Isle Open Event 1 (Flight 1C): Astarita Making Room For Another Trophy

2017 Isle Open | Event #1
$175 No Limit Hold'em | $100,000 GTD
Level 5 (Blinds 150/300/50)
Total Flight 1C Entries: 85

Anthony Astarita (Tampa, FL) may not be well known name to the followers of the blog, but he's surely
made a name for himself in the tournament poker community.

Players are taking notice of this series from all over the state, as we continue to see an influx of players from the "west side" of Florida.  Anthony Astarita (Tampa, FL) joined the field before break, sitting down with an impressive tournament resume.  Astarita broke out last year, notching his first ever tournament score in June, during the opening event of the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Summer Series ($570 No Limit Hold'em | 55th Place - $1,187).  Anthony continued to build on that resume, cashing in Event #3 of the same series, just a few days later.  

Astarita wasn't done though, as he followed those two cashes up with a deep run in the WPT Deepstacks $1,100 Main Event (the main event of the series)...the deepest kind of run.  Anthony shipped the tournament for over $131,000, and started his tournament poker career with a true bang.  He has since recorded (20) more results "post-title," many of which came in his home state of Florida.  Looking to stay on top of the WPT Deepstacks tournament leaderboard, Astarita has also made a trip to Calgary, and most recently Oklahoma.  His last recorded cash was a final table finish during the $1,100 WPT Deepstacks Main Event at Downstream Casino in Oklahoma (7th Place - $9,164).

Astarita's name headlines the second look at notables in the field, joining the following names:

Joshua Wasserman
Steven Bennett
David Coughlin
Ilan Hadida
Alberto Niebla
Gunnar Rabe
Jacquelyn Scott
Allan Bieler
Lascelles Peart
Jeffrey Silverstein