Hammer time at the WWdN

I played in the WWdN last night and did my normal early exit. I made it to about 65th or so out of 98 and the only interesting plays that I can recall at this point were a couple of nice hammer plays.

PokerStars Game #4669835096: Tournament #22928623, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level I (10/20) - 2006/04/18 - 20:39:05 (ET)
Table '22928623 7' 9-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: 23skidoo (1850 in chips)
Seat 2: Astin (1430 in chips)
Seat 3: kaellinn18 (2135 in chips)
Seat 4: memento2199 (1460 in chips)
Seat 5: malice51 (1440 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 6: darval (1105 in chips)
Seat 8: GCox25 (1440 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 9: MikeRH (1100 in chips)
kaellinn18: posts small blind 10
memento2199: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to darval [2h 7c]
malice51: folds
darval: raises 60 to 80
GCox25: folds
MikeRH: folds
23skidoo: folds
Astin: calls 80
kaellinn18: folds
memento2199: folds
*** FLOP *** [Qd Ts Td]
darval: bets 200
Astin: folds
darval collected 190 from pot
darval: shows [2h 7c] (a pair of Tens)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 190 | Rake 0
Board [Qd Ts Td]
Seat 1: 23skidoo folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 2: Astin (button) folded on the Flop
Seat 3: kaellinn18 (small blind) folded before Flop
Seat 4: memento2199 (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 5: malice51 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: darval collected (190)
Seat 8: GCox25 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: MikeRH folded before Flop (didn't bet)

The ongoing discussion at the table was I should have slow played it more and made more money. I was not that confident, but when the opportunity presented itself, I tried again:

PokerStars Game #4669946527: Tournament #22928623, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Level II (15/30) - 2006/04/18 - 20:48:54 (ET)
Table '22928623 7' 9-max Seat #9 is the button
Seat 1: 23skidoo (1920 in chips)
Seat 2: Astin (1240 in chips)
Seat 3: kaellinn18 (2270 in chips)
Seat 4: memento2199 (1230 in chips)
Seat 5: malice51 (1380 in chips) is sitting out
Seat 6: darval (1345 in chips)
Seat 8: GCox25 (1560 in chips)
Seat 9: MikeRH (1015 in chips)
23skidoo: posts small blind 15
Astin: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to darval [7s 2c]
kaellinn18: folds
memento2199: calls 30
malice51: folds
darval: raises 30 to 60
GCox25: folds
MikeRH: folds
23skidoo: calls 45
Astin: folds
memento2199: calls 30
*** FLOP *** [Tc 6s 3c]
23skidoo: bets 120
memento2199: folds
darval: raises 180 to 300
23skidoo: calls 180
*** TURN *** [Tc 6s 3c] [Qd]
23skidoo: bets 210
darval: raises 775 to 985 and is all-in
23skidoo: folds
malice51 has returned
darval collected 1230 from pot
darval: shows [7s 2c] (high card Queen)
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1230 | Rake 0
Board [Tc 6s 3c Qd]
Seat 1: 23skidoo (small blind) folded on the Turn
Seat 2: Astin (big blind) folded before Flop
Seat 3: kaellinn18 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 4: memento2199 folded on the Flop
Seat 5: malice51 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 6: darval collected (1230)
Seat 8: GCox25 folded before Flop (didn't bet)
Seat 9: MikeRH (button) folded before Flop (didn't bet)

That one was fun, but it was way too stressful as 23skidoo took a long time to think about it before folding.

Our WWdN: Not tournament actually got mention by Wil in his post at Cardsquad, so we set it up early to see if we could get more registrations.

What: NOT WWdN
Where: PokerStars.
When: Thursday, April 20th, 8:30 PM PDT
Tournament: 23351606
Password: monkey
Buy-in: $10+1

Once again, feel free to spread the word. Note that the name changed slighly to match what Wil called it in his post.