£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC
Day 1d Completed
Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - Newcastle
£140 Main Event - Road to PSPC
Day: 1d
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1d
Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - Newcastle
Buy-in
£140
Entries
436
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000
Entries
138
Players Left
34
Haji Hussein Leads Day 1d Survivors; Moneymaker Tour Newcastle Day 2 Brings Back 83, Twelve Off the Money
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Day 2 is now set in the £140 Moneymaker Road to the PSPC Tour Newcastle Main Event. The final flight brought 138 new entries to the tables, boosting the total number of runners to 436. The prizepool, which will be awarded tomorrow to the top 71 finishers – most of the Day 2 field – stands at £52,320, a hefty figure for an event designed to be affordable. Both the winner and runner-up will receive £7,586, a tweak to the payouts that may remove some of the sting for second place of missing out on the added PSPC Platinum Pass (worth €26,000). For full payout information, click the tab above.
In good shape to make the money are today’s most deeply stacked survivors, Haji Hussein (417,500), Dominic Mulhall (368,500) and Thomas Peggs (318,000), who will join overall leader Daniel Stancer (454,500), William Robinson (433,500), Alan Surtees (406,000) and Saifur Chowdhury (393,500) at the top of the pile when play starts at noon tomorrow.
Other notable players making Day 2 from the final flight include Niall Farrell (64,000), fitness influencer Zac Aynsley (124,000), online qualifier Joss Murdoch (109,500) and Fraser MacIntyre, who flew his own plane up to Newcastle to join the Main Event with one hour left of late registration. They will join PokerStars Ambassador Chris Moneymaker himself (who made Day 2 with 128,000 on Day 1b and has spent the last two days enjoying the banter at the £1/£1 cash tables) as the battle to the final table commences.
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Day 1d Survivors' Chip Counts (full)
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
417,500 | |
|
|
368,500 | |
|
|
318,000 | 138,000 |
|
|
214,500 | 154,500 |
|
|
181,000 | |
|
|
173,500 | 86,500 |
|
|
163,500 | -6,500 |
|
|
159,000 | |
|
|
133,000 | 28,000 |
|
132,500 | -22,500 |
|
|
124,000 | 124,000 |
|
121,500 | 34,500 |
|
|
119,000 | 35,100 |
|
|
118,000 | 44,000 |
|
112,500 | |
|
109,500 | -15,500 |
|
|
109,500 | |
|
|
107,000 | |
|
104,000 | 104,000 |
|
|
102,500 | 102,500 |
|
|
90,500 | -57,500 |
|
|
85,000 | |
|
|
80,000 | -80,000 |
|
|
76,500 | 4,500 |
|
68,500 | -7,000 |
Day 1b, Over and Out
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
The stacks of the 37 Day 1d survivors are being counted; stand by for full counts and a recap. We can reveal that it's Haji Hussein in the lead with 417,500 today, with Dominic Mulhall second (368,000).
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
417,500 | 87,500 |
|
|
368,500 | 105,500 |
Final Hand Hilarity
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
The last hand of the night saw Fraser MacIntyre open under the gun plus one for 10,000. It folded to Joe O'Donnell, who took the plunge for around 70,000. Back to MacIntyre, who said, "I was going to call. Right up until I saw I misread my hand and had eight four off!" He showed the 
.
O'Donnell returned the favour by turning over 
to the great amusement of the table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
85,000 |
Last Three Hands
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
The clock has been stopped with 9:59 showing; the last four tables will play three more hands before recording stacks and getting some much needed rest before tomorrow's Day 2.
Valentine Jams Blind
Level 14
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Andrew Hayton openeed preflop to 8,000. It folded round to small blind Mark Valentine, who moved all in for 30,000. Big blind Peter Charlton, who'd just been moved to the table, moved in over the top, pushing Hayton out of the way (he flashed 
).
"I'm blind," said Valentine, "Just for the bants!" He turned up 
, which happened to be flipping against Charlton's 
. The board ran out 
and Valentine hits the rail with just 15 minutes left of play in Day 1d.
"He [Hayton] had been opening a lot, so I look down at seven bigs and go for it," explained Valentine cheerfully on the way out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
148,000 | 120,400 |
|
|
Busted |
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Huge Double Propels Hussein to Chip Leadership
Level 13
: 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante
A big river countdown of Haji Hussein's stack attracted attention to a hand that had already concluded but has completely changed the top of the counts. With over 100,000 already in the pot on the turn (the board reading 
, Andrew Hayton and Hussein had played for stacks (110,000 more, with the former covering the latter). Hayton, who'd flopped a set of sevens, had gone behind on the turn when Hussein made a club flush. The board remained unpaired with the 
river, and we have a new chip leader at the eleventh hour of Day 1d.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
330,000 | 192,000 |
|
|
74,000 | -198,000 |
Foord vs. Murdoch, Blind vs. Blind
Level 13
: 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante
Joss Murdoch, who won his seat into this Main Event online, has doubled through Martin Foord after a blind-on-blind confrontation that started slowly.
Caught from the flop, Murdoch checked and Foord threw in a single 5,000 chip. Murdoch called, then checked the turn. Foord now bet 12,000, and Murdoch swiftly check-raised all in for 50,500. Foord thought for a while, then pushed his stack forward indicating his call.
Foord: 
Murdoch: 
The 
on the river put Foord's two pair in second place, and they effectively swapped start-of-hand stacks.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
125,000 | 57,000 |
|
|
57,000 | -71,000 |