WPT National Marrakech Main Event: Alexandre Riccomi Leads Final 14

Day 2 of the PMU.fr WPT National Marrakech Main Event started with at least 127 players, but only 45 would make the money.

After almost 12 levels of play, just 14 players remain; all were guaranteed MAD 58,000 at this point. Leading the way is Alexandre Riccomi (photo) from France who’ll start the final day on Sunday with 2,251,000 in chips.

Final Day Line Up

The day started with a triple up for Barny Boatman. The British bracelet winner started out as the second shortest stack in the room but in the first hand he flopped a set to beat pocket aces preflop all in. It wouldn’t be enough; the longtime grinder hung around for some time but never followed up on his early triple up. Instead, he steadily lost chips to the point where he was short stacked and found himself all in with pocket tens up against ace-nine. The ace on the river brought Boatman’s run to an end.

While Boatman had started out as one of the smallest stacks in the room, Eric Sfez found himself at the other end of the spectrum. He began the day as chip leader, but lost a lot of chips early on, in what at the time was the biggest pot of the tournament. He got it in with a set of queens against a flopped straight in a single raised pot where Sfez had slow played his big pair before the flop. The board failed to pair and Sfez was knocked down considerably.

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