Level: 15
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - London
£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC
Day: 1gh
Kassa Extends Lead
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Things are going from strength to strength for Getnet Kassa. He has just eliminated another player and is over the half-milly mark now.
Parviz Siabi was the unfortunate casualty, making a move all in for 77,500 on the button with 
and losing a flip against Kassa's 
on a 
board.
That takes the field down to the final 36 players, with Kassa's table breaking as a result of that hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
520,000 | 100,000 |
Heads Up for a Triple Up
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
What a time to find aces. With only 32,000 (8 big blinds), Duncan Mackie got his chips in preflop; and after one player had called, a second opponent re-raised all in to squeeze the first player out of the hand. Playing heads up for a triple up, Mackie turned over pocket 
and was a 5:1 favorite against his opponents' 
.
Mackie had made a full house by the time the 
completed board was down. He is in much better shape now with 25 big blinds in front.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
100,000 | 70,000 |
Bader Busts One
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
It's that stage of the tournament, where the blinds are expensive for the players who are still on starting stack. Over on Table 1, Daniel Bader opened to 10,000 in the small blind and the player in the big blind three-bet all in for 31,500. Bader liked the price and called.
Daniel Bader: 
Opponent: 
Bader was the marginal underdog as they headed to the flop. It came 
, making a pair for both players but Bader moved into the lead with the higher one. The 
turn changed nothing and the 
river was a brick too, netting Bader a decent sum that takes him above average stack now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
152,000 | 122,000 |
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Chip Counts and Eliminations
Level 13
: 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
265,000 | 265,000 |
|
|
220,000 | 175,000 |
|
|
138,000 | -92,000 |
|
90,000 | 90,000 |
|
72,000 | 53,000 |
|
|
53,000 | -39,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
More for Moisac
Level 13
: 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante
A player moved all in from the cutoff and Bogdan Moisac got his chips in on the button.
Bogdan Moisac:
Opponent:
With no eight on the 
board, Moisac sends a player to the rail and becomes one of the top chip stacks in the process.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
315,000 |
Late registration Closed, 164 Entries Logged
Level 13
: 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante
Day 1g of the Main Event has proved to be the most popular flight yet, with 164 total entries (108 unique). Of those, there are 44 still in contention, with a little under an hour and a half to survive, if they are to bag and tag ahead of Day 2.
No Comeback for Wong
Level 13
: 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante
First hand back from the break, Mark Wong got his remaining big blind in but failed to make a comeback after losing the monstrous pot noted below. Late registration has now closed but there is still Day 1h available to play, which kicked off at 6pm.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Kassa and Wong Clash in Chip Lead Pot
Level 13
: 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante
In the closing moments of the last level, a huge pot took place that created a new chip leader after big stacks Getnet Kassa and Mark Wong clashed in spectacular fashion.
All the chips went in on the turn on a 
board and Kassa had flopped the straight with 
, whilst Wong had turned trips with 
. The 
river was a brick and Wong is down to fumes, simultaneously skyrocketting Kassa into the lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
420,000 | 245,000 |
|
|
3,500 | -201,500 |