Sixteen Players Left; One Will Win the 2018 WPTDeepStacks Marrakech Main Event Today
It took two Day 1's and a near 11-hour Day 2 to whittle the 431-entry field of the 2018 WPTDeepStacks Marrakech 13,200 MAD Main Event down to its final sixteen hopefuls. Each of them has already locked up 50,000 MAD (appr. €4,571 / $5,305) but the main prize awarded at the end of the night is the 1,000,000 MAD first place prize (appr. €91,411 / $106,095) and the bragging rights that come with being the WPTDeepStacks Marrakech champion. The first place prize includes a 22,000 MAD package for the WPTDeepStacks season-ending event.
Casino de Marrakech, located in the stunning Es Saadi Resort in the vibrant Moroccan city of Marrakech, will once again deliver a breathtaking final table stage for the finalists to contest for the lion's share of the 4,946,000 MAD prize pool and the seven-figure first place prize. Leading the way is Fabio Pinho Damaso, who will start the day with 2,295,000 in chips.
Following Damaso are two very familiar names for those that follow the European mid-stakes circuit closely: Kalidou Sow (1,400,000) and Tobias Peters (1,360,000). Sow won the €2,000 High Roller earlier this month in Vilamoura and won three large-sized tournaments in a row last December and January to burst onto the scene. Peters is the 2017 WPTDeepStacks Europe Player of the Year and won the 4,500 MAD 8-max for 120,000 MAD during his Main Event off-day.
Besides the top three, several notables are still in contention including Mathieu Papineau (800,000), Jean Montury (640,000), Day 1a chipleader Yves Rolland (550,000), David Pecheur (345,000), and Francois Tosques (315,000).
Cards will be back in the air at 2 p.m. local time, where the final minutes of level 23 with blinds at 10,000/20,000 and a big blind ante of 20,000 will be played out. PokerNews will be on the floor start to finish as we crown a new WPTDeepStacks champion in Casino de Marrakech today!
