Aurélie Quélain (photo compliments of Caroline Darcourt)
Team Winamax member Aurélie Quélain just made a big laydown. On a board of her opponent Mathieu Morel bet 16,525 into a 18,000 chip pot. Quélain called with top pair holding to bring her stack down to 4,000 chips after that hand. Since then, she has doubled up to 8,000.
After winning that huge pot, Morel is now among the chip leaders with a stack of 70,000.
The Winamax SISMIX Main Event is just shy of having 100 separate re-entries. One of the players we noticed in yesterday's field to bust out late in the day was France's Romain Lewis.
Lewis is back in the action, and immediately aggressive. In his second hand, he four-bet from the small-blind to 5,600 with which the button who three-bet the action to 1,600 called.
Lewis bet 3,700 on a flop and the player in the big blind called. Both players checked when the hit the river. Despite not pairing the board nor completing his straight, Lewis jammed all-in on the river, and his opponent folded.
Yesterday we fell 13 players short of beating last year's Day 1a field when 179 players entered this year vs. 192 last year. Today will be close as to whether the tournament will beat last year's Day 1b total of 269 players with 236 currently in the field. Eliminations are occurring a little more frequently than earlier with 198 players remaining.
PokerNews France's Mathieu Sustrac entered the field just before the last break. On his first hand, he lost a small pot on set over set to bring him down to about 17,000. He has chipped back up to slightly over the starting stack with 21,000 chips.\
Sustrac who now lives locally in Marrakech has also proven himself on the felts with $122,654 in career tournament cashes according to The Hendon Mob. His biggest cash came back in 2010 when he took first place in a €1,000 No Limit Hold'em at the Aviation Club de France in Paris for €42,755 ($59,722).
Players are up and stretching as we just reached our first 20 minute break of the day. After players are back from break, antes will be introduced for the first time during Day 1b with Level 4 featuring 100/200 blinds and a 25 ante.
Gaëlle Baumann has been busy building her stack early on, but just took a setback. Glenn Le Cornec with bet on a board of which Baumann raised and Le Cornec and a third player stayed in the action. Baumann with had two pair at that point, and her hand was counterfeited when the spiked the river giving Le Cornec a better two-pair and a huge pot of around 30,000 chips.
Le Cornec has started today where he left off yesterday. He won the Kill Them All tournament last night for 30,000 MAD (€2,750) plus 6,500 MAD (€600) in bounties. Among other things, he celebrating by announcing his win to his 240 Twitter followers.
her opponent Mathieu Morel bet 16,525 into a 18,000 chip pot. Quélain called with top pair holding 
to bring her stack down to 4,000 chips after that hand. Since then, she has doubled up to 8,000.
which the button who three-bet the action to 1,600 called. 
flop and the player in the big blind called. Both players checked when the 
hit the river. Despite not pairing the board nor completing his straight, Lewis jammed all-in on the river, and his opponent folded.
