Marcel Vadella, Evrard Zaouche and Dominique Franchi have been eliminated. The latter was tilted after getting shown for trips sevens to crack his pocket queens and then bluffed away the rest of the stack. Franchi will likely return soon though, as he had been spotted near the cashier.
Current chip leader is Djemel Aouir and the story for that will follow soon.
While Omar Karib walked in to take his seat, Guillaume Diaz just handed over his ticket to the dealer in exchange for 30,000 chips and has rejoined the action on his third bullet after busting twice on Day 1a.
Roger Tondeur, Abdou Zizi and Laurent Lavige [Removed:250] were the three first seat open. Tondeur contributed to the early chip lead of Djemel Aouir after getting his stack in preflop with . Aouir happily called with and scored the knockout.
Ross Varricchiena also had a nice start after his made a nine-high straight to better the of an opponent, who had made two pair.
Adrien Guyon was down to 20,000 chips and then three-bet to receive three callers. On a flop of , Guyon made a continuation bet of 2,100 and the initial preflop raiser squeezed to 5,800. Guyon shoved with for the flopped flush and held up versus pocket nines.
Neither the turn nor the river did anything to improve the hand of the opponent.
Just before the end of level three, Julien Sitbon and Yehoram Houri got involved into hands that saw them dropping chips. On a board of , Sitbon eventually surrendered to the aggression of his table neighbor.
As for Houri, the Frenchman had a T-5,000 chip in front of him and his opponent a T-10,000 chip with the board being complete and reading . Houri had mucked as his opponent flipped over for two pair and the Frenchman is around half the starting stack.
While walking through the tournament area, more and more familiar faces appear out of the nowhere. Among those are Brahim Oubella, Fouad Zouiten (who just registered) as well as Matas Cimbolas.
The screens have been updated and now show 219 out of 240 entries remaining for Day 1b to boost the overall attendance to 411. As it is only level 4, this number still increase significantly. The record for an event in Morocco was set with 502 entries in the PMU.fr WPT National Marrakech in October 2014.
for trips sevens to crack his pocket queens and then bluffed away the rest of the stack. Franchi will likely return soon though, as he had been spotted near the cashier.
. Aouir happily called with 
and scored the knockout.
made a nine-high straight to better the 
of an opponent, who had made two pair.
, Guyon made a continuation bet of 2,100 and the initial preflop raiser squeezed to 5,800. Guyon shoved with 
for the flopped flush and held up versus pocket nines.
river did anything to improve the hand of the opponent.
. Houri had mucked as his opponent flipped over 
for two pair and the Frenchman is around half the starting stack.
