{"id":2616,"date":"2017-06-12T21:44:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T01:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=2616"},"modified":"2017-06-13T01:31:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T05:31:09","slug":"national-championship-day-1a-mike-szopek-leads-bubble-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=2616","title":{"rendered":"National Championship Day 1A: Mike Czopek Leads; Bubble Nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship<br \/>\n<\/strong>Returning to Level 19: 6,000\/12,000 with a 2,000 Ante<br \/>\nDay 1A Entries: 552<br \/>\nPlayers Remaining: 81<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2602\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mike-Szopek.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2602\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2602\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mike-Szopek-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Szopek (Deepstacks Poker League)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mike-Szopek-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mike-Szopek-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mike-Szopek.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2602\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Mike Czopek (DeepStacks Poker League)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>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 money bubble nears.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Czopek is back on top with his 630,000 leading the way followed by John Billing, Traci McDaniel, Ryan Chua, and Mike Asti.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Czopek (DeepStacks Poker League) &#8211; 630,000 (53 bb)<br \/>\nJohn Billing (Over the Top) &#8211; 610,000 (51 bb)<br \/>\nTraci McDaniel (Pikes Peak Poker) &#8211; 540,000 (45 bb)<br \/>\nRyan Chua (Riverchasers) &#8211; 515,000 (43 bb)<br \/>\nMike Asti (Steel City Poker) &#8211; 480,000 (40 bb)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2622\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mike-Asti.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2622\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2622\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mike-Asti-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Asti (Steel City Poker)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mike-Asti-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mike-Asti-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mike-Asti.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Mike Asti (Steel City Poker)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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\/2616"}],"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=2616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2616\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}