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A poker teaser inside a treasure hunt inside a maze inside the body of a dinosaur <\/strong><\/h2>\n

I never thought the endgame would be a Tuesday night spent frantically completing captcha puzzles at 2am but there I was, absolutely sure of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Pass location with 7 out of 8 clues solved, myself and my old friend Blockey on a zoom call as we jointly, painstakingly, finger-blisteringly brute-forced the 8th.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There were 200 possibilities and I think we tried close to 150 of them before getting the good news. Then, ironically, I didn\u2019t send the very necessary email right away, because I failed to read the fine print on the bottom of the congratulatory message. After a fortnight of reading and re-reading messages, pouring over their cryptic significance, it was like that part of my brain had shut down. <\/p>\n

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a riddler inside a comedian inside a genius inside a total b*stard<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The man who designed this poker teaser inside a treasure hunt inside a maze inside the body of a dinosaur is a riddler inside a comedian inside a genius inside a total b*stard who I hope either gets a GPI Order of Merit award or locked up for what he put us all through. <\/p>\n

Runner, runner<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In late November 2022, PokerOrg launched \u2018Runner, Runner,\u2019 a unique promotion, part-scavenger hunt\/part chase when they put a Pokerstars Platinum Pass into the hands of a poker player who, in order to keep it, had to traverse America without getting caught. <\/p>\n

Moving from city to city, The Runner had to leave clues as to his whereabouts while also playing poker in a legal American poker room at a minimum of once every two days. If he got found, he had to surrender his $30,000 pass to the seeker and in the closing days, his identity was known by Ryan DePaulo and his small band of poker detectives. <\/p>\n

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Jonathan \u2018Slow Poker\u2019 Rand literally unmasked himself in the Wynn Poker Room<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On December 16, the poker player and scandalously under-rated YouTuber Jonathan \u2018Slow Poker\u2019 Rand literally unmasked himself in the Wynn Poker Room. Almost three weeks of hiding had taken its toll on him physically and mentally but, a fugitive no longer, the relief was palpable as he knew that he was going to the Bahamas to play a $25,000 buy-in. <\/p>\n

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