{"id":2743,"date":"2017-06-13T20:44:31","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T00:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2017-06-14T00:20:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T04:20:49","slug":"national-championship-day-1b-nick-sims-joins-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=2743","title":{"rendered":"National Championship Day 1B: Nick Sims Joins the Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship<br \/>\n<\/strong>Level 17: 4,000\/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante<br \/>\nDay 1B Entries: 265<br \/>\nPlayers Remaining: 39<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2744\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2744\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2744\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Sims (Eastern Poker Tour)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2744\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Nick Sims (Eastern Poker Tour)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Day 1B is down to the last four tables of the day and they are now being configured for nine-handed play as they near the money.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Sims is the latest to join those at the top of the counts and he&#8217;s neck-and-neck with Kevin Scott for the lead with 470,000. We expect things to slow up now that the money is near but it won&#8217;t take long to get there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2746\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Sims (Eastern Poker Tour)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Nick Sims (Eastern Poker Tour)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-3-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Nick-Sims-3.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 17: 4,000\/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante Day 1B Entries: 265 Players Remaining: 39 Day 1B is down to the last four tables of the day and they are now being configured for nine-handed play as they near the money. Nick Sims is the latest to join those at [&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\/2743"}],"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=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}