Main Event Day 1 | 2017 PMU.fr WPT DeepStacks Marrakech

10-07-2017 01:10 UTC

Ludovic Moryousef Leads Record Field in Marrakech After Day 1

Christian Zetzsche

Level 11 : 600/1,200, 200 ante

After a relaxed start in the first level of the day, the poker room of the Casino de Marrakech quickly filled up for Day 1 of the 2017 PMU.fr WPT DeepStacks Marrakech MAD 13,200 (€1,200) Main Event. Until the end of the registration period after the dinner break, a field of 433 entries including 111 re-entries emerged to better the 396 entries of 2016 and create the largest WPTDeepStacks field outside of North America.

Fewer than half the field made it to the bagging and tagging at the end of level 11 though, as just 153 hopefuls remain in contention with MAD 20,000 High Roller 9th place finisher Ludovic Moryousef at the top of the counts. Several players were gunning for the overnight spotlight, but Moryousef's set-over-set clash in the third-last hand of the night vaulted the Frenchman to massive 375,000.

Other big stacks and notables through to Day 2 include Belmehel Dja Daouadji (321,500), Spain's Daniel (275,600), Michel Leibgorin (261,000), Emile Carette (253,000), BAUTIST (228,000), Jean Koja (210,800), Tsunamy (188,500), Fadhil Farag (117,000), Fouad Zouiten (110,000), Alexandre Reard (99,500), [Removed:146] (85,000), 2016 November Niner Fernando Pons (77,000) and Aurelie Reard (50,600).

High Roller champion Aleksandras Voisnis (37,000), runner-up [Removed:44] (10,800) and third-place finisher Il Dieko Rati Vale (195,200) also bagged up chips while just one of the four PMU.fr Team Pros advanced in Johan Guilbert (122,700), who was fourth the previous night in the High Roller. Guilbert's team mates Sarah Herzali, Erwann Pecheux and Francois Tosques, as well as approximately half of the online qualifiers were felted.

Romain Lewis became the first casualty of the day when he ran with kings into aces and his subsequent attempts were not crowned by success either. Anas Tadini and Bernard Guigon were sent to the rail several times, while Remi Castaignon, Tom Bedell, Imad Derwiche, Andrew King, Javier Zarco, Omar Lakhdari, Abdelhadi Kondah and Marius Conan were no longer in contention at the end of the night either.

The prize pool information will be released once the cards get back in the air for Day 2 as of noon local time on Saturday October 7th 2017 with level 12 and blinds of 800-1,600 and a running ante of 200. Stay tuned to PokerNews throughout the next two days to find out who will be crowned champion in sunny Marrakech.

Seat Draw Day 2

Table	Seat	Player	Country	Jetons	Big Blinds
1	1	Emile Carette	France	253,000	158
1	2	Francisco	Spain	15,900	10
1	3	Ludovic Riehl	France	88,000	55
1	4	Stanislav Zegal	Germany	33,000	21
1	5	Marvin Ben Haim	France	95,900	60
1	6	Gaetan Balleur	France	70,000	44
1	7	Jose Luis Herrero Azoiazu	Spain	138,300	86
1	8	Andrei Luncan	Romania	46,000	29

2	1	Anas Belatik	Morocco	141,000	88
2	2	Fouad Zouiten	Morocco	111,100	69
2	3	William van de Walle	Belgium	32,100	20
2	4	Usman Siddique	United Kingdom	66,100	41
2	5	Esseddik Seddiki	Morocco	26,300	16
2	7	Helene Gros	France	43,100	27
2	8	Gael Le Bihan	France	82,900	52
2	9	Pugil Lopez	Spain	100,400	63

3	1	Aurelie Reard	France	50,600	32
3	2	Valeryi Chupin	Russian Federation	77,000	48
3	3	Anthony Cruz	France	127,600	80
3	4	Benjamin Dadon	France	107,000	67
3	5	Marco	Spain	17,200	11
3	7	Fernando G	Spain	39,500	25
3	8	Djamel Aouir	Morocco	64,700	40
3	9	Damien Gayer	France	174,600	109

4	1	Paul	Spain	128,600	80
4	2	Myriam Mehnana	France	73,900	46
4	3	Anto	Spain	26,900	17
4	5	Martins Kleins	Latvia	31,900	20
4	6	Oumar Sy	France	48,500	30
4	7	Pierrick Burban	France	181,600	114
4	8	Masoud Etemadiherisi	Morocco	59,500	37
4	9	Elizabeth Tedder	USA	92,900	58

5	2	Said El Yousfi	France	25,000	16
5	3	Arnaud Enselme	France	73,100	46
5	4	Zouhair Faiky	Morocco	49,500	31
5	5	Pierre Dussaud	France	97,600	61
5	6	Daniel	Spain	275,600	172
5	7	Yoan Franck Roquillon	France	43,100	27
5	8	Tarik Bzioui	Morocco	110,000	69
5	9	Abdel Nasser Omais	Morocco	62,900	39

6	2	Hamza Nbaba	Morocco	18,300	11
6	3	Ali Mechiche Alami	Morocco	103,800	65
6	4	Jose	Spain	67,500	42
6	5	Jos	Spain	179,300	112
6	6	Pieyre Maggi	Belgium	80,800	51
6	7	Louis Linard	France	126,400	79
6	8	Jonathan Therme	France	34,300	21
6	9	Leonardo Gonzales	Spain	51,800	32

7	2	Jean Michel Ploch	France	132,200	83
7	3	Pona	Spain	84,400	53
7	4	Julio Sanchez	Spain	30,000	19
7	5	Mike4895	Spain	97,700	61
7	6	Vincent Mansour	France	193,600	121
7	7	Robert Cohen	France	72,600	45
7	8	Eric Rabut	France	31,400	20
7	9	Rene	Spain	47,700	30

8	1	Rachid Aabbadi	Morocco	10,000	6
8	3	Benjamin Gonzva	France	46,100	29
8	4	Aleksandras Voisnis	Lithuania	37,000	23
8	5	Guy Taylor	United Kingdom	80,700	50
8	6	Johan Guilbert	France	122,200	76
8	7	[Removed:226]	France	70,900	44
8	8	Ludovic Moryousef	France	375,000	234
8	9	Cruel	Spain	109,300	68

9	1	Sonny Franco	France	117,100	73
9	3	Bautist	Spain	228,000	143
9	4	Idir Haiche	France	24,200	15
9	5	Jawad Ben Tahila	Morocco	45,300	28
9	6	Arthur Conan	France	56,000	35
9	7	Corinne Mermet	France	81,600	51
9	8	Javier	Spain	40,400	25
9	9	Oscar	Spain	96,000	60

10	1	[Removed:44]	Iran	108,000	68
10	2	Sarpat	Spain	146,000	91
10	3	Jeremy Eschen	France	50,000	31
10	4	Pedro Cairat	Spain	29,100	18
10	5	Thierry Oldak	France	67,300	42
10	7	Saber Harrazi	France	82,700	52
10	8	Cyril Gouilliou	France	128,200	80
10	9	Christophe Geffroy	France	32,400	20

11	1	BigC	Spain	45,200	28
11	3	Pablo	Spain	185,900	116
11	4	Mohammed Iqbal	United Kingdom	80,900	51
11	5	Teresio Ciancanelli	Italy	36,500	23
11	6	Alexandre Poux	France	30,800	19
11	7	Hamad Almannai	Lebanon	137,900	86
11	8	Benjamin Saada	France	66,000	41
11	9	Alexandre Reard	France	99,500	62

12	1	Belmehel Dja Daouadji	France	321,700	201
12	2	Pierre Barthelemy	France	122,700	77
12	3	Abdelatif	France	41,700	26
12	4	Gabor Catalin	Romania	25,100	16
12	5	Benoit Petiot	France	62,100	39
12	6	Turbado Tomas Jr	Spain	98,000	61
12	7	Aleksandr Zolotukhin	Ukraine	84,900	53
12	8	Denis Esteve	Spain	51,700	32

13	1	Xavier Trarieux	France	166,700	104
13	2	[Removed:445]	Morocco	15,300	10
13	3	Kaspars Butans	Latvia	83,500	52
13	4	Djamel Ouaret	Morocco	69,000	43
13	6	Ringo Stimac	France	42,500	27
13	7	Julien Lemonnier	France	96,700	60
13	8	Yoann Amaudry	France	118,600	74
13	9	Yum	Spain	51,800	32

14	1	Sadry Darwiche	France	80,300	50
14	2	Matiss Celmins	Latvia	44,500	28
14	3	Khier Rezaik	Morocco	105,000	66
14	4	Sylvain Vignals	France	17,700	11
14	5	Tsunamy	Spain	188,400	118
14	6	Ali G	Germany	132,900	83
14	7	Ludovic Sultan	France	60,000	38
14	8	Laurent Miege	France	33,900	21

15	1	Michel Leibgorin	France	261,000	163
15	2	[Removed:146]	France	84,500	53
15	4	Will Davies	United Kingdom	56,200	35
15	5	AD	Spain	109,000	68
15	6	Davy Dardignac Moulon	France	46,100	29
15	7	Pierre Merlin	France	37,600	24
15	8	Jerome Seveno	France	20,000	13
15	9	Xavi	Spain	113,000	71

16	1	Alexandra Laudicina	France	92,200	58
16	3	Remi Pencreach	France	60,000	38
16	4	Daniel II	Spain	55,800	35
16	5	Maxime Lemaitre	France	38,700	24
16	6	Jean-Jacques Chantalat	France	74,400	47
16	7	Smain Mamouni	France	134,000	84
16	8	Il Dieko Rati Vale	Spain	195,200	122
16	9	Julien Lomre	France	16,700	10

17	1	Aly Chahrour	Lebanon	7,900	5
17	2	Lukas Vozdecky	Czech Republic	146,200	91
17	3	Hideki Takafuji	Japan	34,600	22
17	4	Antonio Chemi	Italy	88,500	55
17	5	Hassan Fares	France	103,000	64
17	6	Lionel Grobocopatel	France	65,600	41
17	8	Abdessamade El Mzdadi	Morocco	48,500	30
17	9	Nicolas	France	117,800	74

18	1	Mohamed Derhmain	Morocco	110,300	69
18	2	Jesper Witved	Denmark	56,400	35
18	3	Patrick Caveriviere	France	5,670	4
18	4	RSM	Spain	105,600	66
18	5	Fernando Pons	Spain	77,300	48
18	6	Noureddine Aittaleb	France	37,000	23
18	7	David	Spain	52,000	33
18	8	Agatino Spitaleri	France	196,600	123
18	9	Corbin White	USA	29,900	19

19	1	San	Spain	72,000	45
19	2	Toufik	Morocco	51,900	32
19	3	Dominique Malo	France	17,000	11
19	4	Jean Koja	France	210,800	132
19	5	Fadhil Farag	Morocco	117,000	73
19	6	Damien L'Hommeau	France	90,400	57
19	7	Malek Grabsi	France	40,000	25
19	8	Vivian Anseline	France	82,300	51

Tags: Abdelhadi Kondah Aleksandras Voisnis Alexandre Reard Anas Tadini Aurelie Reard Bernard Guigon Erwann Pecheux Fadhil Farag Fernando Pons Fouad Zouiten Francois Tosques Jean Koja Johan Guilbert Ludovic Moryousef Marius Conan Michel Leibgorin Remi Castaignon Romain Lewis Sarah Herzali Tom Bedell Tsunamy

10-06-2017 23:11 UTC

Leibgorin in the Lead?!

Christian Zetzsche

Level 10 : 500/1,000, 100 ante

Out of almost nowhere, Michel Leibgorin and Belmehel Dja Daouadji showed up with big stacks and appear to be the current chip leaders. Alexandre Reard dropped some chips, as did Johan Guilbert, while several Spanish players could also snag the overnight lead.

Leibgorin's big stack was the result of a big three-way pot. After a raise to 2,200 and two calls including Leibgorin and Slimane Mameche, Nassima Ouberdous three-bet to 5,500. Only Leibgorin and a Spanish player called to see a flop of and Ouberdous bet 9,000. The Spanish player raised to 28,000 and Leibgorin squeezed to 63,000, which forced out Ouberdous who flashed queens after the shove of the Spanish player with and the call of Leibgorin for 125,000 with .

The turn left the Spaniard drawing dead and vaulted Leibgorin into the top spot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michel Leibgorin	280,000	280,000
Belmehel Dja Daouadji	260,000	260,000
Daniel	190,000	-10,000
Ludovic Moryousef	165,000	165,000
Alexandre Reard	165,000	-25,000
jos	160,000	5,000
BAUTIST	150,000	150,000
Johan Guilbert	130,000	30,000
Ali G	110,000	110,000
Usman Siddique	45,000	8,000
Aurelie Reard	37,000	-35,000
Said El Yousfi	32,000	-25,000

Tags: Johan Guilbert Michel Leibgorin

10-06-2017 18:54 UTC

Baltazar Scores Big Double Through El Yousfi

Christian Zetzsche

Level 7 : 250/500, 75 ante

The comeback of Said El Yousfi has been put on a break and the Frenchman with Swiss passport will have to double once more after suffering a setback for more than half of his stack.

Erwann Pecheux bet the four-way flop of for 2,500 from under the gun and Isabel Baltazar called on the button. Hassan Fares check-raised to 10,000 in the small blind and El Yousfi check-raised all in from the big blind to force out Pecheux. Baltazar called all in and Fares sighed before surrendering to the action.

Isabel Baltazar:
Said El Yousfi:

The turn and river changed nothing and Baltazar doubled for 26,025 to leave El Yousfi short.

Player	Chips	Progress
Isabel Baltazar	70,000	35,000
Hassan Fares	45,000	-45,000
Said El Yousfi	13,000	-23,000
Erwann Pecheux	10,000	-30,000

Tags: Erwann Pecheux Hassan Fares Isabel Baltazar Said El Yousfi

10-06-2017 17:01 UTC

Next Bullet for Tadini

Christian Zetzsche

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Anas Tadini was down to 13,000 when he got into a raising war with Olivier Decamps. Tadini ended up shoving with the and Decamps snapped him off with the . The board came and Tadini left the table with a "well done" before re-entering for the second time today shortly after.

The same table is also missing Alexandre Tarantino and Louis Linard, the latter fell victim of the run good of Alexandre Reard when his jacks were no good versus pokcet kings.

Player	Chips	Progress
Alexandre Reard	94,000	65,000
Olivier Decamps	48,000	18,000
Imad Derwiche	38,000	38,000
Anas Tadini	30,000	11,000
Alexandre Tarantino	Busted
Louis Linard	Busted

Tags: Alexandre Reard Anas Tadini Louis Linard Olivier Decamps

10-06-2017 16:20 UTC

Francois Tosques Eliminated

Christian Zetzsche

Level 5 : 150/300, 50 ante

A Spaniard that goes by the nickname of mike4895 raised to 750 and Francois Tosques three-bet to 2,200, which the Spaniard called. On the , mike4895 checked and called a bet of 1,800 by Tosques before the appeared on the turn. Again it went check, bet - in this case all in for 6,000 by Tosques, and call.

Francois Tosques:
mike4895:

The river brought no miracle and the PMU.fr Team Pro was eliminated, but may still re-enter until the start of level nine.

Player	Chips	Progress
mike4895	44,000	44,000
Francois Tosques	Busted

Tags: Francois Tosques mike4895

10-06-2017 13:44 UTC

Value for Linard

Christian Zetzsche

Level 3 : 75/150, 25 ante

Louis Linard defended his big blind against a raise by [Removed:124] from under the gun and check-raised the flop of from 650 to 1,900. [Removed:126] called and then faced a bet of 3,800 by Linard on the turn to call.

After the river, Linard bet 8,200 into a pot of 11,500 with about 11,500 behind and [Removed:126] talked through possible hands before tossing in a single chip for the call. Linard showed for top two and that won the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Louis Linard	40,000	9,000

Tags: Louis Linard

10-06-2017 12:45 UTC

Lewis Arrives; Busts; Re-Enters

Christian Zetzsche

Level 2 : 75/150, 0 ante

Romain Lewis arrived with a smile on the face and sunglasses in the tournament room, however the very first hand the Frenchman played was also the last one on bullet number one. A raising war ended up with Lewis calling all in to the five-bet shove of Jesper Witved on the button.

Until then, Lewis had invested 5,000 and called the jam with pocket kings while Witved turned over aces. The classic setup of the two best starting hands in No-Limit Hold'em saw Witved come out victorious and the Dane scored the early double.

Lewis re-entered right after, though, and is back with bullet number two. All players can re-enter as many times as they wish until the start of level nine.

Player	Chips	Progress
Jesper Witved	61,000	61,000
Romain Lewis	30,000	30,000

Tags: Jesper Witved Romain Lewis

10-06-2017 10:19 UTC

It Is Time for the Main Event here in Marrakech

Christian Zetzsche

A big field is expected in the Casino de Marrakech

The flagship event of the 2017 PMU.fr WPT DeepStacks Marrakech poker festival will kick off in one hour from now as of noon local time at the beautiful Casino de Marrakech, the biggest and most-well known casino in the region. All previous side events already provided plenty of action at the tables with a mix of local players, and many hopefuls from nearby countries in Western Europe such as Spain and France.

Some 50 players qualified for the MAD 13,200 Main Event (€1,200) via the title sponsor of the tournament, French online poker site PMU.fr, and among those expected to join the action for the sole starting day are also their team pros Johan Guilbert, Erwann Pecheux, Francois Tosques and Sarah Herzali. Guilbert may show up later than the others though after battling on the final table of the MAD 20,000 High Roller that concluded in the early morning hours.

On Day 1, a total of 11 levels of 60 minutes each are scheduled with a break every two levels and a dinner break, with bagging and tagging expected to take place after 1 a.m. local time. All players receive 30,000 in chips and the registration remains open until the start of level nine, with optional re-entries available during the same period as well.

Day 1 Blind Structure

Level	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante
1	50	100
2	75	150
3	75	150	25
4	100	200	25
5	150	300	50
6	200	400	50
7	250	500	75
8	300	600	75
9	400	800	100
10	500	1,000	100
11	600	1,200	200

The PokerNews live reporting team will provide all the action from sunny Marrakech until a winner is crowned on Sunday October 8th 2017, so make sure to tune back in regularly.

Tags: Erwann Pecheux Johan Guilbert PMU.fr Sarah Herzali Francois Tosques