£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC
Day 1b Started
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
Day 1b of the Moneymaker Road to the PSPC Tour Newcastle Set To Commence
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.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Shuffle Up and Deal!
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...
Early Birds Playing Maximum Big Blinds
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 |
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30,000 | |
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
Kimber Joins Day 1b
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 |
|---|---|---|
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 200
"We're the Only Halloween People Here!"
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 |
|---|---|---|
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30,000
30,000
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30,000 |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 | |
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30,000 |
Scales Spikes Set
Level 2
: 100/200, 200 ante
A pot of 7,300 had already grown between Alexander Scales (small blind) and cutoff Paula Hautvast on a 
board when a 5,000 value chip came into play, bet out by Scales. Hautvast thought for a short while before throwing in the call. The river was the 
. Out led Scales again, this time for 10,000. Hautvast, previously so gregarious, grew serious as she considered the bet, chip riffling pensively. Finally, she threw in a chip representing a call for over a third of her remaining stack.
"Set," announced Scales, showing down 
. "Did you have two pair?"
Hautvast nodded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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52,000
22,000
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22,000 |
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16,000
16,000
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16,000 |
Tang Didn't Come Here To Fold
Level 2
: 100/200, 200 ante
Tin Tang kept up the pressure on Alexander Walton at the end of Level 2, three-betting to 2,500 preflop in position, then firing 3,100 on the 
flop. Walton check-called the flop bet, then checked again on the 
turn. Tang immediately threw in the rest of his stack (which was nearly a full 30,000 at start of play; he was a late registrant) and Walton declined to call off 22,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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35,000 |