{"id":3179,"date":"2010-02-26T18:14:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T18:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/general\/partypoker-players-arrive-for-the-wpt-la-poker-classic.html"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:16:17","slug":"partypoker-players-arrive-for-the-wpt-la-poker-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/partypoker-players-arrive-for-the-wpt-la-poker-classic.html","title":{"rendered":"PartyPoker players arrive for the WPT LA Poker Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3173\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3173\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/P1010263-300x2251.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome to The Commerce Casino\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome to The Commerce Casino<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Thursday night at the Commerce Casino saw the arrival of our 17 qualifiers from all over the world. We have players from Canada, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Italy, and Sweden. All these guys have come to Los Angeles with one thing in mind \u2013 to win the LA Poker Classic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: justify\">Thursday evening was more relaxed as the PartyPoker team welcomed the players to Stakes restaurant at the Commerce. While we organised the players registrations and got their seat assignments, the players chatted and relaxed over a welcoming glass of champagne and a delicious dinner.<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_3183\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3183\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3183\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture-0052-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"Dinner is served for the PartyPoker players\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dinner is served for the PartyPoker players<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Once dinner was over many of the players hit the cash game tables to get into their poker rhythm ready for Friday\u2019s 12pm start. Many of the most famous names in poker usually take part in the WPT LA Poker Classic and previous winners of this title include Gus Hansen, Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Ivey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I have already spotted a lot of big name pro\u2019s here this week and I am sure that by the time the players sit down at 12 noon on Friday, I will have spotted a lot more. I will keep you updated on who is playing in this event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: justify\">The Commerce is the world\u2019s biggest poker room and famous throughout the world for being a great place to play some poker. Although all the cash game tables are on the ground floor, the tournament will be taking part in a huge tournament room on the second floor. We will be back on Friday to report on the progress of our 17 guys and other well known poker players.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3178\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3178\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Picture-001-150x1501.jpg\" alt=\"Tournament Director, Matt Savage, His wife Maryann and PartyPokers Mike O'Malley\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tournament Director, Matt Savage, his wife Maryann and Mike O&#039;Malley from PartyPoker<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night at the Commerce Casino saw the arrival of our 17 qualifiers from all over the world. We have players from Canada, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Italy, and Sweden. All these guys have come to Los Angeles with one thing in mind \u2013 to win the LA Poker Classic. Thursday evening<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/partypoker-players-arrive-for-the-wpt-la-poker-classic.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[229],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30961,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/30961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}