{"id":288,"date":"2008-04-21T09:48:17","date_gmt":"2008-04-21T14:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/general\/hardcore-card-action-earns-50000-payday.html"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:21:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:21:22","slug":"hardcore-card-action-earns-50000-payday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/hardcore-card-action-earns-50000-payday.html","title":{"rendered":"Hardcore card action earns $50,000 payday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s extreme, it\u2019s wild and it\u2019s definitely not for the faint-hearted; our $300K Guaranteed Sunday is the place to be if you like your poker play red hot.<\/p>\n<p>Our latest tournament didn\u2019t disappoint either, with player <strong>justcardcore <\/strong>taking a very attractive $50,525.20 from the tantalising $313,400 prize pool.<\/p>\n<p>justcardcore proved to be the top dog after seeing off 1,566 pretenders and securing a massive payout after eight hours and 23 minutes of non-stop action.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what the top 10 players received for their performances:<\/p>\n<p>1 justcardcore, $ 50,525.20<br \/>\n2 RIPCURLx, $ 34,420.06<br \/>\n3 Grandioos, $ 33,833.36<br \/>\n4 mrwho888, $ 17,080.30<br \/>\n5 Sidobrun, $ 14,416.40<br \/>\n6 derbesen, $ 10,812.30<br \/>\n7 Verbal_, $ 8,305.10<br \/>\n8 ErikDeBastd, $ 5,484.50<br \/>\n9 gigxxl, $ 4,230.90<br \/>\n10 KingBenno, $ 2,977.30<\/p>\n<p>We can also reveal some more about vovanitsch, the winner of the $300K Guaranteed Sunday from April 13.<\/p>\n<p>Our champ is actually 20-year-old Dimitri who lives in Germany. He got into poker after seeing it on TV and becoming intrigued. A friend taught him how to play and they ended up playing games for play money in his chess club. Dimitri didn\u2019t say how poker\u2019s affected his chess.<\/p>\n<p>The $300K Guaranteed Sunday win marked only the fourth time the medical student had competed in our big-money event and eclipsed his previous best online result of finishing up runner up in a regular $33 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to strategy, the Ukraine native said: \u201cI play tight in the first levels and wait for good hands. In late levels I try to play aggressive and double up small stacked or to make pressure on other players as a big stack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And what will Dimitri be spending his wings on? \u201cI need a lot of money for my study,\u201d he said. \u201cI will also buy some nice things, like a new computer, and the rest will go to my bankroll so I can play higher limit poker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s make our next $300K Guaranteed Sunday update about you. Book your seat at the next tournament by qualifying from as little as $3 or buying in directly for $215.<\/p>\n<p>Check out all the details at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/news\/events\/items\/300k_guaranteed.html\">$300K Guaranteed Sunday page<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>See you at the tables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s extreme, it\u2019s wild and it\u2019s definitely not for the faint-hearted; our $300K Guaranteed Sunday is the place to be if you like your poker play red hot. Our latest tournament didn\u2019t disappoint either, with player justcardcore taking a very attractive $50,525.20 from the tantalising $313,400 prize pool. justcardcore proved to be the top dog<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/hardcore-card-action-earns-50000-payday.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[2],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"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=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77536,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/77536"}],"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=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}