{"id":239,"date":"2008-02-18T08:23:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T13:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/general\/the-roman-conquest.html"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:21:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:21:37","slug":"the-roman-conquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/the-roman-conquest.html","title":{"rendered":"The Roman conquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was no stopping the Roman charge at the weekend as player <strong>Roman_Mauric<\/strong> won our latest $300K Guaranteed Sunday tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The poker gladiator fought off 1,767 other hungry competitors to take the lion\u2019s share of a magnificent $353,600 prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>The regular buy-in for the $300K Guaranteed Sunday is $215, but many players qualify for a lot less. Have a look at the $300K Guaranteed Sunday page for more information on how you can be a next Sunday\u2019s big-money table.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the final table for Sunday\u2019s tournament, complete with payouts after a deal was made:<br \/>\n1 Roman_Mauric, $43,499.28<br \/>\n2 Batnaess, $42,280.75<br \/>\n3 Apolon76, $26,607.63<br \/>\n4 IamKyu, $26,524.02<br \/>\n5 jonasrebane, $26,042.74<br \/>\n6 Nuttz4u, $11,668.80<br \/>\n7 TiltStarter, $9,016.80<br \/>\n8 buelent67, $6,188.00<br \/>\n9 WOOHOO50, $4,596.80<br \/>\n10 MWT55, $3,005.60<\/p>\n<p>We invite all our $300K Guaranteed Sunday winners to tell us more about themselves, their top playing tips and, of course, what they\u2019re going to do with all that cash. Our latest player in the spotlight is <strong>Stajje<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stajje, also known as <strong>\u00d8ystein Stai<\/strong>, took down the February 10 tournament and walked away with a very cool $67,899.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to travel, drink and have a lot of fun,\u201d \u00d8ystein said. \u201cI\u2019m also going to spend some money on poker, hopefully win some more, and buy some stocks, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bloke-271-x-600.jpg\" title=\"bloke-271-x-600.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bloke-271-x-600.jpg\" alt=\"bloke-271-x-600.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When asked about the winning hand, the resident of Hamar, Norway, said: \u201cThe blinds were 60K\/120K and I raised 480K with 7-7 from the button. He took his time before he went all-in with about 2.4million. I knew I was in front and called him quickly. He showed up A-2 and the table didn\u2019t help him.\u201d The student added: \u201cThis is one of the highlights of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00d8ystein has been in the $300K Guaranteed Sunday money before so we asked him what his strategy is for playing MTTs. He said: \u201cJust to be patient. And value bet a lot. Bet when the other is weak and take down a lot of small pots.\u201d So now you know.<\/p>\n<p>Get involved in the $300K Guaranteed Sunday on PartyPoker.com right now. Click here to find out how you can take part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no stopping the Roman charge at the weekend as player Roman_Mauric won our latest $300K Guaranteed Sunday tournament. The poker gladiator fought off 1,767 other hungry competitors to take the lion\u2019s share of a magnificent $353,600 prize pool. The regular buy-in for the $300K Guaranteed Sunday is $215, but many players qualify for<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/the-roman-conquest.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240,"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\/239"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77562,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/77562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}