{"id":3391,"date":"2016-06-29T16:35:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T16:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamblingwithanedge.com\/?page_id=3391"},"modified":"2020-03-24T09:33:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:33:10","slug":"about-blair-rodman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/about-blair-rodman\/","title":{"rendered":"About Blair Rodman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blair Rodman has been playing poker professionally since 1985, when he quit his job dealing craps. He has had numerous finishes in the money at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in hold\u2019em, seven-card stud, and Omaha poker tournaments. In March 2005, he made his first World Poker Tour (WPT) final table, finishing 2nd to Arnold Spee in the 2005 World Poker Challenge. In May 2005, Rodman made the final table of the Professional Poker Tour event won by Ted Forrest. He also made the final tables at the 2nd and 3rd Ultimate Poker Challenge grand finals, finishing 2nd and 6th respectively. He made a second WPT final table in February 2006, again finishing 2nd, this time to Barry Greenstein in the Pro-Celebrity Invitational event. On July 1, 2007, Rodman won his first bracelet, in the 2007 World Series of Poker $2,000 No-Limit Hold\u2019em event.<\/p>\n<p>Blair\u00a0is, together with Aussie Millions champ Lee Nelson, co-author of<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shoplva.com\/products\/kill-phil-2nd-edition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kill Phil<\/a><\/em>, the acclaimed poker-tournament strategy book that forever changed face of no-limit hold&#8217;em events, \u00a0now in its second (updated and revised) edition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/products\/kill-phil-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3433 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/kp.png\" alt=\"kp\" width=\"182\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blair Rodman has been playing poker professionally since 1985, when he quit his job dealing craps. He has had numerous finishes in the money at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in hold\u2019em, seven-card stud, and Omaha poker tournaments. In March 2005, he made his first World Poker Tour (WPT) final table, finishing 2nd to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About Blair Rodman - Gambling With An Edge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/about-blair-rodman\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About Blair Rodman - Gambling With An Edge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Blair Rodman has been playing poker professionally since 1985, when he quit his job dealing craps. 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