{"id":3936,"date":"2019-06-13T15:32:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=3936"},"modified":"2019-06-13T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T19:36:01","slug":"mike-patterson-takes-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=3936","title":{"rendered":"Mike Patterson Takes the Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2019 Bar Poker Open National Championship<br \/>\n<\/b>Level 23: 50,000\/100,000\/100,000<br \/>\nPlayers Remaining: 38 of 1485<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MikePatterson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3937\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MikePatterson-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"MikePatterson\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MikePatterson-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/MikePatterson-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A player under the gun moved all in for 330,000. Sunshine Poker League&#8217;s Mike Patterson raised to 620,000. His opponent next to act went all in for 2,000,000 and Patterson called all in for around 1,200,000.<\/p>\n<p>Patterson tabled pocket sixes and was slightly ahead of his opponent&#8217;s Ace Queen and King Jack.<\/p>\n<p>The flop came 9 7 6 and Patterson flopped a set to take a commanding lead. The board was clean for Patterson and he scored a huge double to take the chip lead.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Patterson &#8211; 4,000,000<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIts a surreal experience. I never thought I\u2019d be here, I only started playing poker less than a year ago.\u201d Mike Patterson was one of the original attendees at a Sunshine Poker League event.<\/p>\n<p>Donnie Sunshine took Patterson under his wing and taught him everything he knew about the game. Now less than a year later Patterson is competing for $50,000, life changing money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019 Bar Poker Open National Championship Level 23: 50,000\/100,000\/100,000 Players Remaining: 38 of 1485 A player under the gun moved all in for 330,000. Sunshine Poker League&#8217;s Mike Patterson raised to 620,000. His opponent next to act went all in for 2,000,000 and Patterson called all in for around 1,200,000. Patterson tabled pocket sixes and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936"}],"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=3936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3939,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3936\/revisions\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}