Yesterday 179 players entered Day 1a. It would be a complete shock if that number wasn't easily surpassed today. We are already at 126 players.
While no player has been eliminated yet, the first one out of today's field will receive a seat worth 3,200 MAD (€194) to the two-day La Fièvre tournament on Saturday. Yesterday, France's Hugues Mazouaud received the "honor" of busting out first and was awarded the same prize.
There are a number of other unique ways to win prizes including winning a hand with a straight-flush or better awarding a bottle of champagne at the night-club and a bad-beat jackpot prize of losing with quads or better awarding a seat into next year's event.
Morocco's Fahd Belhadfa becomes the first player eliminated in Day 1b and will receive a seat worth 3,200 MAD (€194) to the two-day La Fièvre tournament on Saturday.
Belhadfa has almost $40,000 in live tournament cashes, which took place entirely in Morocco, placing him in 63rd place on his country's All Time Cashes list according to The Hendon Mob.
Team Winamax member Aurélie Quélain has recently joined the field and is more than just a pretty face. Quélain not only plays online at Winamax under the screenname "RunGood4Love", but also has almost $200,000 in live cashes according to The Hendon Mob.
We are now at 158 players entered in today's field with Level 3 about to begin. Late registration is open through Level 8 with players allowed to re-enter one time per day.
After Level 3, players will enjoy a 20 minute break.
The Winamax SISMIX festival is certainly about poker, but its also about much more including music and partying. Here is a look at the pool party and nightclub fun from earlier in the week.
Leo Margets is one of the many female players to join the field today. Margets is not only one of the most successful female poker players, but also ranks in 13th place on Spain's All Time Money List according to The Hendon Mob with $842,917 in career cashes.
Gaëlle Baumann has been busy building her stack early on, but just took a setback. Glenn Le Cornec with bet on a board of which Baumann raised and Le Cornec and a third player stayed in the action. Baumann with had two pair at that point, and her hand was counterfeited when the spiked the river giving Le Cornec a better two-pair and a huge pot of around 30,000 chips.
Le Cornec has started today where he left off yesterday. He won the Kill Them All tournament last night for 30,000 MAD (€2,750) plus 6,500 MAD (€600) in bounties. Among other things, he celebrating by announcing his win to his 240 Twitter followers.
Players are up and stretching as we just reached our first 20 minute break of the day. After players are back from break, antes will be introduced for the first time during Day 1b with Level 4 featuring 100/200 blinds and a 25 ante.