Play is underway once again and will be for the next three levels of 40 minutes. At around 7.50 pm local time the participants will be awarded a 75-minute dinner break, and after that, the menu consists of four levels of play, before the remaining players can bag up their chips for the night.
Michael d'Inca might very well be the most easily recognizable player in the field today. His hairstyle of a single dreadlock in the back is anything but usual, and has furthermore given the reggae artist the nickname; 'One-Dread'.
While his look might not be for everyone, his poker game seems very solid. After putting in a raise of 11,000 on an flop, 'One-Dread' disciplined check-folded his hand on the turn after facing a bet of 30,000 from Cyril Charles. D'Inca flashed the before throwing his cards into the muck, and Charles returned the favor by showing for the flopped middle set.
Even if the poker tournament should not pan out for d'Inca, he's still got some work to do in Marrakech, as he is performing Friday night at the SISMIX Pool Party with his musical sidekick Riké from Sinsemilia.
Winamax Team Pro Guillaume Diaz was down to his last 11,700 before finally finding a spot to put them in the middle when the action was folded to him in the small blind. Hugo Larachiche in the big blind wasted no time calling with and a team pro bounty on the line, and the hand was even dominating that of Diaz, as the pro held .
The gave Diaz plenty of outs to a straight before the on the turn took some away again. The river was as blank as they come, and Diaz handed over a slipper confirming the bounty to Larachiche, before heading for the rail.
There is no stopping Jordy Colliot. The Frenchman has been sporting quite the stack for a few levels, and he just surged into the chiplead by winning a massive pot with the flopped nut flush. The board ran out , and his opponent, Hugues Caunille, couldn't find the big fold with a flopped flush of his own.
The very next hand Colliot send Davidi Kitai packing. Colliot made it 3,500 to go, and quickly called when Kitai moved all-in for his last 15,200 chips. Colliot's were flipping against the of Kitai, and with the lurking already in the door, the Belgian Winamax Pro needed quite some help.
The board ran out and Kitai joined teammate Guillaume Diaz on the rail.
The remaining 80 players have just left the tournament area to get some dinner. Play will be back underway in 75 minutes - at 9.05 pm local time. When play resumes after the break, the possibility of late registration is also passé, as the Frenchman would say.
Dinner break is officially over and four more levels of poker await the remaining players at the Winamax SISMIX Main Event Day 1a.
An additional player opted to re-enter during the break, and that brings the total number of entrants up to 217. 81 of them still have hopes of bagging up a massive stack at the end of the day.