€4,500 Championship Main Event Day 1 | 2009 WPT Marrakech

10-16-2009 19:24 UTC

Minus a Hundo

[user66118]

The scoreboard shows 316 players remaining, meaning we have lost a full 100 runners. Four and a half levels into the day, just about 3/4 of the field still has chips to work with.

10-16-2009 19:23 UTC

Borg Assimiliates More Chips

[user76023]

Tore Lagerborg's reputation as a crazy mad-cap Norwegian nutcase, is working rather well for him.

He just fired bets of 5,000 and 8,000 on the turn and river of a {5-Diamonds}

board, getting called both times by his foe. The latter mucked though when he was shown {J-Diamonds}

.

Lagerborg is up to 39,000 as a result.

Tags: Tore Lagerborg

10-16-2009 19:15 UTC

Fouger-gone...

[user76023]

Thomas Fougeron is out after reraising all-in on a {2-Clubs}

board with {8-Spades}

but got called by {A-Hearts}

. The Frenchman received no help on the {7-Clubs}

turn or indeed the {2-Spades}

river.

10-16-2009 19:13 UTC

Lellouche Le Lost

[user76023]

Antony Lellouche is out after squeezing with {A-?}

for his last 5,500 against a raise and a call but ran into the button's {A-?}

.

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

10-16-2009 18:41 UTC

Break Time.

[user76023]

Like Ross and Rachel, we're on a break.

10-16-2009 18:40 UTC

Kings No Good Versus Lacay

[user66118]

A player in early position opened the pot with a raise, and Ludovic Lacay and two others matched the bet to see a flop.

The dealer spread {J-Spades}

, and the raiser continued out with another bet. That drew a raise from Lacay and the other two dabblers ducked out of the pot. The initial raiser three-bet it up to 9,800, and Lacay moved all in with a covering bet. His opponent called all in for a total of 13,000, turning over {K-Clubs}

. It was no good; Lacay showed up {J-Clubs}

for top set, having flopped his money card.

The turn and river blanked off with the {4-Spades}

and the

respectively, and that nice pot moves Lacay up close to 50,000 just as the break hits.

Tags: Ludovic Lacay

10-16-2009 18:39 UTC

Lieu-sing Out

[user76023]

Liz Lieu, Chilipoker's main hope at the WPT here, just took a slight knock, calling a 1,200 bet on the turn of a {J-Clubs}

board before both checked the {8-Diamonds}

river. Lieu showed {5-Clubs}

but lost to her opponent's {9-Spades}

.

Lieu is left with 23,000.

10-16-2009 18:37 UTC

Big Pot Hopes Dashed...

[user76023]

Chips went flying in on a {A-Spades}

board between Andrew Feldman and the button it what looked like it would a kicker battle. Feldman turned over {A-Clubs}

but his opponent turned over {A-Diamonds}

but after a {5-Spades}

turn and

river the pot was simply split up.

10-16-2009 18:26 UTC

Fitoussi Falls into a Flush

[user66118]

We joined a hand in progress as the dealer placed the river card down on a board reading {4-Clubs}

. With about 17,000 in the pot, the player in the small blind checked, and action was on Bruno Fitoussi. He carefully stacked out a bet of 13,000 and slid it forward, sending his opponent deep into the tank. After several minutes, he made the call.

Fitoussi showed {Q-Clubs}

, and his opponent sank in his chair as he returned his cards to the dealer face-down. Fitoussi rakes in that big pot, moving his way up to 51,500.

Tags: Bruno Fitoussi