{"id":145,"date":"2006-07-29T19:10:17","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T00:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wsop\/sexton-appeal.html"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:22:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:22:09","slug":"sexton-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/sexton-appeal.html","title":{"rendered":"Sexton Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS&#8211;This World Series began with Mike Sexton winning the Tournament of Champions and $1 million, half of which he promised to give to charity. As the main event got under way, Mike Sexton made the mile-long trek from the Rio poker room to the Voodoo Lounge during dinner break to formally present five different checks for $100,000 each &#8212; to the Buoniconti Fund, Children Incorporated, the Wounded Warriors Project, Special Olympics, and the Paralyzed Veterans of America.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pokerblog.com\/images\/other\/PP-Mike Sexton donation_GROUP83.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pokerblog.com\/images\/other\/sextongreen.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MAIN EVENT UPDATE: Sexton finished <a href=\"\/\/www.cardplayer.com\/tournaments\/chip_counts\/3229\">Day 1A<\/a> with a comfortable 42,500 chips.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pokerblog.com\/images\/other\/PP-Mike Sexton donation_woundedwarior77.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pokerblog.com\/images\/other\/PP-Mike Sexton donation_special Olym49\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pokerblog.com\/images\/other\/PP-Mike Sexton donation_BuonicontiFund64.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pokerblog.com\/images\/other\/PP-Mike Sexton donation_paral vets55.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS&#8211;This World Series began with Mike Sexton winning the Tournament of Champions and $1 million, half of which he promised to give to charity. As the main event got under way, Mike Sexton made the mile-long trek from the Rio poker room to the Voodoo Lounge during dinner break to formally present five different<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/sexton-appeal.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":79796,"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\/145"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77613,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/77613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}