Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - Newcastle

£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC
Day: 1b
Event Info

Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - Newcastle

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
33
Prize
£7,989
Event Info
Buy-in
£140
Entries
436
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000
Players Info - Day 1b
Entries
81
Players Left
16

Level: 14

Blinds: 2,000/4,000

Ante: 4,000

Hunter Sucks Out in Style: Quads

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Hunter catches
Hunter catches

Steven Hunter got his last 63,000 all in preflop, called by Filippo Scialo (playing around 100,000).

Hunter: {6-Hearts}{6-Diamonds}
Scialo: {10-Diamonds}{10-Hearts}

The flop brought all Hunter needed to bound in front: {6-Clubs}{2-Hearts}{6-Spades}. Scialo was drawing dead on the {2-Spades} turn.

Player Chips Progress
Steven Hunter gb
Steven Hunter
130,000
66,000
66,000
Filippo Scialo gb
Filippo Scialo
40,000
-114,000
-114,000

Tags: Filippo ScialoSteven Hunter

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: {a-Spades}{q-Hearts}
Scialo: {q-Spades}{9-Spades}

The first nine hit on the flop: {k-Diamonds}{9-Hearts}{6-Diamonds} and the second on the tun (the {9-Diamonds}), the {q-Clubs} river just lemon juice in the paper cut of defeat.

Player Chips Progress
Filippo Scialo gb
Filippo Scialo
160,000
120,000
120,000
John Cheng gb
John Cheng
Busted

Tags: Filippo ScialoJohn Cheng

Chowdhury Takes Sledgehammer Approach to Pocket Kings, Busts Simmons

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Paul Simmons
Paul Simmons

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: {9-Diamonds}{9-Clubs}
Chowdhury: {k-Hearts}{k-Clubs}

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 {q-Spades}{a-Hearts}{7-Spades}{5-Hearts}{2-Spades} board and we're down to 16.

Player Chips Progress
Saifur Chowdhury gb
Saifur Chowdhury
330,000
90,000
90,000
Paul Simmons gb
Paul Simmons
Busted

Tags: Paul SimmonsSaifur Chowdhury

Day 1b Survivors' Chip Counts (full)

Level 14 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Player Chips Progress
Saifur Chowdhury gb
Saifur Chowdhury
393,500
Ryan Kilbey gb
Ryan Kilbey
242,500
57,500
57,500
Elizabeth Cape gb
Elizabeth Cape
204,000
14,000
14,000
Colin Downer gb
Colin Downer
185,000
Luc Connor-Hartley gb
Luc Connor-Hartley
184,500
-7,500
-7,500
Tin Tang gb
Tin Tang
156,000
-50,000
-50,000
Steven Lewis gb
Steven Lewis
155,000
Fillipo Scialo gb
Fillipo Scialo
151,500
Steven Hunter gb
Steven Hunter
134,000
4,000
4,000
Chris Moneymaker us
Chris Moneymaker
128,000
-12,000
-12,000
WSOP Main Event Champion
WSOP 1X Winner
Poker Hall of Famer
Jake Hough gb
Jake Hough
109,000
48,000
48,000
Shaun Rogerson gb
Shaun Rogerson
96,000
34,000
34,000
Paul Oxborough gb
Paul Oxborough
90,000
-30,000
-30,000
Paul Herbertson gb
Paul Herbertson
74,000
13,200
13,200
Marc Foggin gb
Marc Foggin
64,000
-76,000
-76,000
Hamza Nasir gb
Hamza Nasir
54,000
-56,000
-56,000

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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
Chowdhury tore through the field in the latter levels
Chowdhury tore through the field in the latter levels

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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Tags: Chris MoneymakerSaifur ChowdhuryWilliam Robinson

£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC

Day 1b Completed