Jean-Claude Guiot pushed for his last 207,000 and was looked up by Alexandre Andre Henri De Zutter on the button. Guiot tabled and had no trouble beating De Zutter's . The board ran out and Guiot doubled.
From middle position, Rachid Rami raised to 62,000 and action folded to Houssine El Otmani in the big blind. El Otmani three-bet to 140,000 and Rami called in position.
The flop came and El Otmani slid forward his last tower of chips, about 500,000 or so. Rami snap called by tossing in a single 5,000-chip.
Houssine El Otmani:
Rami called:
The on the turn didn't change a thing and neither did the on the river.
Houssine El Otmani hit the rail in 9th place, netting MAD 83,000. The remaining 9 players are now the official final tablist, all guaranteed 103,000.
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In the first hand of the final table, Alexandre Riccomi folded ace-nine under the gun and action folded to Jean-Claude Guiot. He moved in for 310,000 holding and Mathieu Maroccini with the seemed interested but folded in the end.
Mohammed Lahlou in the big blind found and made the call.
Mohammed Lahlou opened for 80,000 and found Alexandre Andre Henri De Zutter three-bet out of the blinds to 190,000 holding . Lahlou tanked for a fair bit before calling.
The two of them got a flop of and De Zutter checked. Lahlou bet 250,000 and De Zutter called.
De Zutter checked on the blank on the turn, and folded to Lahlou's push for over a million.
Dimitri Sukhorukov first picked up the blinds and antes raising pocket fives, and found the next hand. He raised to 90,000 and found a caller in Alexandre Andre Henri De Zutter with . Arthur Conan, holding , called on the button to make it threeway to the flop.
on the flop and Sukhorukov and all three of them checked. The on the turn saw Sukhorukov check again. De Zutter, now with the best hand, bet 130,000 into 370,000 which resulted in two quick folds.