Moneymaker's Road to PSPC 2020 - Newcastle
Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Players are now on a 15 minute break; two more half-hour levels remain to play.
A mid position player moved most of his stack in preflop (33,000) with just shrapnel remaining behind. There was a little confusion as Deborah Reid attempted to both call and go all in (possibly having mistaken her opponent's move for a full shove), but in the end it was taken that stacks were, in fact, all in the middle and the cards were on their backs. Reid held ![]()
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"No nine," she requested. The board of ![]()
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obliged.
Since moving to her new table she says she's been on a heater, having suffered card death for most of the early stages of the day.
The hand immediately following her double of Farrell, Lockhart moved all in preflop herself for 38,700, winning a fllip with ![]()
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after making a straight of her own on a ![]()
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board.
Niall Farrell, back from his outing, was down to roughly 30,000 when he moved in preflop vs. Vita Lockhart. She made the call quickly, showing ![]()
while Farrell tabled ![]()
saying, "I can win with that."
His words proved prescient. The flop brought ![]()
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and Farrell immediately said, "straight." The turn was the
and sure enough the river the
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"If anyone is wondering how someone as f***ing awful as I am has made a living for the past ten years, that's how," he said.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/2,500
Ante: 2,500
Chun Hock Lu is maintaining his chip lead as Level 11 draws to a close, recently adding Brendan Garrett's stack of 38,300 to his own after an all-in preflop race.
Three limps for 2,000 (including from Lu on the button) prompted a preflop shove from Garrett with ![]()
. Lu had flatted pre with ![]()
, called the shove and held over the ![]()
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runout.
With 138 fresh entries in today's flight, the total number of runners in the Main Event is confirmed as 436. This means that for a buy-in of just £140, Day 2 players will be fighting for a piece of a £52,320 prizepool. The exact prize breakdown will be announced before the start of play tomorrow, but we can say that there will be over £7,000 for both first and second place.
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000