{"id":2675,"date":"2017-06-13T13:48:59","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T17:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2017-06-13T17:10:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T21:10:34","slug":"national-championship-day-1b-past-champs-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"National Championship Day 1B: Past Champs Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship<br \/>\n<\/strong>Level 6: 200\/400 with a 50 Ante<br \/>\nDay 1B Entries: 265<br \/>\nPlayers Remaining: 240<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2677\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mirbek-Orozaliev.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2677\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2677\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mirbek-Orozaliev-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Mirbek Orozaliev (New York Free Poker)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mirbek-Orozaliev-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mirbek-Orozaliev-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Mirbek-Orozaliev.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Mirbek Orozaliev (New York Free Poker)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Players from the same league are sure to find themselves at the same table at some point. The room is only so big. But New York Free Poker has two representatives sitting at the same table, both with past major titles.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Bellinger captured a big trophy when he was an East Coast Championship in 2013 and Mirbek &#8220;Iron Mike&#8221; Orozaliev won even more recently. He won the Bar Poker Open East Coast Championship at the Borgata this past December for more than $23,000.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2676\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Sam-Bellinger.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2676\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2676\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Sam-Bellinger-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Sam Bellinger (New York Free Poker)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Sam-Bellinger-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Sam-Bellinger-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Sam-Bellinger.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Sam Bellinger (New York Free Poker)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 6: 200\/400 with a 50 Ante Day 1B Entries: 265 Players Remaining: 240 Players from the same league are sure to find themselves at the same table at some point. The room is only so big. But New York Free Poker has two representatives sitting at the same [&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\/2675"}],"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=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2678,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}