Announcing The First WWdN PokerStars Tourney

Posted Oct 13th 2005 12:56AM by Wil Wheaton
Filed under: Bloggers, Tournaments, Online Games, Texas Holdem

(Crossposted to WWdN: In Exile)

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, including poker bloggers and cardsquad readers. :)

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!

Reader Comments

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1. 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.

Posted at 3:03AM on Oct 13th 2005 by Beck

2. Wil,

When can we expect to receive confirmation of registration for the blogger tournament? I signed up when you announced it, but I can't find the tournament itself on Stars, nor have I received any kind of emial confirmation (or denial) of my registration.

I'd like to know soon whether the registration attempt worked or not; I'd hate to find out at the last minute and not be able to do anything about it.

Posted at 1:20AM on Oct 15th 2005 by JoeBlow

3. Joe: I'm not sure how you confirm your registration. Maybe try going to the PokerStars Lobby, and doing Requests -> Registered in Touranaments.

If that doesn't work, shoot an e-mail to support@pokerstars. They should reply to you very quickly.

Post your results here, okay? Then I'll know what to tell people for next time.

Posted at 12:55PM on Oct 13th 2005 by wil

4. $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.

Posted at 1:15PM on Oct 13th 2005 by robd11

5. Even here on the East Coast I'll still be at work, but I'll be sure to join you for one of the inevitable follow-up games in what I'm sure will become an ongoing series for you.

Posted at 1:23PM on Oct 14th 2005 by Browncoat Mal

6. Well, the 14th is HDouble's Murder's Row weekly game and 4pm EST is a tad early for me but I hope to bust you in tonight's little game. :-)

Posted at 8:12PM on Oct 13th 2005 by Bill Rini

7. Wil, the Requests -> Registered in Touranaments thing did it. I wasn't even aware of that menu option and I've been on stars over two years now. :)

Since I didn't see the blogger tourney in the list, even though other tournaments out to the 23rd and later were listed, I figured it just didn't exist yet.

Thanks!

Posted at 10:05PM on Oct 15th 2005 by JoeBlow

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