Main Event
Jour 1 a débuté
Main Event
Jour 1 a débuté
The flagship event of the 2017 PMU.fr WPT DeepStacks Marrakech poker festival will kick off in one hour from now as of noon local time at the beautiful Casino de Marrakech, the biggest and most-well known casino in the region. All previous side events already provided plenty of action at the tables with a mix of local players, and many hopefuls from nearby countries in Western Europe such as Spain and France.
Some 50 players qualified for the MAD 13,200 Main Event (€1,200) via the title sponsor of the tournament, French online poker site PMU.fr, and among those expected to join the action for the sole starting day are also their team pros Johan Guilbert, Erwann Pecheux, Francois Tosques and Sarah Herzali. Guilbert may show up later than the others though after battling on the final table of the MAD 20,000 High Roller that concluded in the early morning hours.
On Day 1, a total of 11 levels of 60 minutes each are scheduled with a break every two levels and a dinner break, with bagging and tagging expected to take place after 1 a.m. local time. All players receive 30,000 in chips and the registration remains open until the start of level nine, with optional re-entries available during the same period as well.
Day 1 Blind Structure
Level | Small Blind | Big Blind | Ante |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 50 | 100 | |
2 | 75 | 150 | |
3 | 75 | 150 | 25 |
4 | 100 | 200 | 25 |
5 | 150 | 300 | 50 |
6 | 200 | 400 | 50 |
7 | 250 | 500 | 75 |
8 | 300 | 600 | 75 |
9 | 400 | 800 | 100 |
10 | 500 | 1,000 | 100 |
11 | 600 | 1,200 | 200 |
The PokerNews live reporting team will provide all the action from sunny Marrakech until a winner is crowned on Sunday October 8th 2017, so make sure to tune back in regularly.
The doors to the tournament room opened and the first players have taken their seats. Action will get underway in a few minutes from now and the field is expected to grow significantly over the course of the next hours.
In case you were making up your mind if Marrakech is worth a poker trip or not, the pictures below should be enough to convince all poker enthusiasts. On top of the sunny weather with temperatures of 30 degrees and more, the nearby pool is calling to take in the atmosphere before joining the action at the tables.
Niveau: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Some 78 players are seated in the first level and among those are the two PMU.fr Team Pros Francois Tosques and Erwann Pecheux. Also already in are Hideki Takafuji, Michel Leibgorin and Florence Allera. The latter was French player of the year 2014 and has been traveling the European circuit for quite some time.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Paul |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Florence Allera |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Michel Leibgorin |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Erwann Pecheux |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Francois Tosques |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Hideki Takafuji |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Joining the action on the flop of , Hideki Takafuji checked in the big blind on a short-handed table and Francois Tosques bet 550 on the button. Takafuji called before check-calling another bet of 1,100 on the turn.
The on the river slowed down the action and both checked, which saw Takafuji turn over for top pair as first to act. That was enough to win the first significant pot of the day early on, as Tosques sent his cards into the muck.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Hideki Takafuji |
32,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
Francois Tosques |
28,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
Among those to take their seats during the first level still were Alexandre Reard and his better half Aurelie, Louis Linard, Pierre Merlin, former PMU.fr online promotion and team pro Damien L'Hommeau - who qualified for this event online, as well as Spaniard Francisco.
Alexandre Reard and Linard share the same starting table and the latter was involved in a three-bet pot agains the player in the cutoff. Linard checked behind a flop of before the on the turn was checked to him. Linard made it 1,100 to go and forced a fold. After having finished 7th in the MAD 20,000 High Roller last night, Linard is off to a good start again.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Louis Linard |
31,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
Alexandre Reard |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Aurelie Reard |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Pierre Merlin |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Damien Lhommeau |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Francisco |
30,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
After a limp by Paul, Christophe Maggio raised to 400 from the cutoff and Aurelien Vasseur called on the button while Paul got out of the way. Maggio announced a check in the dark and the flop came , which Vasseur checked behind.
On the turn, Maggio bet 750 and that was enough to rake in the pot.
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Christophe Maggio
|
31,000 | |
Paul |
29,500
-500
|
-500 |
Aurelien Vasseur
|
29,000 |
Two further players were in involved in the action but eventually bowed out while Marc Naudin and Adrian Garcia invested 1,500 each to see a flop of . Naudin checked, as did Garcia, before the Frenchman bet the n turn for 2,000.
Garcia called and did so again rather quickly when facing a bet of 5,000 on the river. Naudin sheepishly turned over his and Garcia claimed the pot with .
Joueur | Jetons | Progression |
---|---|---|
Adrian Garcia |
46,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
Marc Naudin
|
22,000
22,000
|
22,000 |