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

11-02-2019 20:08 UTC

Lu Busts Garrett

Djinn

Level 11 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

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 runout.

Player	Chips	Progress
Chun Hock Lu	168,000 13,000	13,000
Brendan Garrett	Busted

Level: 12

Blinds: 1,500/2,500

Ante: 2,500

11-02-2019 20:13 UTC

Farrell Calls in Four-Card Straight to Secure a Double Up

Djinn

Level 12 : 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

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 and Farrell immediately said, "straight." The turn was the and sure enough the river the .

"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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Niall Farrell	60,000 18,000	18,000

Vita Lockhart	38,700 -46,500	-46,500

Tags: Niall Farrell Vita Lockhart

11-02-2019 20:16 UTC

Lockhart Immediately Doubles Back

Djinn

Level 12 : 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

The hand immediately following her double of Farrell, Lockhart moved all in preflop herself for 38,700, winning a fllip with vs. after making a straight of her own on a board.

Player	Chips	Progress
Vita Lockhart	83,900 45,200	45,200

Tags: Vita Lockhart

11-02-2019 20:31 UTC

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 , her opponent .

"No nine," she requested. The board of 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.

Player	Chips	Progress
Deborah Reid	195,000 126,500	126,500

Tags: Deborah Reid

11-02-2019 20:42 UTC

Final Break of Final Flight

Djinn

Level 12 : 1,500/2,500, 2,500 ante

Players are now on a 15 minute break; two more half-hour levels remain to play.

Level: 13

Blinds: 2,000/3,000

Ante: 3,000

11-02-2019 20:56 UTC

Mulhall and Hayton Vie for Chip Lead

Djinn

Level 13 : 2,000/3,000, 3,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Andrew Hayton	272,000 202,000	202,000
Dominic Mulhall	263,000 263,000	263,000
Thomas Peggs	180,000 105,000	105,000
Deborah Reid	170,000 -25,000	-25,000
Daniel Sharp	160,000 72,500	72,500
Ali Ahmed	155,000 83,000	83,000
Martin Foord	128,000 28,000	28,000
Nicholas Ramsey	125,000 78,900	78,900
Blair Matheson	105,000 53,000	53,000
Kaloyan Kirov	87,000 41,000	41,000
Shaniece James	78,000 10,300	10,300
Jereld Sam	71,000 7,600	7,600
Niall Farrell	70,500 10,500	10,500

Julian Twigg	66,000 1,400	1,400
Ross Murray	60,500 16,000	16,000
Robert Watt	60,000 -1,000	-1,000
Benjamin Holmes	36,500 -44,500	-44,500
Steven Daglish	3,000 -53,000	-53,000

11-02-2019 21:11 UTC

Foord vs. Murdoch, Blind vs. Blind

Djinn

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
Joseph Murdoch	125,000 57,000	57,000
Martin Foord	57,000 -71,000	-71,000

Tags: Joseph Murdoch Martin Foord

11-02-2019 21:25 UTC

Huge Double Propels Hussein to Chip Leadership

Djinn

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
Haji Hussein	330,000 192,000	192,000
Andrew Hayton	74,000 -198,000	-198,000

Tags: Andrew Hayton Haji Hussein