{"id":41675,"date":"2016-01-13T14:18:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T13:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=41675"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:22:41","slug":"norman-whiteside-and-david-may-to-attend-gppt-old-trafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/norman-whiteside-and-david-may-to-attend-gppt-old-trafford.html","title":{"rendered":"Norman Whiteside and David May to Attend GPPT Old Trafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/around-the-grounds-the-grand-prix-poker-tour-hits-the-road.html\" target=\"_blank\">Grand Prix Poker Tour<\/a> (GPPT) Old Trafford leg is being made more special for Manchester United fans because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/a-brief-history-of-old-trafford.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Theatre of Dreams<\/em><\/a> welcomes back two of its former stars on Saturday 16 January.<\/p>\n<p>Sky TV\u2019s lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/meet-the-people-formula-1s-simon-lazenby.html\" target=\"_blank\">Formula 1 presenter, <strong>Simon Lazenby<\/strong><\/a>, is hosting a Q&amp;A session at 12:30 on January 16 with <strong>David May<\/strong> and <strong>Norman Whiteside<\/strong> where they\u2019ll share their football and poker stories with those attending the \u00a3250,000 guaranteed GPPT Old Trafford Main Event.<\/p>\n<p>Whiteside played for Manchester United between 1982 and 1989, making 278 appearances and scoring 68 goals, before being sold to Everton in July 1989 for \u00a3600,000. Everton turned out to be Whiteside\u2019s last club because a knee injury forced him to retire in June 1991 aged only 26-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>Among his achievements, Whiteside can boast of representing Northern Ireland 38 times, scoring nine goals, and holds the record for being the youngest player to participate in a World Cup, is still the youngest player to score in a League Cup and FA Cup final, and is the youngest player to score a senior goal for Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>May signed for <em>The Red Devils<\/em> in July 1994 in a \u00a31.2 million deal from Blackburn Rovers and spent nine years at the club, during which time he made 85 appearances in defence, scoring six goals. Despite injuries to himself and the form of <strong>Gary Pallister<\/strong>, <strong>Steve Bruce<\/strong>, and <strong>Gary Neville<\/strong>, May still managed to win two Premier League winner\u2019s medals, two FA Cups, two Community Shields and the UEFA Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a particular question for either Whiteside of May, leave it in the comments box below and we\u2019ll pass it onto the team on your behalf.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z7IGZkx2gJ4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Other Poker Playing Footballers<\/h2>\n<p>Poker seems to be a popular past time with professional footballer, perhaps because of all the traveling those in the modern game have to undergo each season.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2012, then Manchester United players <strong>Darren Fletcher<\/strong>, <strong>Tom Cleverley<\/strong>, <strong>Danny Welbeck<\/strong>, <strong>Jonny Evans<\/strong>, <strong>Rafael da Silva<\/strong>, and <strong>Phil Jones<\/strong> all competed in the partypoker.com Challenge, a charity event that was eventually won by Evans, who won the previous event too!<\/p>\n<p>Other high profile footballers spotted at the poker tables include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Teddy Sherringham<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother former Manchester United star who loves to play cards is Teddy Sheringham. The star striker played 898 games in his career and scored 355 goals. Since retiring from the game, Sheringham has been spotted at various major poker tournaments and even managed a fifth place finish at EPT Vilamoura in 2010, which netted him \u20ac93,121.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Arne Riise<\/strong><br \/>\nFormer Liverpool and Norway left-back, John Arne Riise, was spotted playing in the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event. While he failed to cash\u00a0and has no cashes listed on the Hendon Mob Database, Riise is obviously a fan of the game!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerard Pique<\/strong><br \/>\nThere\u2019s another for Red Devil who has a penchant for poker, Gerard Pique. The Spanish centre-half made 12 appearances for Manchester United before moving to Barcelona in May 2008 for a bargain \u20ac5 million. Although his poker playing time is limited, Pique has cashed twice in EPT Barcelona side events, including a \u20ac10,300 buy-in, and has played in the World Series of Poker Main Event.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and he\u2019s all but married to Shakira. What a life!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan Vang Sorensen<\/strong><br \/>\nUnless you\u2019re Danish you may not be aware of former Odense BK player Jan Vang Sorensen, but believe us when we say he knows what he\u2019s doing when it comes to poker. Sorensen finished third in the Amsterdam Masters Classic in 2005 for \u20ac132,000 and then won it for \u20ac623,100 three years later. Sorensen also has two WSOP bracelets having won a $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha event in 2002 and a $5,000 Seven Card Stud event in 2005.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tony Cascarino<\/strong><br \/>\nThe much-travelled striker, Tony Cascarino, has won more than $500,000 from live tournament poker including winning the 2008 GUKPT Bolton Main Event for \u00a352,850 and the 2009 GUKPT Grand Final for \u00a3168,800 in 2009.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Keep up to date with all things partypoker!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Get all the latest partypoker updates from your favourite social media outlets. You can\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/partypoker\">Follow us on Twitter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/partypoker\">Like us on Faceboo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Prix Poker Tour (GPPT) Old Trafford leg is being made more special for Manchester United fans because The Theatre of Dreams welcomes back two of its former stars on Saturday 16 January. Sky TV\u2019s lead Formula 1 presenter, Simon Lazenby, is hosting a Q&amp;A session at 12:30 on January 16 with David May<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/norman-whiteside-and-david-may-to-attend-gppt-old-trafford.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":41678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[816,386,385,820,753,818,821,529,643,817,187,200,218,819],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41675"}],"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\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41675"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41768,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41675\/revisions\/41768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41675"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}