{"id":7982,"date":"2010-11-02T10:05:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T09:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=7982"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:11:01","slug":"robl-youve-passed-the-test-you-are-now-qualified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/robl-youve-passed-the-test-you-are-now-qualified.html","title":{"rendered":"Robl, you\u2019ve passed the test. You are now qualified!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7983\" title=\"Andrew Robl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/andrew-robl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" \/>Qualified!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Maybe it\u2019s not a bad thing to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/i-am-the-third-most-hated-man-in-poker.html\">be a hated man<\/a>.  Certainly it\u2019s not bad if you\u2019re Tony G, cocooned in a health farm in New Zealand while the Internet is abuzz with your latest exploits and your rising star. He\u2019s the name on the tip of every poker fan\u2019s tongue, and why not?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you watched the Big Game you saw Tony G at his best as he needled Daniel Negreanu, dismantled Phil Hellmuth, and called the clock on Andrew Robl before them all on their bikes.  Tony was nothing short of terrible and awesome in equal parts.  But he holds no grudges against Robl, and in my interview with him went as far as to say, \u201cRobl, you\u2019ve passed the test.  You are now qualified!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Show 17 (November 2) with Tony G, Andrew Robl, and Jake Cody is online now! Click the play button to listen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">[podcast]http:\/\/www.thepokershowlive.com\/media\/mp3\/203.mp3[\/podcast]\n<p>Prefer to download? Right <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepokershowlive.com\/media\/mp3\/203.mp3\">click here<\/a> and Save As.<\/p>\n<h3>Robl has passed with flying colors<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">And maybe that\u2019s what the Big Game was for Andrew Robl.  If it was a test of character, the young high stakes poker player has passed with flying colors.  Peer pressured to straddle, ganged up on by Tony G and Daniel Negreanu, and abused by the half of the Internet that\u2019s not applauding him for showing backbone.  Or the character of a nit.  It all depends on who you ask.  But that\u2019s what makes great TV poker these days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">You\u2019ve got second pair with a decent kicker, and the maniac on your left has just made a double pot bet for fifty thousand large.  The table captain is telling you you\u2019ll never be invited back, while the maniac is asking for the clock.  You\u2019ve volunteered to stick 100,000 dollars of your own money in this game, and are now being humiliated on TV.  It\u2019s not all Dom Perignon and bottle service at Pure.  But this is the life that you\u2019ve chosen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">And when you look to your left at Tony G, between bouts of invective laced fury you can see the faintest of smiles creeping across his face.  Bear in mind, life is supposed to be fun.  And part of the magic that is the larger than life countenance of the G, is that he never forgets it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Show 17 (November 2) with Tony G, Andrew Robl, and Jake Cody is online now! Click the play button to listen:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">[podcast]http:\/\/www.thepokershowlive.com\/media\/mp3\/203.mp3[\/podcast]\n<p>Prefer to download? Right <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepokershowlive.com\/media\/mp3\/203.mp3\">click here<\/a> and Save As.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualified! Maybe it\u2019s not a bad thing to be a hated man. Certainly it\u2019s not bad if you\u2019re Tony G, cocooned in a health farm in New Zealand while the Internet is abuzz with your latest exploits and your rising star. He\u2019s the name on the tip of every poker fan\u2019s tongue, and why not?<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/robl-youve-passed-the-test-you-are-now-qualified.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":7983,"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\/7982"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77235,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7982\/revisions\/77235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7982"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}