{"id":13982,"date":"2011-06-21T11:07:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T10:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=13982"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:08:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:08:14","slug":"i-am-staking-a-team-at-wsop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/i-am-staking-a-team-at-wsop.html","title":{"rendered":"I am staking a team at WSOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-13983 size-full\" title=\"Tony dolls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tony-dolls.jpg\" alt=\"poker player dolls\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tony-dolls.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/tony-dolls-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I loved the film Gremlins but, surprisingly, I was also a fan of Gremlins II \u2018The New Batch.\u2019 Here is my new batch \u2013 can you recognise them all? Though I am still undecided about playing in the WSOP I am staking a team. This is my terrapoker army. As you can see there are some strong and weak areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The idea is that selected <a title=\"partypoker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/\">PartyPoker <\/a>WSOP qualifiers will look after the team and have them at the table with them \u2013 take it that I am giving them the guiding hand from afar!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Power, heart and commitment have been channelled into the dolls and I am even considering creating a betting market on which doll makes the deepest run in the Main Event. I think it is a good idea considering I originally bought them for Zasko to grind his teeth on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Who do we have here? My Team PartyPoker.com colleagues Kara Scott and Dragan Galic are perhaps not the best ones \u2013 after all how could I do Kara justice through a doll?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There\u2019s Durrrr, Laak, Roland de Donkey, Annette and the Seiborg. My personal favourites are Robert Williamson III and Jennifer Tilly \u2013 I had to pay for the extra stuffing in certain areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Then of course there is Howard Lederer (pins optional). I already have Negreanu, Hellmuth, Devilfish, Matusow (which will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/not-playing-wsop.html\">biking its way to one lucky reader soon<\/a>) and Bruno Fitoussi, while legal reasons mean the Phil Ivey buddy will not be making the trip to Vegas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I have been talking to my sponsors and I am hoping to offer copies of my buddies through the loyalty store very soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In the meantime, do you have any suggestions on what I should do with my new team? I hope to put them at the tables at the WSOP but they don\u2019t stand up so well so am a little worried. $50 in their PartyPoker account goes to anyone who gives me a creative solution I choose to use! Ideas have to be submitted in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved the film Gremlins but, surprisingly, I was also a fan of Gremlins II \u2018The New Batch.\u2019 Here is my new batch \u2013 can you recognise them all? Though I am still undecided about playing in the WSOP I am staking a team. This is my terrapoker army. As you can see there are<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/i-am-staking-a-team-at-wsop.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":13983,"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\/13982"}],"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=13982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77109,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13982\/revisions\/77109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13982"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}