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 […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 19: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 64 With 64 players remaining and 63 getting paid, tournament staff paused all tables to begin the hand-for-hand process. Each table will play one hand at a time until a player is eliminated to put the rest […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Returning to Level 19: 6,000/12,000 with a 2,000 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 81 Players are taking another break as the grey 500 chips come out of play and the 25K chips hit the table. The clock shows 81 players but it less than that as the […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 18: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 99 The 2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship is in double digits for the first time and there seems to be no slowing them down. Ten tables remain and tournament staff are now reconfiguring for nine-handed […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 16: 3,000/5,000 with a 1,000 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 120 Players are dropping in a hurry after the dinner break and the field is down to 12 ten-handed tables. They will switch configuration to nine-handed tables when 81 players remain and continue that way until the […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 15: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 160 We though we identified all the big stacks in the room before dinner, catching names and counting chips, but one jumped up there when we weren’t looking. Paul Giroux of the Eastern Poker Tour is […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Returning to Level 15: 2,500/5,000 with a 500 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: ~170 Jake Dennehy was the big stack an hour ago but Keith Oestricker stormed past him before taking a dinner break. Oestricker is stacked up to 460,000 for a clear lead over the rest […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship End of Level 14: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: ~170 National Championship players are taking off on their 45-minute dinner break with less than 170 players remaining, 63 getting paid, and 27 moving on to Day 2. Once they clear the room, we […]
2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 14: 2,000/4,000 with a 500 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 180 We caught up with the action on Table 18 with Pike Peak Poker’s Jackie Brackett getting her 63,000 stack in the middle in rough shape with J♦ J♣ against K♦ K♣. The bad news didn’t […]