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Mohamed Ali Houssam: The new title holder of the WPT Marrakesh
The 3,000 main event of the WPT Marrakech 2011 ended Sunday with the victory of Mohamed Ali Houssam during the final table composed of great players such as the French No 1 Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. At this event, the Casino Es Saadi of Marrakesh hosted 274 players creating a prizepool of 715,000. But on the third day of the poker tournament, only 9 players were qualified for the final table: Mohamed Ali Houssam, Jonathan Duhamel, Hassan Fares, Toufik Ouirini, Arnaud Mattern, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Rodney Assous, Maksim Martynov and Sébastien Ta. The final table was marked by a hot confrontation but after a few hands, Sebastien Ta falls at the ninth place followed by ElkY. The two players eaved the tournament with 21,173 and 23,203 in prize money. Jonathan Duhamel follows the trend after having been eliminated by Maksim Martynov who collected then 2.5 million chips. Rodney Assous was ousted in the sixth place ( 31,232) followed shortly after by Hassan Fares ( 38,540) and Arnaud Mattern in fourth place ( 52,740) on the 27th level of play.
There were only three survivors to play poker for the title of this event on the table: Maksim Martynov, Toufik Ourini and Mohamed Ali Houssam. But Maksim Martynov join soon the other eliminated leaving Ourini and Houssam Ali at the head's up but pocketing anyway 81,130. Both players had 4,167,000 and 4,053,000 chips with a little advantage for Ourini Toufik. Mohamed Ali Houssam takes over his compatriot and won the WPT bracelet and 202,281, leaving the place of runner up to Toufik Ourini with 126,040.
Source: Oliver JOHNSON
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
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