{"id":3049,"date":"2018-06-11T20:15:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T00:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2018-06-11T20:15:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T00:15:30","slug":"gregory-spurdis-aka-mr-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=3049","title":{"rendered":"Gregory Spurdis aka &#8220;Mr. First Time&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2018 Bar Poker Open National Championship<br \/>\n<\/strong>Level 12: 2,500\/5,000 with a 500 Ante<br \/>\nDay 1A Entries:\u00a0477<br \/>\nPlayers Remaining: 150<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3050\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC_0678.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3050\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3050\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC_0678-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"Gregory Spurdis aka &quot;Mr. First Time&quot;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC_0678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/DSC_0678-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Gregory Spurdis aka &#8220;Mr. First Time&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gregory Spurdis is the last survivor of the Staten Islander Poker League. The very first time he played for them he came in third place and got his token to play online.<\/p>\n<p>He played the online tournament for the first time and proceeded to win the whole travel package for this event. That&#8217;s where his nickname &#8220;Mr. First Time&#8221; comes from.<\/p>\n<p>Spurdis currently sits with around 180,000 and has the whole Staten Island Poker League rooting for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 12: 2,500\/5,000 with a 500 Ante Day 1A Entries:\u00a0477 Players Remaining: 150 Gregory Spurdis is the last survivor of the Staten Islander Poker League. The very first time he played for them he came in third place and got his token to play online. He played the online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[25,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049"}],"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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3051,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}