{"id":99051,"date":"2020-11-19T10:02:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T10:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog?p=99051"},"modified":"2020-11-19T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T14:44:23","slug":"blackoid-given-second-chance-to-shine-by-partypoker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/blackoid-given-second-chance-to-shine-by-partypoker.html","title":{"rendered":"Blackoid_ Given Second Chance to Shine by partypoker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Blackoid_<\/strong> is playing in Day 1B of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/scheduled-tournaments\/cpp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>2020 Caribbean Poker Party Online Main Event<\/strong><\/a> on November 22 and everyone is rooting for him to come away with a massive score.<\/p>\n<p>Jay entered a competition on <em>PokerNews<\/em> that awarded a $5,200 seat to the EPT Online Main Event. Poker players were invited to create a short video explaining why they should receive the free seat and which charity they would donate a percentage of their winnings should their video be chosen.<\/p>\n<p>The Scotsman published his video where he explained he planned to donate 10% of any winnings to <strong>CLIC Sargent<\/strong>, an amazing charity that supports young people with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Blackoid_ explained his life drastically changed earlier this year when he was diagnosed with a brain tumour. Although the tumour was successfully removed, cancer has returned and Blackoid_ has Stage 3 brain cancer which is terminal.<\/p>\n<p>The CLIC Sargent nurses have touched Jay in ways he can\u2019t explain, helping him regain motivation for life during his fight against cancer. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clicsargent.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>learn more about CLIC Sargent here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blackoid_ played in the EPT Online Main Event after he was selected as the winner of the #EPT4Charity promotion but, sadly, didn\u2019t manage to make it into the money places.<\/p>\n<p>partypoker wanted to give a second chance to Blackoid_ by entering him into the $5,300 CPP Online Main Event.<\/p>\n<p>Team partypoker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/p\/team-partypoker\/patrick-leonard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Patrick Leonard<\/a> reached out to Blackoid_ on Twitter and not only offered him a second chance in the form of a $5,300 ticket but also offered to give Blackoid_ some coaching in preparation for what will be one of the biggest tournaments of Jay\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hi <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blackoid_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Blackoid_<\/a> I have been following your <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EPT4charity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EPT4charity<\/a> Both <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/partypoker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@partypoker<\/a> and myself would love to give you a second chance this weekend.<br \/>\n\u2705entry into this weeks CPP $5k $5m playing for your charity<br \/>\n\u2705I\u2019m going to coach you between now and then<br \/>\n\u2705I\u2019m also going to donate <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yaecIh68vG\">pic.twitter.com\/yaecIh68vG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick Leonard (@padspoker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/padspoker\/status\/1329096554913935361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A delighted Blackoid_ replied to Patrick\u2019s tweet, saying, \u201cNo words, one of my poker idols giving me some recognition which is something I could never imagine. LFG!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blackoid_ will sit down on <strong>November 22<\/strong> with one-million chips, a dream, and the full support of the poker community. Here\u2019s hoping the training from Patrick pays off and Blackoid_ can shine during the CPP Main Event and lock up a huge score. In Blackoid_\u2019s own words, LFG!<\/p>\n<h3>Love poker? Join party!<\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019re ready to jump into the action, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/download\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>click here to download partypoker and get started<\/strong>!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you already have an account with us, click here to <a href=\"https:\/\/promo.partypoker.com\/en\/promo\/launch\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>open partypoker and hit the tables!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blackoid_ is playing in Day 1B of the 2020 Caribbean Poker Party Online Main Event on November 22 and everyone is rooting for him to come away with a massive score. Jay entered a competition on PokerNews that awarded a $5,200 seat to the EPT Online Main Event. Poker players were invited to create a<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/blackoid-given-second-chance-to-shine-by-partypoker.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":98318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1308,300],"tags":[917,1043,927,30481,187,890],"yst_prominent_words":[30509,30475,7577,30477,30472,30476,30474,30471,2826,2371,7301,30473,2357,14420,2251,5753,2582,30478,13365,4621],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99051"}],"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=99051"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99103,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99051\/revisions\/99103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99051"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=99051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}