Main Event
Day 1 Completed
2016 Marrakech Poker Open
Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 Marrakech Poker Open
Buy-in
€900
Prize Pool
€176,088
Entries
220
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
What started rather slowly turned into a reentry festival for the 2016 Marrakech Poker Open Main Event. With a buy-in of 10,000 Moroccan dirhams (MAD), 220 entries generated a prize pool of 1.914 million MAD to be split among the top 27 spots. A minimum cash is worth 18,000 MAD, and the winner can look forward to a payday of 440,000 MAD on Sunday.
These numbers convert to approximately $200,000 for the prize pool, $1,850 for a min-cash, and $45,600 for the winner.
After 13 levels of 45 minutes each, it was Anas Tadini who bagged up the most chips with 330,000. Tadini was also among those to fire multiple bullets, but his success came from winning two crucial flips. First, he won with sevens versus ace-king. Second, he won with ace-king against the pocket queens of Pieyre Maggi in the last level of the night to claim the overnight lead.
Almost one-third of the field, 69 to be exact, consisted of reentries. Several notables such as Erwann Pecheux, Paul-Francois Tedeschi, Guillaume Darcourt (three bullets), and Guillaume Diaz (four bullets) entered multiple times without bagging up chips for Day 2.
They were joined on the rail by Spanish Poker League champion Toufik Ouirini, Sarah Herzali, Rebecca Gerin, Abdelhadi Kondah, Selim Oulmekki, 2014 WPT Marrakech champion Mostafa Boukri, and Leo Margets.
There were some 55 players left with other big stacks and notables including Fahd (305,700), Abdenbi Abida (288,200), Dominique Terzian (244,800), Philippe Ktorza (215,200), Alexandre Viard (176,300), Said El Yousfi (120,000), and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Barny Boatman (110,600). Mohamed Ali Houssam, winner of the 2011 WPT Marrakech, bagged up 77,500 chips, and Isabel Baltazar (62,000) was the last woman in the field.
Full chip counts and the Day 2 table draw will be provided as soon [I]PokerNews/I] receives them, and action for Day 2 will kick off at 2 p.m. local time on Saturday. Play will continue until the final table of the nine is realized, and there's plenty of room for some great poker to be witnessed with one-hour levels and blinds starting at 1,200/2,400/300.
Make sure to tune back in on Saturday for continued coverage of the 2016 Marrakech Poker Open Main Event.
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
330,000 | |
|
305,700
5,700
|
5,700 |
|
288,200
38,200
|
38,200 |
|
244,800
24,800
|
24,800 |
|
235,600
600
|
600 |
|
215,200
25,200
|
25,200 |
|
198,700
41,300
|
41,300 |
|
197,200
12,800
|
12,800 |
|
192,700
132,700
|
132,700 |
|
176,300
16,300
|
16,300 |
|
172,600
12,600
|
12,600 |
|
170,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
|
125,500
56,500
|
56,500 |
|
|
121,300
23,700
|
23,700 |
|
120,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
110,600
20,600
|
20,600 |
|
||
|
102,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
96,100
6,100
|
6,100 |
|
84,000
84,000
|
84,000 |
|
82,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
|
77,500
62,500
|
62,500 |
|
|
70,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
62,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
In the last four hands of the night, Gegory Dupuy got his last 20 big blinds in with the 
and Tsunamy looked him up with 
. The 
flop was a sweat with the gutshot and flush draw, but both the 
turn and 
river were of no help for the Frenchman.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
235,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
On the 
flop, Pieyre Maggi was all in for his last 15 big blinds with 
and Anas Tadini called from one seat over with the . Tadini asked for a ten, but the 
on the turn was not to his liking, giving Maggi a flush. The 
river was a blank and that shipped Maggi a double just as the last hands of the day were announced.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
330,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
85,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
The clock has been stopped with 12 minutes left in level 13 and four more hands will be played.
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Roger Tondeur raised from under the gun and Mathieu Papineau just flat-called before getting his stack of 116,500 in after a flop of 
. Tondeur looked him up with the 
and just smiled upon noticing that Papineau had flopped trips with 
.
Neither the 
turn nor the 
river changed anything and Papineau doubled.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
240,000
240,000
|
240,000 |
|
|
160,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
Uproar on table one was caused by Anas Tadini, who jumped off his chair when getting into a raising war with table neighbor Pieyre Maggi. It was Tadini at risk for massive 178,700 and it was a big flip once again for the Moroccan:
Tadini: 
Maggi: 
The flop 
improved Tadini to a pair of kings and he held up thanks to the 
turn and 
river to double into the lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
360,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
|
35,000
35,000
|
35,000 |
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
PONA had raised the button and got called by Dominique Terzian as well as the big blind to see a flop of 
. Terzian check-raised with the 
for the second nutflush and eventually shoved the river to see PONA end up calling and being sent to the rail.
And then there was the shove of Fernando for around 16,000. Sonny Franco reshoved from the button with 
and stayed ahead of the Spaniard's on a board of 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
220,000
165,000
|
165,000 |
|
|
90,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
Level 13
: 1,000/2,000, 300 ante
El Mostafa Belkhayate and Pont have been eliminated whereas made a huge four-bet to 80,000 before calling the shove of a big stack in seat seven with pocket kings. The opponent held ace-king and failed to get there, sending Fahd into the lead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
300,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
