Last night I attended the first night of a new poker league being hosted by “Poker Jon.” It consists of five poker games, held four nights a week. The locations are<\/p>\n
Players will compete to accumulate points. You get 1 point for showing up, 1 point for bringing someone who has never been to league play before, 1 point for a 6th place finish, 2 points for 5th place, 3 points for 4th, 4 points for 3rd, 5 points for 2nd, and 6 points for finishing first in a league game. Points will be accumulated over 10 weeks. At the end of that period, the top players (top 9 I think he said) will be invited to the final table, where each player will get 20,000 chips and play will be a deep-stacked, slow-blind structure. Prizes are still being discussed, but there will definitely be a gold bracelet for the league champion. Other prizes will be awarded too – in the past, Poker Jon’s bars have given away prizes like a trip to Las Vegas and a cruise.<\/p>\n
It’s a fun time with real felt, real chips and increasing blind structure, so come on out and play.<\/p>\n
I busted out early in last night’s game… picked up a pair of pocket Jacks and moved all in. Unfortunately Mark from Marks Menus<\/a>, sitting to my immediate left, had been dealt pocket Kings, and the flop, turn and river failed to produce the third Jack I needed. Oh well. I still enjoyed playing.<\/p>\n Edison Pena, the Chilean miner who loves Elvis Presley, is being treated like a king (should I say treated like The King?) by the Peabody. He’s staying in a luxury suite at the hotel, and he’s been given a $1,000 shopping spree at Lansky Bros.<\/a>, where Elvis bought his clothes.<\/p>\n One of the Memphis jobs accounts I follow on Twitter, @tmj_mem_jobs, tweeted a Service Express Supervisor job at the Westin this morning, if anyone is looking for a job Downtown.<\/p>\n News from Arkansas: Razorback quarterback Ryan Mallett is entering the NFL draft<\/a>. Hog fans hoped he’d return for his senior year, but you certainly can’t blame the guy for choosing millions of dollars in salary over a fourth year at school. Congrats to Ryan and thanks for leading the Hogs to their first BCS bowl appearance.<\/p>\n Oh – one thing I forgot to mention about my visit to Bar None last night for poker – my Foursquare<\/a> check-in there made me the new mayor, ousting former mayor the Nuh-Uh Girl. I should have plugged my iPhone into the bar’s speakers and played the Memphis Tigers fight song to celebrate.<\/p>\n Not sure what to do this evening… boring early January night. May just stay home. Happy weekend everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night I attended the first night of a new poker league being hosted by “Poker Jon.” It consists of five poker games, held four nights a week. The locations are Silly Goose, Mondays 9 PM and 11:30 PM Bardog Tavern, Wednesdays 7:30 PM Bar None, Thursdays 7:30 PM Bayou Bar & Grill, Sundays 7:30 … Continue reading “Poker league starting this week. Plus: Westin job, Edison Pena, Ryan Mallett”<\/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\/8627"}],"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=8627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8628,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions\/8628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}