{"id":2191,"date":"2010-06-19T00:05:13","date_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2010-06-19T00:05:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-18T14:05:37","slug":"world-cup-2010-week-of-world-cup-poker-little-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2191","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2010: Week of World Cup, Poker &#038; Little Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got back from the work conference in Melbourne last night.\u00a0 It was a great couple of days.\u00a0 We managed to get a lot done during the day and we had an interesting poker night arranged by my boss at the British Crown Hotel in Collingwood.\u00a0 We had booked for a night of Texas Hold &#8216;Em which was held in a secluded upstairs area which didn&#8217;t have any windows, which made for an interesting evening since it was pissing down with rain and there were winds up to 100km\/h.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2192\" style=\"width: 581px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pokernight.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2192\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2192    \" title=\"pokernight\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pokernight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pokernight.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pokernight-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The venue for our afterwork function<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amazingly, yours truly actionally managed to clean up and win the poker.\u00a0 Not sure how that happened.\u00a0 More importantly, I was offered a fulltime position in my current managerial role so I was absolutely stoked as I was only on a temporary secondment previously.\u00a0 Looks like things are starting to come together!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also gone most of this week with only 4-5 hours sleep each night.\u00a0 It&#8217;s too easy to fall into watching the midnight game and find myself still awake at 2am everynight.<\/p>\n<p>While I was away, all hell broke loose.\u00a0 The <strong>All Whites secured a famous first ever point<\/strong>, <strong>Spain lost to Switzerland <\/strong>(?!) and <strong>Germany just lost to Serbia<\/strong> a few minutes ago.\u00a0 The only expected result was Italy playing like this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2193\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/italydive.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2193\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2193\" title=\"italydive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/italydive.gif\" alt=\"Italy Go Diving\" width=\"192\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Business As Usual<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Also, apparently a couple of the hot girls from the post below this one got arrested for attempting an authorized advertising campaign or something.\u00a0 Bummer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2194\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5922041.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2194\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2194\" title=\"5922041\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5922041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5922041.jpg 376w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5922041-245x300.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frowny Frau Face:  Germany 0 Serbia 1<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got back from the work conference in Melbourne last night.\u00a0 It was a great couple of days.\u00a0 We managed to get a lot done during the day and we had an interesting poker night arranged by my boss at the British Crown Hotel in Collingwood.\u00a0 We had booked for a night of Texas Hold 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