{"id":8331,"date":"2010-11-10T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=8331"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:10:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:10:55","slug":"hard-cash-is-the-way-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/hard-cash-is-the-way-forward.html","title":{"rendered":"Hard cash is the way forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8332\" title=\"Tony G\" src=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tony-g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tony-g.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/tony-g-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I got a tetchy phone call on Monday \u2013 best to say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/\">my delightful sponsors PartyPoker<\/a> weren\u2019t that happy with me.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I missed the first running of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/the-debut-of-my-sunday-bike-ride.html\">the Sunday Bike Ride<\/a> last Sunday \u2013 I fell asleep \u2013 what a twit. Customer services calls \u2013 I know, I know \u2013 I am truly sorry \u2013 I\u2019ve got the bike and I rode it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I wrote recently about being the third most hated man in poker \u2013 am I trying to make instant progress in moving higher up the charts?<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Added $3,500 of my own money<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Anyway, I want to make things good so I have added $3,500 of my own money to this Sunday\u2019s Bike Ride \u2013 instead of $1,500 \u2013 the prize pool is going to be $5,000. I thought long and hard about how I could use the guiding hand of Tony G to smooth this situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I came up with the added money solution \u2013 in this case aloe vera and lavender like i suggested in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/i-can-mediate-negreanu-duke-war.html\">Annie Duke\/Daniel Negreanu dispute<\/a> wasn\u2019t good enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Hard cash is the way forward \u2013 after all I will be winning it too! THE TOURNAMENT IS AT THE NEW TIME OF 16:00 ET on Sunday 14th November \u2013 it will be morning where I am \u2013 there is no chance of me falling asleep then. It costs only 25 PartyPoints to play.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I would have taken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/introducing-zasko-the-german-shepherd-a-beast-and-a-top-stud.html\">Zasko for a walk<\/a> and will be mentally prepared for a session of donkey killing.    I am sorry, much more sorry than I was for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/i-am-the-third-most-hated-man-in-poker.html\">calling the clock on Andrew Robl<\/a> \u2013 I promise.    There is one big plus about missing last week \u2013 the audio options are now ready for the Sunday Bike Ride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Yes, I can talk to you through the screen whilst I am crushing your souls. Big thanks to Palladium VIP member Laser_Savage for his help with this. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/how-to-tony-guoga-fy-your-partypoker.html\">Check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I will leave you with this. Can you believe that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-11718029\">bush cricket<\/a> has bigger balls than Phil Hellmuth? Unbelievable!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got a tetchy phone call on Monday \u2013 best to say my delightful sponsors PartyPoker weren\u2019t that happy with me. I missed the first running of the Sunday Bike Ride last Sunday \u2013 I fell asleep \u2013 what a twit. Customer services calls \u2013 I know, I know \u2013 I am truly sorry \u2013<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/hard-cash-is-the-way-forward.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":8332,"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\/8331"}],"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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77231,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions\/77231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}