr noise* you having any more of these after the 17th Wil, ’cause i’d be able to play then…
I’ll be at work as well but I’ll watch when I get home…*however*…if there will be future events in the offing,then I would definitely like to take part. Any time as I’ll be out on medical leave until mid December.
Now to figure out how to get money in there seeing as my cc hates online gaming….*ponder ponder*
Wow, if I knew absolutely anything about poker, I’d join in! But I’m a poker n00b, so I’ll just wait and read about the tournament later. Have fun everyone! :o)
Doh! Thanks to Southernpxie’s post, I realized I could use my Typekey ID that I created for posting at WWDN.
I’ll be playing tomorrow and in the blogger tourney. I might have to leave early to pick up my stepson, though, so I’m probably going to be sitting out next to Mudboy with a huge stack of chips. 😉 I should only be gone about 25 minutes, though. Hopefully I won’t blind out.
That is, assuming I get that far without busting out, of course.
Ahh, yes, my PokerStars ID is: PantsOnFire
See ya there…
HEy Wil,
I haven’t abandoned you. I check back on your page often and saw the same headline so I never bothered to scroll down to see the update!
You should move the UPDATE to the top of the page so people who check will see it first!
Now I have a backlog to read!! 🙂
I’m signed up as tournament entry number 41. Ironically I think this is going to be post 42 on this entry.
It should be a nice, small tournament.
Technically this isn’t the first Wil Wheaton-named poker tournament, though it is the first WWdN poker tourney. Herr Wheaton has the Wil Wheaton Memorial Poker Tournament held at Linucon in Austin every year. And yes, Wil, my money says hi.
Sweet! 46 entrants! That means that everyone at the final table will be a winner!
Would love to play in the “First Ever”. Unfortunately I’m stuck in the middle of the Desert and the Army has seen fit to block access to PokerStars.com. Ain’t that some shiz…
Great! I was just in the mood for a tourny tonight… this will be fun! 🙂
Will, just so you know, musicians and families of musician-types are boycotting Blue Man. The show is full of scabs and the production company is making a mint by running the show with all non-union folks.
It’s up to them, but it really screws the artists in the towns they travel to.
More info:
http://www.aboutweblogs.com/item/1104
Wil, just so you know, musicians and families of musician-types are boycotting Blue Man. The show is full of scabs and the production company is making a mint by running the show with all non-union folks.
It’s up to them, but it really screws the artists in the towns they travel to.
More info:
http://www.aboutweblogs.com/item/1104
I was so going to play, even though I’m at work, but the damn internet connection went down so I couldn’t register!
Of course it came back up 10 mins after the tournament started. I suppose I should be working anyways.
You should definately do this again!