{"id":2836,"date":"2017-06-14T19:10:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T23:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2017-06-14T21:48:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T01:48:27","slug":"national-championship-tom-amato-6th-place-6917","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=2836","title":{"rendered":"National Championship: Tom Amato &#8211; 6th Place ($6,917)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship<br \/>\n<\/strong>Level 29: 100,000\/200,000 with a 30,000 Ante<br \/>\nTotal Entries: 817<br \/>\nPlayers Remaining: 5<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2837\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Tom-Amato.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2837\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2837\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Tom-Amato-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Amato (Eastern Poker Tour)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Tom-Amato-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Tom-Amato-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-Bar-Poker-Open-Tom-Amato.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2837\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Tom Amato (Eastern Poker Tour)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tom Amato was short-stacked but played the patient game while other players hit the rail. He took a stand with As 5h and Nick Sims called with Js 8c. Amato had to dodge two live cards and he hit a little piece of the Kd 7s 5s flop. Sims was still live, missed the Th turn, but spiked the 8s river to send Amato out in sixth place for $6,917.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 29: 100,000\/200,000 with a 30,000 Ante Total Entries: 817 Players Remaining: 5 Tom Amato was short-stacked but played the patient game while other players hit the rail. He took a stand with As 5h and Nick Sims called with Js 8c. Amato had to dodge two live cards [&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\/2836"}],"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=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2839,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}