€4,500 Championship Main Event Day 2 | 2009 WPT Marrakech

10-18-2009 01:34 UTC

Franck Fellous Eliminated in 23rd Place (€11,494)

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Balazs Botond raised first-in from the button, and Franck Fellous moved all in for an additional 65,000. Botond had the chips to call, and he did just that, tabling {Q-Hearts}

. The lead wasn't comfortable, but Fellous was hoping his {K-Spades}

could stay ahead to keep him alive.

It wasn't in the cards, though. The dealer spread out a board of {6-Clubs}

to give Botond the straight and the knockout.

Franck Fellous becomes our 23rd-place finisher, pocketing €11,494 for his efforts over the past two days.

Tags: Balazs Botand Franck Fellous

10-18-2009 01:25 UTC

Joel Benzinou Eliminated In 25th Place (€11,494)

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Stephane Fajg raised from the button and Joel Benzinou pushed in the small blind. A fairly swift call.

Fajg: {8-Clubs}

Benzinou:

The board came {7-Spades}

and a very happy Fajg celebrated.

Level: 20

Blinds: 5,000/10,000

Ante: 1,000

10-18-2009 01:15 UTC

Benzerfa Youssef Eliminated in 24th Place (€11,494)

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Kezem Kizek came in raising to 21,000, and Benzerfa Youssef moved all in for 98,000 further down the line. When it came back to Kizek, he considered for two or three minutes before announcing the call to put his opponent at risk of elimination.

Showdown
Kizek: {J-Clubs}

Youssef:

The flop was a big sweat as the dealer spread out three cards one at a time: {8-Spades}

...

...

... The flush draw would fail to materialize for Youssef, though, as the turn and river bricked off with the {Q-Diamonds}

and

respectively.

With that, a disappointed Benzerfa Youssef made a quick stop at the payout desk to collect more than €11,000, then headed slowly out the door.

Tags: Benzerfa Youssef

10-18-2009 01:10 UTC

Big Action

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Balazs Botond raised under the gun to 21,000, opening the proverbial can of worms. Two seats over, Kerem Kizek made the smooth call before Hichem Ben Halima stuck in a squeeze raise to 65,000. Two seats down from him, the short stack of Stephane Dahan went into the middle, all 79,000 of it. That was enough to fold Botond and Kizek, and Ben Halima called the extra few thousand to put his opponent at risk.

Showdown
Ben Halima: {Q-Hearts}

Dahan:

There would be no funny stuff on a board of {4-Spades}

. With his kings holding, Dahan earns himself a double-up-and-then-some. He's all the way up around 220,000 now.

Tags: Hichem Ben Halima Stephane Dahan

10-18-2009 01:03 UTC

Lacay Tops A Million

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Ludovic Lacay raised to 18,000 UTG before Eoghan O'Dea made it 50,000 from the button. Passed back to Lacay, he asked how much the Irishman had at the start of the hand.

"250,000" was the reply.

Lacay then made it 115,000 to go and O'Dea tanked for a couple of minutes before folding. The Frenchman is just about at the 1 million mark now.

Tags: Ludovic Lacay

10-18-2009 01:01 UTC

Pierre Zerbib Eliminated In 26th Place (€11,494)

[user76023]

Stefan Hansen has just knocked out Pierre Zerbib, {A-?}

against

after the board came {8-?}

.

10-18-2009 00:55 UTC

Thomas Laumer Eliminated in 27th Place (€11,494)

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On a flop of {5-Spades}

, Tristan Clemencon checked, and Thomas Laumer fired out a bet of 26,000. With a flick of the wrist, Clemencon made the call, and the turn brought the {Q-Diamonds}

. After another check, Laumer moved all in for about 75,000, and Clemencon made the quick call with the covering stack.

Laumer showed up {A-?}

only to find that he was drawing stone dead against Clemencon's {8-Spades}

. Trips are plenty good enough to score the knockout, sending Thomas Laumer to the rail in 27th place.

Tags: Thomas Laurent Tristan Clemencon

10-18-2009 00:44 UTC

Twenty-Seven Left

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Nicolas Poloniato got it all in before the flop with {Q-Clubs}

, but he would run into Ludovic Lacay. That's how it went. Good game, Nicolas.

Okay, if you want a few more details, Lacay looked him up with the dominating {A-Spades}