{"id":2644,"date":"2017-06-13T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2017-06-13T03:44:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T07:44:37","slug":"national-championship-day-1-sean-russell-ends-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"National Championship Day 1: Sean Russell Ends the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship<br \/>\n<\/strong>Level 23: 20,000\/40,000 with a 4,000 Ante<br \/>\nDay 1A Entries: 552<br \/>\nPlayers Remaining: 27<\/p>\n<p>It only took ten minutes of Level 23 to lose the three players needed to end the day. Pikes Peak Poker&#8217;s Sean Russell did the heavy lifting when his A\u2660 9\u2665 rivered a heart flush against 5\u2665 5\u2660 to put the National Championship down to 27 players.<\/p>\n<p>The clock was paused, the rail celebrated, and players congratulated each other for making it through to Day 2.<\/p>\n<p>Howard Acoff continued to dominate\u00a0and bagged up a huge lead. His 1,915,000 is more than double the second place stack of Ryan Chua&#8217;s 870,000.<\/p>\n<p>Full chip counts for the 27 remaining players will be posted as soon as they are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 23: 20,000\/40,000 with a 4,000 Ante Day 1A Entries: 552 Players Remaining: 27 It only took ten minutes of Level 23 to lose the three players needed to end the day. Pikes Peak Poker&#8217;s Sean Russell did the heavy lifting when his A\u2660 9\u2665 rivered a heart flush [&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\/2644"}],"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=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2645,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}