Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Tom Parson has already secured himself a Platinum Pass to the 2020 PSPC in Barcelona, but says that the allure of the live felt and the desire to get as much practice in before next year was just too much.
"I can't win another one," said Parsons on the first break of Day 1a of Moneymaker's Road to PSPC here in Dublin. "But live experience is always a good thing, especially with me looking forward to going to Barcelona. But it's also about meeting up with people again. It's really nice to have a little break, especially in the middle of my term time."
After emerging victorious in a special Lex Live sit and go, Parsons says that the live bug had bitten, leading him to travel and play more in preparation for next year.
"It was a ridiculous, ridiculous tournament. It was an amazing festival. It makes you want to travel and play more, even if it's not to a Lex Live. If it's just to one of these Moneymaker events, you're still going to see familiar faces and you're still going to meet people who you want to talk with.
"It gives online players like myself live experience that they don't usually get. They can still love the game of poker that they know but in a different context of playing live. It gives you then the rail, the social interaction. You can actually have a beer and a chat instead of talking in Twitch chat if you're streaming. I couldn't wait to get down here and I can't wait to try and play as many live events as possible."
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Andy Black | 30,000 | |
Rory Cartwright
|
30,000 | |
Gareth McMahon | 30,000 | |
Padraig Parkinson | 30,000 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/500
Ante: 500
We caught a glum-looking Platinum Pass winner from last year, Chris Martin on a downswing when he called with the nut flush draw with his on a flop of . One player held and Michal Janeczko had top set with
A safe turn and river saw Chris drop to 8k.
He then had an upswing as his rivered a straight against a set and two pair to treble up, before doubling up when his nut flush got paid by the second nut flush on a five-heart run out.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Chris Martin |
70,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Barnie Bradley |
100,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Declan Daly
|
85,000
85,000
|
85,000 |
Carl Cullen
|
70,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
Chris Martin |
65,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
Dara Fitzgerald
|
60,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
Chris Moneymaker |
50,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Theresa Devlin
|
18,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
Level: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 600
The tournament field has moved up above 250 players. They include Irish poker regular Vytautas Aganauskas along with Janos Jeszek who missed out on a Platinum Pass last year finishing as runner-up in the 2019 Mammoth.
One player who is no longer in the field is 2019 Platinum Pass winner Shaun Lennon who got it in with against of an opponent, however, the queens turned a set and rivered quads to eliminate Lennon.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Vytautas Aganauskas |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Janos Jeszek
|
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Shaun Lennon
|
Busted |
"I'm ahead," said John Coyle. "Let's just stay that way."
Coyle held for a pair of sixes on a flop and was ahead of the flush draw of Pawel Madinski.
The turn was the and the river gave Coyle two pair.
"I'm still ahead, you donkey!" before he was informed by players in the table that the river had given Madynski a straight.
"You're the donkey!" someone at the table said to him as Madynski doubled up.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Pawel Madynski |
70,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
John Coyle
|
10,000
10,000
|
10,000 |