All the chips were in the middle and the dealer was counting out the stacks of Jay Patel and his opponent. Patel got it in with pocket-queens against pocket-sevens for a full double up that puts him in good stead at this early stage of the competition.
Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - London
Both Gary Chan and Jay Patel are back in the field after entering for the first time yesterday.
Chan is on the up after eliminating one very short-stacked opponent and doubling his own short-stack against another player on a ![]()
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flop. Chan had flopped the nuts with ![]()
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Level: 3
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
There were five players still in on the turn, with ![]()
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on show. It checked to the player on the button, who made it 2,500 and a player in early position flatted before Silviu Iordache moved all in for 8,000. Only the player in early position called and the two turned over their cards.
Silviu Iordache: ![]()
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It was top set vs a flush and Iordache was looking to dodge a pair on the board to scoop the pot. The
river was a brick and the pot brings his short-stack up, although still shy of the 30,000 chips he started with.
Day 1c is proving to be popular with players and the number of entries has already exceeded those who registered for Day 1a. Another 21 players needed in order to make this the largest flight of the tournament so far. Given that late registration is open for another five hours, it is looking more than likely that will happen
Kanan Farzaliyev opened the action in middle position and called Razan Grozav's 1,600 three-bet from the cutoff. No one else wanted to play so they went heads up to the flop.
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and Farzaliyev checked to Grozav who continued for 1,500. Back on Farzaliyev and he raised to 5,500 and Grozav responded by re-raising all in. It was a snap call from Farzaliev and when the cards were turned over, it was clear why.
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It was set vs over pair and with no king on the
turn or
river, Farzaliyev eliminated Grozav.
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 100
There was a large pile of chips in the middle and two players facing a ![]()
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board. The two players still in were Pongsapak Himathongkom who checked to Celso Padilha who moved all in for around 20,000.
Himathongkom thought for about ten seconds before calling and turned over ![]()
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for the attempted bluff. It flips the beginning of Day 1b on it's head, where Padilha was the player to double up in the first few hands of the day.
There are 12 levels of late registration but some of the players who wanted in from the start are noted below. Getnet Kassa and Celso Padilha are two players taking another stab after failing to make it through in Day 1b yesterday.
There are 25 players in their seats as Day 1c of the Main Event gets underway.