The WWdN: penner42 Invitational is Tonight

Posted Jan 31st 2006 2:36PM by Wil Wheaton
Filed under: Bloggers, Tournaments, Online Games, No Limit Texas Hold'em

This is your semi-regular reminder that the WWdN Friday game on Tuesday is tonight, and while I have your attention, I'll also remind you that the Thursday game is the day after tomorrow.

After much tweaking of the schedules, I've decided that the games will always take place at 8:30 EST on Tuesday, and 8:30 PST on Thursday. This should give everyone a chance to make it home from work, school, or the Regal Begle in time to play.

A question for European players: are there more than five of you? I'm happy to host a once-a-month European-friendly game that would start very early (around noon Pacific) to accomodate you guys, if there's enough interest.

Also, don't forget that everyone who enters the Tuesday game has a shot at the WWdN Tournament of Champions, which is a free-roll SNG, sponsored by PokerStars. If you win a Tuesday game, you'll get a chance to play against me and seven other winners for some serious money, just because PokerStars loves you that much. I've been remiss in getting the first ToC scheduled, and I'll take care of that shortly.

Here are the details for tonight's game. Please feel free to spread them around.

What: WWdN: penner42 Invitational
Where: PokerStars.
When: Tuesday, January 31. 8:30 EST
Password: monkey
Tournament number: 18610753
Buy-in: $10 1

We're averaging about 70 players per game. I'd love to get that number up over 100, so the final two tables pay. Any suggestions on how to do that?

Finally, do you keep a live blog when you play the tourneys? If you do, let me know and I'll add all the live bloggers for tonight's game to this post. It could be a very fun Rashomon if enough people participate.

Reader Comments

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1. Suggestions on how to get tourney up to 100:

Allow the Pokerstars bots to play. ;-)

Posted at 3:00PM on Jan 31st 2006 by DavidK

2. Hmmm... I've sworn off poker for a week, but I suppose I can still try to take wil's chips. Perhaps I'll even live blog over at UFP.

Posted at 3:24PM on Jan 31st 2006 by CJ

3. Hey Wil,

yeah im in england and although the friday ones were at 2 in the morning, it was still better than 2 in the morning on a worknight ;). Ive found out sleep walking is nothing to sleep tilt..

If you could throw together a special game im sure you'd still get a few regulars.

Ta

Zack

Posted at 3:52PM on Jan 31st 2006 by Zack

4. Well, I'm located in Germany (as most should know by now) so I would love to see a tourney with a earlier starting time (the tuesdays are 2:30am my timezone) - I'm not sure how many players would be up for it though (as it seems that 90-99% of all WWdN regulars are from the US)...

So for the time being I'll just try to play the WWdN as it is...on another note: after getting to the final table in the WWdN #10 I'm even more poised to finally win one - the ToC sure sounds like a thing worth trying for!

As for the > 100 players...I don't think there's much more that can be done, after all you are pimping it, other bloggers (including me) are pimping it...the only other thing I can think of: Ask Otis to pimp it on the official PokerStars blog (after all you're a member of Team PokerStars, current participants are (almost) all regulars of PokerStars + poker bloggers, ...)?!

Posted at 4:08PM on Jan 31st 2006 by Ingoal

5. Maybe this is the night I'll finally make it home in time! Please, Wil, use your magical powers to make the 5 freeway flow smoothly and quickly from Orange County to San Diego. I wanna play!!!

Posted at 6:05PM on Jan 31st 2006 by iamhoff

6. randomsam and I (randomjustin) will attempt a bit of liveblogging over on http://www.randomhumans.com.

pants.

Posted at 7:33PM on Jan 31st 2006 by justin

7. Apparently to get 100+ people, all you have to do is mention that you want more than 100 people. :)

Posted at 8:27PM on Jan 31st 2006 by Brian Hughes

8. No GIGLI for me tonight!

Posted at 8:28PM on Jan 31st 2006 by Joanne Lutynec

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