€4,500 Championship Main Event | 2009 WPT Marrakech

10-18-2009 15:11 UTC

Table Count

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Tristan Clemecon -- 250,000
Benny Spindler -- 750,000
Christophe Savary -- 805,000
Adrian Marin -- 690,000
Stefan Hansen -- 195,000
Benjamin Pollak -- 740,000
Julien Arneodo -- 200,000
Stephane Dahan -- 90,000

Level: 22

Blinds: 8,000/16,000

Ante: 2,000

10-18-2009 14:53 UTC

Yury Kerzhapkin Doubles Through Balazs Botond

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Ludovic Lacay made it 27,000 from UTG, Botond flat-called in third position before Kerzhapkin reraised all-in for about 140,000 from the big blind.

Lacay rechecked his cards before folding and Botond quickly called.

Kerzhapkin: {J-Diamonds}

Botond:

The board came {7-Diamonds}

and the Russian doubles back up to about 280,000.

10-18-2009 14:45 UTC

Botond Builds Up

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The last remaining Hungarian player, Balazs Botond has picked off a few chips from Yury Kerzhapkin.

Both checked the {Q-Clubs}

flop before Botond called bets of 45,000 and 65,000 on the {7-Clubs}

turn and

river.

Kerzhapkin mucked his hand at the end, tapping the table as Botond showed {Q-Diamonds}

.

10-18-2009 14:32 UTC

Kerem Kiyak Eliminated In 16th (€13,136)

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Kerem Kiyak raised to 28,000 from UTG, Yury Kerzhapkin called in early position before Ludovic Lacay made it 74,000 behind them. Kiyak called and Kerzhapkin passed.

The flop came {10-Clubs}

and Kiyak shoved all-in. Lacay immediately snap-called with {Q-Hearts}

and Kiyak could only show a very far behind {A-Clubs}

. The turn was the {7-Diamonds}

and Kiyak was drawing dead, the {K-Hearts}

river no respite.

Lacay has 1.95 million now, almost 25% of the chips in play.

Tags: Kerem Kiyak Yury Kerzhapkin

10-18-2009 14:24 UTC

Azziz Abdelmalki Eliminated in 17th Place (€13,136)

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Christophe Savary started the action with an early-position raise to 40,000, and Azziz Abdelmalki made the smooth call a few seats over. In the hijack, Benjamin Pollak stuck in a healthy three-bet, good enough to fold Savary out of the way. Abdelmalki was not so easily pacified though. After some deliberation, he made the call all in for his last ~200,000 chips. With his tournament life on the line, the cards were turned up.

Showdown
Abdelmalki: {9-Clubs}

Pollak:

The flop was a pretty good miss for the at-risk player as it came {10-Hearts}

, giving him two shots at an open-ender. The turn missed with the {3-Diamonds}

, though, and the {5-Diamonds}

that filled out the board was no help either.

Failing to get over the hump, Azziz Abdelmalki becomes the first casualty of Day 3, walking away in 17th place.

Tags: Azziz Abdelmalki Benjamin Pollak Christophe Savary

10-18-2009 14:21 UTC

Hapless Kerzhapkin

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Disaster for the Russian as his stack has shrunk even more. Patrick Meurisse raised preflop to 26,000 on the button and Yury Kerzhapkin stuck out 200,000 from the small blind. Meurisse called all-in with {A-Spades}

and Kerzhapkin turned over {A-Hearts}

.

The board came {5-Diamonds}

, Meurisse up to 420,000 and Kerzhapkin down to 450,000.

10-18-2009 14:13 UTC

Start As You Mean To Carry On

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Almost immediately and Ludovic Lacay has increased his stack to 1,600,000 at the expense of Yuri Kerzhapkin.

The Russian called 44,000 on a flop of {5-Diamonds}