Surfergeeks

Okay, first, I know that the page looks broken right now. It’s because of the coding that I needed to put in for the Poker link on the left. That link will get me an invitation to a bloggers only poker tourney this upcoming Sunday. After the tourney, I’ll remove it.

Next, last night Nikki & I played in a $10+$1 buyin over on Pokerstars.com. As you know, usually we play at UltimateBet but the thing is…Wil [IMDB] Wheaton [WWdN In Exile] is a player over at PokerStars and he’s hosting a weekly tourney. The person that knocks him out of the tourney gets the following weeks tourney named after him/her. That’s pretty sweet. Oh yeah, there’s the prize money too. Last night the winner walked away with over $400. So, how did we do? Well, not so good. Nic went out fairly early. I hung in there. I had a couple “minimum” goals that I really wanted to accomplish: 1) Crack the top 50 (there were 152 entrants) 2) Last longer than Wil.

So how did things turn out? I finished in 49th. Wil finished in 54th. So I did it, I beat Wil. Now, I wasn’t the one to knock him out, so there will be no “WWdN Robbie Robb Invitational” next week. In fact, neither of us actual ever ended up at the same table as him. He was placed at a low number table from the beginning and I was at the table right next to him. It was unlikely that I would ever get moved to his table unless something really wonky happened at my table where 4 people went out all at the same time or something.

This was Nikki’s first time playing on Poker Stars. She, like me, prefers the front-end of UltimateBet over PS however there are some REALLY nice features that I wish UB would adopt. With PS it is possible to have the tournament summary emailed to you, as well as your hand statistics for pretty much any hand or series of hands. So in short, UB = prettier, easier to navigate. PS = more function. There’s also the “apparent” (as in we all think it is there but UB denies it and there’s really no way to prove it) propensity to deal ‘action’ hands where out of 10 people, 2 or 3 may have pocket pairs and someone else has Big Slick. This is to generate a ton of pot action, thereby increasing the rake that the company makes. We’ve all seen it. PS doesn’t seem to have this – at least not in tourneys. I’ve still got some cash left in my PS account so I’ll probably play for some bucks over there again. I’m looking forward to the next WWdN tourney. Maybe I’ll get to take on the man himself.