This time World Poker Tour visited Marrakech, Morocco, and created the biggest poker tournament in African history. Not less than 416 players signed up for the tournament, which had a buy-in of €4,500. The total prize pool landed on $2,450,223, and the first prize $563,551.
This historic tournament was however not won by a local, but instead by the Frenchmen Christophe Savary. Savary and Eog[...] Read more » WPT Marrakech: Christophe Savary wins an historic tournament
I think it's always good for poker growth when new players from different countries manage to win a big tournament like this. Maybe next time I will be the next one
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Portugal
Age: 44 (M)
Posts: 4829
I was reading this text and i was thinking "something must be wrong here: so, they payed €5K and the first prize was €500K?" Usually the relation bettween the buy-in and the first prize is bigger, right? Apart my maths thinking, nice prize for Christophe, got to go look to see if i know how was the last hand, its always exciting to read the last thing someone had to do to win a first prize (and sometimes they dont even get to do nothing special)!
