With 95+ people scheduled to attend, it’s a given that many of the folks coming have never been to a previous WPBT live event. In fact, many people are newer bloggers and still more are guests of bloggers. With that being the case, I thought it would be a good idea to maybe have us introduce people that others may not know that well. If nobody introduces you, feel free to introduce yourself. I’ll start.
Brian May (aka StatikKling on his website MattahFuhtu). Brian and I worked together at eToys back in the dotcom days. Brian is a kick-ass software engineer who was often a member of our crazy and wild after-work poker games where lots of dotcom cash changed hands over games of 357, screw your neighbor, and a whole host of games in which David Sklanksy has never written a book about.
Michael Montegue (aka Mike’s Poker Blog). Mike and I met when I was doing a lot of scuba diving. He got certified at the shop I was diving with and a natural bond occurred when I found out he was a software engineer at Activision which was on the first floor of my former employer, eToys. Mike and I were part of a group of divers who went to Phuket, Thailand several years ago and we ended up doing a lot of hanging out and getting into trouble together in the Land of Smiles. I helped cultivate Mike’s poker bug by introducing him to some of the local LA casinos and he came with us to the last WPBT event in Vegas where he and Grubby took up a shared interest in negative EV gaming.
Jon “The Kat” Katkin. Katkin isn’t a blogger but he writes for a living as one of our Tilt compadres. He’s a co-worker and a member of the Friday night Murder’s Row game. Jon is relatively new to the game but having been thrown into the deep-end of our Friday night games, he’s picked up things surprisingly fast (the possibility of getting killed every Friday tends to help one focus).
So who do you know that may be new to the WPBT scene?