{"id":2288,"date":"2014-06-03T18:59:05","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T18:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2014-08-17T02:02:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T02:02:20","slug":"tronaru-mint-super-stack-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"Wong on right side of Mint deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/head_wong.png\" \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>With 52 players returning for day two of leg 15 of the Super Stack Series at London&#8217;s Cromwell Mint casino from 30 May-1 June it was Ion Tronaru in pole position to claim the biggest share of the \u00a324,900 prize fund.<\/p>\n<p>Tronaru, the winner of leg 11 from 25-27 April, was on 344,700 chips, 25k ahead of his closest rival Philip Marsh (319,800), with Andy Kitchlew almost 100k adrift of Tronaru on 251,000 when they returned.<\/p>\n<p>And it was almost back-to-back wins at the Mint for Tronaru but, after a three-way deal with Dave Zemon and Ken Wong (pictured above) that saw them each taking home \u00a33,200, it was Tronaru who departed in third place, with Wong collecting a further \u00a3850 for the win. Zermon, who had started the day more than 100k behind Kitchlew, also took home \u00a33,200.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Guthrie finished fourth for \u00a32,700, with Richard Stanley, James Monder, Martynas Valkunas, Ayshe Hakki and Justin Kyriakides each taking home \u00a31,800.<\/p>\n<p>More than a month earlier Tronaru (pictured below) had the honour of receiving the trophy after pocketing \u00a34,205 from leg 11, with Oscar Kirby taking home \u00a33,220 and Tom Wallsgrove \u00a33,210.<\/p>\n<p>Leg 13 from 9-11 May in Dublin went to Gary Stokes, who bagged \u20ac4,700, with Dave Kinlan second for \u20ac3,100 and Brian Kiely taking home \u20ac2,450 for third.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/head_tronaru.png\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 52 players returning for day two of leg 15 of the Super Stack Series at London&#8217;s Cromwell Mint casino from 30 May-1 June it was Ion Tronaru in pole position to claim the biggest share of the \u00a324,900 prize fund. Tronaru, the winner of leg 11 from 25-27 April, was on 344,700 chips, 25k&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-super-stack-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288","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=2288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2314,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2288\/revisions\/2314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}