On a table with Anthony Cruz, Isabel Baltazar, Remi Castaignon and Ludovic Riehl (runner-up of the DeepStack and winner of another previous Side Event), it is Xavier Trarieux that leads the charge. Before the break he was involved in a four-bet pot and check-called a bet of his sole opponent on the flop before the fell on the turn. Trarieux faced a bet of 7,000 and and raised to put his opponent at risk for 25,000 with a set of queens while the opponent only had for two pair.
Soon after, Castaignon three-bet to 2,000 and folded to a four-bet to see Trarieux flip over .
Moroccan Rachid Rami, who won the 2016 PMU.fr WPT National here at the Casino de Marrakech, was just involved in a three-way pot to the flop of and checked first to act. The hijack bet 2,000 and picked up a single caller while Rami got out of the way.
There was no action on the turn and river, and the hijack scooped the pot with . Rami has just above the starting stack and nothing much happened thus far.
A Spaniard that goes by the nickname of mike4895 raised to 750 and Francois Tosques three-bet to 2,200, which the Spaniard called. On the , mike4895 checked and called a bet of 1,800 by Tosques before the appeared on the turn. Again it went check, bet - in this case all in for 6,000 by Tosques, and call.
Francois Tosques:
mike4895:
The river brought no miracle and the PMU.fr Team Pro was eliminated, but may still re-enter until the start of level nine.
Aurelie Reard started well into the day but has since dropped back to almost where she started with. In a recent hand Reard opened to 750 and picked up no fewer than three callers including Javier on the button and both players in the blinds.
The four players checked down the flop and the turn before Javier's bet on the river for 2,700 won the pot without resistance. While Javier has a decent stack already, his fellow countryman "jos" has even more than that over in the three seat.
Il Dieko Rati Vale and Marius Conan met twice and the young Frenchman scooped both pots. First Conan three-bet an open-raise by the Spaniard from 800 to 2,300 and Rati Vale called before the flop was checked through. On the turn, Rati Vale checked and folded to a bet of 2,200 by Conan.
Rati Vale also check-called a bet of 3,300 soon after on the river of a board and mucked when the Frenchman showed for a full house. Marius' slightly older brother Artur also recently sat down and doubled up right away with versus after spiking a flush on the river.
One year ago the very same tournament attracted a field of 396 entries and the 2017 Main Event is on track to not only match this number but eclipse. Early in level six the clocks show a total of 352 entries of which 272 remain, and 40 players have already fired a second or even third bullet.
As a reminder, the registration remains open until the start of level nine following the 75-minute dinner break after level eight.
Anas Tadini was down to 13,000 when he got into a raising war with Olivier Decamps. Tadini ended up shoving with the and Decamps snapped him off with the . The board came and Tadini left the table with a "well done" before re-entering for the second time today shortly after.
The same table is also missing Alexandre Tarantino and Louis Linard, the latter fell victim of the run good of Alexandre Reard when his jacks were no good versus pokcet kings.
Aleksandras Voisnis bumped his stack nicely, from being down to just 8,000 not long ago to more than 40,000 when he spiked top pair with on a board of .
Marius Conan was less fortunate, by the time the river showed three spades his cards were already in the muck as his opponent had for the nut flush.
flop before the 
fell on the turn. Trarieux faced a bet of 7,000 and and raised to put his opponent at risk for 25,000 with a set of queens while the opponent only had 
for two pair.
and checked first to act. The hijack bet 2,000 and picked up a single caller while Rami got out of the way.
turn and 
river, and the hijack scooped the pot with 
. Rami has just above the starting stack and nothing much happened thus far.
appeared on the turn. Again it went check, bet - in this case all in for 6,000 by Tosques, and call.
flop and the 
turn before Javier's bet on the 
river for 2,700 won the pot without resistance. While Javier has a decent stack already, his fellow countryman "jos" has even more than that over in the three seat.
flop was checked through. On the 
turn, Rati Vale checked and folded to a bet of 2,200 by Conan.
after spiking a flush on the river.
for the nut flush.
