£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC
Day 1b Completed
Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - Newcastle
£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - Newcastle
Buy-in
£140
Entries
436
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000
Entries
81
Players Left
16
Saifur Chowdhury Leads Moneymaker Tour, Newcastle Day 1b; Tour's Eponymous Pro Also Through to Day 2
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
The second starting flight in the £140 Moneymaker Road to the PSPC Tour Main Event at Aspers, Newcastle, played out almost exactly as yesterday’s, with 81 total entries mirroring the 79 attracted on Day 1a. There were many new faces at the tables, however, not least that of Chris Moneymaker himself, who arrived dressed in a full shark onesie and after a bumpy day has made it through to Day 2 (with 128,000 chips) along with 15 others.
Leading Day 1b’s survivors is Saifur Chowdhury, whose 393,500 chips put him in second overall, behind yesterday’s top stacker William Robinson (433,500). Quite a gap separates Chowdhury from his nearest chip rival Ryan Kilbey (242,500), with most of the survivors’ stacks bunched somewhere in between one and two hundred thousand (more below the average stack than above it). For any super-short survivors, the option exists to surrender one’s stack and play again on another flight, but not to choose the highest of multiple stacks.
Playing today but busting before the final whistle were Jeff Kimber, Jonathan Prested, Paul Simmons, Matthew Gray and early chip leader (and online qualifier) Alexander Scales. They all have two more days (with two re-entries allowed in each) to build a fresh stack to take them through to Day 2 (Sunday at noon).
While the school-night flights have been action-packed, if contained on six tables, attendance is set to skyrocket with tomorrow’s Day 1c. Extra tables have been drafted in to accommodate the Friday and Saturday influx of players keen to take part in such a prestigious event at this buy-in level with the huge added incentive of a PSPC Platinum Pass, worth €26,000, for the winner.
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Day 1b Survivors' Chip Counts (full)
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
393,500 | |
|
|
242,500 | 57,500 |
|
|
204,000 | 14,000 |
|
|
185,000 | |
|
|
184,500 | -7,500 |
|
|
156,000 | -50,000 |
|
|
155,000 | |
|
|
151,500 | |
|
|
134,000 | 4,000 |
|
128,000 | -12,000 |
|
|
109,000 | 48,000 |
|
|
96,000 | 34,000 |
|
|
90,000 | -30,000 |
|
|
74,000 | 13,200 |
|
64,000 | -76,000 |
|
|
54,000 | -56,000 |
Play is Paused, Chowdhury Leads
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Players are having their stacks counted, but until the official numbers are in, we can say with certainty that it's Saifur Chowdhury with 393,500 who leads the Day 1b survivors. Full counts and a recap of the day to be posted shortly.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
393,500 | 63,500 |
Chowdhury Takes Sledgehammer Approach to Pocket Kings, Busts Simmons
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
With the last five hands having been declared, Paul Simmons suddenly found himself falling at the last Day 1b hurdle after Saifur Chowdhury put him to the test with some power poker preflop. Simmons limped under the gun, and next to act Chowdhury simply moved all in, covering everyone on the table. Back to Simmons, who with 120,000 had a big decision. In the end, he made the call.
Simmons: 
Chowdhury: 
Simmons expressed great surprise: "How do you have kings there?" he asked, "I thought it was a flip all day long!"
A flip it was not; Chowdhury held over the 
board and we're down to 16.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
330,000 | 90,000 |
|
Busted |
Another Suck-Out Busts Cheng
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
A rather eyewatering run-out ended John Cheng's plucky but never mountainously stacked run at Day 1b. He had moved all in for 70,000 over the top of a late-position open to 12,000 from Filippo Scialo (who was playing slightly more). Scialo eyeballed the two stacks for comparison, then made the call.
Cheng: 
Scialo: 
The first nine hit on the flop: 
and the second on the tun (the ), the 
river just lemon juice in the paper cut of defeat.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
160,000 | 120,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Hunter Sucks Out in Style: Quads
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Steven Hunter got his last 63,000 all in preflop, called by Filippo Scialo (playing around 100,000).
Hunter: 
Scialo: 
The flop brought all Hunter needed to bound in front: 
. Scialo was drawing dead on the turn.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
130,000 | 66,000 |
|
|
40,000 | -114,000 |
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Moneymaker Slowplays Kings to Maximum Effect
Level 13
: 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante
A strange hand saw Chris Moneymaker pick up and play them as slowly as possible, flatting pre in a three way pot, checking through the flop and the 
turn while Marc Foggin and Paul Simmons checked behind. On the river, Moneymaker checked yet again, as did Foggin. Simmons, however, bet 32,000. Moneymaker announced he was all in - for just 3,000 more. Simmons, shaking his head, folded (he said he had 
) while Moneymaker showed his full house and effectively doubled through.
"If I get beat slow playing then so be it," he said, adding, "You owe me 3,000 later."
"Well played," said Simmons.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
140,000 | 99,500 |
|
|
80,000 | -70,000 |
Kings Good for Foggin, Aces for Downer
Level 13
: 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante
Two double-ups with monster hands see Marc Foggin and Colin Downer breathe more easily in the penultimate level of the day. Foggin moved all-in on a flop of 
over a lead of 14,000 from Tin Tang for 63,000. After a brief think, Tang made the call with an overpair (just) of 
but failed to improve vs. Foggin's .
Downer, meanwhile, found a timely 
vs. 
preflop match-up to rise to 185,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
185,000 | 37,000 |
|
|
140,000 | 85,000 |