{"id":2523,"date":"2017-06-12T11:32:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2017-06-12T15:45:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T19:45:25","slug":"national-championship-day-1a-ryan-chua-looking-for-number-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=2523","title":{"rendered":"National Championship Day 1A: Ryan Chua Looking for Number Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship<\/strong><br \/>\nLevel 2: 75\/150<br \/>\nDay 1A Entries: 541<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2524\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-day-Ryan-Chua.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2524\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2524\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-day-Ryan-Chua-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Chua\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-day-Ryan-Chua-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-day-Ryan-Chua-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-day-Ryan-Chua.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Ryan Chua<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Players are wasting no time mixing it up in early action with several already sent to the rail as dealers yell out &#8220;seat open&#8221; from nearly the start of play. With no re-entries available in this flight, the field will quickly shrink at the start but will settle down as the stacks get deeper.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Chua is back in the BPO National Championship and one of two players among the 541 entries with a chance at a second title. Chua won the inaugural National Championship held at the Borgata, outlasting the 607-entry field to walk away with more than $10,000 for his efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 2: 75\/150 Day 1A Entries: 541 Players are wasting no time mixing it up in early action with several already sent to the rail as dealers yell out &#8220;seat open&#8221; from nearly the start of play. With no re-entries available in this flight, the field will quickly shrink [&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\/2523"}],"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=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2536,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/2536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}