Guillaume Darcourt Takes Down the Deepstack for �21,000
The 55th Marrakech Poker Open continues to fill up, with Day 1a of the Main Event starting today and where many well-known faces are expected. After "Juan Antonio" and Mohamed Houssam Ali, winners of the Opener and Warm-Up respectively, it's the turn of French player Guillaume Darcourt to lift a trophy by winning the Deepstack for 230,000 MAD (�21,000).
The 5,000 MAD buy-in event brought together 234 entrants to create a prize pool of 1,017,900 MAD (�92,500) . After dominating the final table, the former PMU player then defeated Endravuz Lahdro in heads-up play to add this new victory to his record.
'The Boa' has now reached the $1.5 million mark in live tournament earnings according to Hendon Mob, and signs a second performance on Moroccan soil this year after reaching the Mini Main Event final of the WSOP Circuit in January for around �27,000 and the Opener final just a few days ago.
As for Lahdro, he was able to console himself with 153,000 MAD (�14,000) for his performance, his second runner-up finish on this festival after having already finished second in the Opener for 98,000 MAD. Also noteworthy is the beautiful 5th place of Linda Hamidi (6 000 MAD -�5500), 8th for Laurent Azoulay (27 000 MAD - �2500) and 9th for Isabel Baltazar (21 000 MAD - �1905).
Deepstack MPO Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize (in MAD) | in Euros |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Guillaume Darcourt | MAD 230 000 | �21 000 |
| Runner-up | Endravuz Lahdro | MAD153 000 | �14 000 |
| 3th | Amer Benmoumen | MAD 108 000 | �9 800 |
| 4th | Henri Dupont | MAD 79 000 | �7 200 |
| 5th | Linda Hamidi | MAD 60 000 | �5 500 |
| 6th | Issam Benhaddou | MAD 45 500 | �4 200 |
| 7th | Ali Habbad | MAD 35 400 | �3 300 |
| 8th | Laurent Azoulay | MAD 27 000 | �2 500 |
| 9th | Isabel Baltazar | MAD 21 000 | �1 905 |
