Championship Event
Day 3 Started
2023 Bar Poker Open Vegas World Championship
Championship Event
Day: 3
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 3
2023 Bar Poker Open Vegas World Championship
Buy-in
$365
Prize Pool
$315,900
Entries
1,053
Level
29
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Entries
8
Players Left
1
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.
Final Table Results and Payouts
| Rank | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1st | $100,000 |
| 2nd | $50,000 |
| 3rd | $25,000 |
| 4th | $15,000 |
| 5th | $11,555 |
| 6th | $10,008 |
| 7th | $7,307 |
| 8th | $5,788 |
Make sure to follow along here on PokerNews for all the updates in this Championship event until a winner is crowned!
Seat 1 - Saverio Biancardi, 1,585,000 (13 Big Blinds)
Saverio, or Sal to his friends, hails from Garner, North Carolina and represents Kontenders Poker League. An avid poker hobbyist since 2017, Sav qualified for this event via his local league and is looking to manoeuvre his 13 big blind stack and has already locked up his biggest poker cash to date.
When not playing poker, Sal works as IT Architect and spends time walking his "fur babies" and is being railed by his friends and family back home.
Seat 2 - Dawna Blyleven, 3,965,000 (33 Big Blinds)
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.
Seat 3 - Anthony Lundy, 2,820,000 (24 Big Blinds)
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 4 - Brian Lerner, 6,310,000 (53 Big Blinds)
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.
Seat 6 - Edward Holt, 4,755,000 (39 Big Blinds)
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.
Seat 7 - Jeffrey Bowden, 1,875,000 (16 Big Blinds)
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.
Seat 8 - Ryan Surdi 5,925,000 (49 Big Blinds)
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.
Seat 9 - John Carr, 470,000 (4 Big Blinds)
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.