CardPlayer’s got live updates from the WPT tourney Wil’s in:

God fucking damn it. Wtf?!

You might have missed this at WWdN if you skipped the comments (I usually do), but I wanted to see what names I recognized in the comments (Badblood and CJ, for instance), and noticed there’s a link to his audioblog entry briefly recounting Day 1.

Sounds like a damn good time.

Not to mention the fact that he hung out with Lee Jones and had dinner the night before with Greg Raymer, which made me think, “Wil’s not a regular guy after all.”

This, of course, is a testament to the openness of his storytelling and daily blogging. When you first read WWdN, you think, “Hey, this guy who was a Star Trek actor sounds like a regular guy. In fact, he’s got pretty cool taste in music and I like his politics.” Okay, so maybe the second sentence only applies to me. Still, you get the picture. WWdN rounds out the idea that is Wil Wheaton with all the mundane details that make him real (somewhat similar to the detailed scar makeup Wil got on the set of CSI–those details you don’t see make the whole more believable). So when these actor/celebrity things pop into the frame every so often, they sometimes seem out of place to me.

Though I have no idea why hanging out with poker players seems more out of place than being in a tv show or hanging out with some celebrity somewhere.

Anyway, regular guy or no, I hope he makes the final table. That’d make for some rad stories.

Shout out to FullTilter ScottMc, who apparently gains insight into my play from this here blog.

1AM Update

So I decided to mix it up a little and try some more limit hold’em on Full Tilt Poker, inspired in part by Absinthe’s killing session the other day playing 2/4 and 3/6 on Party’s BBJ tables and Pauly’s good results at FTP’s 3/6 tables.

I guess it’s something like, “Hey, if those guys can do it, why can’t I?”

But I think I was missing a crucial piece of the argument here; those guys are winning poker players, while I’m just a break-even, thank-God-for-reload-bonuses, small-stakes player.

Nevertheless, I loaded up two 2/4 tables and was patiently folding my trash hands when ScottMc outted me as a blogger. There’s always something a little disconcerting when that happens. Suddenly I feel expected to raise hands like 72o out of position and overplay them when I hit bottom pair and the baby flush draw. Especially when you find out you’re sitting at a table with two bloggers who will appreciate your starting hand selection.

I’ll be honest. I don’t like playing the hammer at the NLHE tables because it seems like a cop-out to just raise big and put the pressure on. I mean, sure, that’s an important lesson about NL–your cards don’t matter in certain situations against certain opponents. But man, if you can pull off a successful hammer bluff in low-limit limit hold’em, you’re a god.

Anyway, my love affair with FTP continues. +28BB for the night, for a win rate of 7BB/table-hour, I think. After 25 days of play on FullTilt, I’ve almost tripled my buy-in (including $180 of bonus money) and have had only three and a half negative tallies during that time. For me, this is a big deal.

So today’s lesson for my fellow break-even, thank-God-for-reload-bonuses, small-stakes players is to swing on over to Full Tilt and give it a try.

Hey, if I can do it, why can’t you?