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Main Event
Day 1b Completed
2018 WSOP International Circuit Marrakech
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
2018 WSOP International Circuit Marrakech
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
15,000 MAD
Total Entries
486
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
25,000
Players Left 1 / 486
Filter
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Today 331 entries took their seats at the tables here in cloudy Marrakech. Day 1b attracted many hopefuls trying to make it to Day 2 tomorrow here in the beautiful surroundings of Casino de Marrakech in the Es Saadi Resort. 104 of those entries managed to find a bag to put their chips in to reopen them again tomorrow. Taking the honors topping the chip count leaderboard for Day 1b and into Day 2 is Garcia Lorca (nickname) from Spain with a colossal amount of 315,600 chips.
Trailing behind Lorca is Harald Sammer, the German living in Austria. He bagged a staggering amount of 296,500 chips. He amassed a lot of those chips with big hands like full houses, quads and more of those kinds of hands according to himself. He also eliminated Gaelle Baumann when her king-queen ran into his ace-king. He also eliminated Romain Lewis shortly after that.
Third in the chip count leaderboard for today was Ben Bensimhon, he will take 260,000 in chips with him to his new table tomorrow. A substantial amount of those chips were collected when he hit higher flushes than his opponents, twice. In fourth place, we can find Thierry Delpui who eliminated another player in a huge pot just before the dinner break. He managed to end up with 238,400 chips. Closing out the top 5 for today is Alexandre Reard with 202,200 chips.
Bracelet winner Barny Boatman unfortunately fell at several hurdles again today, the same was the case for Rakesh Lalwani, Cheng-Wei Yin, Fabian Gumz, Sonny Franco, and Jerome Sgorrano.
Here in this Moroccan casino, it is custom that many poker players go solely by their nicknames. So expect them to crop up in the live reporting over the next few days.
All remaining players will return on tomorrow (Saturday) for Day 2 of the Main Event which will start again at 1 pm local time. The 152 remaining players will return to Level 13 which has a small blind of 1,000, big blind of 2,000 and a running ante of 300. The duration of the levels will increase to 60 minutes each. The schedule is set for 10 levels of play tomorrow with 4 breaks, including one 60-minute dinner break.
Come back again tomorrow to see who will make it into the money and stay in the running for that coveted WSOP Circuit Ring. PokerNews will be here to provide you with all the updates!
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
315,600
30,600
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30,600 |
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|
296,500 | |
|
260,000 | |
|
238,400
23,400
|
23,400 |
|
202,200
104,200
|
104,200 |
|
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|
|
199,500 | |
|
198,600 | |
|
192,300 | |
|
190,000
165,000
|
165,000 |
|
||
|
|
178,100 | |
|
176,700 | |
|
173,400 | |
|
172,500 | |
|
168,800 | |
|
|
168,600 | |
|
162,700 | |
|
158,000 | |
|
154,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
151,800 | |
|
|
142,500 | |
|
142,400
112,400
|
112,400 |
|
140,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
139,600 | |
|
137,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
|
134,600 | |
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Play has ended for today and a full chip count and recap of today will follow.
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
The floor has just announced that the players need to play five more hands before they can bag their chips up.
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Hand #1:
Hannes Neurauter raised to 3,200 from the under-the-gun position. Mehdi Berrehail shoved all in from mid-position for 25,400. Action folded back to Neurauter, who called.
Mehdi Berrehail: 
Hannes Neurauter: 
Berrehail stood up while the dealer dealt 
- the river saved Berrehail and he sat down again.
Hand #2:
Carlos Da Costa Dias raised to 3,800 from mid-position and was called by Otmani El Houcine (button), Neurauter (small blind) and Smain Mamouni (big blind).
They all checked through the 
on the flop to the 
on the turn. Neurauter bet 8,000, Mamouni folded, Dias shoved (having the rest, still in the hand, covered). El Houcine folded and Neurauter snap-called with the 28,500 he had in total. Dias showed 
but Neurater had the better kicker as he held 
. The river completed the board with the and provided Neurauter the much needed double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
74,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
|
54,800
54,800
|
54,800 |
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
The flop read 
with a pot of about 23,000. The under-the-gun player had opened preflop and Michiel Brosky had three-bet from mid-position. Everyone else had folded and the under-the-gun player called. Now he had checked and Brosky bet 11,200. His opponent called.
The turn brought them the , the under-the-gun player checked, Brosky bet 24,700. His opponent tanked and asked the dealer for a count. He confirmed the amount and the player cut out calling chips. Then he looked at Brosky's stack, and kept staring for a while. After about 5 minutes, another player at the table called the clock on him. The floor came over, gave him 30 seconds to act. When the floor started counting down from 5 seconds, Brosky's opponent quickly folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
155,000
54,000
|
54,000 |
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
285,000
285,000
|
285,000 |
|
|
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|
|
230,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
|
215,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
85,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
|
||
|
81,000
76,600
|
76,600 |
|
|
||
|
50,000
51,000
|
51,000 |
|
50,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted | |
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
The pot already contained about 16,000 when the board read 
. The player in the under-the-gun position had checked and Pierre Calamusa (early position) shoved for about 30,000. His opponent tanked for a few minutes but then threw one chip in to call. Calamusa tabled 
for a full house, sixes over fives. His opponent tried to muck his cards but the dealer told him he had to show when there is an all-in and call situation. Reluctantly he showed 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
78,000
60,000
|
60,000 |
|
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