{"id":913,"date":"2015-05-28T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T22:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2015-05-28T21:40:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T04:40:49","slug":"enter-the-wsop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=913","title":{"rendered":"Enter the WSOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1ks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-914\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1ks-1024x600.jpg\" alt=\"1ks\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1ks-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1ks-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1ks.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Playing one of the non-turbo $1K NLHE buy-in tournaments sometime this summer? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokernews.com\/strategy\/picturing-day-1-structures-stacks-low-buy-in-WSOP-NLHE-21668.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s some stuff to keep in mind that might be of use getting through Day 1<\/a>. I couldn&#8217;t completely anticipate that the increase in the starting stack wouldn&#8217;t extend Day One, but as soon as it went up, the WSOP put<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsop.com\/promotions\/files\/updated-colossus-information.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> this advisory out about the Colossus<\/a>, which has the same structure.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be in Las Vegas tomorrow morning (29 May) for the first weekend to pick up my media pass. I hope to meet up with as many Pacific Northwest\u00a0players down for the Colossus as I can, catch up with anyone who&#8217;s read the blog or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?page_id=792\" target=\"_blank\">one or more of my articles over the past year or so<\/a> and liked it (or had a bone to pick with it), and other members of the poker media that I&#8217;m trying to weasel into. I&#8217;ll be tweeting info about OR, WA, ID, and BC players in restarts (and other info) with the hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23PNW_WSOP_15&amp;src=typd\" target=\"_blank\">#PNW_WSOP_15<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing one of the non-turbo $1K NLHE buy-in tournaments sometime this summer? Here&#8217;s some stuff to keep in mind that might be of use getting through Day 1. I couldn&#8217;t completely anticipate that the increase in the starting stack wouldn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/?p=913\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[42,3,49,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apropos-of-nothing","category-general-poker","category-live-games","category-tournaments"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1t0pn-eJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutantpoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}