2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 4: 100/200 with a 25 Ante Day 1B Entries: 264 Total Entries: 816 The National Championship continues to roll along but we’re already handing out more trophies along the way. Besides the big game and other side events, there are other awards ready to roll out. James Crites […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 3: 100/200 Day 1B Entries: 263 Total Entries: 815 For a few seconds, Claire Whitton thought her day in the National Championship was done. The Suit Up Poker League player moved all in with her short stack after the A♥ 5♠ 4♥ flop and two other players in […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 2: 75/150 Day 1B Entries: 255 Total Entries: 807 The player count quickly jumped over 250 after the start of play and we crossed over 800 total entries for the National Championship. That’s a great turnout and we’ll have some big prizes up for grabs tomorrow evening for […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 1: 50/100 Day 1B Entries: 224 Total Entries: 776 The tournament announcements are complete and floor staff issued the “shuffle up and deal” command to get Day 1B of the National Championship underway. There are 224 players in the game at the start and we expect to pick up […]
The second flight of the 2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship is about to get underway after a long opening run yesterday. Day 1A saw 552 players take their first shot at the title with 27 advancing to Day 2 tomorrow. Everyone today is trying to chase down Howard Acoff, the current chip leader who bagged […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 23: 20,000/40,000 with a 4,000 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 27 Day 1A of the 2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship finished with 27 players advancing to Day 2 on Wednesday. Howard Acoff of the Texas Poker Tour bagged up the biggest stack by a wide […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 23: 20,000/40,000 with a 4,000 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 27 It only took ten minutes of Level 23 to lose the three players needed to end the day. Pikes Peak Poker’s Sean Russell did the heavy lifting when his A♠ 9♥ rivered a heart flush […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 22: 15,000/30,000 with a 4,000 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 30 The few remaining players are on a 10-minute break to catch a breather before the final push. They are three knockouts away from stopping action for a return on Wednesday for Day 2. It’s unlikely […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 21: 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 36 And just like that, the National Championship dropped from 63 players down to 36 in less than a level. Players were happy to put some cash chips in the pocket and head to the casino […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 20: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 62 The action was very deliberate on the money bubble with a $500 pay jump between 63rd and 64th and it took four rounds of hand-for-hand play to get them in the money. And when it […]
