Moments before Guillaume Darcourt arrived at the table, Dmitrii Laverichev opened to 500 from the button and Ismail Kadiri defended from the big blind.
Both players checked all the way through a board of 9♣Q♦6♦7♠. The Q♣ completed the board and after Kadiri checked again, Laverichev bet 1,100.
Kadiri called but his cards went into the muck after Laverichev flipped over J♦9♠ for two pair.
After spending the summer in the heat of Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, players who enjoy playing in sunny locations are more than welcome at the Es Saadi Resort for another edition of the Marrakech Poker Open.
While a heatwave hits the beautiful Jemaa el-Fna square, action at the poker table started on Monday, July 29, with the first flights of the 6,000 MAD Spanish Poker Festival Main Event, which is still underway. The streamed final table will start today at 5 p.m., as nine players remain out of a field of 260 entrants. The winner of the tournament will take home 300,000 MAD (approximately €27,900).
With this amount, the winner will also have the possibility to play the 10,000 MAD MPO Main Event, which starts today with Day 1a. Last year, French player Adrien Sanz won the 2023 edition, taking down the first-place prize of 770,000 MAD (€72,200).
2023 MPO Main Event Results
PLACE
PLAYER
COUNTRY
PRIZE (MAD)
PRIZE (EUR)
1
Adrien Sanz
France
770,000
€70,200
2
Karim Lehoussine
France
530,000
€48,320
3
Thierry Gogniat
France
380,000
€34,650
4
Nuno Correia
Portugual
280,000
€25,530
5
Mostafa Boukri
Morocco
212,000
€19,330
6
Thierry Morel
France
166,500
€15,200
7
Dinesh Alt
Switzerland
134,000
€12,220
8
Jorge Bouquet
Portugual
107,000
€9,850
9
Rosalie Petit
France
86,000
€7,840
Day 1a is scheduled to start at 2 p.m. local time and will be followed by Day 1b tomorrow at the same time and Day 1c Turbo at 9 p.m.
Each entrant will receive 50,000 chips, and every flight will begin with blinds of 100/200 and 200 ante. Players will try to navigate their way through fifteen levels of 40 minutes in length on the opening day, with 15-minute breaks after every three levels. Unlimited reentries are allowed until the end of Level 9.
Marrakech Poker Open Program
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