{"id":1304,"date":"2006-08-11T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T18:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2006-08-11T11:03:53","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T18:03:53","slug":"ben-and-ami-are-famous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/08\/11\/ben-and-ami-are-famous\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben and Ami Are Famous!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that this blog has become all poker all the time.  Well get ready for even more.  <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Video\/playerIndex?id=2297830\">Here<\/a> is a link to an ABC World News story about my friends Ben and Ami Foster.  Cool!  Ben, you <a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1286\">remember<\/a> is the guy who gave up a job at eBay to play poker online professionally.  Cool shot of Ben&#8217;s setup playing eight poker tables at a time.  Even cooler shot of his tracking his success staistically.  When I was little I used to take two dice and role them over and over and keep track of the statistics and plot them up all pretty.  Yeah, it was a repressed childhood.<br \/>\nBen and Ami now have got me beat.  My closest approach to such stardome on national TV was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/TECH\/9610\/10\/feynmen\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> where I was a token Caltech student fawning over Feynman.  Luckily the video isn&#8217;t online to embarrass me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that this blog has become all poker all the time. Well get ready for even more. Here is a link to an ABC World News story about my friends Ben and Ami Foster. Cool! Ben, you remember is the guy who gave up a job at eBay to play poker online &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2006\/08\/11\/ben-and-ami-are-famous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ben and Ami Are Famous!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poker","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}