{"id":3792,"date":"2009-05-19T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T16:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2009-05-19T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T16:56:00","slug":"tue-update-kooky-canuck-bardog-poker-draft-lottery-ca-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/tue-update-kooky-canuck-bardog-poker-draft-lottery-ca-articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Tue update: Kooky Canuck, Bardog poker, draft lottery, CA articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Tuesday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kookycanuck.com\">Kooky Canuck<\/a> put their 34 oz. signature cocktails on sale for $5, and it must have gone well, because it looks like they&#8217;re doing it every Tuesday now. One of those will take you from zero to hammered in record time.<\/p>\n<p>Bardog Tavern continues their Freeroll Poker Tournament tomorrow night, Wednesday, May 20, in the downstairs Underdog Room at 7:30 PM. Call 901-275-8752 to reserve your spot. Compete for prizes, as well as points to be accumulated over a 16-week period toward a grand prize of a cruise for two. Space is limited, so call them ASAP if you want to reserve a spot at the table. This is a Texas Hold&#8217;em tournament with progressive blinds. The first week they did it, it ran late, but now they&#8217;re doing their best to get it done by 10:30. It&#8217;s hosted by Gut Shot Poker.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA draft lottery is tonight. I haven&#8217;t heard as big a buzz about it as in past years, perhaps because the Grizzlies did a little better this season, and enter the lottery with the 6th worst record in the NBA. Therefore, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nba_draft_lottery\">Wikipedia<\/a> their chances of drawing picks are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1st pick: 6.3%<\/li>\n<li>2nd picK: 7.1%<\/li>\n<li>3rd pick: 8.1%<\/li>\n<li>6th pick: 43.9%<\/li>\n<li>7th pick: 30.5%<\/li>\n<li>8th pick: 4%<\/li>\n<li>9th pick: 1%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where to watch? The Saucer isn&#8217;t hosting the Grizzlies&#8217; watch party this year (Buffalo Wild Wings at Poplar and Highland has it) but there will still be a lot of people there. Another good place would be Calhoun&#8217;s on GE Patterson, Downtown&#8217;s best sports bar. Silly Goose has a $2 drink menu from 5 to 10 and four TVs, so that would be a good spot to drink for cheap while you watch the lottery. I believe the lottery starts at 7:30 PM, but wherever you go, you better show up early to get a good seat.<\/p>\n<p>The Commercial Appeal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2009\/may\/19\/nba-draft-lotterytoday-7-pm-espn-pick-can-make\/?partner=RSS\">projects Memphis Tigers guard Tyreke Evans<\/a> as the 7th best player in the draft, so if the Grizz don&#8217;t move up in the draft, there&#8217;s a possibility we could end up with a local guy.<\/p>\n<p>A few articles in the CA this weekend that are relevant to Downtown, which Downtowners may have missed due to BBQ Fest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A profile of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2009\/may\/16\/leadership-academy-fellows-sridhar-sunkara-it\/?partner=RSS\">Sridhar Sunkara<\/a>, the Center City Commission&#8217;s IT director and a Leadership Academy Fellow. I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of working with Sridhar on MPACT Memphis projects, and he&#8217;s a good person to know in the world of IT.<\/li>\n<li>An article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2009\/may\/16\/this-little-piggy\/?partner=RSS\">the Pink Pig clothing line at Shelton Clothiers<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An article on a couple living in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/news\/2009\/may\/17\/my-new-home-two-decades-to-downtown\/?partner=RSS\">2 West condos on GE Patterson<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Block party at Main and Peabody Place Thursday night.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll post specials later today or early tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Tuesday, Kooky Canuck put their 34 oz. signature cocktails on sale for $5, and it must have gone well, because it looks like they&#8217;re doing it every Tuesday now. One of those will take you from zero to hammered in record time. Bardog Tavern continues their Freeroll Poker Tournament tomorrow night, Wednesday, May 20, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/19\/tue-update-kooky-canuck-bardog-poker-draft-lottery-ca-articles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tue update: Kooky Canuck, Bardog poker, draft lottery, CA articles&#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\/3792"}],"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=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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