As the players return from break, the tournament clock shows 255 entries with still five levels left of late registration. Players also have unlimited re-entry during those nine levels should they require it.
Level: 5
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Players are going on their first 20-minute break of the day, with the tournament clock showing 214 of 239 entries remaining.
When they return there will be four more levels before a scheduled 60-minute dinner break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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50,000 | |
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43,000 | -8,000 |
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41,000 | |
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32,000 | |
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
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23,000 |
Valdir Cordeiro dos Santos won his Platinum Pass at Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 at Aspers Casino Stratford after defeating a field of 753 players to win £11,200 in prize money and a coveted Platinum Pass.
"I'm very happy," Santos told PokerNews after securing victory. "With three people left, I called my nephew and said, 'I am going to win.'
"When I doubled heads up I was100 percent - I will win."
When asked about the PSPC 2020 in Barcelona in August, he had only one thing to say: "I will try to win again."
Best of luck to Santos next year, but stay tuned to see who from the Dublin leg of Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020.
Edward Thompson limped under the gun on the feature table with 
and called a raise to 900 from Jevgenij Medeisa in the cutoff with 
The flop came 
and Thompson bet 2,200. Medeisa called. The turn was the 
and Thompson bet again for 3,200. Medeisa called.
The river was the 
and Thompson fired for a third street, betting 3,400. Medeisa tanked and eventually called with his queens, but Thompson showed his kings up and took down the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
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36,000 | |
|
27,000 |
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/300
Ante: 300
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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75,000 | |
|
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70,000 | |
|
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48,000 | |
|
45,000 | 15,000 |
|
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35,000 | 5,000 |
|
29,000 |
The 2018 PokerStars Mammoth attracted a field of 1,415 entries and eventually, it was won by Darren Millar for €14,970 plus a PSPC Platinum Pass. Millar was helped by a guardian angel, of sorts, in the shape of a small round transparent stone with a guardian angel inside, a gift to him from his wife’s mother before she passed away.
Millar keeps it on him when he plays poker to bring him luck - he won his first seven sessions after discovering it - and now the angel sits atop his chip stack whenever he plays.
He's joined Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 at the start of the third level of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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30,000 |
