Level: 5
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
Level: 5
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 25
After a raise to 650 and two callers, Wassim Chaouki three-bet to 2,000 and initial raiser Mohamed Mamouni as well as three players called including Surinder Sunar in fifth position.
On a flop of
, Mamouni bet 6,000 and Sunar shoved. Chaouki reshoved from one seat over and Mamouni mucked his
, the other two players also got out of the way.
Sunar had pocket tens but Chaouki's
found another diamond to score the knockout.
Joining the action on a flop of
, Patrick Schaal Semet had a T-5,000 chip in front and behind him Touhani Zekhnini moved all in. Said El Yousfi as third player in the hand quickly folded and Schaal Semet called with
. Zekhnini needed help with
and couldn't get there anymore on the
turn and
river.
After the river of a
board in the far right corner of the tournament area, Mohamed Mamouni checked behind and his opponent tapped the table in a disappointed manner before flipping over his pocket kings. Mamouni couldn't beat that and mucked his cards, showing a quite surprised expression.
The very same table also features former WPT Marrakech champion Houssam Mohamed Ali as well as Surinder Sunar.
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.
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.
Level: 4
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
The first three levels have been played and all participants are sent off into their first 20-minute break of the day.
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.