£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC Day 1gh | Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - London

11-09-2019 13:47 UTC

Chip Counts (Day 1h)

Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Yosef Lubovich	382,500

Justin Bateson	341,500
Sailajan Shritharan	320,000
Ioan Vaida	278,500
Foster Joyce	274,000
Andrew Connell	262,000 262,000	262,000
Longbo Mi	244,000
Craig Glister	244,000
Stewart Downes	241,500
Lotfi Boughanmi	230,000
[Removed:148]	227,000 227,000	227,000
Sinead Priestley	215,000
Anton Katsoulakis	204,500 204,500	204,500
Vasile Copil	199,000
William Kassouf	198,000
Ivor Sampson	191,000
Fabio Esposito	184,000 184,000	184,000
Giulio Mascolo	173,000
Valdir Cordeiro dos Santos	171,500
Peter Sweeney	170,500
Girum Akilu	165,500
Robert Buky	163,500
Annefelicitas Melsonchandrakumar	160,500
Mohammed Ullah	126,000
Kanan Farzaliyev	116,000 116,000	116,000

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£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC

Day 1gh Completed

11-08-2019 22:58 UTC

Dramatic Conclusion to Day 1g Sees Vitali Tasci Take the Chip Lead

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Vitali Tasci & Getnet Kassa (showing great post-beat sportsmanship)

It was another action-packed day here at Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City with the last 15 minutes proving to be the most dramatic of all. It looked to be a certainty that Getnet Kassa would finish as chip leader but a huge clash with Vitali Taschi changed everything.

Yesterday Kassa busted in the last hand of the day with his pocket-aces losing to ace-ten suited all in preflop. Today the final hand of the night proved to be his undoing after he lost full house to full house for almost 450,000 chips. Taschi advances with 446,500 – over 100,000 more than his closest rival Patrick Clouden (339,500). Two late doubles secured Xuequn Zhu third place for 296,500; Josep Vives (251,500) took fourth; and Dan Spataru (233,000) rounded out the top five.

In total there were 164 entries (108 unique), of which 33 were left standing once the dust had settled. They generated £19,680 for the prize pool bringing the running total to £69,000, with one starting flight left to play out. If the prize pool wasn’t enough of a draw, there is also a coveted Platinum Pass to the PSPC 2020 to be won (worth around $30,000).

There were other notables including Jen-Yue Chiang (162,000), Ben Winsor (127,000) and Marc Inizan (63,00) who made it through. Not everyone fared so well, with Antonis Poulengeris, James Mitchell, Jimmy Kebe and Richard King all exiting before the end.

Tonight sees the eighth and final flight take place, providing the last opportunity for hopefuls to try their hand at taking a stack through to Day 2. Play will resume for the second day tomorrow, Saturday, November 9th at 2pm. Levels will remain at 30-minutes long and the tournament will play down to either the final table or the end of 15 levels, whichever comes first.

PokerNews will be on-site providing coverage with live updates for the duration, in what is expected to be yet another exciting day of poker.

Tags: Antonis Poulengeris Ben Winsor Dan Spataru Getnet Kassa James Mitchell Jen Yue Chiang Jimmy Kebe Marc Inizan Patrick Clouden Richard King Xuequn Zhu

11-08-2019 21:52 UTC

Chip Counts (full)

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Vitali Tasci	446,500 246,500	246,500

Patrick Clouden	339,500 99,500	99,500
Xuequn Zhu	296,500 16,500	16,500
Josep Vives	251,500
Dan Spataru	233,000 13,000	13,000
Atanas Pavlos	201,500
Michael O'Mahoney	198,000 3,000	3,000
Getnet Kassa	182,500
Cristian Mihu	177,000
Albert Yepremyan	169,000
Duncan Mackie	165,500 65,500	65,500
Martin Ferreira	165,000 27,000	27,000
Nguyen Le	164,000 60,000	60,000
Jen-Yue Chiang	162,000
Jen Mason	158,000 51,000	51,000
Povilas Petrauskas	153,000
Richard Ettinghausen	147,500
Vladimir Marchevici	140,500
Daniel Bader	136,500 15,500	15,500
Anthony Friel	133,000 132,000	132,000
Ben Winsor	127,000
Chris Hopgood	100,000
Bogdan Moisac	90,500 224,500	224,500
Dean Clay	74,000 16,000	16,000
Yiuey Chung	70,500 5,500	5,500

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11-08-2019 20:55 UTC

Day 1g Wraps

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Stay tuned for full chip counts and a recap of the day's action.

11-08-2019 20:53 UTC

Kassa's Campaign Unravels in Shock End to the Night

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

It has been an incredible end to the night, with Getnet Kassa's hopes of holding the chip lead when players bag and tag dramatically destroyed in the last hand.

Kassa had suffered a few blows in the preceding hands, but none hurt as much as the one that just played out against Vitali Pasci.

Action was on the turn with down and Pasci check-raised Kassa's 20,000 bet to 40,000. Kassa used a time bank card and flat called.

The river came a and Pasci used another time bank card before checking. Kassa moved all in at this point and it was snap-called by Pasci with a huge cooler revealed when players turned over their cards.

Vitali Pasci:
Getnet Kassa:

It was full house vs a better one and Pasci takes the chip lead at the last. Kassa was left reeling, unable to believe what has just happened.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vitali Tasci	446,500 446,500	446,500

Getnet Kassa	182,500 337,500	337,500

Tags: Getnet Kassa Vitali Pasci

11-08-2019 20:50 UTC

Big Double for Zhu

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

In the closing stages of the night, Xuequn Zhu has found a huge double up that cements her place up near the top of the counts with one more hand to go before play concludes. The chips came via a full house with Zhu holding on a board.

Player	Chips	Progress
Xuequn Zhu	280,000 145,000	145,000

Tags: Xuequn Zhu

11-08-2019 20:37 UTC

Final Three Hands of the Night

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

The clock has been paused, with just three more hands before all remaining survivors bag and tag for the day.

11-08-2019 20:29 UTC

Priestly Doubles Through Robertson

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

With less than 20 minutes to go until the end of the day, the chips continue to go all in and Sinead Priestly and Dean Robertson were the most recent players to do so.

Robertson opened the hijack to 11,000 and Priestly shipped 64,000 for her all in. Robertson called and was behind, but only slightly, with two live cards in play.

The flop fell , giving Priestly top and bottom pair and Robertson middle pair and a gutshot for Broadway. The turn was the and the river the . Robertson's two pair wasn't good enough to win the pot and he is down to just ten big blinds now.

Player	Chips	Progress
Sinead Priestly	138,000 64,000	64,000
Dean Robertson	50,000 3,000	3,000

Tags: Dean Robertson Sinead Priestly

11-08-2019 20:18 UTC

Chip Counts

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Level 15 : 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Patrick Clouden	240,000 7,000	7,000
Nguyen Le	224,000 81,000	81,000
Jen Mason	209,000 71,000	71,000
Xuequn Zhu	135,000
Sinead Priestly	74,000
Kevin Hall	70,000 9,000	9,000
Yiuey Chung	65,000 41,000	41,000
Firat Basbaydar	35,000 115,000	115,000