{"id":5827,"date":"2016-12-05T12:48:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T17:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2025-10-01T12:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T16:58:07","slug":"5827","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/?p=5827","title":{"rendered":"2016 Bar Poker Open Champion &#8211; &#8220;Iron Mike&#8221; Mirbek Orozaliev from New York Free Poker!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bar Poker Open East Coast NLH Championship<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>(Invitation Only)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>$100,000 Guarantee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Level 36: \u00a0Blinds 40<\/strong><strong>0,000\/800,000\/50,000 ante<br \/>\nEntries: \u00a0637<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Mirbek Orozaliev (New York, NY)<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>New York Free Poker<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5828\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"2016 Atlantic City Champion\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-2048x1362.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mirbek Orozaliev is our 2016 East Coast Bar Poker Open Championship winner, earning $23,709! \u00a0This will be the first tournament cash reported for this 28-year old from New York Free Poker, but undoubtedly won\u2019t be the last.<\/p>\n<p>Mike arrived at the final table as the shortest stack, but was undeterred, \u201cnever gave up\u201d and kept grinding away. \u00a0As his stack grew, so did his confidence.<\/p>\n<p>His family back home in Kyrgyzstan will have to wait until morning to watch his victory on the live stream, but his New York Free Poker family was watching live, both here and online, as he took down the title. \u00a0I guess this means he\u2019s buying the first round of drinks at the next Bar Poker event!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5829\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5829\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5829\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-NYFP-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"2016\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-NYFP-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-NYFP-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-NYFP-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-NYFP-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2016-Mike-NYFP-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5829\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2016 Bar Poker Open Atlantic City Champion with his league, New York Free Poker<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bar Poker Open East Coast NLH Championship (Invitation Only) $100,000 Guarantee Level 36: \u00a0Blinds 400,000\/800,000\/50,000 ante Entries: \u00a0637 Mirbek Orozaliev (New York, NY) New York Free Poker Mirbek Orozaliev is our 2016 East Coast Bar Poker Open Championship winner, earning $23,709! \u00a0This will be the first tournament cash reported for this 28-year old from New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[64,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827"}],"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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5831,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions\/5831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.barpokeropen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}