{"id":41,"date":"2008-06-14T10:41:48","date_gmt":"2008-06-14T10:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-06-14T10:41:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-14T10:41:48","slug":"welcome-to-the-world-series-of-poker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/14\/welcome-to-the-world-series-of-poker\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the World Series of Poker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_1710.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patandstacy.com\/blogs\/sb\/IMG_1710.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"243\" \/><br \/>\nLucky boots&#8230; CHECK.<br \/>\nClean underpants&#8230; CHECK.<br \/>\nSkanktacular sportswear&#8230; CHECK.<br \/>\nWSOP Registration&#8230; CHECK.<br \/>\nTable Assignment. Amazon Blue, No. 38, Seat 3&#8230; CHECK.<br \/>\nHoly SHIT this place is huge! Not only does it take 15 minutes to walk from the front desk to the convention center, the room is literally the size of a football field and lined with poker tables. No flash photography &#8211; learned that little tidbit a little too late, but they were nice enough about it. Lining the halls of the convention center are chair-massage stations, souvenir stations, food kiosks and information stands for &#8220;THE OFFICIAL VITAMIN SUPPLEMENT OF THE WORLD SERIES OF POKER.&#8221; From the air quality surrounding many of the players, I thought that was Vitamin 2-C (Caffeine and Cigarettes). They have mini tournaments going on throughout the day, for those who haven&#8217;t dropped enough coin already.<br \/>\nWhat have I gotten myself into? T-minus 2 hours, 11 minutes and counting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucky boots&#8230; CHECK. Clean underpants&#8230; CHECK. Skanktacular sportswear&#8230; CHECK. WSOP Registration&#8230; CHECK. Table Assignment. Amazon Blue, No. 38, Seat 3&#8230; CHECK. Holy SHIT this place is huge! Not only does it take 15 minutes to walk from the front desk to the convention center, the room is literally the size of a football field and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/14\/welcome-to-the-world-series-of-poker\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Welcome to the World Series of Poker<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patandstacy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}