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

11-01-2019 21:21 UTC

Selected Counts, Level 5

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Level 5 : 300/500, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Alan Surtees	95,000 31,000	31,000
Daniel Stancer	70,000 31,000	31,000
Matthew Gray	66,500 9,500	9,500
Kyle Soakell	66,200 66,200	66,200
Joseph Roberts	66,000 66,000	66,000
Christopher Stringer	65,000 65,000	65,000
Mathew Corlett	61,000 61,000	61,000
Carlo Giacomini	58,000 58,000	58,000
Dennis Judge	57,000 27,000	27,000
Jordan Rogerson	56,000 26,000	26,000
Michal Greszko	55,000 55,000	55,000
Jonathan Bowers	54,000 54,000	54,000
Hazel Birchnall	43,000 700	700
John Cairns	42,500 42,500	42,500
Keith Forster	41,600 41,600	41,600
Paul Lyons	41,000 3,000	3,000
Gary Copeland	40,200 10,200	10,200
Arron Adam	40,000 40,000	40,000
Stephen Harris	40,000 6,600	6,600
Stephen York	38,500 38,500	38,500
Christopher George	38,000 38,000	38,000
Blair Matheson	35,800 5,800	5,800
Colin Wrathmall	35,600 35,600	35,600
David Ridout	31,400 1,400	1,400
Mahdi Sattarnia	30,000 30,000	30,000

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Level: 5

Blinds: 300/500

Ante: 500

11-01-2019 21:04 UTC

First Break of Day 1c

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Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Players are heading out on their first 15 minute break of the day, leaving behind neat stacks; updated counts to follow.

11-01-2019 20:52 UTC

Stephen Harris opened preflop to 1,200 in early position, called by button Hazel Birchnall alone. Both players checked the flop. On the turn, Harris checked, Birchnall bet 1,700, and Harris threw in 3,000 (soon adding 400 to make the raise legitimate). After a brief think, Birchnall called.

The river: . Harris tossed a single 5,000 chip up and into the pot. Birchnall folded slowly and was shown the for pure air.

Player	Chips	Progress
Hazel Birchnall	42,300 12,300	12,300
Stephen Harris	33,400 3,400	3,400

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11-01-2019 20:47 UTC

Hetherington's Downward Trend Reversed

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Level 4 : 200/400, 400 ante

Andrew Hetherington found a perfect flop for a double through, having dropped from his initial starting stack of 30,000 to just 8,500 over the course of the first 90 minutes of play. Hands were on their backs when we arrived, the flop standing: .

Hetherington:
Martin Robinson:

The turn and river brought ; double back into contention for Hetherington.

Player	Chips	Progress
Martin Robinson	27,200 -17,300	-17,300
Andrew Hetherington	17,600

Level: 4

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 400

11-01-2019 20:31 UTC

Day 1c Already Equals Largest Flight So Far, Five Levels of Late Registration Left

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Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

As expected, Friday night has seen an increase in buzz in the card room at Aspers Casino, Newcastle. Day 1c has already reached 81 entries, the end-of-day number yesterday, and there are nearly three hours of late registration still to go.

Next to the tournament area, a cash game has sprung, fully formed, into existence featuring none other than Chris Moneymaker, taking it easy after making Day 2 yesterday.

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11-01-2019 20:21 UTC

Early Stack Watch

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Level 3 : 200/300, 300 ante

Listed: the only stacks close to Surtees' at the moment. Matthew Gray, who has not run well late in the day in his previous attempts at this Main Event, has again started off strongly. His most recent pot was won with a big shove - 30,600 - into two opponents on a flop of . The pot had swollen preflop to around 22,000 and although John Pogue gave it a ponder, he let his hand go, as did the third player.

Player	Chips	Progress
Matthew Gray	57,000 27,000	27,000
Michael Greszko	45,000
Martin Robinson	44,500 14,500	14,500
John Pogue	43,400 13,400	13,400
Daniel Stancer	39,000 39,000	39,000
Cody Wagner	Busted

Tags: Matthew Gray

Level: 3

Blinds: 200/300

Ante: 300

11-01-2019 20:02 UTC

Solid Start for Surtees

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Level 2 : 100/200, 200 ante

Already having siphoned around 20,000 chips from his table in Level 2, Alan Surtees just won another tidy pot playing from the big blind. Threeway to a flop, Surtees checked, an early position player bet 1,200, and the button called. Surtees then check-raised to 3,200, called by the original bettor alone. The turn brought the and Surtees check-called a bet of 4,100. On the river, Surtees checked once more, but called his opponent's 5,700 bet immediately, showing down for the nut flush. His opponent mucked.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alan Surtees	64,000 34,000	34,000

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