{"id":43057,"date":"2016-10-29T12:17:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T11:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=43057"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:19:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:19:40","slug":"speed-pool-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/speed-pool-selfie.html","title":{"rendered":"Are You Good Enough to Take on Our Ambassadors at Speed Pool?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/3-million-wpt-uk-festival-is-right-around-the-corner.html\" target=\"_blank\">2016 partypoker WPT500 UK<\/a> heads to Dusk Till Dawn on Friday 28 October, and aside from the action taking place at the poker tables, there are plenty of activities to keep you entertained at the breaks.<\/p>\n<p>One activity that always goes down a storm is the \u201cspeed pool\u201d competition run by none other than \u201cMad\u201d Marty Wilson. Speed pool is a simple yet exciting pool format where players have exactly one minute from breaking to pot as many balls as they can. Whoever pots the most balls in those 60-seconds is crowned the champion. This is where you come in.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re at Dusk Till Dawn this Saturday, October 29, you will see five partypoker ambassadors ready to play speed pool. Mike Sexton, Tony Dunst, Carl Froch, Roberto Romanello, and Natalia Breviglieri will all be swapping chips for cues and trying to rack up an unbeatable score at the pool table.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re invited to try and beat our ambassadors\u2019 highest score, and if you manage to do that, you\u2019re entered into a random draw to win an online tournament ticket worth $109 and a t-shirt signed by all five ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p>After beating the ambassadors\u2019 scores, you\u2019ll need to claim your entry into the random draw by taking a selfie of yourself at the WPT500 UK and sharing it via one of the following methods:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Via Twitter: Tweet @partypoker with your image and the hashtag #AmbassadorsChallenge<\/li>\n<li>Via Facebook: post your image and the hashtag #AmbassadorsChallenge on the UK Community Forum<\/li>\n<li>Via Instagram: tag @partypoker in your post with the hashtag #AmbassadorsChallenge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You must share your selfie via one of the above methods to be in with a shot at a free $109 ticket and signed shirt.<\/p>\n<h3>Action Packed Weekend at DTD<\/h3>\n<p>In addition to the \u00a31 million guaranteed WPT500 being in full swing, this weekend sees DTD host live satellites to the WPT500, a live Day 1 for the \u00a36 million guaranteed partypoker MILLIONS, live satellites to the Devilfish Cup, and at 2:00 p.m. on October 29 there is a \u00a3180 buy-in Ladies Event featuring a \u00a310,000 guaranteed prize pool.<\/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 <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/partypoker\">Follow us on Twitter<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/partypoker\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 partypoker WPT500 UK heads to Dusk Till Dawn on Friday 28 October, and aside from the action taking place at the poker tables, there are plenty of activities to keep you entertained at the breaks. One activity that always goes down a storm is the \u201cspeed pool\u201d competition run by none other than<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/speed-pool-selfie.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":43059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1303,2182,1141],"tags":[1092,386,385,1089,187,200,1090,1091,74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43057"}],"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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43058,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43057\/revisions\/43058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43057"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}