{"id":160,"date":"2013-09-05T11:35:18","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T15:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bbpoker.ca\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2013-09-05T11:35:18","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T15:35:18","slug":"the-newbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/the-newbs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Newbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/mandaray.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/noob_3101248.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"317\" \/><br \/>\nIn our fifth season, <em>The Tour\u00a0<\/em>has welcomed three more players \u2014 the biggest expansion in the league&#8217;s history. Who are these players? Are they sharks? Are they guppies? As the season unfolds their play will give us answers, but until that happens, here&#8217;s what their recruiters have to say.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris B<\/strong><br \/>\nDarren&#8217;s take:\u00a0I think he will either be playing the recorder or drinking from the cup or somewhere in between by season end.\u00a0Chris has over 20 years experience playing casino cash games. He needs to shake off his rust as he hasn&#8217;t played in 4 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeff T<br \/>\n<\/strong>Phil&#8217;s take:\u00a0Jeff&#8217;s entering the BBPT for his first season amid much controversy as to how he got the nomination. \u00a0While its true he worked with fellow BBPT player\u00a0Phil\u00a0Ertsenian over 15 years ago flipping Burgers at McDonald&#8217;s, it turns out he is the older brother of last years newcomer Daryl Timko. \u00a0Back then Jeff was a quiet reserved guy which might translate well to a poker player. \u00a0If the rumours that his brother speak are true of Jeff being a semi-pro poker player, then he may just be the next to take over where his brother left off and be the next rookie to cash in his 1st season. \u00a0The BBPT just hopes that this is one of the few traits the Timko brothers share and that Jeff does not tun out to be a chip Nazi like his brother.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter O<br \/>\n<\/strong>Adam&#8217;s take: Adam obviously doesn&#8217;t think much of Pete as he couldn&#8217;t be bothered to write anything about him. To add insult to injury, Adam won&#8217;t be attending The Tour&#8217;s first game, putting Peter in the awkward position of sitting at a table with people he hasn&#8217;t met before. <em>Awkward.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our fifth season, The Tour\u00a0has welcomed three more players \u2014 the biggest expansion in the league&#8217;s history. Who are these players? Are they sharks? Are they guppies? As the&#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\/160"}],"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=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}