£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC Day 1b | Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - Newcastle

10-31-2019 19:50 UTC

"We're the Only Halloween People Here!"

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Level 2 : 100/200, 200 ante

A harvest of next-big-blinds has started another table here in Aspers, to accommodate the Level 1 late registrants. This means that just as players are getting stuck in to the table banter and used to their neighbours, the line-ups are changing. The removal of Chris Moneymaker from Paula Hautvast's table caused consternation: "You can't take him!" she objected.

"I don't want to leave this table!" added Moneymaker, adding while pointing to his neighbour, "Can you take him instead?"

The TD's decision is, as always, final, and the chosen made the move.

"But we're the only Halloween people here!" remonstrated Hautvast. "I've done something to dress up." Indeed, Hautvast is adorned with a small orange hat of traffic-cone proportions and some impressively large black skull earrings, while Moneymaker is in a shark onesie.

Newly sat with Moneymaker: Colin Downer, Elizabeth Cape, Paul Fowler, Paul Herbertson and Ahmed Ali.

Player	Chips	Progress
Colin Downer	30,000 30,000	30,000
Elizabeth Cape	30,000
Paul Fowler	30,000
Paul Herbertson	30,000
Ahmed Ali	30,000

Tags: Paula Hautvast Chris Moneymaker

Level: 2

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 200

10-31-2019 19:30 UTC

Kimber Joins Day 1b

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Level 1 : 100/200, 0 ante

Among Day 1b’s early arrivals is prolific live tournament player and UK-based globetrotting pro Jeff Kimber. In between racking up cashes in both Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha events from Las Vegas to Barcelona, Kimber has built up a record of final table appearances at mid-stakes buy-in events around England since 2005 and will feel as comfortable in this Main Event as anyone could be.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jeff Kimber	30,000 30,000	30,000
Alan Tinlin	30,000 30,000	30,000
Alexander Scales	30,000 30,000	30,000

Tags: Jeff Kimber

10-31-2019 19:19 UTC

Early Birds Playing Maximum Big Blinds

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Level 1 : 100/200, 0 ante

Some players taking advantage of the smallest blinds in Level 1, including the event's eponymous hero, Chris Moneymaker.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chris Moneymaker	30,000

Juliaana Julku	30,000 30,000	30,000
Alexander Walton	30,000
Kyriacos Oxynos	30,000
Hamza Nasir	30,000
Sean Robertson	30,000
Daniel Taylor	30,000
Filippo Scialo	30,000

Tags: Chris Moneymaker

10-31-2019 19:11 UTC

Shuffle Up and Deal!

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Level 1 : 100/200, 0 ante

Much like Day 1a, the clock has started for Level 1 with just four tables playing, but the queue for registration promises a quick fill for the open seats. Walking to the card room, it appeared that half of Newcastle is in Halloween fancy dress, and a certain Team Pro whose name might just be in the title of the Main Event has just arrived, dressed in a full shark costume...

Level: 1

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

10-31-2019 17:53 UTC

Day 1b of the Moneymaker Road to the PSPC Tour Newcastle Set To Commence

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Day 1b of the Moneymaker Road to the PSPC Tour’s inaugural Newcastle stop will play out today in the comfort of Asper’s Casino, where yesterday William Robinson ended the night as chip leader with one sixth of Day 1a’s total chips in his possession.

The £140 Main Event has so far attracted 87 entries, with three starting days left to play. Survivors from all flights will combine on Sunday at noon for Day 2, when the prize money – likely to be substantial, seeing the numbers that other Moneymaker Tour events have been attracting – and the coveted Platinum Pass will be awarded.

Last year, three lucky Moneymaker Tour Platinum Pass winners made it to Day 3 of the PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship, all cashing for five-figures after qualifying through $86 buy-in events. Moneymaker’s Road to the PSPC Tour brings back the chance to win a shot at a life-changing poker experience, similar to that which propelled him to poker fame, this year after its success in North America in 2018. Stops on the affordably-priced tour range from Dublin to Sochi, with three in the UK alone.

Day 1b will see players battle through fourteen 30-minute levels, with a 15 minute break at the end of every four levels. Late registration and re-entry (maximum of two re-entries per flight) are open until the end of Level 8. Cards hit the air at 7pm, live coverage commences with the action.

£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC

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