Bar Poker Open Championship Returns for the Final Table

The third, and final day, of the Bar Poker Open Championship, hosted at the Golden Nugget Casino, is almost underway and will commence at 2 p.m local time, although coverage will start thirty minutes later to keep the integrity of the game, due to the live stream.

After two days of exciting poker action, 1,053 hopefuls have been whittled down to the final eight players, all of which have their eyes on the $100,000 first prize.

Qualification for the Bar Poker Open Championship started early in 2023, with over one million players from all walks of life turning up to their local bars to play and earn the opportunity to qualify for this event, hosted at the Golden Nugget Casino, Las Vegas.

Brian Lerner leads the final table with 53 big blinds and is closely followed by Ryan Surdi who has 39 big blinds and Edward Holt, with 39 big blinds. The short stack John Carr navigated a sub 10 big blind stack for most of Day 2 and impressively made the final table with 4 big blinds to try and spin up.

Final Table Seat Draw

Seat	Player	League	Chip Count	Big Blinds
1	Saverio Biancardi	Kontenders	1,585,000	13
2	Dawna Blyleven	Sunshine PL	3,965,000	33
3	Anthony Lundy	New York FP	2,820,000	24
4	Brian Lerner	Deepstacks	6,310,000	53
6	Edward Holt	EPT	4,755,000	39
7	Jeffrey Bowden	EPT	1,875,000	16
8	Ryan Surdi	No Limit NY	5,925,000	49
9	John Carr	No Limit PPT	470,000	4

Play resumes at Level 25 with twenty-seven minutes left on the clock. The blinds are 60,000/120,000 with a 120,000 big blind ante, and all final tablists have locked up $5,788 for their efforts, with the top prize of $100,000, the trophy and the title of Bar Poker Open Champion still to be decided.