{"id":2604,"date":"2017-06-12T19:39:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2017-06-12T22:48:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T02:48:46","slug":"national-championship-day-1a-back-underway-mystery-man-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"National Championship Day 1A: Back Underway; Mystery Man Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship<br \/>\n<\/strong>Level 15: 2,500\/5,000 with a 500 Ante<br \/>\nDay 1A Entries: 552<br \/>\nPlayers Remaining: 160<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2606\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Paul-Giroux.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2606\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2606\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Paul-Giroux-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Giroux (Eastern Poker Tour)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Paul-Giroux-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Paul-Giroux-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Paul-Giroux.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Paul Giroux (Eastern Poker Tour)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>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&#8217;t looking. Paul Giroux of the Eastern Poker Tour is the mystery player and we found him after the dinner break. His 275,000 was second best at the dinner break but we expect a lot of action with people trying to catch the big stack.<\/p>\n<p>Next stop is the money bubble when 64 remain and 63 get paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;t looking. Paul Giroux of the Eastern Poker Tour is [&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\/2604"}],"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=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}