{"id":2921,"date":"2019-01-01T23:59:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T07:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2019-01-02T16:32:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T00:32:24","slug":"r-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"R-Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px; text-align: center;\"><em>The\u00a0<strong>Poker Mutant\u00a0<\/strong>is retired from poker as of today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No poker today. No poker tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll still make the ocassional game, but for now I&#8217;m out of the game on a regular basis. I&#8217;m going to post some links over the next couple of days for people to reference for the info I used to collect.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of the folks who have offered encouragement and support over the years, particularly my little gang\u00a0<strong>Poker Team 1<\/strong>:\u00a0<strong>Daryl Vogel<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Brad Press<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Steve Myers<\/strong>. Many thanks to my cousin-by-marriage\u00a0<strong>Kelly Buechler<\/strong> for introducing me to my first home in 2007. Best wishes to my former programming colleague\u00a0<strong>Tomer Berda<\/strong> for advice and a couple of great experiences at the feet of a poker master.\u00a0Thanks to\u00a0<strong>Mark Humphrey<\/strong> for offering me the good room in his Las Vegas condo on my longest shot at playing in las Vegas back in 2012 and\u00a0<strong>Jeremy Harkin\u00a0<\/strong>for a god deal when I needed one for someplace to stay in Vegas when I worked the WSOP.\u00a0<strong>Sean Gentry<\/strong> and <strong> Darin Stout<\/strong>\u00a0for some damn good photos of me at the table.\u00a0<strong>Rebecca Hanington<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Devin Sweet<\/strong> for they-know-what.\u00a0<strong>Ben May<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Brian Sarchi<\/strong> and the late <strong>John Ogai<\/strong>\u00a0and everyone else who operates or has operated a poker room in Portland.\u00a0<strong>Chadd Baker <\/strong>for<strong> Portland Players Club<\/strong>.\u00a0My travel and intellectual partner\u00a0<strong>David Long<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Joe Brandenburg<\/strong>, <strong>Elizabeth Tedder<\/strong>, <strong>Jacqi Burkhart<\/strong>, and the always-entertaining\u00a0<strong>Angela Jordison<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Cat Martin<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Heath Bloodgood<\/strong>, and the rest of the staff at\u00a0<strong>Final Table <\/strong>for helping with the website project. Everyone I didn&#8217;t have time to list before I hit\u00a0<strong>Update<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Poker Mutant\u00a0is retired from poker as of today. No poker today. No poker tomorrow. I&#8217;ll still make the ocassional game, but for now I&#8217;m out of the game on a regular basis. I&#8217;m going to post some links over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=2921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-poker"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-L7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}