Winners of the €900 Morocco Championship NLH Freezeout 0Tuesday October 13th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Here are the top ten winners of the €900 Morocco Championship NLH Freezeout:
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Final Table Morocco Championship NLH Freezeout 0Monday October 12th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
 Jean-Christophe Rigal I just went to check out the final table at the Morocco Championship NLH Freezeout where we are following two of our friends Allouche Lionel & Jean-Christophe Rigal. I spoke to the tournament director Rodolfo Zirio and I was happy to help name the remaining 7 players. So for all you fans here are the names of the final 7 players: Seat #1 Jadoun Christophe I asked Rodolfo about the prizepool and he was happy to point out that the top 30 get paid and the top 3 positions will receive €23,000, €15,107 and €9442 respectively. Popularity: 18% [?] |
Allouche Lionel & Jean-Christophe Rigal ITM! 1Monday October 12th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
 Allouche Lionel & Team Linipok from France As I mentioned in my previous post Simon Rouviere friend (Allouche Lionel) is one of the only players left in the Morocco Championship NLH Freezeout €500 that started last night and continues today. The players are now seated are ready to continue playing the event, average chip count is 31k and the blinds are at 1k/2k with 200 antes. The tournament started with 214 players and we are now down to 34. Also in the field is are very own Jean-Christophe Rigal with 31k worth of chips. I had a moment to catch up with Allouche Lione and the players of the French Poker Club Linipok. Allouche discussed a few of his favorite hands from last night, he also mentioned that he has 36k worth of chips heading into day 2 of the event. I asked him for a team photo and I wished him the best luck! NEW FLASH!!!! both Allouche Lionel and Jean-Christophe Rigal are in the money!! Well done guys. Would be nice to see you play heads up for the Championship. Good Luck and Enjoy playing the best game in the world! Popularity: 24% [?] |
Day 1 & 2 of The Moroccan Poker Championship 0Monday October 12th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
OK so back to the events in mention. The first events are basically being considered a side event to the main event: Saturday 10th October
Please note that both the Chiliblog (FR) and Live Reporting (FR) are also available in French. If one had to compare the English Blogs to the French Blogs the English would be an outsiders look at the events of the week because it’s mainly being run by the Chilipoker Staff and the French would be an insiders look at the event because the bloggers are mainly players. Some of you are smart enough to be able to read both. Fantastic! On the other hand I only speak English The poker venue is just perfect, 40 tables and a capacity of 400 people. Not including the featured table and the poker tables at the casino. OK, so here is what happened last night….
I meet up with the players that would be playing the event and wished them the best of luck, here is a breakdown of the players we were watching extra closely, why we are watching and whats happened thus far: Morocco Championship NLH Freezeout €500 The gossip thus far before the start of day 2 is as follows, Simon Rouviere has busted but one of his three friends is still in the event, Christophe Costes busted Liz Lieu with a set of kings to pocket aces only to also bust in 46th place, Julien Meyer had two unfortunate hands and is also out of the event, Cyril busted earlier then expected short staked KJ vs AK, Jami Juutila is also out. So lets give a shout out to the only chili left in the event. GO! Jean-Chrisophe Rigal…. Take it down Jean! Popularity: 24% [?] |
French Poker Club Players Arrive in Marrakech. 1Sunday October 11th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
My first impressions of Marrakech were absolutely amazing, everyone is so friendly and the place has class. The pink city is known for it’s snake charmers, magic potions, hidden palaces. So I’m really looking forward to having a good look around and sharing the experience with you. First stop this morning was at the Aeroport Marrakech Menara to pick up the 6 Poker Club players from all around France that qualified with Chilipoker. Each lucky player besides having all expenses paid (including hotel, flights and a €4,500 buy-in to the main event) was able to bring 3 friends, so in total there was 24 people to pick up from the airport.
Everyone (including myself) seemed really excited to be here and the car every one was having a laugh on behalf of one of the players who ended up “bubble boy” at one of the recent European Poker Tour Events. Ophelie was giving a breakdown of this weeks events, including a shopping trip to the famous Souk Market, maybe some camel rides, a tour around Marrakech on quad bikes, a Chilipoker party and some action packed poker tournaments, side games, satellites and cash games. The players were surprised to hear about the structure of the cash games here in Marrakech, as they uniquely feature a 90 minute time window before any player can leave the table with any cash that he has won. An odd but interesting cash game structure.
As we waited for the rooms to be ready, I had a chat with a few of the players that will be blogging on the French WPT Blog and I was rather happy to find out that a few of the players knew me from the work I do on behalf of Chilipoker on social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. The players were interested (I was going to say happy but I don’t think its appropriate in this case) to know that there was going to be a host of professional poker players at the invitational Pro-AM event being played on Monday including, Liz Lieu, Annette Obrestad, Antonio Esfandiari, Elky, Tony G, Fabrice Soulier and our very own Alex Dreyfus. As a matter of fact as I am writing this blog, Roger Hairabedian and another popular French Pro Poker Player (forgot his name) is playing at a table right in front me. The players seemed keen to go check out the venue Es Saadi Resort and the Casino de Marrakech, so we got together for a group photo and headed off to the Casino. Now it’s time for a lamb and couscous I will be back later with another update from The Casino in Marrakech… For the lucky players who qualified it’s big money in Marrakech or Bust, so good luck and enjoy the ride!
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I am still waiting for the results of the above mentioned events, but I hope to have them to you shortly.
But I have improved my French skills quite a bit since I have been here.
First a 5 Star buffet dinner at the Essaadi Palace, whereby the choice of food was absolutely fantastic. From starter, to main course and desert the selection was endless. At the dinner table were several of the players that were sponsored by Chilipoker to play the Morocco Championship NLH Freezeout €500, next to me several of the 
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Unfortunately one of the players missed his flight (we won’t mention any names) hope that player will have more luck at the main event. Finally the poker players came made it threw the often hectic passport control and was greeted by the Chilipoker staff Ophelie, Alex Henry and myself. We said our hello’s and all jumped in to the taxis to head off to the hotel.
On the way from the airport the scene outside was really interesting. Lot’s of motorbikes zooming on both sides, the highest palm trees I have ever seen, olive trees, camels, horses and carriages and much more unusual architecture. The drive from the airport to the hotel took no more then 20 minutes. We all stepped out of the car to sign the players into the hotel room that we had booked for them.
