Anthony Dianaty Leads as 21 Players Advance from Day 1d Flight
Day 1d of the 2019 Ante Up Poker Tour Tampa Bay Downs $250 Main Event attracted 109 runners (the biggest of the first four flights), and along with the 262 entrants from the first three flights brings the total field up to 371 entries. The fifth and final flight is currently playing out now.
After 14 levels of play in the 1d flight just 21 remained with Anthony Dianaty and his stack of 344,500. That is well ahead of 1b chip leader Hyndi Khomutetsky (284,000), Donald “Doc” Brown (288,000), and 1a chip leader Peter Chang (296,500).
Others to bag big in the 1d flight were Donnie Kidman (252,500), Reggie Bautista (243,500), Larry Nerron (195,000), and Leif Oskarsson (184,000), who round out the top five.
Others to bag were Jon Godwin (182,500), Brad Kane (128,500), Jordan Wunder (92,000), Nikki Dugan (74,500), Joao Figueiredo (60,000), Edie Jo Norman (51,500), and the short-stacked Tom Faust (48,500).
Among those to play and fall on 1d were Victour Goitia, Jordan Coltharp, David Boutin, Joe Parrish, Matt Quirk, Mark Winchell, Frank Muir, and Francis Toscano.
PokerNews continues its coverage straight from the tournament floor of the Silks Poker Room at Tampa Bay Downs with 1e coverage here. The surviving players from each flight will then return at 1 p.m. on Sunday to play down to a winner.