2015 WSOP International Circuit Casino de Marrakech
The roller coaster ride of Matas Cimbolas continues as the Lithuanian opened to 9,000 and then faced the shove of Jean-philippe Rohr for 79,000. Cimbolas tank-called with
and Rohr was in good shape to double up with
. However, the dealer burned and turned the
board and the Frenchman was sent to the rail.
After a flop of
, Rakesh Lalwani called all in for his remaining 140,000 chips with
against Gabriel Jimenez. The expat, now living in Morocco, turned over the superior
and held up after the
turn and the
river.
In the first big pot, Soufiane Abbouti had spiked a set of deuces on a board of
but Laura Gallardo received a full double up with
.
Shortly after, Abbouti three-bet an open raise from 11,000 to 27,000 and tank-called all in when Anouar Mehlil shoved for around 160,000 in chips. The Belgian was way ahead with Qs]
but his opponent's
improved on the turn of a
board.
From 200,000 to 50,000 and out, that's the story of Omar Lakhdari in the last two levels. After one limp and the call of Brian Benhamou, Lakhdari shoved the big blind for just over 10 big blinds and Benhamou called with slightly more and
. Lakhdari only had
and the board ran out jack-high without providing any help to either player.
The hot streak of Pierre Merlin continues as the Frenchman also took the entire stack of Yvan Bensasson. The latter tried to bluff three streets on a board of
and the last bet was for 60,000 chips. Merlin called quickly with
and Bensasson looked gutted before flipping over his
.
It has gone downhill a lot and Juan Riera was then all in for what looked like 80,000 chips with
. Laura Gallardo called with the superior
and stayed ahead on a board of
.
Rakesh Lalwani had picked up yet another premium hand shortly after the quads threes but his pocket aces were cracked by the sixes of Mohamed Sekkat, who found a six on the flop and got the stack in after the first set of community cards.
Then, Matas Cimbolas tried to make a move against the player in the small blind and the hand itself cost him 100,000 in total. The Lithuanan shoved the
turn and his opponent snap-called all in with
, sure that Cimbolas didn't have him dominated. Sure enough the Lithuanian only flipped over the
and the
river bricked.
Level: 17
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
After a limp for 3,000 and a raise to 12,000, Abdel Omais was thinking in the small blind and Ludovic Riehl had already announced all in. There was some confusion of what is going to happen and the limper as well as raiser eventually folded. Omais snap-called with pocket queens and Riehl had the
.
After a flop of
, Omais immediately spiked a set. Despite the
turn, the back door straight didn't arrive anymore and Riehl was done.