{"id":2734,"date":"2019-03-04T19:42:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T03:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2019-03-04T20:25:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:25:28","slug":"welcome-back-andy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/04\/welcome-back-andy\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back Andy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twenty three unsuperstitious players showed up for the 13th tournament of Piranha\u2019s 13th season, including Andy Press, a veteran Piranha alumnus who has returned to the Bay Area from exile in Southern California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notable hands from the early going included Joe\u2019s AA all in against Dennis\u2019 KK and Gordo\u2019s QQ, with Mark wisely folding his Jacks. The Aces held up and Joe scored a double elimination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1594-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1594.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1594-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_1594-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeanne did well to preserve part of her stack when her nut flush was crushed by Ryan\u2019s straight flush on an unpaired board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we neared the final table, Mark flopped a set of 9s and put Joe all in with his pocket Aces. An Ace on the turn crippled Mark and drew a lot of oohs and ahhs from the peanut gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0104-e1551757130436-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0104-e1551757130436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0104-e1551757130436-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon we had our final table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0106-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0106.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0106-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0106-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After valiant efforts, short stacks Adrian and Sandi went out 9th and 8th respectively, while Nora skillfully built her short stack into &nbsp;one of the big stacks. When Dom busted out on the bubble, we were all in the points. Nora\u2019s KJ flopped two pair and she got it all in against Andy Press who had built the biggest stack at the table with aggressive play. Unfortunately for Nora, Andy had flopped a set of 4s, sending Nora to the rail with 2 points. Amo busted next when his pocket 9s ran into Joe\u2019s Kings. Ryan followed him to the rail, collecting 4th place points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bill lucked out when his QQ cracked Andy\u2019s Aces and a few hands later another pair of Queens held up against Andy\u2019s AK.&nbsp;When Andy knocked out Joe, it was heads up and Andy completed a super successful homecoming when his A 3 suited flopped two 3s against Bill\u2019s pocket 5s.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0235-e1551759818169-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0235-e1551759818169.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/IMG_0235-e1551759818169-225x300.jpeg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty three unsuperstitious players showed up for the 13th tournament of Piranha\u2019s 13th season, including Andy Press, a veteran Piranha alumnus who has returned to the Bay Area from exile in Southern California. Notable hands from the early going included Joe\u2019s AA all in against Dennis\u2019 KK and Gordo\u2019s QQ, with Mark wisely folding his &#8230; <a title=\"Welcome Back Andy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/04\/welcome-back-andy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Welcome Back Andy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":637,"featured_media":2739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","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\/637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2740,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions\/2740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/piranhapokerteam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}