There 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.