2024 Championnat de France

€1,000 CDF Main Event
Day: 4
Event Info

2024 Championnat de France

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
q6
Prize
€75,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€1,000
Prize Pool
€467,174
Entries
553
Level Info
Level
34
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
300,000
Players Info - Day 4
Entries
8
Players Left
1

Girard Saved by the River

Level 34 : Blinds 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante

Hugues Girard raised to 600,000 from the button, Heni Mokni in the big blind three-bet to 1,800,000, then Girard four-bet all-in for 7,100,000. Mokni snap-called.

Hugues Girard: A4 All in
Heni Mokni: AK

Both players flopped top pair on 7A5, then trips with the 5 turn, but Mokni was still in the lead.

However the 7 river gave the same full house to both players, so they split the pot.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Heni Mokni fr
Heni Mokni
17,000,000
-1,000,000
-1,000,000
Profile photo of Hugues Girard fr
Hugues Girard
7,300,000
800,000
800,000
Profile photo of Alexis Rozenblat fr
Alexis Rozenblat
3,900,000
200,000
200,000

Tags: Heni MokniHugues Girard

Mokni Catches Girard Bluffing

Level 34 : Blinds 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante

In a blind versus blind situation, Heni Mokni limped then called after Hugues Girard raised to 1,200,000.

Both players checked the 5107 flop leading to the 9 turn, where Mokni bet 750,000. Girard made the call.

On the K river, Heni checked then went into the tank after Girard bet 2,400,000. He eventually called with 98 for a pair, catching Girard bluffing with 82.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Heni Mokni fr
Heni Mokni
19,000,000
2,000,000
2,000,000
Profile photo of Hugues Girard fr
Hugues Girard
2,900,000
-4,400,000
-4,400,000

Tags: Heni MokniHugues Girard

Alexis Rozenblat Eliminated in 3rd Place (€35,400)

Level 34 : Blinds 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
Alexis Rozenblat
Alexis Rozenblat

Heni Mokni limped from the button. Hugues Girard called from the small blind, but Alexis Rozenblat shoved for 5,100,000 from the big blind. Mokni called and made Girard fold.

Alexis Rozenblat: A7 All in
Heni Mokni: KK

Rozenblat was drawing dead after Mokni flopped a set on K38J2. Rozenblat wins €35,400 for his third place.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Heni Mokni fr
Heni Mokni
25,000,000
6,000,000
6,000,000
Profile photo of Hugues Girard fr
Hugues Girard
2,500,000
-400,000
-400,000
Profile photo of Alexis Rozenblat fr
Alexis Rozenblat
Busted

Tags: Alexis RozenblatHeni MokniHugues Girard

Hugues Girard Eliminated in 2nd Place (€49,574)

Level 34 : Blinds 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
Hugues Girard
Hugues Girard

On the first hand after the restart, Hugues Girard moved all-in for 2,500,000 from the button and Heni Mokni in the big blind called.

Hugues Girard: J3 All in
Heni Mokni: Q6

The dealer fanned a board of K10422 which was no help for Girard, who was eliminated in second place for €49,574.

Player Chips Progress
Profile photo of Heni Mokni fr
Heni Mokni
27,650,000
2,650,000
2,650,000
Profile photo of Hugues Girard fr
Hugues Girard
Busted

Tags: Heni MokniHugues Girard

Heni Mokni Crowned As the 2024 French Champion (€75,000)

Level 34 : Blinds 150,000/300,000, 300,000 ante
Heni Mokni
Heni Mokni

From 553 entrants, only one player had to remain to become the 2024 €1,000 French Championship Main Event winner, here at Pasino Grand in Aix-en-Provence. Among these players, eight of them reached today's final table. And after a long battle, Heni Mokni emerged as the winner, taking home the first-place prize of €75,000 and a €11,000 package for the next WSOP Main Event.

In the lead almost from the beginning to the end of the final table, Mokni only needed one hand in heads-up play to win against Hugues Girard, who finishes second again after he took the silver medal in the €1,000 heads-up event earlier in the week.

€1,000 French Championship Main Event Results

PlacePlayerCountryPrize
1Heni MokniFrance€75,000
2Hugues GirardFrance€49,574
3Alexis RozenblatFrance€35,400
4Rachid El YaacoubiFrance€26,700
5Cecile TicherfatineFrance€20,600
6Lionel FoulquierFrance€16,100
7Frédéric DelvalFrance€12,800
8Axel BayoutFrance€10,400

Winner's Reaction

"It's a great pleasure to win because I was waiting for it for a long time. I started to do more live events for the last two years, so I knew it was coming. And I'm happy it happened now", humbly said Mokni after the winning ceremony.

To go into more details, he explained that he started playing poker while studying business around 2007, when poker grew in France thanks to Patrick Bruel's TV shows about poker. He then continued to play, moving from cash game to tournaments, and decided a one and a half year ago to become a professional player: "I didn't like that much my work anymore and I was building my house, so I told myself that it was the right moment to do it."

Qualified via €125 satellite online, Mokni was second in chips after Day 1a, Day 2, and Day 3 and arrived on the table with confidence: "I wanted to stay focused and to observe my table. I think that it's one of my main strengths. And I knew that I was technically better than the other players because I'm more an online player than they are," he added. "But I respect them all, they are good players and they gave me a hard time. Especially Girard who took every aggressive spot he could."

The only little doubt Mokni had in his mind during the day was when all stacks were back to even at three left after he was the chip leader during the whole final table. But he managed to win and climb to the top of the podium.

Heni Mokni
Heni Mokni

Final Day Action

Eight players started the final day of the 2024 French Championship, all aiming for the title. Frédéric Delval, who began the day with just 11 big blinds, managed to double up in the first hour, putting himself back in the race. Hugues Girard soon found himself at risk, but tripled up before the first break.

After Delval doubled up again through Rachid El Yaacoubi, Axel Bayout (8th - €10,400) became the first player eliminated from the final table when his kings were cracked by Lionel Foulquier’s flush. Foulquier, who had been quiet at the start, scored another elimination before the second break, sending Delval to the rail with ace-ten against ace-nine. Jean-Noel Thorel's best friend Delval finished in seventh place, taking home €12,800. In between these two eliminations, both Girard and Alexis Rozenblat managed to double up.

Heni Mokni
Heni Mokni

At the top of the chip counts, Heni Mokni overtook El Yaacoubi, becoming the first player to reach 10,000,000 chips. His stack grew even further when he called Lionel Foulquier's all-in with king-queen against Foulquier's aces. Two queens on the board gave Mokni the winning hand, eliminating Foulquier in sixth place for €16,100.

While Girard doubled up for the third time, Rozenblat hero called when El Yaacoubi jammed on the river to go on a dinner break as the chip leader.

If the pace of the first levels was pretty slow, everything sped up after dinner with Cécile Ticherfatine being eliminated in fifth place for €20,600 by Rozenblat's ace-queen. Moments later, Girard doubled up once again, then El Yaacoubi with queen-jack ran into Mokni's king-queen. The board didn't change anything and from chip leading at the beginning of the final table, he finished in 4th place for €26,700.

A long three-way battle began after this elimination, Girard closing the gap and even taking the lead after being short-stacked all day long. With three even stacks, one player needed a bit of help from the cards to unlock the situation. And it was for Mokni, who flopped trips to double through Rozenblat.

Girard was on the edge of elimination again after a new break, but the river allowed him to split. Rozenblat ultimately ran into Mokni's king to finish in third place (€35,400).

Finally, only one hand was needed to end the tournament between the two last players, Mokni triumphing over Girard to become the 2024 French Champion.

Heni Mokni
Heni Mokni

That concludes the PokerNews coverage of the 2024 French Champion. Stay tuned for more updates from tournaments around the world!

Tags: Alexis RozenblatCecile TicherfatineEl YaacoubiFrédéric DelvalHeni MokniHugues GirardJean-Noel ThorelLionel FoulquierRachid El Yaacoubi

€1,000 CDF Main Event

Day 4 Completed