{"id":11624,"date":"2012-03-15T23:56:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T04:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=11624"},"modified":"2012-03-15T23:56:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T04:56:13","slug":"poker-victory-maxs-sports-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/poker-victory-maxs-sports-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Poker victory @ Max&#8217;s Sports Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I headed down south to Max&#8217;s Sports Bar to play poker tonight. It&#8217;s a bit different than Monday-Wednesdays. It&#8217;s only a $15 prize. Also, it&#8217;s a true freezeout tournament, and you start with 10,000 chips at 25\/50. For those reasons it&#8217;s more like &#8220;real poker&#8221; than the other games Downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I won. However, I got on Twitter a little while afterward and found that some people think I got lucky or caught cards.<\/p>\n<p>Those people know who they are, and I&#8217;d like to invite them to prove their point by playing me in a $1 small blind\/$2 big blind cash game. Buy in for whatever feels comfortable, up to 100 big blinds. We&#8217;ll find a place to play and chips. Due to variance this won&#8217;t absolutely settle who&#8217;s the best player, but it will be a start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I headed down south to Max&#8217;s Sports Bar to play poker tonight. It&#8217;s a bit different than Monday-Wednesdays. It&#8217;s only a $15 prize. Also, it&#8217;s a true freezeout tournament, and you start with 10,000 chips at 25\/50. For those reasons it&#8217;s more like &#8220;real poker&#8221; than the other games Downtown. Tonight I won. However, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/poker-victory-maxs-sports-bar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poker victory @ Max&#8217;s Sports Bar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11625,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions\/11625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->