Main Event
Day 3 Started
Main Event
Day 3 Started
With Sonny Franco heading the chip counts, the remaining 25 players are scheduled to start day 3 at 13:00 local time. Players will be starting level 23: 8,000/16,000/2,000 and levels will be one hour long until level 26, when they will increase in length to 75 minutes.
Each remaining player is hoping to join Alain Manquant as a winner of a WSOP gold ring here in Marrakech
Level: 23
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 2,000
In what was possibly the first hand of the day Fouad Toujani has been eliminated holding ![]()
against the ![]()
of Mathieu Selides who now takes over from Sonny Franco as chip leader of the tournament
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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|
1,300,000
256,000
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256,000 |
|
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Busted |
| Table | Player | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| Table 1 | Karim Souaid | 644,000 |
| Erwann Pecheux | 222,000 | |
| David Duoek | 420,000 | |
| Jonathan Khalifa | 525,000 | |
| Koen Lauwereys | 202,000 | |
| Pedro Oliveira | 720,000 | |
| Sonny Franco | 1,187,000 | |
| Achille Voltolina | 331,000 | |
| Table 2 | Rodrigo Requiao | 545,000 |
| Alexandre Paul Viard | 236,000 | |
| Soufiane Abbouti | 884,000 | |
| Anthony Rodrigues | 1,182,000 | |
| Choukri Chergui | 473,000 | |
| Kamal Sefrioui | 136,000 | |
| Natalia Breviglieri | 300,000 | |
| Pardo Olmos | 679,000 | |
| Table 3 | Loic Blarez | 501,000 |
| Joao Pinto Correia | 493,000 | |
| Dominique Terzian | 155,000 | |
| Samir Beldjoudi | 394,000 | |
| Karim Lahlou | 856,000 | |
| Fouad Toujani | 286,000 | |
| Cyprien Berger | 837,000 | |
| Mathieu Selides | 1,400,000 | |
| Mustapha Bouzid | 107,000 |
It was all-in preflop between Rodrigo Requiao and Natalia Breviglieri, with the Brit and last woman standing in the competition holding ![]()
against the Brazilian's ![]()
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However the board came ![]()
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and Breviglieri exited early on Day 3. "It's always a big flip" she said as she left the tournament floor
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
800,000
255,000
|
255,000 |
|
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Busted |
It was a case of another flip eliminating an opponent as Alexandre Paul Viard's ![]()
was behind to Anthony Rodrigues' ![]()
.
There was no help on the board of ![]()
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and Viard was eliminated
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,450,000
268,000
|
268,000 |
|
|
Busted |
In the early going it's pretty much all-in or fold for a lot of these players. Mustapha Bouzid got his remaining 56,000 chips all-in preflop holding ![]()
against Blarez's ![]()
and managed to outflop him on ![]()
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, despites Blarez calling for a six or five to counterfeit Bouzid on the river.
That sent some much needed healing chips Bouzid's way
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
555,000
54,000
|
54,000 |
|
|
150,000
43,000
|
43,000 |
Samir Beldjoudi raised to 35,000 UTG and got a call from Cyprien Berger in middle position and Joao Pinto Correia in the big blind.
On a ![]()
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flop Correia checked and Beldjoudi bet 58,000. Berger called and Correia got out of the way. Beldjoudi check-called Berger's smaller bet of 41,000 on the turn which was the
. Both players checked the
on the river. Beldjoudi tabled ![]()
and won the pot
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
610,000
216,000
|
216,000 |
|
|
500,000
337,000
|
337,000 |
One of the most colourful characters from the tournament Achille Voltolina has been eliminated in spectacular fashion. After raising preflop to 35,000 he saw a flop with Pedro Oliveira of ![]()
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On the flop Oliveira check-raised Voltolina's bet of 35,000 to 90,000 and Voltolina shoved. Oliveria quickly called and the cards were turned over.
Oliveira: ![]()
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Voltolina: ![]()
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Voltolina had flopped bottom set but Oliveira had flopped a straight! The turn card was the
giving chop opportunities, but the river bricked
to eliminate Voltolina in 21st place
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
1,300,000
990,000
|
990,000 |
|
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Busted |