€4,500 Championship Main Event
Day 3 Completed
2009 WPT Marrakech
€4,500 Championship Main Event
Day: 3
Event Info
2009 WPT Marrakech
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€4,500
Entries
416
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 416
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The key turning point for Savary was when he flopped a set and rivered a full house as Ludovic Lacay made a very disguised backdoor flush. The pot was the biggest of the tournament at that point and completely transformed the run of play. Lacay had been the chip leader for most of the day and was relegated to short stack while Savary took over the chip lead and never looked back.
With Lacay eliminated in 3rd place, Savary closed out his victory at the first time of asking, catching a straight against Eoghan O'Dea's flopped pair of Aces. The Frenchman joins compatriots, ElkY, David Benyamine and Thomas Bichon as one of those who have picked up a prestigious WPT bracelet.
Congratulations to him and all our finalists today, from Pokernews, it's over and out!
.O'Dea led out for 400,000 and Savary reraised all-in. O'Dea thought for a minute and called, was this it?
O'Dea:
Savary:
The turn was the
making the nut straight for Savary leaving O'Dea drawing dead, the 
river was little more than an afterthought. Irishman O'Dea goes home in second place with €262,446 to comfort him after he falls just short of taking the title as well.
pot. We've not seen many big pots so far...
The onus shifted back across to Savary and he shifted a little, uncomfortable in his chair. It wasn't so much the glare of the lights, but the size of the push which forced Savary to give up the pot.
Savary: 4.75 million
O'Dea: 3.57 million
Level: 29
Blinds: 40,000/80,000
Ante: 10,000
Christophe Savary - 5,060,000
Julien Arneodo - 3,260,000
Showdown
Savary:
Lacay:
The flop was not very good at all for Lacay as it fell
. A rustle of multilingual banter trickled through the audience, now shoulder-to-shoulder, three-deep around the entire perimeter of the table.Turn:
.That's all she wrote for Lacay, now drawing stone dead to Savary's nut flush. The river
completed the board. Lacay cringed a bit, shook hands with the two men who've outlasted him, and headed off to become a spectator himself.Lacay put on a fine show here this week, crushing the field for more than a full day. In the end though, his bid for his first WPT title has fallen two spots shy. His third-place showing is good for €164,182. That's not too bad, but Lacay is clearly disappointed by that result.
O'Dea thought for 30 seconds and then called.
Flop:
"All-in," said Savary.
"Call," said O'Dea.
Savary:
slightly in trouble because...O'Dea:
for the flopped nuts.The
turn signaled the Irishman's double up. The river meaning nothing. O'Dea and Savary both have about 3.1 million, Lacay with about 1.9 million.
Lacay thought for a minute before calling a good percentage of his own short stack.
Lacay:
Arneodo:
Arneodo was ahead but it was very tight as the flop came down
meaning a split pot looked likely. But the 
turn put Lacay in the lead and the river meant we were down to the final 3 players.Lacay has almost 1.7 million, nearly even with O'Dea but Christophe Savary has the rest.
