{"id":224,"date":"2014-03-28T16:42:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T20:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bbpoker.ca\/blog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2014-03-28T16:42:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T20:42:20","slug":"what-are-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/28\/what-are-the-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the odds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ebsqart.com\/Art\/Religious-Portraits\/watercolor-and-gouache\/519452\/650\/650\/Adam-Bites-The-Apple.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;How do you go from first to worst?&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Season-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-226 alignnone\" alt=\"Season 5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Season-5.jpg\" width=\"191\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If we were to tell you that by mid-season, last year&#8217;s BBPT winner and pied piper would would be sitting in complete opposite places in the standings, you would have probably laughed. But alas, season 5 of the tour has provided us with tragic comedy so compelling, we wish that we could binge-watch every detail on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe in superstition, than Adam may have brought this last-place curse on himself. Let us entertain you with a prequel to his championship run:<\/p>\n<p>During Adam&#8217;s insane late-season run to win the 2013 season, he made one catastrophic faux-pas: he touched what wasn&#8217;t his.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Kyle warned everyone in the league &#8220;to not touch the Cup if they&#8217;re not a champion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During one event, Adam ended up holding the cup. \u00a0When presented with the idea that he had cursed himself, he laughed, and took a swig of the liquid gold that fizzed within. While everyone thought he proved superstition to be a farce, that sacrilegious moment is haunting him right now.<\/p>\n<p>Since Adam&#8217;s win, his best place finish has been 7th. The other finishes: we are unable to determine conclusively if he was coherent or present at those tournaments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/adam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-230 alignnone\" alt=\"adam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/adam.jpg\" width=\"351\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It appears the poker gods have had the last laugh, all while reaffirming the golden rule, or should we say: <strong>Genesis 3:3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;&#8216;but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, &#8216;You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.&#8217; &#8220;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How do you go from first to worst?&#8221; If we were to tell you that by mid-season, last year&#8217;s BBPT winner and pied piper would would be sitting in complete&#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\/224"}],"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=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbpoker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}