A Diamond in the Rough

If there’s a good tournament to be had in the Pennsylvania or New Jersey area, there’s a good chance Lyle Diamond is going to be there.

Diamond, who is in action here on Day 1b after failing to make it through Friday’s flight, has $135,345 in live tournament earnings dating back to 2008. Surprisingly, he’s never had a five-figure score during that time. In fact, his career-best cash is $9,708 for finishing 12th in the 2014 Borgata Poker Open $400 Deep Stack event.

As far as Parx is concerned, he did finisher runner-up in a $230 NLH tournament here back in December 2016, good for $5,900. He’s also got a slew of cashes in the Parx recurring tournaments over the past five years.

If all goes well for Diamond here in the Parx Big Stax 11100, he may very well get that big breakout score he’s been looking for.