2023 Bar Poker Open Vegas World Championship

Championship Event
Day: 3
Event Info

2023 Bar Poker Open Vegas World Championship

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a8
Prize
$100,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$365
Prize Pool
$315,900
Entries
1,053
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Players Info - Day 3
Entries
8
Players Left
1

Blyleven Stacking up Early

Level 25 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante
Dawna Blyleven
Dawna Blyleven

Action folded to Dawna Blyleven, on the button, who raised 240,000 and picked up a single caller from the chip leader Brian Lermer in the big blind.

The flop came 39K and Lermer opted to lead the flop for 350,000 which Blyleven swiftly called.

On the 5 turn, Lermer decided to lead once again, this time for 450,000, and Blyleven called.

Lermer slowed down on the 2 river, opting to check and Blyleven carved out a stack of chips totalling 1,200,000 and slid them over the line. Lermer took his time before folding and Blyleven adds to her stack.

Player Chips Progress
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Brian Lerner
5,200,000
-1,110,000
-1,110,000
Day 2 Chip Leader
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Dawna Blyleven
5,100,000
1,135,000
1,135,000
Day 1B Chip Leader

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Level: 25

Blinds: 60,000/120,000

Ante: 120,000

Seat 9 - John Carr, 470,000 (4 Big Blinds)

John Carr
John Carr

Hailing from Centerpoint, New York, John Carr works in Media/Engineering and has a list of interesting hobbies away from the poker tables.

In his spare time, he collects vintage pinball machines, Beatles memorabilia and classic rock studio outtakes and with $100,000 for first, his collection could grow significantly.

Carr plays his poker in the Long Island branch of the No Limit Pub Poker Tour and through that league won his seat into Day 1a. After an unsuccessful Day 1a, Carr fired into Day 1b and managed to bag for Day 2.

An interesting Day 2 in which Carr navigated a sub-10 big blind stack for the last few levels before reaching the final table.

With a crowd railing from home, Carr is hoping that today will be the real underdog story.

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Seat 8 - Ryan Surdi 5,925,000 (49 Big Blinds)

Ryan Surdi
Ryan Surdi

New York native, Ryan Surdi, is a full-time electrician in his hometown of Holtsville but has been playing poker in the No Limit New York league for a little over six years.

Known by "Dirty Cabbage" by his poker player fraternity, Surdi states that outside of poker he has little hobbies bar the interests of his five boys, who with his wife are following along at home.

Coming into the final second in chips, Surdi is looking to go deep and enjoy his time in Vegas.

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Seat 7 - Jeffrey Bowden, 1,875,000 (16 Big Blinds)

Jeffrey Bowden
Jeffrey Bowden

Jeffrey Bowden is a director of customer support in Norton, Massachusetts and is one of the original Eastern Poker Tour players, having been affiliated with the league for over 19 years.

He is such a stalwart that BPO Director Glenn McCrory once put a bounty on his head for his 500th event and he only went and won the event.

Bowden has his father on the rail and with 16 big blinds to work with, he is confident he can go on and win it all.

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Seat 6 - Edward Holt, 4,755,000 (39 Big Blinds)

Edward Holt
Edward Holt

Edward Holt, or Eddie to his friends, qualified for the event by winning a King of the Felt package having to best non-other than Jeffrey Bowden, in an online heads-up match, for the package. Bowden is also at this final table and they only released it was one another after yesterday's action had concluded.

Holt hails from Franklin, Massachusetts and works in hardwood floors by day, just loves playing poker in the Eastern Poker Tour League in his spare time.

He has been playing in the league for a little over three years and told PokerNews that he feels that he is playing his best poker ever.

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Seat 4 - Brian Lerner, 6,310,000 (53 Big Blinds)

Brian Lerner
Brian Lerner

Brian Lerner is coming into the final table with a substantial chip lead and is a relative newcomer to the Bar Poker Open. After joining the Deepstacks Poker League only eight months ago, this is his first taste of the BPO and what a way to start!

Lerner works as a construction project manager back home in St Loius and had a huge rail following along from home, and he hopes to take the title and top prize back to the Show-Me state.

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Seat 3 - Anthony Lundy, 2,820,000 (24 Big Blinds)

Anthony Lundy
Anthony Lundy

Brooklyn native Anthony "Tony" Lundy is a postal worker by day and has spent the last four years playing poker in the New York Free Poker League and cites his mother, Ola Alexander, as his biggest poker inspiration.

When not playing poker, he likes to spend his time working out and shopping, and has his wife and best friend cheering him on.

Lundy has 24 big blinds to play with on the final table and has already exceeded his largest-ever live cash.

Seat 2 - Dawna Blyleven, 3,965,000 (33 Big Blinds)

Dawna Blyleven
Dawna Blyleven

Dawna Blyleven is a retired World Series of Poker dealer and hails from Lompoc, California. A relatively new face on the Bar Poker Open scene having only joined her local league, Sunshine Poker League, last year.

Blyleven, like many others that have made the trip, successfully qualified for a package through the league and is not sat with the $100,000 prize in her grasp.

Last year Kourtney Sims finished in 2nd place in the event and Blyleven, who has her boyfriend and the whole Sunshine Poker League behind her, is looking to become the first-ever female champion.

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