{"id":228,"date":"2007-02-11T15:37:55","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T20:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/11\/poker-passion\/"},"modified":"2007-02-11T15:37:55","modified_gmt":"2007-02-11T20:37:55","slug":"poker-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/poker-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"Poker passion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The local tournament-style Texas Hold&#8217; Em poker game last night was great fun &#8211; I knocked a couple people out and ended up in 4th place.  Keith made it to 2nd place, which is typical, and Chris was the first one out, definitely NOT typical.  Just goes to show &#8211; even though it&#8217;s a great game requiring both strategic and bluffing skills, you can&#8217;t remove lady luck from the equation.  :> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The local tournament-style Texas Hold&#8217; Em poker game last night was great fun &#8211; I knocked a couple people out and ended up in 4th place. Keith made it to 2nd place, which is typical, and Chris was the first one out, definitely NOT typical. Just goes to show &#8211; even though it&#8217;s a great &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/poker-passion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poker passion<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumption","category-daily-life","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-3G","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":154,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2005\/getting-to-be-a-tradition\/","url_meta":{"origin":228,"position":0},"title":"Y Princesses Fall Outing","author":"m","date":"November 3, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Tomorrow is our family fall camping trip, the Gillespies are joining us - we can't wait. 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