The 2024 Marrakech Poker Open Main Event Starts at 2 P.M.

Maxime Taldir

After spending the summer in the heat of Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker, players who enjoy playing in sunny locations are more than welcome at the Es Saadi Resort for another edition of the Marrakech Poker Open.

While a heatwave hits the beautiful Jemaa el-Fna square, action at the poker table started on Monday, July 29, with the first flights of the 6,000 MAD Spanish Poker Festival Main Event, which is still underway. The streamed final table will start today at 5 p.m., as nine players remain out of a field of 260 entrants. The winner of the tournament will take home 300,000 MAD (approximately �27,900).

With this amount, the winner will also have the possibility to play the 10,000 MAD MPO Main Event, which starts today with Day 1a. Last year, French player Adrien Sanz won the 2023 edition, taking down the first-place prize of 770,000 MAD (�72,200).

2023 MPO Main Event Results

PLACE	PLAYER	COUNTRY	PRIZE (MAD)	PRIZE (EUR)
1	Adrien Sanz	France	770,000	�70,200
2	Karim Lehoussine	France	530,000	�48,320
3	Thierry Gogniat	France	380,000	�34,650
4	Nuno Correia	Portugual	280,000	�25,530
5	Mostafa Boukri	Morocco	212,000	�19,330
6	Thierry Morel	France	166,500	�15,200
7	Dinesh Alt	Switzerland	134,000	�12,220
8	Jorge Bouquet	Portugual	107,000	�9,850
9	Rosalie Petit	France	86,000	�7,840

Day 1a is scheduled to start at 2 p.m. local time and will be followed by Day 1b tomorrow at the same time and Day 1c Turbo at 9 p.m.

Each entrant will receive 50,000 chips, and every flight will begin with blinds of 100/200 and 200 ante. Players will try to navigate their way through fifteen levels of 40 minutes in length on the opening day, with 15-minute breaks after every three levels. Unlimited reentries are allowed until the end of Level 9.