{"id":26457,"date":"2013-03-16T18:26:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T17:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=26457"},"modified":"2019-10-31T16:25:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T16:25:51","slug":"dan-shak-the-premier-league-is-the-toughest-line-up-ive-ever-faced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/dan-shak-the-premier-league-is-the-toughest-line-up-ive-ever-faced.html","title":{"rendered":"Dan Shak: The Premier League is the toughest line-up I\u2019ve ever faced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DAN590.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DAN590.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/DAN590-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whilst 13 is unlucky for same it\u2019s been anything but for Dan Shak. In the first quarter of the year he\u2019s racked up almost $1,000,000 in tournament winnings and currently sits top of the 2013 Global Poker Index. If any of the part-time poker players in the Premier League can best the pros it might just be Shak. \u201cI\u2019m in it for the challenge, the tougher the line-up the greater the challenge and the more it means to me if I do well. This is the toughest line-up I\u2019ve ever played in.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Respect<\/h3>\n<p>With almost five million in lifetime earnings the chances of the pros underestimating Shak are slim, \u201cI do fairly well in high roller events which are a similar line-up,\u201d says Shak. \u201cBut the Premier League is tougher than high roller events. But I think I\u2019m at the point where the underestimation is a little less than it used to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Shak believes that it\u2019s through mixing it up with the cream of the world\u2019s poker talent that he\u2019s got better and earned respect. \u201cI\u2019m always trying to improve my game, I believe in looking and following what\u2019s going on in a hand you\u2019re playing and through sitting there and watching the better players and learn from them. No matter what happens in this competition I\u2019m going to take something out of it as I\u2019m going to be playing with the best players in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Watch the live stream and Join In!<\/h3>\n<p>Wise words from a very successful man and something that you\u2019ll be able to do all this week as every minute of the Premier League VI is being live streamed here.<\/p>\n<li>Catch all the Premier League VI table action LIVE here: &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/ow.ly\/j2AcT&quot; <strong>http:\/\/ow.ly\/j2AcT <\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tweet using <strong>#PremierLeagueVI<\/strong> to join in the conversation. <\/li>\n<li>And be sure to keep an eye out for our upcoming freeroll passwords.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst 13 is unlucky for same it\u2019s been anything but for Dan Shak. In the first quarter of the year he\u2019s racked up almost $1,000,000 in tournament winnings and currently sits top of the 2013 Global Poker Index. If any of the part-time poker players in the Premier League can best the pros it might<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/dan-shak-the-premier-league-is-the-toughest-line-up-ive-ever-faced.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":26475,"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\/26457"}],"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\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76674,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26457\/revisions\/76674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26457"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=26457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}