£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC
Day 2 Started
Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - London
£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC
Day: 2
Moneymaker’s Road to PSPC Continues with Day 2 Kicking Off at 2pm
It has been an epic week, with eight starting flights taking place here at Aspers Casino Westfield Stratford City and Aspers Casino Milton Keynes over the past five days. In total 753 entries have created a prize pool of £90,360. Added to that is a Platinum Pass (worth around $30,000) to the PSPC 2020, which takes place in Barcelona next year, so there is an awful lot at stake for the 126 players who survived to day 2.
Edgar Drozdov (620,000) is the one to catch, starting as overall chip leader after dominating the Day 1b flight on Tuesday. Georgian Georgescu (507,000), Victor Nitel (490,000), Nikolay Ponomarev (476,000), PokerStars Pro Chris Moneymaker (470,000), William Miskelly (470,000), Timotheos Timotheou (447,000), Vitali Pasci (446,500), Shari Filton (419,000) and Yosef Lubovich (382,500) make up the top ten chip stacks starting the day today.
There are still some big names in contention who will certainly be worth keeping an eye on. Gary Miller (353,000), Christopher Yong (291,000) Artan Dedusha (286,000), former Platinum Pass winner Salvatore Donato (250,000), William Kassouf (198,000), Guy Taylor (170,500), Jen-Yue Chiang (162,000), Ben Winsor (127,000) and Marc Inizan (63,000) are all still in the running.
Levels will remain 30 minutes long and the tournament will play down to either the final table or the end of 15 levels, whichever comes first. As if there hasn’t been enough excitement already, today will be the first day of live streaming coverage, with the feature table set up and ready to go.
On top of that, there will be live updates here at PokerNews to look forward, with coverage starting from the moment cards are in the air, right up to the end of play.
*Each Platinum Pass (worth approx. $30,000) includes:
Buy-in to the €22,500 PSPC 2020 event
Six nights’ hotel accommodation for two people in a 5* Barcelona Hotel
Airport transfers
Bespoke PSPC Merchandise
€1,250 to cover expenses
Platinum Pass winner experiences during the event
Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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620,000 | |
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507,000 | |
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490,000 | |
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476,000 | |
|
470,000 | |
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470,000 | |
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447,000 | |
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446,500 | |
|
|
419,000 | |
|
382,500 | |
|
378,000 | |
|
353,000 | |
|
|
341,500 | |
|
|
339,500 | |
|
322,000 | |
|
|
320,000 | |
|
|
316,000 | |
|
|
299,000 | |
|
|
296,500 | |
|
|
295,000 | |
|
|
294,000 | |
|
291,000 | |
|
286,000 | |
|
284,000 | |
|
|
282,000 |
Play Will Get underway Shortly
Players are debagging their chips, with the play due to start any minute. Payouts have just been confirmed and will be posted here shortly.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 5,000
Shufffle Up and Deal
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Pokerstars Pro Chris Moneymaker has introduced the tournament. He has assured players that should he win the tournament, the Platinum Pass will go to the runner up.
119 Players Will Make the Money
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
The bubble is expected to be take place very soon, with only 7 players to go until the £240 min cash.
1st Place Will Win £11,200
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
First place will take home £11,200 for their efforts plus the Platinum Pass of course. In order to ease the pain of finishing runner up, second place will also receive £11,200. For full payouts information, please visit the payouts tab.
Mason Bluffs into Winsor
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Jen Mason is down to a few big blinds after making a huge river bet all in and running into Ben Winsor's quad jacks on a 
. Mason held pocket-tens and bet in position on the turn. Winsor checked again on the river and snap-called when Mason moved all in.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
349,000 | 222,000 |
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20,000 | -138,000 |
Green Doubles Through Winsor, Jivoin "Dodges a Bullet"
Level 16
: 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Ben Winsor's fortunes have changed again. Having won the last hand for a huge double, he has now handed those chips back after losing to Simon Green.
Green raised to 14,000 preflop and Stefan-Fabian Jivoin flat called in the small blind. Winsor announced his all in from the big blind and after taking some time to think, Jivoin folded.
Simon Green: 
Ben Winsor: 
It was a great spot for Green to double and the 
board allowed him to do just that.
"I dodged a bullet" said Jivoin excitedly. "I folded pocket-queens and I would have called if [Green] had folded."
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
378,000 | 211,000 |
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170,000 | -179,000 |