{"id":2947,"date":"2014-11-17T11:53:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T11:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=2947"},"modified":"2014-11-17T11:53:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T11:53:38","slug":"gudger-rules-the-roost-at-wpt500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=2947","title":{"rendered":"Gudger rules the roost at WPT500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Gudger won her first major live tournament by beating Matthew Noonan heads-up to claim the WPT500 title and a top prize of \u00a3140,000 at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham.<\/p>\n<p>The final hand of the tournament saw Noonan shove with A-9 only to find Gudger with A-Q. <\/p>\n<p>After the applause stopped, Gudger was in shock at her first major win. \u201cI\u2019m just over the moon,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s such a huge field, over two thousand players, it\u2019s just incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gudger will be back at Dusk Till Dawn to try her chances in the WPT UK main event this week after also picking up a \u00a33,000 seat, in addition to the prize money and WPT500 title.<\/p>\n<p>The WPT500 attracted 2,133 entries to go down as the biggest \u00a3500 buy-in event ever organised in Europe, with 50 seats into the WPT UK\u202c distributed in the payout.<\/p>\n<p>WPT500 Dusk Till Dawn, 9-16 November<br \/>\n1  Eleanor Gudger \u00a3140,000<br \/>\n2  Matthew Noonan \u00a385,000<br \/>\n3  Hamid Rowshanei \u00a355,000<br \/>\n4  Derek Payne \u00a335,000<br \/>\n5  James Parker \u00a325,000<br \/>\n6  Richard Buck \u00a317,850<br \/>\n7  Haroon Hussain \u00a313,250<br \/>\n8  Habib Chatoo \u00a310,000 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleanor Gudger won her first major live tournament by beating Matthew Noonan heads-up to claim the WPT500 title and a top prize of \u00a3140,000 at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. The final hand of the tournament saw Noonan shove with A-9 only to find Gudger with A-Q. After the applause stopped, Gudger was in shock&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2945,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[299],"class_list":["post-2947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-wpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947","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=2947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2948,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2947\/revisions\/2948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}