{"id":2625,"date":"2014-09-10T07:54:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T07:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2014-09-10T09:19:24","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T09:19:24","slug":"casino-rookie-scoops-337k-in-borgata-big-stack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/?p=2625","title":{"rendered":"Casino rookie scoops $337k in Borgata big stack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/head_evans.png\" alt=\"Jonathan Evans\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>\nJonathan &#8216;Nolte&#8217; Evans \u2013 a novice at the poker tables having played some home and online games but who&#8217;d never hit the tournament tables in a casino before \u2013 scooped a whopping US$337,801 after beating WSOP finalist and recent Heartland Poker Tour winner Aaron Massey heads-up to take down the $500+$60 NLHE Big Stack Re-entry Event during the Borgata Open series in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The American topped a massive field of 4,158 entrants in the opening event of the Borgata series and defied the odds in style, with the only reason the 28-year-old was in Atlantic City being to join his friends on a vacation. Evans sealed victory after ending up on the right side of a flip when his KS-QH out-ran Evans&#8217; pocket 10s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonathan &#8216;Nolte&#8217; Evans \u2013 a novice at the poker tables having played some home and online games but who&#8217;d never hit the tournament tables in a casino before \u2013 scooped a whopping US$337,801 after beating WSOP finalist and recent Heartland Poker Tour winner Aaron Massey heads-up to take down the $500+$60 NLHE Big Stack Re-entry&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625","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=2625"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2625\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.puffapoker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}