{"id":28167,"date":"2013-04-08T15:21:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T14:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=28167"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:54:03","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:54:03","slug":"first-bigger-pots-and-more-money-to-the-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/first-bigger-pots-and-more-money-to-the-table.html","title":{"rendered":"First Bigger Pots And More Money To The Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, we saw the first live straddle. It was Alec Torelli, who put out the chips. The pot was won by Toby Lewis (who&#8217;s been busy winning pots lately).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Scott Baumstein asked about raising the blinds to \u20ac50\/\u20ac100. He didn&#8217;t get any response, but we&#8217;re sure that sooner or later he will get his wish.<\/p>\n<h3>Here Comes The Action<\/h3>\n<p>After a slow start, the chips are flying now.<br \/>\nAlec Torelli is actually topping up already. He lost around 10k of his 20k starting stack. And one doesn&#8217;t travel to the biggest cashgames around the world to play for &#8216;small&#8217; amounts.<\/p>\n<p>He might be tilting a little after losing half of his stack to Scott Baumstein. He opens a lot more, taking down pots with 3- and 4-bets.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/8631751382_71e764b4c02.jpg\" alt=\"Alec Torelli\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Who&#8217;s Up? Who&#8217;s Down?<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Bildschirmfoto-2013-04-08-um-16.18.45-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Big Game VII\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28168\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, we saw the first live straddle. It was Alec Torelli, who put out the chips. The pot was won by Toby Lewis (who&#8217;s been busy winning pots lately). Meanwhile, Scott Baumstein asked about raising the blinds to \u20ac50\/\u20ac100. He didn&#8217;t get any response, but we&#8217;re sure that sooner or later he will get his<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/first-bigger-pots-and-more-money-to-the-table.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":30158,"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\/28167"}],"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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30160,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28167\/revisions\/30160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28167"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}