Christophe Marcault wins the CPT St Maarten 2014 Main Event

There are some days when destiny decides over the fate at the poker tables and last night was most certainly the moment of glory for Christophe Marcault on the final table of the $1,100 CPT St Maarten. Early on he survived a crucial all in with AhJh against the TcTs of Christophe Rosso on a JdTd2s by completing a runner runner full house.

Down to three players he only had 10 big blinds left and doubled up with QsJh against the KhKd of Will Failla by making two pair. Marcault doubled up several further times through "The Thrill" and then had a run of good cards and decisions to establish a large lead over Failla before dashing the final blow with Ac4s versus KdTd. For his efforts, the Frenchman scored a payday of $41,000 whereas WPT champion Will Failla had to settle for second place and $24,000.

Poker Royale boss Peter Hajszan was the first player to hit the rail after getting his short stack in with ace-queen against ace-king and took 9th place out of 150 entries. Yannick Gauthier was next to fall after flat-calling a raise by Will Failla with Ax9x and failing to improve on a nine-high flop against the pocket jacks of Failla. Cedric Adam followed in seventh place and Failla then took an enormous lead by eliminating Bob Bounahra and Sabina Hiatullah in the last hand before the dinner break.

The last William Hill online qualifier had three-bet for the third hand in a row and Bounahra shoved for 300,000 with QcQh before Failla moved all in over the top with KdKh. Hiatullah called off with AsKc and the board ran out 2hJd5c4c6c. Dan Murariu was eliminated in 4th place after first losing a pot to Christophe Marcault and then falling short with AdQh

against the AcKh of Christophe Rosso.

Down to three players, Marcault was the short stack but Rosso would bow out in third place after losing a massive pot to the rivered nut flush of Will Failla. It would be "The Thrill" to take the remainder of his stack as well when turning top pair and Rosso calling off with Qd4d for a gutshot that didn't arrive. In heads-up, Failla had a 4-1 lead but could not close it off before losing every single bigger hand after that.

 

Final Result CPT St Maarten 2014:

 

Position	Player	Nationality	Payout
1	Christophe Marcault	France	41,000 $
2	Emanuel Failla	USA	24,000 $
3	Christophe Rosso	France	16,100 $
4	Dan Murariu	Romania	13,100 $
5	Sabina Hiatullah	Germany	10,200 $
6	Bob Bounahra	Belize	8,100 $
7	Cedric Adam	France	6,600 $
8	Yannick Gauthier	Canada	5,200 $
9	Peter Hajszan	Austria	3,800 $
10	Jeremy Nock	United Kingdom	2,400 $
11	Ari Engel	USA	2,400 $
12	Charlie Ciresi	USA	2,400 $
13	Pierre Goetz	Sint Maarten	2,100 $
14	Johan Dijkhoffz	Sint Maarten	2,100 $
15	Kirill Sidorovitch	USA	2,100 $
16	Brian Kulp	USA	1,950 $
17	Jean Luc Docquier	France	1,950 $

 

 

Day 5 of the Caribbean Poker Tour 2014 also saw a $120 WPT Satellite that drew 91 entries, 64 rebuys and 73 add ons for a total prize pool of $22,115 prize pool. Six seats for today's Day 1B were awarded and the seventh place finisher received $1,115. The first starting flight of the $3,200 + 300 championship event registered 57 entries including one re-entry by Marvin Rettenmaier. Only 25 players bagged up chips after eight levels of 60 minutes each and Bruce Kramer bagged up 183,800 chips thanks to a humongous pot with pocket aces against Jeremy Nock.

Day 6 of the CPT 2014 has the second starting day of the WPT championship event at 16:00 local time in the Casino Royale on Sint Maarten. Players that were eliminated yesterday can buy in once again and the re-entry for all players on their first bullet is available until the end of level six. At 21:00 there is a $300+30 NLHE event with 10,000 in chips and levels of 25 minutes each.

 

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