Level: 3
Blinds: 200/300
Ante: 300
Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - Newcastle
£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC
Day: 1a
Event Info
Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - Newcastle
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
Buy-in
£140
Entries
436
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000
Entries
87
Players Left
14
Players Left 1 / 436
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Level 3
: 200/300, 300 ante
Brian Nelson just lost a heads up pot to Ben Davies (calling 3,000 in position on a 
flop, folding to a 5,000 bet on the 
turn after three-bet preflop) but that has not put his current chip lead into doubt. While early leader Jed Turnbull has lost a few chips, it looks like Nelson is sitting most comfortably stacked out of the 52 current competitors.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
77,800 | |
|
56,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
Level 3
: 200/300, 300 ante
A mid-position player opened for 1,400 preflop, and Philip Scialo three-bet to 4,400. Conway made the cold call to see a 
heads up flop after the initial raiser folded. Scialo continued for a hefty 12,000, prompting a shove (for a little under 30,000) from Conway. Scialo called.
Scialo: 
Conway: 
.
The turn brought a few more outs for Conway as it paired his eight; the river was an 
and that doubled him to 74,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
74,000 |
Level: 4
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 400
Level 4
: 200/400, 400 ante
James Griggs started a preflop pot going with an under the gun raise to 900, called by a mid-position player and his neighbour Colin Downer before action landed on button Nik Leka. Leka announced a raise to 4,000, with 7,700 behind; Griggs passed and action stalled on the first caller. A bit of back and forth banter (including such classics as, "How much is a rebuy?" and the response, "If it was just me and you...") ended in a fold.
Downer, however, quickly set Leka in, tabling 
. Leka was live: 
.
The board ran out 
, the straightening potential of the turn unrealised.
"Coming tomorrow?" asked a tablemate. Leka nodded and cheerfully headed towards the cash tables.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
47,500
47,500
|
47,500 |
|
|
Busted |
Level 4
: 200/400, 400 ante
Scratch the update from 15 minutes ago - Jed Turnbull is back in pole position as Day 1a prepares to take its first 15 minute break.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
107,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
|
|
56,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
40,000 | |
|
38,500
38,500
|
38,500 |
|
32,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
|
31,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
29,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
26,800
26,800
|
26,800 |
|
|
25,900
4,100
|
4,100 |
|
|
21,500
21,500
|
21,500 |
|
|
20,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
Level 4
: 200/400, 400 ante
Players are now on a 15 minute break. Four levels down, four left to late register (two hours), ten more in total to play today.
Level: 5
Blinds: 300/500
Ante: 500
Level 5
: 300/500, 500 ante
Three players have built six-figure stacks in the first four levels of play. There are currently 48 players at the felt; total Day 1a entries so far: 64.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
108,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
107,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
101,000 | |
|
|
86,500
8,700
|
8,700 |
|
75,200 | |
|
|
69,800 | |
|
|
62,000
14,500
|
14,500 |
|
|
59,000 | |
|
|
45,500
15,500
|
15,500 |
|
|
43,500 | |
|
|
18,500 |
Level 5
: 300/500, 500 ante
Players continue to arrive (or take advantage of the two-time re-entry option), picking up fresh stacks and filling in the gaps left by the early eliminated. Among them is Newcastle local Thomas Dunwoodie, who took his seat after greeting a number of people on the way in (cue the music from Cheers). Dunwoodie has racked up almost $1 million in live tournament cashes including a third place finish in the Irish Open Main Event in 2008 for €275,000 and seemed unfazed by one of his tablemates trying to immediately put a bounty on his head as he sat down.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
30,000 | |
|
|
30,000 |
