{"id":2196,"date":"2018-03-03T21:26:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2018-03-03T21:26:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T05:26:48","slug":"the-black-widow-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/03\/the-black-widow-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Black Widow Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">36 players showed up to do battle at Event 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Even with the bulk of the season in the rear window, there are still dozens of players in the running for a 2018 WSOP package.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nine spots earned points in Event 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cathy Seferi finished 9<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and earned 2 points, Rod Flora finished 8<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and earned 3 points, Joe Wiebelhaus finished 7<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and earned 5 points, Geoffrey Batuyong finished 6<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and earned 9 points, Gilbert Amparo finished 5<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and earned 12 points, Sandi Sarmiento finished 4<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and earned 18 points, Ricky Flora finished 3<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>rd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and earned 30 points, Troy Soult finished 2<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>nd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and earned 44 points, and Christine LaMonaca earned the victory and earned 57 points.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2197 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Event-14-FT-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Event-14-FT.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Event-14-FT-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Event-14-FT-768x461.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The key hand at the final table involved a three-way all in.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Troy moved all in pre-flop.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Gilbert, with his tournament life on the line, thought for a bit and called.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Ricky was next to act and agonized over his decision before finally folding.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The action was then on Christine, who also had her tournament life on the line.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She also agonized over her decision, noting that only two hands had her beat.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>She made the overcall with her QQ.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Troy had 99 and Gilbert had KK.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>With 60 of the chips in play on the line, the flop came Q55 giving Christine a full house.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Troy would need running 99 for the win and Gilbert would need a K on the turn or river to retake the lead and win the hand.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Unfortunately for both, the turn and river were blanks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>At that point Christine had a massive chip lead and took it all the way to the finish line.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2198\" src=\"http:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Event-14-Winner-614x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Event-14-Winner.jpg 614w, https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Event-14-Winner-180x300.jpg 180w, https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Event-14-Winner-768x1280.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>36 players showed up to do battle at Event 14. Even with the bulk of the season in the rear window, there are still dozens of players in the running for a 2018 WSOP package. Nine spots earned points in Event 14. Cathy Seferi finished 9th and earned 2 points, Rod Flora finished 8th and &#8230; <a title=\"The Black Widow Strikes\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/03\/the-black-widow-strikes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Black Widow Strikes\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":625,"featured_media":2198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/625"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}