{"id":1141,"date":"2014-03-01T09:20:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T09:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2014-03-01T09:22:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-01T09:22:08","slug":"spencer-shows-steel-for-sheffield-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Spencer shows steel for Sheffield win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local-lad Alex Spencer won the Sheffield leg of the Grosvenor 25\/25 Series from 24-26 January 2014 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\".\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/head_spencer.png\" alt=\"Spencer\" width=\"460\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/head_spencer.png 460w, https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/head_spencer-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/>to claim a top prize of \u00a313,150.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer beat Michael Kossov heads-up, with Spencer going into two-handed play with a 3.5m to 2.4m chip lead.<\/p>\n<p>But with blinds at 30k-60k there was still plenty of room for manoeuvre although it didn&#8217;t take long for all the chips to go into the middle of the table. <\/p>\n<p>The critical hand saw Spencer make an initial raise to 130,000 with Kossov calling. He then check-called Spencer&#8217;s 150,000 bet on the 3S-JD-AH flop.<\/p>\n<p>Kossov again checked the 9H on the turn, before calling Spencer&#8217;s 300,000 bet. The river was a 7C which Kossov again checked. This time Spencer moved all in with A-10 which was good enough to take the hand, the title and the trophy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local-lad Alex Spencer won the Sheffield leg of the Grosvenor 25\/25 Series from 24-26 January 2014 to claim a top prize of \u00a313,150. Spencer beat Michael Kossov heads-up, with Spencer going into two-handed play with a 3.5m to 2.4m chip lead. But with blinds at 30k-60k there was still plenty of room for manoeuvre although&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2525-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}