Main Event Day 1b | 2020 WSOP International Circuit Marrakech

Main Event

Day 1b Completed

01-18-2020 01:23 UTC+1

New WSOP Circuit Marrakech Main Event Record Set on Day 1b

Jaxon

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

The WSOP Circuit Marrakech 15,000 MAD (€1,400) Main Event at the Casino de Marrakech, located in the heart of the Es Saadi Resort, has been a massive success.

A new attendance record was established on Day 1b with 398 entrants coming out in full force to bring the total Main Event field up to 625 entrants including 228 re-entries.

The previous record, which was established in January 2019 with 544 entrants, was smashed by 81 entrants.

WSOP Circuit Marrakech Main Event History

Year	Entries	Winner	Country	Prize
2020	675	?	?	?
2019	359	Phillip Huxley	United Kingdom	€86,162
2019	544	Sonny Franco	France	€140,140
2018	486	Vladimir Shabalin	Russia	€118,182
2017	511	Arron Fletcher	United Kingdom	€130,755
2016	446	Mathieu Selides	France	€95,479
2015	484	Ricardo Manquant	France	€122,330

Day 1b Recap

France's Marius Conan (lead image) emerged as the Day 1b chip leader after 12 blind levels of 45 minutes each after bagging a huge stack of 299,000 in chips or nearly 10-times the starting stack of 30,000. Also bagging top five stacks on Day 1b were Morocco's Ghassane Ghehbi (263,000), Spain's TMV (249,000), Bulgaria's Elvira Malay (245,000), and Spain's Joselito (243,000).

Conan will enter Day 2 second in chips behind Day 1a chip leader Ayman Jarrar from Morocco who bagged a huge stack of 351,000 in chips.

Other notables to bag big stacks on Day 1b included WSOP Circuit ring winner Thierry Delpui (238,000), Samiyel Duzgun (198,000), Jerome Zerbib (192,000), Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes (184,000), Patrick Sacrispeyre (162,000), and flag hunter Andrew Hills (106,000).

PMU.fr Ambassador Joffrey Lhote bagged 74,000 in chips on Day 1b and will be joined by fellow ambassadors Paul Guichard (130,000) and Erwann Pecheux (65,500), along with a handful of PMU.fr qualifiers.

Top Five Chip Stacks Entering Day 2

Place	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds	Day Qualified
1	Ayman Jarrar	Morocco	351,000	140	Day 1a
2	Marius Conan	France	299,000	120	Day 1b
3	Ghassane Ghehbi	Morocco	263,000	105	Day 1b
4	TMV	Spain	249,000	100	Day 1b
5	Elvira Malay	Bulgaria	245,000	98	Day 1b

The action will resume tomorrow at 1 p.m. CET with blinds at 1,000/2,500 and a big blind ante of 2,500. Play is scheduled for 11 hours of play but is subject to change at the tournament director's discretion. Payouts will be announced at the start of the day.

Stay tuned for Day 2 and beyond of the WSOP Circuit Marrakech Main Event here at PokerNews.

Tags: Andrew Hills Ayman Jarrar Elvira Malay Ghassane Ghebbi Jerome Zerbib Marius Conan Patrick Sacrispeyre Samiyel Duzgun Thierry Delpui TMV

01-18-2020 01:18 UTC+1

Day 2 Seat Draw

Jaxon

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Table	Seat	Name	Chips	Big Blinds
1	1	Frederic Delval	154,000	62
1	2	Mateo	183,000	73
1	3	Yavuz Kaya	86,500	35
1	4	Notiresriver	61,500	25
1	5	Tzur Levy	34,500	14
1	6	Pmr	143,500	57
1	7	Dejan Jakovljevic	107,000	43
1	8	Laurent Gazengel	68,000	27

2	1	Eric Rabut	97,000	39
2	2	Jerome Pradal	31,500	13
2	3	Canarinho Orey	83,000	33
2	4	Ismail El Hajouji	165,500	66
2	5	Laurent Benhayoun	67,500	27
2	6	Jean-Marc Dijoux	47,500	19
2	7	Paul Guichard	130,000	52
2	8	Djamal Boutaleb	213,000	85

3	1	Chakib Bennani	162,500	65
3	2	Pinho Luis	60,500	24
3	3	Phillip Huxley	204,000	82
3	4	Pepe	119,500	48
3	5	Robert Cohen	93,000	37
3	6	Laurent Chenet	68,000	27
3	7	Karim Mzoughi	90,000	36
3	8	Gregory Chenet	22,000	9

4	1	Mounim Kaddouri	98,500	39
4	2	Angella Andre	73,000	29
4	3	Jerome Zerbib	192,000	77
4	4	Fouad Bouhrani	31,000	12
4	5	Konstantinos Misailidis	138,500	55
4	6	Jerome Rousseau	56,000	22
4	7	Avraham Aviram Hazan	163,000	65
4	8	Tristan Forge	86,000	34

5	1	Tmv	249,000	100
5	2	Pinto Ricardo	60,000	24
5	3	Lucien Cohen	92,500	37
5	4	Vpa	38,000	15
5	5	Thierry Gogniat	80,000	32
5	6	Isabel Baltazar	76,000	30
5	7	Gaja	176,000	70
5	8	Azapl	127,500	51

6	1	Alexandre Reard	21,000	8
6	2	Raul	197,500	79
6	3	Ivaylo Panev	114,500	46
6	4	[Removed:226]	47,000	19
6	5	Andrew Hills	106,000	42
6	6	Avraham Israel	72,000	29
6	7	Nacim Faissal Amakrane	88,000	35
6	8	Boubekeur Benhalima	153,500	61

7	1	Bernard Guigon	174,000	70
7	2	Gerard Boutboul	15,500	6
7	3	Ouri Aron Cohen	50,500	20
7	4	Mohamed El Wely	122,500	49
7	5	Marius Conan	299,000	120
7	6	M.A.	91,500	37
7	7	Michel Leibgorin	69,000	28
7	8	Fabio Ballongue	90,500	36

8	1	Leo Du Boisbaudry	115,000	46
8	2	Jose Henriques De Oliveira	25,000	10
8	3	Enrique	60,500	24
8	4	Ghassane Ghehbi	263,000	105
8	5	Fabrice Casano	89,000	36
8	6	Paulo Jorge Dos Santos Castelo	71,000	28
8	7	Roberto	93,000	37
8	8	Anthony Monin	158,000	63

9	1	Laurent Vauquelin	88,500	35
9	2	Rene	64,000	26
9	3	Marouane Chamakh	122,500	49
9	4	Salah Eddine Taleb	146,500	59
9	5	Hugues Mazerolle	110,000	44
9	6	Ashley Aurelien Crepiat	38,500	15
9	7	Gwendoline Laurent	55,500	22
9	8	Agatino Spitaleri	203,000	81

10	1	Henrik Brockmann	235,500	94
10	2	Imad Derwiche	155,000	62
10	3	Tely	83,500	33
10	4	Florian Ribouchon	71,000	28
10	5	Emile Carette	58,500	23
10	6	Ludovic Catteau	131,500	53
10	7	Djamel Ouaret	105,000	42

11	1	Vangelis Kaimakamis	83,500	33
11	2	Paulo Alves Araujo	163,500	65
11	3	Pablo	210,500	84
11	4	Maher Ali Achour	64,000	26
11	5	Mohamed Amine Lamdakri	130,000	52
11	6	Mohamed Bouzgarrou	52,500	21
11	7	Smain Mamouni	95,500	38
11	8	Romain Louis Follet	32,500	13

12	1	Laurent Cruchon	121,500	49
12	2	Daniel Tordjman	57,000	23
12	3	Ugo Faggioli	108,000	43
12	4	Dani Rodriguez	157,500	63
12	5	Idir Haiche	69,000	28
12	6	Cheva	27,000	11
12	7	Yaniv Feldman	84,000	34
12	8	Gael Dirig	224,000	90

13	1	Marc Poustis	109,000	44
13	2	Hassan	128,500	51
13	3	Domingo	192,000	77
13	4	Fouad El Assri	56,000	22
13	5	David Amaud Vergnes	90,000	36
13	6	Erwann Pecheux	65,500	26
13	7	Omar Lakhdari	44,000	18
13	8	Vasileios Panagiotou	158,000	63

14	1	Said Basri	60,000	24
14	2	Jihad Khoury	108,500	43
14	3	Aurelie Reard	68,500	27
14	4	Abderrazak Chah	181,500	73
14	5	Jean Pierre Tseng Ah Wang	115,500	46
14	6	Achille Voltolina	78,000	31
14	7	Fernando G	40,000	16
14	8	Samiyel Duzgun	198,000	79

15	1	Said Balr	105,000	42
15	2	Toufik	197,500	79
15	3	Cristiano Ferreira Lopes	177,500	71
15	4	Eyal Eshkar	77,000	31
15	5	Martin Servais	88,500	35
15	6	Younesse Oualgasi	47,000	19
15	7	Anas Tadini	125,000	50
15	8	Frederic Steinbach	43,500	17

16	1	Roland Bachmann	81,500	33
16	2	Bruno Lopes	184,000	74
16	3	Stéphane Vucko	73,500	29
16	4	Patrick Sacrispeyre	162,000	65
16	5	Majid Daoud	35,000	14
16	6	Camel Meriem	59,000	24
16	7	Rui Jorge Bouquet Rosas De Carvallo	140,500	56
16	8	Gilles Spinelli	108,000	43

17	1	André Marques	160,500	64
17	2	Joselito	243,000	97
17	3	Karim Benamrouche	86,000	34
17	4	Henrique Oliveira De Sousa Pinho	143,500	57
17	5	Corbin White	76,500	31
17	6	Marcos	55,500	22
17	7	Juan Jesus	35,000	14
17	8	Edouard Clement Piquet	91,500	37

18	1	Johan Guilbert	83,500	33
18	2	Sofian Benaissa	164,000	66
18	3	Joma	65,500	26
18	4	Belmehel Dja Daouhadji	195,000	78
18	5	Miguel Rodriguez	56,000	22
18	6	Tom Laghzaoui	19,000	8
18	7	Yohai Cohen	126,500	51
18	8	Chawki Fawaz	108,500	43

19	1	Mohamed Alaoui Solimani	84,500	34
19	2	Bruno Paulo Bernardino	50,500	20
19	3	Willy Wonka	210,000	84
19	4	Thierry Oldak	98,000	39
19	5	Igna Poker	148,000	59
19	6	Rsm	117,000	47
19	7	Mourad Falfoul	61,500	25
19	8	Sebastien Compte	35,000	14

20	1	Mathieu Papineau	105,000	42
20	2	Willerminho	66,500	27
20	3	Cesar	121,000	48
20	4	David	51,000	20
20	5	Yves Maison	148,000	59
20	6	Thierry Delpui	238,000	95
20	7	Jeremy Faligand	41,500	17
20	8	Juan Tonneau	86,500	35

21	1	Helder Jorgz Pinho Ferreira	25,500	10
21	2	Elvira Malay	245,000	98
21	3	Farid Azarkan	95,000	38
21	4	Fawz Bennis	45,500	18
21	5	Issam Benhaddou	153,000	61
21	6	Joffrey Lhote	74,000	30
21	7	Nicolas Boton	137,500	55
21	8	AA	90,500	36

22	1	Frederic Ayadi	115,500	46
22	2	Jose	91,000	36
22	3	Alfredo	74,500	30
22	4	Mouloud	160,000	64
22	5	Christophe Panetti	110,000	44
22	6	Zoubir Mahi	28,000	11
22	7	Nicolas	53,500	21
22	8	Ayman Jarrar	351,000	140

01-18-2020 00:48 UTC+1

Final Day 1b Chip Counts (full)

Jaxon

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Marius Conan	299,000
Ghassane Ghehbi	263,000
TMV	249,000
Elvira Malay	245,000
Joselito	243,000
Thierry Delpui	238,000	198,000
Dmala Boutaleb	213,000
Pabli	210,500
Samiyel Duzgun	198,000
Belmehel Dja Daouhadji	195,000	-35,000
Frederic Delval	194,000
Jerome Zerbib	192,000
Domingo	192,000	97,000
Bruno Lopes	184,000	119,000
Mateo	183,000
Abderrazah Chah	181,500
Cristiano Ferreira	177,500
Gaja	176,000
Ismail El Hajouji	165,000
Paulo Alves Araujo	163,500
Patrick Sacrispeyre	162,000	32,000
Mouloud	160,000
Anthony Monin	158,000
Vasileios Panagiotou	158,000
Dani Rodriguez	157,500

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01-18-2020 00:05 UTC+1

Marius Conan Day 1b Chip Leader

Jaxon

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Marius Conan bagged a monster stack of 299,000 to end Day 1b as the chip leader. Full Day 1b chip counts will be available shortly.

Player	Chips	Progress
Marius Conan	299,000	139,000

Tags: Marius Conan

01-17-2020 23:57 UTC+1

Players Bagging Chips

Jaxon

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Unofficially, 114 players survived Day 1b. This would mean 169 players will be returning tomorrow at 1 p.m. for Day 2 with 61 players surviving Day 1a.

Stay tuned for the final chip counts and recap of Day 1b of the Main Event.

01-17-2020 23:40 UTC+1

Final Five Hands

Jaxon

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

The tournament director announced that play will end after each table plays five hands. Surviving players will bag chips and return at 1 p.m. CET for Day 2 along with the 61 Day 1a survivors.

01-17-2020 23:26 UTC+1

Royal Flush for Bouhrani!

Jaxon

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

It's not often you see a royal flush but one just happened.

A player with the nickname Jose jammed for 6,100 with from early position before Fouad Bouhrani three-bet to 10,100 from the cutoff with .

"You are in good shape," someone at the table said to Jose.

"Don't worry," said Jose. "Something will happen."

Something indeed did happen. Jose nailed a royal flush as the ran out on the board.

It isn't all bad news for Jose as he is on the final table of the High Roller which will either resume tonight after Day 1b or tomorrow.

Player	Chips	Progress
Fouad Bouhrani	80,000
Jose	Busted

Tags: Fouad Bouhrani

01-17-2020 23:18 UTC+1

Kitai Eliminated

Jaxon

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

Davidi Kitai was low on chips and jammed for about 17,000 from early position with . A player with the nickname Said Balr called from the big blind with .

"Good game," said Kitai as his opponent nailed a set on the flop.

"Wait," said Said Balr. "You can still get a flush."

Kitai had backdoor straight outs as well but was drawing dead after the came on the turn. The completed the board on the river and Kitai was unable to survive the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Said Balr	100,000	100,000
Davidi Kitai	Busted

Tags: Davidi Kitai

01-17-2020 23:04 UTC+1

Final Blind Level of the Day

Jaxon

Level 12 : 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante

The final blind level of Day 1b has just kicked off with blinds at 1,000/2,000 and a big blind ante of 2,000. A total of 140 players start the blind level in their seats out of the 398-entrant strong Day 1b field.

Players surviving this blind level will bag chips and will resume action with the 61 Day 1a survivors at 1 p.m. CET tomorrow.