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

11-02-2019 03:41 UTC

Daniel Stancer Claims Overall Chip Lead After Day 1c in Moneymaker Tour, Newcastle Main Event

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

The third flight of the £140 Moneymaker Road to the PSPC Tour Main Event saw Daniel Stancer rise to chip dominance in the middle of the day, ending play as both Day 1c’s chip leader and in pole position overall with one start day left to go. His stack of 454,500 tops those of Day 1a’s leader William Robinson (433,500) and 1b’s Saifur Chowdhury (393,500). Joining the top spots is today’s second-in-chips finisher, Alan Surtees (406,000), who is playing his first live event at this buy-in level here at Aspers, Newcastle.

Surtees, understandably delighted to have made Day 2 so comfortably stacked, represents the players for whom the Moneymaker Tour provides an opportunity not only to compete in well-structured affordable events, but to vie for a PSPC Platinum Pass worth €26,000. Chris Moneymaker's own spin of a satellite win into the WSOP Main Event bracelet has inspired many new players; the man himself is already through to Day 2 and spent today playing £1/£1 cash with tournament bustees.

Today brought 130 further entries, combining with previous flights’ to set the total currently at 298. The Day 2 field is slowly taking shape, with 49 combined survivors already booked in to return to the tables on Sunday at noon.

Tomorrow’s Day 1d represents the final opportunity to start down the Road to the PSPC here in Newcastle. In a change from previous flights, play will start at 2pm local time. The same 14 half-hour levels are scheduled, with play finishing at a time more suitable for a 12pm Day 2 restart the following day. Rejoin the PokerNews blog tomorrow afternoon when the final bullets will be fired in the pursuit of a share of the Main Event prizepool and a shot at playing in the €22,500 PSPC 2020 event in Barcelona in August.

Tags: Alan Surtees Chris Moneymaker Daniel Stancer Saifur Chowdhury William Robinson

11-02-2019 00:17 UTC

Craig Smith Tops 100,000 on Table Tuned to Radio Dunwoodie

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Level 10 : 800/1,500, 1,500 ante

Thomas Dunwoodie is performing what can only be described as a one-man variety show, keeping up a chain of banter with his neighbour Jonathan Bowers while stopping to croon "You are so beautiful... to me!" or, mysteriously, show someone his toes.

Somehow poker is still being played; Craig Smith just busted a player to boost his stack to 104,000 in a battle of the (just) overpairs. Bowers opened preflop for 3,500, called by the cutoff, button, small blind Smith and big blind Nikolay Ponomarev.

The flop brought the and checks to the button, who jammed for 35,800. Smith re-raised all in; the rest of the players in the hand suddenly weren't.

Smith:
Button:

The bigger overpair held over the turn and river. Smith, who apparently travelled down with the Edinburgh gang of Usman Ulhaq and Gary Bertram, looks to have outlasted his buddies on Day 1c.

Player	Chips	Progress
Craig Smith	104,000 104,000	104,000
Thomas Dunwoodie	28,000 -2,000	-2,000

Tags: Craig Smith Jonathan Bowers Thomas Dunwoodie

11-01-2019 22:03 UTC

Ponomarev in Search of Second Platinum Pass

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Level 6 : 300/600, 600 ante

Ponomarev: Prior Platinum Pass Possessor

Nikolay Ponomarev has form hunting Platinum Passes, having secured one last year in the Megastack in London which sent him on his way to the PSPC in January. He's already banked an impressively lenghty string of cashes in 2019 including a win in the £2,200 Super Series in London worth £37,830 in September and is no stranger to the poker community's eyes being on him (the most controversial hand of EPT Barcelona seeing him a possible angle victim).

His table will prove worth watching: seated directly to his left are current chip leader Alan Surtees followed by Thomas Pearn.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alan Surtees	87,000 -8,000	-8,000
Nikolay Ponomarev	36,000 36,000	36,000
Thomas Pearn	31,000 31,000	31,000

Tags: Alan Surtees Nikolay Ponomarev Thomas Pearn

11-01-2019 17:59 UTC

Day 1c of the Moneymaker Road to the PSPC Tour Newcastle Starts at 7pm

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The third flight in the £140 Moneymaker Road to the PSPC Tour Main Event at Aspers, Newcastle, is set to commence at 7pm local time. A total of 168 entries so far have propelled just 30 survivors forward into Sunday’s Day 2; today’s flight will substantially add to that number. Now that the weekend is upon us, players have travelled from around the country to take part in an affordable event that will award a Platinum Pass worth €26,000 to the winner.

Yesterday saw Saifur Chowdhury top the chip counts with 393,500, with Day 1a’s William Robinson (433,500) still in front overall. Chris Moneymaker made Day 2 with his last bullet (up to two re-entries are allowed per day) with slightly under average chips, so unless he chooses to forfeit his stack, today’s players won’t have the opportunity to clash with him over the felt. They may, however, get a chance to meet the gregarious PokerStars Ambassador who has built his grassroots Road to the PSPC into a now global poker phenomenon.

Play follows the same schedule as previous flights: 14 half-hour levels, with 15-minute breaks every four. Players start with 30,000 in chips and blinds at 100/200. Live coverage starts with Day 1c’s “shuffle up and deal.”

Tags: Chris Moneymaker Saifur Chowdhury William Robinson