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.
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.
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.
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.
Said El Yousfi is seated on the far left hand side of the tournament area on table 1 and may become the first player here in Morocco to win two World Series of Poker Circuit Rings after taking down event #11 yesterday. The Swiss is back in action today and not much has happened yet, judging by his starting stack of 30,000 chips.
Same applies for Sonny Franco, who won event #7 and is also in the Main Event now.
Arriving at the turn with 17,000 chips in the middle, El Gran Tito was staring at the board and the all in of his opponent. The Spaniard had just under 20,000 chips left and eventually folded pocket queens after an eternity in the think tank. His opponent said he had pocket kings and Tito had to take a little break after the hand was over.
With at least 183 entries, the second starting day has already eclipsed the 171 entries in total of Day 1a and next target is 400 entries in total. This requires at least 230 entrants today and the current pace at which the field is growing makes this more than just a realistic target.
There were no seat open in the first level, however three players ran out of chips in the second level. Among them was Pedro Oliveira, who got involved in a five-way pot against a player that had just arrived at the table. It was the typical doom switch scenario with pocket kings for the Portuguese and pocket aces for the opponent to see Oliveira running out of chips.