Hafid Kinany Alaoui was one of the chip leaders heading into Day 2. While he was not able to parlay this into a Day 3 appearance, both him and Teddy Toque were eliminated in 48th and 49th places respectfully for 15,500 MAD (€1,429).
After these two players is another small pay-bump with all remaining players now guaranteed to be awarded 18,000 MAD (€1,659).
Pierre Merlin's run during the 2016 Winamax SISMIX Main Event is through after being eliminated in 45th place. He won't walk away empty handed as he earned a nice payday of 18,000 MAD (€1,659) as did Jean De Haas, Alexandre Locatelli, Charki Attallah, Joao Pinto Correia, and Ibrahimi Ahmed for their recent eliminations.
2016 Winamax SISMIX Main Event Eliminations (42nd - 47th Places)
Just 33 players will be returning from the long break as both Mouad Benharmach and Jeremy Hoareau were eliminated from the tournament in 34th and 35th places respectfully for 25,000 MAD (€2,304).
While we are waiting for the long break to end, here are updated chip counts for those remaining in the field. Morocco's Rachid Am and France's Thomas Cazayous are leading the way.
According to The Hendon Mob, Am has one career cash and it was a win in a SISMIX side event last year for 16,500 MAD ($1,689). Cazayous owns a few more cashes under his belt with over $32,000 in live winnings which include three final tables (and a win) in EPT side events.
We already had 4 four eliminations which we will update on shortly as soon as we know what order they officially departed the tournament in.
Team Winamax's Florian Decamps was short coming off break and was one of the players to not survive after he shoved 90,000 from under the gun all-in preflop and was called by . Decamps began to get out of his seat when the appeared on the flop giving him only two outs to beat his opponents top-pair. The completed the board eliminating Decamps.