Main Event Day 2 | 2020 WSOP International Circuit Marrakech

Jan 18, 2020

Sick Runout Eliminates Lhote

Jason Glatzer

Level 20 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

TMV opened from early position for 25,000 before PMU.fr Ambassador Joffrey Lhote jammed for 210,000. TMV called and players turned over their cards.

Joffrey Lhote:
TMV:

Lhote was behind before and after the flop but then took a huge lead in the hand after the came on the turn to give him a full house. The completed the board on the river to give TMV a better full house and Lhote was eliminated in 44th place.

Zoubir Mahi hit the rail just before Lhote in 45th place and Andres Marques and Gaja went soon after.

Tags: Joffrey Lhote TMV Zoubir Mahi

Jan 18, 2020

Break Time

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Jason Glatzer

Level 20 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Players are on a 15-minute break. Blinds will go up to 8,000/16,000 with a big blind ante of 16,000 when the action resumes.

Jan 18, 2020

Panetti Doubles

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Jason Glatzer

Level 20 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

Mohamed El Wely opened from under the gun and called a three-bet jam of 140,000 from Christophe Panetti.

Mohamed El Wely:
Christophe Panetti:

Panetti's ace-high held as the ran out on the board and he doubled up his stack.

Meanwhile, Salah Eddine Taleb, who had the chip lead at the dinner break is out in 46th place and Mounim Kaddouri went out just before in 47th place.

Jan 18, 2020

47 Players Remain

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Jason Glatzer

Level 20 : 6,000/12,000, 12,000 ante

The blinds have just gone up to 6,000/12,000 with a big blind ante of 12,000. There are 47 players left to start the blind level with a French player Mouloud hitting the rail at the end of Level 19.

Level: 20

Blinds: 6,000/12,000

Ante: 12,000

Jan 18, 2020

El Hajouji Runs Into Big Slick

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Jason Glatzer

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Ismail El Hajouji jammed a small stack of around six big blinds with and was called by an opponent with .

The flop paired his opponent and El Hajouji was drawing dead after the came on the turn. The completed the board on the river and El Hajouji was eliminated in 49th place.

Also recently hitting the rail was Tom Laghzaoui in 50th place.

Jan 18, 2020

TMV Back in the Lead

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Jason Glatzer

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

TMV has a big stack of 1.5 million in chips in front of him. Meanwhile, Salah Eddine Taleb, who is at the same table, is down to around 400,000.

TMV shared that he got his chips when a player called he flopped trips with and a player called him down on three streets with on a board.

Taleb's chips went over to Mohamed Bouzgarrou. Bouzgarrou got it all-in with kings and held against Taleb's jacks.

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Jan 18, 2020

Forge Eliminated

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Jason Glatzer

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Tristan Forge jammed 110,000 from the hijack with and was called by a player with the nickname Pablo from the small blind.

The board gave Pablo a full house and Forge was eliminated.

Also recently eliminated were Michel Leibgorin, Agatino Spitaleri, and

Tags: Agatino Spitaleri Michel Leibgorin Tristan Forge Said Basri

Jan 18, 2020

Gogniat Runs into Aces

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Jason Glatzer

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

A player opened from under the gun for 20,000 before Thierry Gogniat jammed for 163,000 from one seat over. A player with the nickname Dani Rodriguez cold-called from the cutoff and everyone still with cards folded.

Thierry Gogniat:
Dani Rodriguez:

Gogniat was a huge underdog and was eliminated after the board was unable to help him stay in the hand. Eliminated just before Gogniat was a Spanish player with the nickname Cesar.

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Jan 18, 2020

Hills Triples

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Jason Glatzer

Level 19 : 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

Andrew Hills jammed a little more than six big blinds from early position. He got a call from the player in the cutoff before a player with the nickname Raul jammed for more than 400,000 from the big blind. The other player in the hand folded and players turned over their cards.

Andrew Hills:
Raul:

Hills was pushing his ace forward near the flop in hopes one would come. Instead, he paired his eight after the appeared on the flop.

A player told Hills that he should also push his eight forward as this was also now good. He listened and as fate would have it a came to give Hills a full house.

The completed the board on the river and Hills tripled up.