Main Event Day 1b | 2015 WSOP International Circuit Casino de Marrakech

Player	Chips	Progress
Frederic Rizzo	264,000
Jorge Coello Esmoris	239,800
Omar Lakhdari	234,600
Toufik Ourini	221,700
El Mostafa Ederoua	216,300
Olivier Averso	207,900
Gabriel Jimenez	203,600 23,600	23,600
Juan Riera	191,100
Manuel Makiadi	184,600
Goncalo da Costa Ferrao	183,200
Djamel Aouir	182,300
Mohamed Sekkat	180,100
Rachid Chaouki	161,600
Anouar Mehlil	161,600
Arturas Drepinis	158,300
Alexandre de Zutter	154,800
Mostafa Boukri	154,000
Masbah Ben Baba	153,700
Jessica Drissi	153,400
Mustapha Fawaz	153,000
Farid Azarkan	150,000
Matas Cimbolas	149,200

Hassan Lamzariki	148,400
Arnaud Peyroles	147,000
Mimene Saoudi	139,800

Player

Chips

Progress

264,000

239,800

234,600

221,700

El Mostafa Ederoua

216,300

Olivier Averso

207,900

Gabriel Jimenez

203,600

23,600

Juan Riera

191,100

Manuel Makiadi

184,600

Goncalo da Costa Ferrao

183,200

Djamel Aouir

182,300

Mohamed Sekkat

180,100

Rachid Chaouki

161,600

Anouar Mehlil

161,600

Arturas Drepinis

158,300

154,800

154,000

153,700

153,400

153,000

150,000

149,200

148,400

147,000

Mimene Saoudi

139,800

Table	Seat	Player	Chips
1	1	Mimene Saoudi	139800
1	2	David Duoek	115500
1	3	David Susigan	87400
1	4	Olivier Ferrero	47300
1	5	Abdelhadi Kondah	76400
1	6	Anthony Rodrigues	22800
1	7	Inigo Montoya	64300
1	8	Steve Lixon	25200
1	9	Mustapha Fawaz	153000

2	1	Mohamed Mehalleg	42000
2	2	Dominique Terzian	86900
2	3	Abdel Omais	101100
2	4	Antonio Bernardo Guerrero	26200
2	5	Amine Cherif Alami	59800
2	6	Houcine El Otmani	14200
2	7	Masbah Ben Baba	153700
2	8	Jose Maria Nieto Martin	75500
2	9	Arnaud Peyroles	147000

3	1	Gerard Mata	63200
3	2	Arne Michaelis	105100
3	3	Ruben Gonzalez Martin	25600
3	4	Ali Ait Obram	85500
3	5	Eddie Makhoul	131700
3	6	NC	203600
3	7	Amar Mohand	19100
3	8	Manuel Sadornil	47200
3	9	Franco Beato	75900

4	1	Brian Benhamou	131300
4	2	Omar Lakhdari	234600
4	3	Lucas Orsatelli	55900
4	4	Robert Giordano	76500
4	5	Aziz Nana	100800
4	6	Hamza Baba	83800
4	7	Carlos Gonzalez	11800
4	8	Richard Abou	32600
4	9	Luis Navas	34600

5	1	Jose Furtado	80000
5	2	Djamel Aouir	182300
5	3	Jose Ricardo Campano	121800
5	5	Teresio Ciancanelli	86100
5	6	Pierre Merlin	30500
5	7	Yvan Bensasson	40700
5	8	NC	107700
5	9	Jon Garde	50100

6	1	Goncalo da Costa Ferrao	183200
6	2	David Tavernier	111300
6	3	Dimitri Halliez	88800
6	4	Abdessamade El Mzdadi	80000
6	5	Frederic Ayadi	47700
6	7	Jose Henrique Braz	125000
6	8	Jaouad Berrada	57700
6	9	Thierry Gogniat	25400

7	1	Jean-Marc Achiary	31400
7	2	Juan Azon	65300
7	3	Amhed Abd El Fatah	136800
7	4	Jorge Coello Esmoris	239800
7	5	Nobert Levigne	24000
7	6	Mahir Cakmac	102600
7	7	Mehdi Senhaji	86500
7	8	Yves Maison	46500
7	9	Malek Grabsi	60000

8	1	Antoine Rahal	71300
8	2	Jonathan Jean Gabriel Dupoty	46600
8	3	Noureddine El Houtaia	19000
8	4	Othmane Kejji	98500
8	5	Anouar Mehlil	161600
8	6	Cedric Bertsh	33000
8	7	Sophien Arrar	139500
8	8	Alexis Doblali	54100
8	9	Mounir Khoddar	107700

9	1	[Removed:146]	30200
9	2	Albert Levy	82400
9	3	Jessica Drissi	153400
9	4	NC 1	71100
9	5	Ricardo Manquant	107100
9	6	Hamed El Aoutmani	17700
9	7	John Mustapha	115800
9	8	Najib Bennis	40800
9	9	Mohamed Chalabi	54400

10	1	Achille Voltolina	129600
10	2	Juan Riera	191100
10	3	Franck Callonec	74600
10	4	Ben Warrington	62700
10	5	Isabel Baltazar	20700
10	6	Nuno Daniel Cardoso Simoes	99000
10	7	Houssam Mohamed Ali	100300
10	8	Bernard Vadella	24000
10	9	Rebecca Gerin	47400

11	1	Alberto Novoa Rodriguez	27900
11	2	Jorge Carlos Santana	94700
11	3	Matas Cimbolas	149200
11	4	William Dery	52500
11	5	Mohamed Sekkat	180100
11	6	Kamal Sefrioui	100000
11	7	Michael Ohayon	46500
11	9	Khalid Rezki	68500

12	1	Alban Morel	60000
12	2	Julien Sitbon	39400
12	3	Maggi Pieyre	113000
12	4	NC 3	14200
12	5	Manuel Makiadi	184600
12	6	Ondrej Milabersky	26800
12	7	Guillaume Darcourt	91800
12	8	Fabrice Casano	128500
12	9	Eric Rabut	66800

13	1	Wassim Chaouki	82600
13	2	Hassan Lamzariki	148400
13	3	Emilio Dominquez Munoz	28800
13	4	Moundir Toughari	48500
13	5	Mohamed Hassan Benabdelali	44000
13	6	Toufik Ourini	221700
13	7	Julien Arethuse	71900
13	9	Ludovic Riehl	110000

14	1	Elias Fernandez Miguel	63800
14	2	Carmelo Romeo	47000
14	3	Ahmed Boukaddeda	110400
14	4	Mostafa Boukri	154000
14	5	Marcel Vadella	98100
14	6	Karim Lehoussine	115900
14	7	Nicolas Lecoeur	73000
14	8	Jean-Philippe Rohr	31100
14	9	David Pecheur	18900

15	1	El Mostafa Ederoua	216300
15	2	Jose Luis Perlines Auso	40500
15	3	Jay Santos	102000
15	4	Guillaume Diaz	119000
15	5	David Suarez Santamaria	32600
15	6	Vitaliy Shepitko	87800
15	8	Nuno Andrade	60000
15	9	David Haziza	68000

16	1	Alberto Gonzalez Penelas	59800
16	2	Fadhil Farrag	48000
16	3	Frederic Konowitz	92400
16	4	Manuel Aranzadi	101400
16	5	Olivier Averso	207900
16	6	Jaime Carlos Martin	32000
16	7	Shhriar Soltaninassab	81700
16	8	Oscar Orive Lumbreras	132100

17	1	Martial Blangenwitsch	114000
17	2	Laura Gallardo Ribot	55700
17	3	[Removed:432]	88800
17	4	Rachid Chaouki	161600
17	5	Aly Chahrour	25000
17	6	Paul Francois Tedeschi	67100
17	8	Bruno Southavong	33000
17	9	Soufiane Abbouti	116900

18	1	Mohamed Iqbal Laghrari	69700
18	2	Adrian Naya	59800
18	3	Vincent Mansour	18300
18	4	Frederic Rizzo	264000
18	5	Gerard Chamorro Taus	32200
18	6	Nicolas Klock	37900
18	7	Carlos Antonio Sanchez Brito	126200
18	8	Hicham Berdai	99300
18	9	Steeve Taserik	108600

19	1	Chun Lung Chen	57500
19	2	Mahdi El Aouinate	29000
19	3	Fahd Kaabat	44800
19	4	[Removed:213]	82400
19	5	Rakesh Lalwani	64300
19	6	Miroslav Alilovic	138000
19	8	Kenji Tsukamoto	103700
19	9	Arturas Deprinas	158300

20	1	Saber Hamrouni	45100
20	2	Bruno Roussel	18800
20	3	Kuljinder Sidhu	115400
20	4	NC 2	70200
20	5	Yan Dany	28300
20	6	Mohamed Haddu	55700
20	7	Farid Azarkan	150000
20	8	Milton Jose Gaspar Moreira	84700
20	9	Alexandre de Zutter	154800

As expected, the second starting day of the 2015 WSOP International Circuit Main Event at the Casino de Marrakech attracted a much larger field than Day 1a. Once registration for the tournament had ended, the screens showed 125 reentries for both starting days, and Day 1b alone attracted 313 entries. That pushed the overall attendance to 484 entries — only 18 shy of the record for a live poker event in Morocco.

Omar Lakhdari jumped into the lead very early on and increased his stack consistently to bag up 234,600 in chips. That was good enough for the Day 1b chip lead and third overall behind Frederic Rizzo's 264,000 and the 239,800 of Jorge Coello Esmoris on Day 1a.

Notables with an big stacks among the 109 survivors from Day 1b included Toufik Ourini (221,700), Olivier Averso (207,900), Juan Riera (191,100), Manuel Makiadi (184,600), and Rachid Chaouki (161,600).

World Poker Tour Nottingham champion and European Poker Tour 11 Deauville Main Event finalist Matas Cimbolas bagged up 149,200, Winamax Poker Team Pro Guillaume Diaz finished on 119,000, and then Soufiane Abbouti (116,900), Kuljinder Sidhu (115,400), and Martial Blangenwitsch (114,000) all claimed above-average stacks. Abdelhadi Kondah (76,400), Ben Warrington (62,700), and Jean-Philippe Rohr (31,100) were a little less fortunate, but will also return for Day 2.

Those who failed to failed to bag up chips included Surinder Sunar, Philippe Ktorza, Vitor Hugo, Said El Yousfi, Jessy Marillaud, Anaras Alekberovas, Patrick Sacrispeyre, and Brahim Oubella.

Day 2 will recommence at 2 p.m. local time with 172 players remaining and the blinds at 800/1,600 with a running ante of 200. The second tournament day features levels of 60 minutes in length, whereas the final on Sunday will have an increased level duration of 75 minutes. The payout structure has not been confirmed yet, but shall be announced before the cards go into the air on Day 2.

The PokerNews team wishes everyone a good night and will be back tomorrow when the race to the money begins.

Tags: Abdelhadi Kondah Anaras Alekberovas Ben Warrington Brahim Oubella Frederic Rizzo Guillaume Diaz Houssam Mohamed Ali Jean Philippe Rohr Jessy Marillaud Juan Riera Kuljinder Sidhu Manuel Makiadi Martial Blangenwitsch Matas Cimbolas Olivier Averso Omar Lakhdari Patrick Sacrispeyre Philippe Ktorza Rachid Chaouki Said El Yousfi Soufiane Abbouti Surinder Sunar Vitor Hugo Wassim Chaouki