{"id":3882,"date":"2011-06-19T23:12:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T22:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3882"},"modified":"2011-06-19T23:32:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-19T22:32:56","slug":"simon-fox-wins-the-bother-series-of-poker-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3882","title":{"rendered":"Simon Fox WINS the Bother Series of Poker 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2851\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=2851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2851\" title=\"trophybsop2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/trophybsop20111-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>In a cracking grand finale, Simon Fox wins the Bother Series of Poker 2011 after a tense heads-up battle with Matt Clemson. overtaking both myself and last year&#8217;s winner Andrew Smith for the title. Simon wins the trophy, the gold medal and a \u00a346 bonus. Runner-up Andrew Smith claims silver and \u00a327.60, and me, despite leading the league all the way through shoved with Jacks only to find Simon&#8217;s Queens, and finishes in third place with the bronze medal and \u00a318.40, which I will spend on kebabs most probably. Matt Clemson finishes outside the podium, David J Bodycombe off of the telly deserves a mention for a fantastic late run.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?page_id=3880\">The final league tables can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks very much to all of you who played along this year, it&#8217;s been a thrill ride of a six-months, to be capped in a fortnight&#8217;s time with HORSE Hilarity which anyone reading is invited to. Details to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a cracking grand finale, Simon Fox wins the Bother Series of Poker 2011 after a tense heads-up battle with Matt Clemson. overtaking both myself and last year&#8217;s winner Andrew Smith for the title. Simon wins the trophy, the gold medal and a \u00a346 bonus. Runner-up Andrew Smith claims silver and \u00a327.60, and me, despite\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3882\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bother-series-of-poker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-10C","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}