{"id":2571,"date":"2017-06-12T15:55:32","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T19:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=2571"},"modified":"2017-06-12T19:09:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:09:03","slug":"national-championship-day-1a-gerry-place-channeling-heisenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=2571","title":{"rendered":"National Championship Day 1A: Gerry Place Channeling Heisenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship<br \/>\n<\/strong>Level 9: 500\/1,000 with a 100 Ante<br \/>\nDay 1A Entries: 552<br \/>\nPlayers Remaining: 390<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2573\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Gerry-Place.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2573\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2573\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Gerry-Place-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Gerry Place (Nevada Poker League)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Gerry-Place-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Gerry-Place-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Gerry-Place.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Gerry Place (Nevada Poker League)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>While there are a lot of players in town from around the country to participate in the Bar Poker Open National Championship, we also have more than a few locals in the game as well courtesy of the Nevada Poker League.<\/p>\n<p>Gerry Place is on the Vegas residents in action today and he\u00a0has more than a casual resemblance to a fiction character. And he seems to be aware. There are plenty of unique card protectors in the room but Place has a near lookalike in the form of a Walter White bobblehead from the hit TV show Breaking Bad sitting in front of chip stack between hands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Gerry-Place-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2572\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Gerry-Place-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Gerry Place\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Gerry-Place-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Gerry-Place-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Gerry-Place-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 9: 500\/1,000 with a 100 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 390 While there are a lot of players in town from around the country to participate in the Bar Poker Open National Championship, we also have more than a few locals in the game as well [&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\/2571"}],"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=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2575,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions\/2575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}