{"id":4025,"date":"2019-06-13T23:46:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T03:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vegas.barpokeropen.com\/blog\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2019-06-13T23:46:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T03:46:30","slug":"rafael-jimenez-wins-the-2019-bpo-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=4025","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Jimenez Wins the 2019 BPO National Championship!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RafWinner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4026\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RafWinner-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"RafWinner\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RafWinner-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RafWinner-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After nine hours of play the 2019 Bar Poker Open National Champion was crowned. Texas Poker Tour\u2019s Rafael Jimenez came into Day 2 as the shortest stack with less than one big blind. He also came into the final table as the shortest stack.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe final table was good, I was getting cards, and chillaxin its\u2019 a Bar Poker Open I was the only one drinking\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rafael scored most of the knock outs on the final table, two with back to back pocket jacks.<\/p>\n<p>He attributes his luck to his wife \u201cShe\u2019s my good luck charm\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez will be taking home a cool $50,000 for his efforts and we will be sure to see him again next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nine hours of play the 2019 Bar Poker Open National Champion was crowned. Texas Poker Tour\u2019s Rafael Jimenez came into Day 2 as the shortest stack with less than one big blind. He also came into the final table as the shortest stack. \u201cThe final table was good, I was getting cards, and chillaxin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4026,"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\/4025"}],"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=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4027,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions\/4027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}