{"id":13882,"date":"2011-06-07T11:57:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T10:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=13882"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:08:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:08:16","slug":"not-playing-wsop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/not-playing-wsop.html","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m thinking of not playing at the WSOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13889\" title=\"Tony toilet\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tony-toilet1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tony-toilet1.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tony-toilet1-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I admit it, I\u2019m thinking of not playing an event at the WSOP this year because I am scared I will get pi**ed on. Like Phil Hellmuth, I have realised that I no longer have what it takes to keep up with the kids. They have worked me out and will flush me out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you aren\u2019t in Vegas you wouldn\u2019t have seen the new marketing initiative by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokernews.com\/\">PokerNews<\/a>, it is actually a sophisticated market research strategy, we paid millions for this. I want people to tell me what they think of me! Despite that, I will not take it to heart I will let it all wash over me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I heard the person to christen these mats was Mike Matusow. That doesn\u2019t surprise me in the slightest, he\u2019s been raining down on me for weeks. So many of you have asked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/tonyguoga\">via Twitter<\/a> what my reaction to his attacks on me is and I just say this. I love Mike the Mouth, not enough to have his babies but whatever he says I will still love the troubled genius.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I was watching an old show the other day where we both featured, he makes me smile at the table \u2013 at least he doesn\u2019t sit there with a hoodie, sunglasses and top of the range headphones saying nothing. He sits there spurting absolute nonsense and makes the game entertaining.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Mike Matusow doll giveaway<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13883\" title=\"Matusow doll\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/matusow-doll.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/matusow-doll.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/matusow-doll-295x300.jpg 295w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I don\u2019t really hate anybody, I love to needle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/phil-hellmuth-latest-entry-to-a-poker-tournament-in-history.html\">Phil Hellmuth<\/a> (I may be found in the restrooms but his face was on a beer that tasted of urine) but I don\u2019t hate him, quite the opposite actually.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Why else do I have dolls made up of famous poker players so they can be in my company 24 hours a day. It is with this in mind that I have decided to give away for permanent adoption my Mike Matusow doll (signed by Mike of course) to one lucky reader of my blog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Post the player you dislike the most and the reason why on this blog post below (entries only selected from comments on this blog) and I will choose one lucky winner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Be original, make me laugh. Remember a Mini Mike is for life, just not for Christmas! Good luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I admit it, I\u2019m thinking of not playing an event at the WSOP this year because I am scared I will get pi**ed on. Like Phil Hellmuth, I have realised that I no longer have what it takes to keep up with the kids. They have worked me out and will flush me out. If<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/not-playing-wsop.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":13889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77113,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13882\/revisions\/77113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13882"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}