{"id":1294,"date":"2014-03-04T12:31:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2014-03-04T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:03:46","slug":"1294","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=1294","title":{"rendered":"Houghton runs away with National treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laurence Houghton has won the WPT National London over the first weekend in March 2014 at Aspers Stratford City.<\/p>\n<p>Houghton collected \u00a329,500, winning a terrific heads-up battle with Arvin Ravindran.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/head_houghton.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/head_houghton.png\" alt=\"Laurence Houghton\" width=\"460\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1295\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/head_houghton.png 460w, http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/head_houghton-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the decisive hand Ravindran, who had just 1.6 million chips (10 big blinds after the blinds popped up before the last deal) shoved all-in with his 7S-6C after a raise from Houghton, who called with his KC-QH.<\/p>\n<p>The board brought 4H-JH-9D and a KD on the turn saw Houghton home clear, with a 10C on the river confirming his victory.<\/p>\n<p>Ravindran won the biggest cash of his career, \u00a319,400, in finishing runner-up.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the tournament and an audio interview with the winner visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/partypoker-wpt-aspers-accumulator-final-day.html\" target=\"_blank\">Partypoker website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Satellites for the WPT National Newcastle at Aspers Casino over the May bank holiday are now running on partypoker.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurence Houghton has won the WPT National London over the first weekend in March 2014 at Aspers Stratford City. Houghton collected \u00a329,500, winning a terrific heads-up battle with Arvin Ravindran. In the decisive hand Ravindran, who had just 1.6 million chips (10 big blinds after the blinds popped up before the last deal) shoved all-in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}