{"id":2773,"date":"2017-06-14T00:20:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T04:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=2773"},"modified":"2017-06-14T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:51:00","slug":"national-championship-day-1b-kerri-pankowski-finds-aces-ends-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=2773","title":{"rendered":"National Championship Day 1B: Kerri Pankowski Finds Aces; Ends the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship<br \/>\n<\/strong>Level 23: 20,000\/40,000 with a 5,000 Ante<br \/>\nDay 1B Entries: 265<br \/>\nPlayers Remaining: 13<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2774\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Basil-Congro.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2774\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2774\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Basil-Congro-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Basil Congro ends with the Day 1B chip lead\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Basil-Congro-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Basil-Congro-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Basil-Congro.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Basil Congro ends with the Day 1B chip lead<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take very long get the field down to the last 13 players, little longer than last night but in the same level.<\/p>\n<p>Kerri Pankowski moved all in with one player already all in with his big blind. The rest of the table released and Pankowki&#8217;s\u00a0As Ah were dominated the blind hand of Ts 4s. She had a small sweat on the turn but her aces held on the Ac Qd 2s Kh 7c board to pause the tournament for the night. Probably not the max amount she would want with aces but the job was done.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Sims lost his lead late when Basil Congro surged ahead, mostly thanks to a kings versus queens battle to send him north. Congro bagged up 1,499,000 and Sims was not far behind with 1,133,000 to join Howard Acoff as the only three players returning with more than 1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Day 1B counts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Basil Congro &#8211; Eastern Poker Tour- 1,499,000<\/li>\n<li>Nick Sims &#8211; Eastern Poker Tour-1,133,000<\/li>\n<li>Adam White -Nevada Poker League- 552,000<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Scott -Suit Up Poker League- 544,000<\/li>\n<li>Garth Moran &#8211; Kontenders Poker- 485,000<\/li>\n<li>Deborah Cox -Deepstacks Poker League- 480,000<\/li>\n<li>Michael Hodgin &#8211; Riverchasers- 456,000<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Moro &#8211; Kontenders Poker-389,000<\/li>\n<li>Charles McCaughey -Eastern Poker Tour- 372,000<\/li>\n<li>Kerri Pankowski &#8211; Eastern Poker Tour-239,000<\/li>\n<li>Glenn Resch -Eastern Poker Tour- 203,000<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Titcombe &#8211; New York Free Poker-157,000<\/li>\n<li>Tom Amato -Eastern Poker Tour- 117,000<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 23: 20,000\/40,000 with a 5,000 Ante Day 1B Entries: 265 Players Remaining: 13 It didn&#8217;t take very long get the field down to the last 13 players, little longer than last night but in the same level. Kerri Pankowski moved all in with one player already all in [&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\/2773"}],"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=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2785,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions\/2785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}