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€4,500 Championship Main Event
Day 1 Completed
2009 WPT Marrakech
€4,500 Championship Main Event
Day: 1
Event Info
2009 WPT Marrakech
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€4,500
Total Entries
416
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
10,000
Players Left 1 / 416
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It was a hectic day today as we lost such luminaries as ElkY, Huck Seed and Antonio Esfandiari fairly early on in the tournament but it looks to be French pros who are in charge at the close. Ludovic Lacay, Remy Biechel, Tristan Clemencon and Nicolas Levi all finished the day fairly well.
Other players among the leading pack include former WSOP Main Event finalist Scott Montgomery and talented Irishman Rory Rees-Brennan who both look to be over the 100,000 mark.
Play will restart tomorrow from 2pm local time. See you then!
The flop was
and the small blind check-called a bet of 6,000.On the
turn the small blind now moved all-in for 50,000 and de la Gorce made the call with 
for the nuts, up against 
.The river was the
, aces up were good, but not good enough against the flopped straight.De la Gorce is now the chip leader with 169,000.
With the action folded around to the blinds, Alain Roy raised to 3,500. In the big blind, Annette Obrestad took a long pause before three-betting all in for 24,300. After an eternal soak in the tank, Roy opted to save his remaining 14,000 chips for a better spot, earning Annette the pot and an increase to 29,600.
*****
At the adjacent table, Stephan Bazin opened to 4,600 from middle position. Next door, Ludovic Lacay stuck in a three-bet to 15,000. Bazin would spend the next five solid minutes debating his play and trying to make small talk with Lacay. He eventually called, and he would commit his final 11,700 chips on a flop of
. Lacay shrugged and quickly called, turning over 
. Bazin would need his 
to get lucky in order to stay alive. The turn and river would come brick-brick, though, sending the Team Partouche Pro to the rail.Lacay has vaulted up to 82,000 courtesy of that knockout pot.
The board read
and Yury called an opponent's all in bet with 
. His opponent could only hope for a two-outer, turning up 
. The river was a harmless 
and Kerzhapkin is now sitting on a stack of 153,000.
Soulier scrunched up his face with a look of a child caught mid-cookie jar theft. The push though was only for 20,000 more and the Frenchman called.
Soulier:
Midposition:
The board came
knocking Soulier down to a short stack as his opponent took down a nearly 100,000 chip pot.
."I haven't actually looked," said Ross. He turned over
.The board was no help though, coming
.
Christophe Costes
Dave Coclough
Davidi Kitai
Dominik Nitsche
Robusto
Tristan Clemencon - 101,000
Rory Rees Brennan - 120,000
Yury Kerzhapkin - 75,000
Guillaume de la Gorce - 89,000
Remy Biechel - 92,000
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
and catching a king while fading Mattern's which flopped a flush draw.
