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Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2018 Winamax SISMIX
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2018 Winamax SISMIX
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
6,000 MAD
Total Entries
1,252
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
50,000
Players Left 1 / 1,252
Filter
Level 14
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
It was another record-breaking day at the Winamax SISMIX festival, with an astonishing 458 entries on Day 1b of the Main Event. This smashed the 369 from last year and, in addition to the 276 yesterday meant that there are a total of 734 entries with Day 1c to go.
There were plenty of Winamax Team Pros in action on Day 1b, with Gaelle Baumann, Leo Margets, Bruno Lopes, Pierre Calamusa and Sylvain Loosli in action. From these five, only Loosli will advance to Day 2, looking to improve on his second place in 2015 the year that Jerome Sgorrano was victorious.
Sgorrano himself was in action today, firing two bullets in Day 1b, but falling short twice in quick succession.
The chip leader on Day 1b is Jean Chenonier. The Frenchman amassed a total of 611,000 chips, slightly ahead of Slovenian Roman Gombosi (555,000). These are the only two players over the 500,000 chip mark, but both still trail yesterday's chip leader Mantas Petrauskas with 643,000.
Other big stacks include Jean De Haas (479,000), Clement Lefevre (473,000), Remi Blanc (453,000), Jamal Tahtah (431,000), and Yannick Ansenne (430,000).
These players will resume play at midday on Saturday, but there is one more Day 1 for players to play in their attempt to make Day 2. That kicks of at midday tomorrow (12th May) with a further 14 levels played.
Stay tuned to PokerNews.com for full updates from the final update, with organisers eyeing a record crowd, with 1,078 the number to beat from the 2017 Main Event.
Level 14
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
Level 14
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
There will be three more hands before players bag up ahead of Day 2.
Level 14
: 2,500/5,000, 500 ante
We caught up with Winamax Team Pro Sylvain Loosli in the last level of the night to ask him how he felt about the Winamax SISMIX Main Event.
"It's a fun tournament," said Loosli, "It's always fun to play a Winamax tournament, especially here, because most people know us and they play differently. Some people are kind of scared, some like to win hands against us. It's alwaysfun.
"It's an amazing structure and it's good fun."
Loosli has a commemorative button and a bottle at the TheatrO night club to give away should someone bust him, but he says that people don't tend to play so differently against him while at the tables.
"Usually not so much, but I would say they tend to call too much against us thinking we're bluffing a lot It's good fun. I finished second in this tournament three years ago so it would be nice to improve on that."
Loosli wouldn't be the first Winamax Team Pro to have success here in Marrakech, after Bruno Lopes took down the tournament two years ago. We asked him what winning the tournament would mean to him.
"It would be a nice accomplishment," he said, "It's not one of the biggest tournaments on the tour, but there are still a lot of good players. Naturally, it's not my main goal of the year but it would be really nice to win. Winning a tournament is alway amazing. I mean, you can only win a certain amount of tournaments a year."
The Winamax stable of Team Pros has been growing steadily with the acquisitions of Leo Margets, Joao Vieira and Mustapha Kanit, but Loosli says that there is still a real community atmosphere among the Team.
"We had a seminar before EPT Monte Carlo with the new guys; it was really cool to get together for a few days. We did a few activities, talked poker and mental game. That kind of stuff and got to know each other a little bit more. There's a really strong team spirit, which is good. It's very important in poker, it's nothing new for me to say, but it's important to have a group of people you can work with and share things with. That's really nice."
Level: 14
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
Level 13
: 2,000/4,000, 500 ante
With just over one level in the day, there is no clear chip leader and any from a dozen or so players could win a few important pots and jump clear of the field.
Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
Level 12
: 1,500/3,000, 500 ante
Aurelie Reard was all in with 
against the 
of Michael Barozzi. The board ran out 
and Reard doubled up for her last 48,000.
