Main Event Day 1e | 2019 Ante Up Poker Tour Tampa Bay Downs

02-09-2019 19:34 UTC-4

Player	Chips	Progress
Benjamin Brown	25,000
Landon Brown	25,000
Jeff Hartwick	25,000
Kevin Castillo	25,000
Christopher Lowe	25,000
Carlos Martin	25,000
Anthony Pellegrini	25,000
Todd Doane	25,000 25,000	25,000
Jordan Robinson	25,000 25,000	25,000
Joseph Parrish	25,000
Ray Lambert	25,000
Jose Colon	25,000
Cheri Beatty	25,000 25,000	25,000

Kolaxis Takes an Early Beat

Adam Lamers

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

Nick Kolaxis was under the gun and went heads-up to a flop with the player on his left. The dealer fanned the flop of and both players checked to the on the turn.

Kolaxis checked again and his opponent bet 1,000 into a pot of around 1,500. Kolaxis check-raised to 3,000 and his opponent just called. The river was the and Kolaxis led out for 5,000. His opponent raised to 11,000 and Kolaxis quickly called.

Although Kolaxis flopped trips with , his opponent turned a full house with to take down a big pot early on.

Player	Chips	Progress
Nick Kolaxis	9,500 9,500	9,500

Tags: Nick Kolaxis

02-09-2019 19:03 UTC-4

Shuffle Up and Deal

Adam Lamers

Level 1 : 100/100, 0 ante

The tournament director has announced that the button will start in seat nine and the cards are now in the air on the last flight of the Main Event. There are currently four tables up and running with 18 entries to kick things off.

Level: 1

Blinds: 100/100

Ante: 0

02-09-2019 18:10 UTC-4

The Final Flight of the Ante Up Poker Tour $250 Main Event is Set to Go

Adam Lamers

The first four flights of the Ante Up Poker Tour $250 Main Event have been considered a success by tournament organizers with a total of 361 entries thus far. That has already surpassed the $60,000 guaranteed prizepool and there is still one more flight tonight.

Day 1E will get underway at 6 p.m. this evening and those lucky enough to bag chips at the end of the night will join the survivors from the first four flights on Day 2 tomorrow. It's already been a busy day at Tampa Bay Downs with plenty of horse racing going on outside and a lot of poker action inside.

Tonight, players will begin with 25,000 starting chips with the blinds at 100/100. A big blind ante will be introduced in the second level and will continue throughout. The levels will be 30-minutes in length for all Day 1s and increase to 40 minutes on the final day. There will be a 10-minute break after every four levels with play ending after a total of 14 levels.

Late registration will remain open until the start of level nine. Players will be given the option of unlimited re-entries until that point. Should a player bag chips on multiple starting flights, only their best stack will be brought forward to the final day.

Schedule

Day	Date	Time	Entries	Advanced
Day 1A	Thursday, February 7th	6 p.m.	89	18
Day 1B	Friday, February 8th	1 p.m.	86	14
Day 1C	Friday, February 8th	6 p.m.	87	15
Day 1D	Saturday, February 9th	1 p.m.	109	-
Day 1E	Saturday, February 9th	6 p.m.	-	-
Day 2	Sunday, Februrary 10th	1 p.m.	-	-

The PokerNews live reporting team will be on site for the entire Main Event to bring you all of the live updates as the action unfolds, so stay tuned!

Main Event

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