Level: 7
Blinds: 250/500
Ante: 50
2016 Winamax SISMIX
Main Event
Day: 1c
Break #2
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Players are now on a 20 minute break. We are approaching 400 Day 1c entrants with 381 so far entered today with 263 remaining. Blinds will be 250/500 with an ante of 50 when play resumes, meaning players still late entering will have a healthy 40 big blind stack to try to spin up.
Pierre Calamusa Among the Chip Leaders, But Loses a Pot to "Tsunamy"
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
Team Winamax pro Pierre Calamusa holds one of the bigger stacks in play, however, it just got a little smaller after this hand took place.
Yassine Azouaou opened the action from late position with a raise to 1,200 which Calamusa called from the small blind and Spain's Javier Garcirreynaldos Barral, also known as "Tsunamy" came along for the flop.
Calamusa checked on the 
flop. "Tsunamy" bet 6,500, Azouaou folded, and Calamusa called. Both players then checked when the 
created a four-heart board.
Things got slightly more interesting when Calamusa led out for 10,000 when the 
completed the board. "Tsunamy" thought for a second before declaring himself all-in. Calamusa quickly folded shipping a fairly big pot to his opponent.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
75,000 | 55,000 |
|
50,000 |
358 Entrants As Level 6 Begins
Level 6
: 200/400, 50 ante
The tournament room at the Casino de Marrakech continues to get busier and busier. The Day 1c field is now up to 358 players of which 281 are still hoping to build a stack to help them compete in Day 2 and beyond. With three more blind levels until late registration, it will be close as to whether last year's Day 1c field size of 411 is exceeded or not.
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Davidi Kitai in the Field, Brice Puypalat Among the Chip Leaders
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
We noticed Team Winamax pro Davidi Kitai now in the Day 1c field. His stack is down to 13,600, however, on the same table we noticed Brice Puypalat with a huge early stack in front of him.
Puypalat attempted to shared this was thanks to two hands which both started off slowly with him holding non-premium cards and although he isn't that comfortable speaking English went on to attempt to explain his good fortune in more detail.
During the first hand, Puypalat was in the big blind holding 
in a limped pot with the button and small blind. The flop featured two hearts which Puypalat check then called a small bet from the button. He nailed his flush on the turn and his opponent wound up getting it all-in holding to only get outflushed by Puypalet.
Shortly after, he was in an even bigger pot where it is believed most of his current stack when he limped 
from the button and got calls from players in the small blind and big blind. The player in the small blind led out with a bet on a 
flop, the player in the big blind folded, and Puypalat just called. The small blind then bet again when the the gave Puypalat a full house and he opted to call. His opponent shoved all-in when the 
completed the board on the river handing Puypalat a pot believed to be worth over 50,000 chips after he called.
According to The Hendon Mob, Puypalat has only two live cashes, however, his last one was also in a Winamax event when in September 2015, he snagged 42nd place in the Winamax Poker Open Dublin to bank his biggest career cash of €2,100.
Pierre Calamusa, who made the opening announcements today after the tournament director handed him the microphone won this event for an impressive haul of €70,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
68,000 | 68,000 |
|
13,600 | 13,600 |
Chip Count Update
Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 30,000 |
|
26,000 | -3,000 |
|
18,000 | -10,500 |
|
|
17,000 | 2,000 |
Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 25
Photos From Day 1c
No Big Pots For Gaëlle Baumann
Level 4
: 100/200, 25 ante
Every time we walk by Team Winamax pro Gaëlle Baumann, her stack size is a little bit bigger. She is now up to 30,000 chips, and it sounds like it is all due to small ball as she shared there have been "no big pots."
Right now the average stack size is 116 big blinds, however, pots will start to get bigger for many players as the average by the end of the day will go down by at least half that.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
30,000 | 5,000 |