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Posted on By Wil

Darwin_1There has been a lot of fun poker in the last few days for me. The Friday WWdN Invitational has been a huge success two weeks in a row, and seems to be growing, I had a BLAST at IGN live, and the PokerStars Blogger Championship yesterday was a whole lot of fun.

I posted a live blog of the Friday Game at CardSquad:

5:04 PM – We’re at the first break. This is incredibly fun. What
a great group of people! I have 3105, and I am third at my table
(leader has 5400). Average is 2533. Our chipleader is the poker princess  herself, with 7285. There are 90 players left.

5:05 PM –
First hand after the break, I get KK in the cutoff. I raise it up 3x,
no callers. It’s funny to me that I get nervous when I see cowboys now.
🙂

5:27 PM – CJ from UpForPoker just got moved to my table. He’s REALLY good, and has position on me.

5:34 PM – wwdnposse just got moved to my table. His avatar is the image from "Wil has a posse." That is too weird.

5:35 PM –
I’m all-in UTG with pocket eights. One caller, plus CJ who also pushes.
I hope I’m in for a race here. Oh. No I’m not. CJ called me with KK.
Can I crack Kings? No, there’s a King on the flop. I go home in 54th.
What a disappointing finish. I really wish I hadn’t donked off those
chips like a dipshit, but I had a LOT of fun, and now there’s only one
"wil" avatar at the table.

5:37 PM – Join us next week for the WWdN: Up4Poker Invitational! (Tournament number 14090593, for you early registration types.)

The whole thing is at CardSquad, includng the final table, and the cash game I played with a bunch of other poker bloggers after I busted out. While you’re there, you may want to check out the recap of the Blogger Championship:

I was playing from IGN Live in Anaheim, where I was signing autographs and playing in SNGs for PokerStars. (Note: IGN Live was really cool. If you get a chance to attend one, GO!) I
was seriously multi-tasking at one point, when a reporter from Area51
radio sat down and talked with me about my books, poker, Star Trek,
gaming, voice overs, and all that other crap I do.

I moved up to almost 3000 chips early, but I missed some draws, got
pushed off some hands by GRob, and slowly dropped back down. I went
into a shell as the blinds came up,  and with just over 900 left, and
the blinds at 75/150 I was way behind par. I pushed from early position
with a A-8o. It was folded to ohthen, who called with pocket nines. The
flop came ace, ace . . . nine, giving ohthen a full house against my
set. The turn was a queen, and I caught the case ace on the river to
make quads and double up! Dems quads, beetches!

I’m working on a couple of posts for the next few days over there, that I think will be of interest to beginning players.

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Comments (9)

  1. Not that I really know the first thing about poker, I enjoy the enthusiasm that comes through in your entries about it. Not to mention that I love your monkey.
    Ok. Out of context that might sound odd. LOL Cheers!

  3. I had to dose myself up on caffine for last weeks tourny with its midnight start here in the UK, and this one is 2 hours later, ouch !
    But I’ll still be there.

  4. Ack, now Wil is calling me weird (I’m wwdnposse). Sigh. Maybe that’s why Wil hasn’t returned my emails lately. 😉
    Its a tribute Wil, really! Heheheh.
    Seriously tho, I started the name back when your first tourneys were going on a few months ago, and now that Im playing at PS more, yeah, I wish you could change the name – not that I mind being The Posse, I just don’t want you to be embarassed by The Posse showing up at your table in the final rounds.
    And yes, being weird. :/

  6. Heheheh, that’s ok, it just kind of hit the panic meter. Im having a blast at your tourneys but dont want you to feel uncomfortable having The Posse staring back at you. 🙂
    All’s good.

  9. The celebrity poker thing is nice, but let’s see some real stakes involved.
    How about a celebrity poker tournament where the celebrities are playing with their own money?
    How great would it be to wee Wil, with stacks and stacks of chips, staring down Danny Bonaduce across the table, who’s sweating it out because you know he is consistently on the verge of financial ruin?

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