{"id":2489,"date":"2017-06-11T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T20:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2017-06-11T19:13:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T23:13:36","slug":"2017-bar-poker-open-underway-in-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=2489","title":{"rendered":"2017 Bar Poker Open Underway in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2490\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bar-Poker-Open-Event-1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2490\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2490\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bar-Poker-Open-Event-1.jpg\" alt=\"Big crowd for Event 1\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bar-Poker-Open-Event-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bar-Poker-Open-Event-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Bar-Poker-Open-Event-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Big crowd for Event 1<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 2017 Bar Poker Open kicked off this afternoon in the Golden Nugget tournament area and the first event of five is pulling in a nice crowd of players on a Sunday afternoon for the $150 buy-in\/$20,000 Guaranteed opener. There were more than 200 entries in the game at the first break with more than four hours left to register for the one-day event.<\/p>\n<p>That $20,000 guaranteed prize pool has already been surpassed and they will continue running it up until registration is closed at 5:30pm.\u00a0We&#8217;ll continue to keep an eye on the tournament to see its final numbers, prize pool, and payout information later this evening.<\/p>\n<p>This is a nice warm up for the big event tomorrow when the Bar Poker Open National Championship kicks off at 11am. Players can check-in this evening between 8pm and 11pm\u00a0outside the ballroom to get an early jump on the huge crowd expected for Day 1A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2017 Bar Poker Open kicked off this afternoon in the Golden Nugget tournament area and the first event of five is pulling in a nice crowd of players on a Sunday afternoon for the $150 buy-in\/$20,000 Guaranteed opener. There were more than 200 entries in the game at the first break with more than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2493,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}