{"id":16,"date":"2012-08-25T18:57:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T22:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bbpoker.ca\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2012-08-25T18:57:01","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T22:57:01","slug":"welcome-poker-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/welcome-poker-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Poker Fans!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, welcome to the new BBPT blog. \u00a0Let&#8217;s get right to it.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few improvements making their debut in season IV, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new, slightly modified blind structure that will not affect the start to middle of tournaments, but will speed up things towards the end of it, with the introduction of fast 5 and 7 minute blinds at the end of the tournament, when blinds are the largest.<\/li>\n<li>In the case of a first place season ending tie, the two players will play a heads up match to determine the season champion.<\/li>\n<li>A new bonus payout for people finishing out of the top four on the season. \u00a0This one will be a random draw based on players&#8217; average minutes played.<\/li>\n<li>3rd place finishers will now get paid in the monthly tournaments (provided there are at least 10 participants)<\/li>\n<li>New live scoring system which will immediately update the website upon completion of the tournament &#8211; no more waiting for updates.<\/li>\n<li>Automatic Twitter updates of knockouts which will allow fans worldwide to follow the action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Get the full details here:\u00a0<a title=\"PDF of the new season 4 blind schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/documents\/Season_IV_Blinds.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF of the new season 4 blind schedule<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0a\u00a0<a title=\"Here's a PDF of the new payouts and Joe Bag Bonuses\" href=\"http:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/documents\/BBPTNews.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF of the new payouts and Joe Bag Bonuses<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What won&#8217;t change is the ultra high level of poker that fans of the BBPT have come to expect from this league.<\/p>\n<p>See you at the tables!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, welcome to the new BBPT blog. \u00a0Let&#8217;s get right to it. There are a few improvements making their debut in season IV, such as: A new, slightly modified blind&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}