{"id":2646,"date":"2017-06-13T00:25:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T04:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2017-06-14T13:55:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T17:55:36","slug":"national-championship-day-1a-howard-acoff-leads-last-27-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"National Championship Day 1A: Howard Acoff Leads 27 Players Advancing"},"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<div id=\"attachment_2642\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Howard-Acoff-2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2642\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2642\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Howard-Acoff-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Howard Acoff (Texas Poker Tour)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Howard-Acoff-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Howard-Acoff-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Howard-Acoff-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2642\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Howard Acoff (Texas Poker Tour)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Day 1A of the 2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship finished with 27 players advancing to Day 2 on Wednesday. Howard Acoff of the Texas Poker Tour bagged up the biggest stack by a wide margin, easily surpassing the 870,000 of 2014 BPO National Champion Ryan Chua.<\/p>\n<p>Players who bagged up today are still eligible to play tomorrow. Day 1B will play the same schedule and players have a chance to cash again in the National Championship. If a player\u00a0advances twice, their biggest stack will go into play on Day 2 and they will receive a Day 2 min-cash for the smaller bag.<\/p>\n<p>End of Day 1A counts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Howard Acoff &#8211; Texas Poker Tour-1,915,000<\/li>\n<li>Ryan Chua -Eastern Poker Tour- 870,000<\/li>\n<li>Michael Czopek -Eastern Poker Tour- 812,000<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Shepard &#8211; Eastern Poker Tour-773,000<\/li>\n<li>Caryn Bustos -The Poker Pub Arizona- 668,000<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Billings &#8211; Over the Top Poker League-647,000<\/li>\n<li>Justin Barber -Riverchasers- 646,000<\/li>\n<li>Sean Russell -Pikes Peak Poker- 639,000<\/li>\n<li>Sean Lauper &#8211; Eastern Poker Tour-545,000<\/li>\n<li>Mike Asti &#8211; Steel City Poker-540,000<\/li>\n<li>Michael Peace -Nevada Poker League- 539,000<\/li>\n<li>Louis Belcher -Over the Top Poker League- 465,000<\/li>\n<li>Denine Wish &#8211; Riverchasers-455,000<\/li>\n<li>Kourtney Coutu -Eastern Poker Tour- 453,000<\/li>\n<li>John (Jake) Dennehy -Eastern Poker Tour- 426,000<\/li>\n<li>Jim Gardner &#8211; Eastern Poker Tour-407,000<\/li>\n<li>Zach Preta &#8211; Pikes Peak Poker-393,000<\/li>\n<li>Susan Kennedy &#8211; No Limit Pub Poker-387,000<\/li>\n<li>Paul Giroux &#8211; Eastern Poker Tour-386,000<\/li>\n<li>Jennifer Baigorria &#8211; Eastern Poker Tour-276,000<\/li>\n<li>Brian Rodriguez &#8211; Eastern Poker Tour-274,000<\/li>\n<li>Susan DePetro &#8211; Nevada Poker League-260,000<\/li>\n<li>Allyson Holbrook -Eastern Poker Tour- 237,000<\/li>\n<li>Leonard Burk &#8211; Missouri Poker Club-230,000<\/li>\n<li>Jack Bell &#8211; Deepstacks Poker League-223,000<\/li>\n<li>Victoria Dixon &#8211; Riverchasers-200,000<\/li>\n<li>Robert Hansen &#8211; Kontenders Poker-195,000<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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 Day 1A of the 2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship finished with 27 players advancing to Day 2 on Wednesday. Howard Acoff of the Texas Poker Tour bagged up the biggest stack by a wide [&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\/2646"}],"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=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}