And it has started. Perfectly on time. Everything has gone according to plan and the room is now filled with 400 players waiting to have their forst hand dealt.Yes, 400. The turnament has been such a succes that the Casino has found space for 50 more players to join and the Tournament Director has just [...]
Archive for the ‘WPT Marrakech’ category
WPT Marrakech Main Event, H-1 !!! 0
Friday October 16th, 2009 at 3:29 pmBefore the Main Event of the first ever WPT Marrakech in exactly 1 hour now, here is a quick list of all the Chilipoker players that we will be supporting during the 3 days of the ME tournament:The Ipoker qualified players who won their $8,000 package on Chilipoker.com: Christer Jansson, SwedenJulien Meyer, FranceJean-Christophe Rigal, France, [...]
What a wonderful night! 3
Friday October 16th, 2009 at 2:29 pmWe are all here ready for The Main Event to start. In order to make it memorable, yesterday after the press conference with our CEO Alexandre Dreyfus, all journalists and Chilipoker qualified players were invited to a Gala’ Dinner where everybody enjoyed traditional Maroccan food (Slurp…Coucous…) and listened to traditional music.It was a really great [...]
Day2 1,800 € Side Event 0
Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 6:00 pmIt’s a pretty relaxed day today.Everybody is enjoying the sun in view of the big day, tomorrow: the Main Event of € 4,500. Well, not everybody as there are still 22 players playing the 1,800 € Side Event started yesterday. The Level today is 35 minutes, making it interesting and almost deep stack. Blinds are [...]
Official Results for the High Roller NLH Freezeout 0
Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 9:33 pmAfter a very exciting final table below please find the final results of the high roller event. With 45 participant the total prize pool of €356,671 has been divided as follows:#Player NameWinners1Boatman Ross€135,5352Nitsche Dominik€82,0343Bichon Thomas€55,2844Boatman Barny€41,0175Kammerer Serge€28,5346Bennis Najib€14,267
Interview with Astic Rémy of Spank Poker 4
Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 8:51 pmSpank Poker Club have really been a dominating force during some of the minor events here at the WPTMarrakech, “alfman26“ for example was certainly excited when he busted out two pro players to win a bounty during the Pro-AM event, he then continued his run and finished in second place, both an excellent result and a super experience for [...]
Ross Boatman Winner of The WPT NL High Roller Event!!!! 0
Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 7:20 pmWhen we saw the heads-up kicked off we all thought it was going to take a while or…forever!Both players had more or less the same stack and it was supposed to take time untill of of them had to make the final move. Instead it only took Ross 2 hands to win.The final hand was [...]
High Roller Event: Down to Heads UP! 0
Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 7:00 pmUnfortunately Bichon had not really a lot of time to celebrate his victory against Boatman.He raised pre flop with AD-9D suited and got called by Dominik and Ross. Flop comes AH-4D-4H and Dominik makes a bet of 17k, called by Ross but raised ALL In by Bichon who had paired his Aces. This time only [...]
Only one Boatman remaining! 0
Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 6:47 pmIt is a very quick final table. I just came back with an Heads -Up News. Yes, true, only 2 players remaining.The 5th place went to Serge Kamerer.Dominik Nitsche had another nice run over him when they both went All In with QJ and AQ and Dominik paired his Ace while Serge left the table [...]
More Popular Poker Faces the Side Event in Marrakech 1
Wednesday October 14th, 2009 at 6:21 pmI had a quick walk around the tables of the €1800 Side Event and looked around for some familiar faces. Liz Lieu (Poker Diva) and Annette Obrestad (Annette_15) don’t seem to be doing very well.Roger Hairabedian otherwise know as the Terminator is currently ranked as one of the top players in France at the moment. [...]
