The WPT Marrakech ME has a $4 Million 1st Prize payout. Balazs Botond fron Hungary Qualified on Chilipoker and is now sitting at the final table in 9th position with 195,000 worth of chips. He will have to make a move if wants to catch up. As soon as the players were seated Matt Savage [...]
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And Botond doubles up Big Time! 0
Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 5:57 pmNew level: Blinds 8,000/16,000 with 2,000 ante, 13 players left.Botond calls an all in with no luck and goes down to 57,000. New hand and he forgets what just happened: he goes all in again: three callers, making the pot over 200,000. A pair of Jacks is enough to knock the others down and come [...]
WPT Main Event Prize Pool for Top 10 Players! 0
Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 5:09 pmThe action at the tables is amazing, you can really cut the air with a knife as the players play down to the final table. Matt Savage (Tournament Director) has done an excellent job, with no trouble at the tables and complete control of the entire event. Journalist, photographers and the press pack the tables [...]
Ludovic Lacay chipping up, Balazs Botond looking for Bluffs! 0
Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 4:55 pmBlinds 6,000/12,000, ante 2,000.After 20 minutes from the start we are down to 15 players.Almost immediately Ludovic Lacay increased his stack to 1,950,000 at the expenses Yuri Kerzhapkin, winning with a pair of Kings. Few minutes after he busted Kerem Kiyak with an immediate call to his all in after the flop When he showed [...]
Official Chipcount End of Day2 NLH WPT Marrakech Main Event 0
Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 4:04 pmWe are about to start the Final day of this fantastic event.Unfortunately everything comes to an end but this will not be forgotten so soon.Lot of action and nice pots made the number of players down to 17.Above all Ludovic Lacay is the current chipleader after winning blinds from his opponents with his impressive stack.Here [...]
William Ferrer out while Balazs Botond doubles up…. 0
Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 2:18 am20 minutes to go to the next level. Blinds 3,000/6,000 with ante 500. 31 players left.During this level straight after dinner we have lost almost all our qualified players: William Ferrer saw all his money go away with a classic coin flip: against . He moved all in pre flop and got called by the [...]
Congratulations players, you’re all in the money! 3
Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 10:57 pm9 minutes before the dinner break the bubble boy made it more enjoyable for all short stacks at the table. We came down to 54 players and a big applause run all over the tournament room.A couple of minute after our Gerardx was the 54th player to come out of the tournament taking his girlfriend [...]
Chili vs. Chili 0
Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 10:14 pmWhile the bubble is getting closer and closer for the 59 remaining players, Balazs Botond and William Ferrer, sitting just next to eachother at the same table, untighted their game to play a heads up. Our Hungarian player, shortstack at the table with slightly more than 50K raised preflop, to see William and his stack [...]
Sparkling Players 0
Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 10:02 pmIt’s the last level before dinner and the bubble is coming slowly out. 59 Players left and 54 places paid.On the way we have lost Fabrice Souiler forced to go all in with 25,500 after the button, having lost most of his stack in a previous hand where his AK did nothing against his opponent’s [...]
Awesome Hand for Astic Rémy of Spank Poker 2
Saturday October 17th, 2009 at 8:59 pmWe have been watching Astic Rémy waiting patiently to scoop hand. The chips finally came his way, here is how it went down.Big Blind Rémyhas a Flop comes down He then bets 15k, opponent raises him to 35k Rémy calls with 2 pairs.Turn is another Rémy makes a nice full house for a large pot.Stack [...]
