WPTDeepStacks Marrakech

Fabio Pinho Damaso Leads Last 16 Après le jour 2

It was an action-filled day at the tables of the Casino de Marrakech Es Saadi as the WPTDeepStacks Marrakech 13,200 MAD (approximately 1,200 EUR) Main Event played down to the money and beyond. Out of a field of 431 entrées, 147 players returned with hopes to take home a portion of the juicy prize pool and more than half of them left empty-handed without anything to show for.

Après presque 11 les niveaux de 60 minutes each, the remaining 16 players bagged up chips with Portugal's Fabio Pinho Damaso at the top of the counts with 2,295,000. Kalidou Sow suit en deuxième place avec 1,400,000, closely followed by WPTDeepStacks Europe Season 2017/2018 Player of the Year Tobias Peters (1,360,00).

Jaouad Abida (1,045,000) is the only other chip millionaire of the semi-finalists, which also includes such big names as Mathieu Papineau (800,000), Jean Montury (640,000), Jour 1A chip leader Yves Rolland (550,000), David Pecheur (345,000) and Francois Tosques (315,000). There are just under nine minutes left at blinds of 10,000/20,000 avec une grosse blind ante de 20,000 when the action recommences as of 2 p.m. local time on Sunday, September 30e, 2018.

For Peters, that provides some additional time to catch up on vital sleep ahead of the final tournament day as the Dutchman went wire-to-wire in an 8-Max Side Event and claimed the victory in a field of 109 entries at 6 a.m. local time. Peters caught some three and a half hours sleep and managed to bag up the second-biggest stack for Day 3 de l'événement principal.

Pas de sommeil? Pas de problème pour Tobias Peters

Of course there was also one other big story throughout the day: Who will make the cut and earn some money and who busts without anything to show for besides a bad beat story or a move gone wrong? Many notables were on the rail much sooner than they'd hoped for, as Andris Resevskis, Mohamed Ali Houssam, Said El Yousfi, High Roller champion Henrique Pinho and Muhyedine Fares were all ousted before the money.

Besides Houssam, one further WPT Champions Club member had made it through to Day 2 and Guillaume Darcourt ended up as the unfortunate bubble boy. Darcourt open-shoved pocket jacks and Jose Plaza looked him up out of the blinds with ade-king to spike a king on the flop and ace on the turn. Once the min-cash of 26,000 MAD was guaranteed, the flood gates opened and the all in announcements kept coming every other minute.

Le garçon bulle ? Guillaume Darcourt, membre du WPT Champions Club

Manuel Sadornil, Marius Conan, Jeremy Saderne, Frederic Delval, start-of-the-day chip leader Kamel Atoui and Mehdi Hsissen were among those to cash but end up coming short of making the final day. Jimmy Livramento, who won the Main Event in Vilamoura, Portugal just a few weeks ago, had another strong showing and his bid for remarkable back-to-back victories in the same month ended in 21st place. After losing ace-queen to ace-king, the number one of Luxembourg's all-time money list ran twice into aces and that sealed his fate.

Une autre course en profondeur pour le champion de Vilamoura Jimmy Livramento

Pierrick Burban, Marco Hernandez, Ricardo Hewitt and Boubekeur Benhalima were the late casualties to reduce the field to the last two tables and let everyone bag and tag for the night. Benhalima's move with pocket eights on a king-high flop back-fired as chip leader Fabio Pinho Damaso called with king-ten suited for top pair.

After a good night's sleep, the remaining 16 will play down to a champion, who will walk home with the trophy, 1,000,000 Moroccan Dirhams and a package for the WPTDeepStacks season-ending event worth €2,000 . Tune back in to can follow the conclusion of the event right here on WPT.com.

Attribution des sièges pour la dernière journée :

David Pecheur is denied a triple up when he gets his stack of 160,000 avec le contre l' de Kalidou Sow au big blind et au d'Abdullatif Attia sous le feu des armes. Le board apporte une quinte de hauteur huit et ils la coupent.

Pecheur then doubles through Sow for 170,000 avec versus sur un conseil d'administration de avant de doubler à nouveau juste après contre Attia.

At the same time, Mathieu Papineau is all in for 480,000 and gets called by Yves Rolland.

Mathieu Papineau : Yves Rolland :

Le tableau arrive et Papineau tient le coup.

Kalidou Sow - 1,100,000
Mathieu Papineau - 1,000,000
Abdullatif Attia - 600,000
David Pêcheur - 600,000
Yves Rolland - 530,000

Boubekeur Benhalima makes it 50,000 to go in middle position and Ricardo Hewitt moves all in for 315,000 on the button. Only then he notices that there has been an initial raise, and Benhalima gives it some thought before calling.

Ricardo Hewitt : Boubekeur Benhalima :

Hewitt is in need of help and doesn't find any, as he is left drawing dead on the turn of the board

Boubekeur Benhalima - 775,000
Ricardo Hewitt - Eliminated in 18ème place (41,000 FOU / 3,748 EUR)

Rejoindre l'action sur le flop, Pierrick Burban calls allin for some 325,000 and faces Fabio Pinho Damaso in the showdown.

Pierrick Burban : Fabio Pinho Damasso :

Votre le tour est vide, mais Pinho Damaso y arrive grâce au sur la rivière.

Fabio Pinho Damaso - 1,375,000
Pierrick Burban - Eliminated in 20ème place (41,000 FOU / 3,478 EUR).

David Pecheur raises and Kalidou Sow just calls. On the [As10d5s5h[/pc] turn, Pecheur checks and calls a bet of 55,000L’ follows on the river and Pecheur now check-calls a bet of 140,000.

La truie se retourne et Pécheur sourit, salit le face up with the words "I would have called all in.

Kalidou Sow - 1,250,000
David Pêcheur - 240,000

Jimmy Livramento fait tapis pour 250,000 depuis la position précoce et Ricardo Hewitt appelle instantanément all-in pour 175,000 hors des stores.

Ricardo Hewitt : Jimmy Livramento :

Il n'y a pas eu de bouleversement majeur au sein du conseil d'administration de et Livramento est en retrait à seulement 75,000 et une grosse blinde ante à venir. Jean Montury relance à 50,000 et Livramento le met, Montury appelle.

Jimmy Livramento : Jean Montury :

Le conseil d' laisse les espoirs de Livramento de remporter deux victoires consécutives morts au tournant et il reçoit 35,000 FOU pour ses efforts.

Jean Montury - 800,000
Ricardo Hewitt - 350,000
Jimmy Livramento - Éliminé en 211ère place (35,000 FOU / 3,199 EUR)

Pierrick Burban raises to 35,000 and Jimmy Livramento three-bets to 95,000 from one seat over in the cutoff. Burban gives it some thought and while doing so, he pushes his stack forward slightly without crossing the imaginery line towards the middle of the table. This is noticed by other players at the table and the floor is called.

Burban is explained that this move is considered as angle shooting to gain information in an unethical way and that he will likely receive a penalty for it. Half a minute passes and Burban moves all in for 220,000, Livramento snap-calls.

Pierrick Burban : Jimmy Livramento :

Le tableau arrive et le botteur joue pour permettre à Burban de doubler, qui reçoit alors une pénalité de quatre mains.

Pierrick Burban - 480,000
Jimmy Livramento - 220,000

Main #1:

The two Spaniards Juan Munoz and Marco Hernandez clash and the latter ends up all in and at risk for 375,000. Hernandez shows et Munoz a la paire de poche inférieure dans . Il n'y a pas de bouleversement au tableau et Munoz se retrouve avec des miettes.

Main #2:

One hand later, Munoz is in the big blind with around 120,000 behind and Sebastien Boyard in the small blind jams all in. Munoz checks his cards and calls right away.

Juan Muñoz : Sébastien Boyard :

Boyard's inferior kicker becomes vital for the outcome of the hand as he gets there on a 4c3s2h6s10c] board to send Munoz to the rail in 22ème place.

Marco Hernandez - 800,000
Sébastien Boyard - 520,000
Juan Munoz - Eliminated in 22nd Place (35,000 FOU / 3,199 EUR)

Avec plusieurs joueurs dans la zone de danger, l’un d’eux était obligé de bouger et il s’agit de Pierrick Burban. Sur le flop à trois de , il parie 45,000 from the under-the-gun position and forces two folds including Yassine Adib and Ricardo Hewitt.

Pierrick Burban - 300,000

Les stores sont maintenant 10,000/15,000 avec 15,000 grosse blind ante et Tobias Peters est le chip leader avec 1,530,000. Kalidou Sow suit en deuxième place avec 1,175,000, Fabio Pinho Damaso (1,065,000) et Yves Rolland (1,055,000) ont également plus d'un million de jetons.

Jour 2 is slowly but surely nearing an end with just 22 players remaining, and Jimmy Livramento is on track to score back-to-back titles and earn vital points in the WPTDeepStacks Europe Player of the Year leader board. However, Livramento is among the shorter stacks and has plenty of work ahead.

Kalidou Sow wins two of the last hands of the level to boost his stack further once more and the next 15-minute break kicks off. The T-1,000 chips will be raced off during that time and play will conclude once there are 16 hopefuls left.

Mehdi Hsissen raises to 30,000 first to act and Mathieu Papineau moves all in from the cutoff for the last 151,000. Hsissen asks for a count and gives it brief consideration before making the call.

Mathieu Papineau : Mehdi Hsissen :

Le flip détermine presque un gagnant sur le fiasco. Ni le tourner ni le river provide any runner runner miracle and Hsissen is left with 50,000 and in the big blind next.

Boubekeur Benhalima relance au cutoff et suit le shove de Hsissen à la main suivante.

Mehdi Hsissen : Boubekeur Benhalima :

Hsissen reste en tête du classement flop, mais ne peut pas esquiver les deux cartes vivantes avec le tourner et river run out to bow out in 23ème place.

Mathieu Papineau - 349,000
Boubekeur Benhalima - 330,000
Mehdi Hsissen - Eliminated in 23ème place (35,000 FOU / 3,199 EUR)

Belmehel Dja Daouhadji relance à 25,000 et Kalidou Sow fait un 3-bet pour 75,000 au bouton. Dja Daouhadji mise quatre fois sur all in pour 199,000 et Sow demande un bref appel, puis lance les jetons supplémentaires.

Belmehel Dja Daouhadji : Kalidou Sow :

Après un conseil de , Dja Daouhadji doit se contenter de la 24ème place.

Kalidou Sow - 950,000
Belmehel Dja Daouhadji - Éliminé en 24ème place (35,000 FOU / 2,834 EUR)

Il y a 37 minutes left in the current level and the redraw of the last three tables is as follows.

Après avoir perdu un gros pot against Fabio Pinho Damaso, Kalidou Sow continues with aggression and raises it up. Two seats over, short stack Maxime Chilaud moves all in and Sow looks him up in a heart beat.

Maxime Chilaud : Kalidou Sow :

Le tableau s'épuise and that sends Chilaud to the rail in 25th place. A short break is to follow to prepare the three table redraw.

Fabio Pinho Damaso - 1,100,000
Kalidou Sow - 720,000
Maxime Chilaud - Eliminated in 25ème place (31,000 FOU)

Jusqu'à environ 150,000, Frederic Steinbach moves all in and Jean Montury almost beats him into the pot, ce qui est une mauvaise nouvelle pour Steinbach.

Frédéric Steinbach : Jean Montury :

Malgré un brelan floppé, rien ne change vraiment pour Steinbach puisque Montury touche également son brelan sur L’ le turn offre quelques opportunités de chop, mais le la rivière est vide.

"I only play aces," Montury, jokes the Frenchman when Tobias Peters tries to needle him in table chat.

Jean Montury - 620,000
Frederic Steinbach - Eliminated in 26ème place (31,000 FOU)

Just before the blinds had gone up, Tobias Peters raises to 22,000 and Igna Poker three-bets all in for 18 big blinds. Peters quickly calls and both players table suited aces.

IgnaPoker : Tobias Peters :

Peters est en avance préflop et reste en tête jusqu'à la rivière d'un board pour envoyer l’Espagnol sur le rail.

Tobias Peters - 1,450,000
Igna Poker - Eliminated in 27ème place (31,000 FOU)