Thomas McDonald raises to 320,000 and Mark Yurga calls from the big blind. They go heads up to the J♥5♦8♠ flop and Yurga checks. McDonald slides out a bet of 900,000 and Yurga quickly check raises all in for 1,800,000. McDonald calls just as fast and the hands are shown. Yurga: J♣2♠ McDonald: Q♥J♠ The […]
Tim McPhillips didn’t have much wiggle room as he came into the final table with less than six big blinds. A short stacked McPhillips managed to make a pay jump when Andy Giatas was sent home in 8th. McPhillips was down to less than than four big blinds and moved all in holding Q♦9♥. He […]
Andy Giatas was all in for his last 665,000 holding A♥K♠ . Debbie Yurga made the call with 8♥8♦. The board ran out clean for Yurga and Giatas was sent to the rail. Giatas is our 8th place finisher collecting $2,452 for his efforts here in The Bar Poker Open Championship. Yurga is now back at […]
With the Blinds now at 50,000/100,000 with a 10,000 ante the stacks are getting shallow. Thomas McDonald has been able to win some key pots here early at the final table. He now finds himself with the chip lead as he playing about 3,400,000. Just 7 players remain as they battle it out for the […]
Andy Giatas raises to 220,000 from under the gun and Debbie Yurga calls. The action folds to Donna Rohwer in the big blind who calls and they go three handed to the 8♣K♦Q♠ flop. Rohwer leads out with a bet of 200,000 and Giatas quickly raises to 500,000. With the action on Yurga she moves […]
The players have returned from break and the final table is now underway. We will bring you all the action right here on the blog. Don’t forget about the live stream which will be live in just 30 minutes at livestream page and on twitch.tv/barpokeropen.
We are now down to our final eight players as they battle it out for the $24,000 first prize and the BPO Championship trophy. Phil Willmeth caught fire here early and is leading the way. The players are now on a break and will return at 5 P.M. (PST) and play down a winner. The live […]
Joe Ginzer was eliminated in 10th place taking home $1,568 for his efforts. We were then down to our unofficial final table of ten. Phil Willmeth raised to 250,000 from early postion and Mike Thompson moved all in for 425,000. It folded back to Willmeth who made the call turning over his A♣Q♦. Thompson showed […]
Rebecca Cole moves all in for her last 500,000 and Rich Brennan makes the call. Cole is in great shape to double up with A♣10♠ against the A♥2♠ of Brennan. They see a flop of 2♣6♣5♣ and Brennan spikes his deuce on the flop to take the lead. “Give me a ten” Coles says to […]
12. Sally Ritchie (KQPL)-$1,568 13. Eric Wilbur (EPT)- $1,278 14. Jeff Abernathy (TPT)- $1,278 15. Nivaldo Melo (EPT)- $1,278 16. Rob Garrett (EPT)- $1,025 17. Loni Shaw (TPL 2013)- $1,025 18. Paul Giroux (EPT)- $425,000 19. Jon Glickner (EPT)- $822 20. Marcos Brixo (EPT)- $822 21. Corky Eden (NPL)- $822 22. Alexander Schwartz (NPL)- $687 […]
