2009 WPT Marrakech
€4,500 Championship Main Event
Day: 3
Level: 23
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 3,000
Updated Chip Counts
Seat 2: Eoghan O'Dea - 477,000
Seat 3: Hichem Ben Halima - 465,000
Seat 4: Patrick Meurisse - 271,000
Seat 6: Yury Kerzhapkin - 366,000
Seat 7: Ludovic Lacay - 2,320,000
Seat 9: Balazs Botond - 705,000
Table 2:
Seat 1: Tristan Clemencon - 455,000
Seat 2: Benny Spindler - 670,000
Seat 3: Christophe Savary - 713,000
Seat 5: Adrian Marin - 850,000
Seat 6: Stefan Hansen - 255,000
Seat 7: Benjamin Pollak - 454,000
Seat 8: Julien Arneodo - 335,000
Oh Pollaks!
Pollak:
Arneodo:
The board came and as the King hit the turn, Arneodo jumped out of his seat spinning around and celebrating with his friends before the river had been dealt.
Pollak has 125,000 left. Arneodo is up to almost 700,000.
Yury Kerzhapkin Eliminated In 13th Place (€16,420)
The final table draws nearer...
Stefan Hansen Eliminated in 12th Place (€16,420)
Hansen showed up , and he was flipping for survival against the of Arneodo. The board would fail to provide any salvation as it came . Unable to pair up, Stefan Hansen becomes our 12th-place finisher, taking home €16,420 for his efforts over the past three days.
O'Dea At Risk
Showdown
Botond:
O'Dea:
There would be no funny stuff for O'Dea as the dealer gave him a clean board of . His tens hold up to earn him a monster double. He's all the way up to 1.3 million now, while Botond has been left with just 85,000 lonely chips.
Benjamin Pollak Eliminated In 11th Place (€16,420)
One Table Redraw
2. Balazs Botond
3. Eoghan O'Dea
4. Ludovic Lacay
5. Hichem Ben Halima
6. Christophe Savary
7. Tristan Clemecon
8. Adrian Marin
9. Benny Spindler
10. Patrick Meurisse
Botond Behind
Botond was in bad shape, too. He tabled , dominated by Lacay's . The flop provided a bit of hope as it came to give Botond a gutterball straight draw. The turn was a blank , but the saving peeled off on the river, filling in that king-high straight and nearly quadrupling Botond's stack. He's up to 211,000 now.