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Morocco's Salah Taleb won the €2,200 NLH High Roller at Irish Open Marrakech, Event #2 of the festival at the Casino de Marrakech. He collected 360,000 MAD (about €32,930), according to PokerNews Portugal.
The event ran over two days and drew 58 entries, building a prize pool of 1,202,000 MAD, roughly €110,000. Ouassini Mansouri finished runner-up for €21,950.
Two Portuguese players made the final table. Pedro Olaio began the final with the second-biggest stack and went out in third place, eliminated by Taleb, who went on to take the title. He earned 168,000 MAD, about €15,370. Isabel Baltazar was among the nine finalists with the shortest stack and finished eighth for 48,000 MAD (about €4,390). Frenchman Simon Wiciak, a former EPT Barcelona champion, had gone out in ninth.
The Marrakech festival runs from November 10 to 15 and has 36 events with buy-ins from roughly €140 to €3,000. Its €1,155 Main Event guarantees €500,000 and had four starting flights between November 11 and 13. Day 2 is on Saturday, November 14, with the final set for Sunday, November 15.
Marrakech is the second international stop for the Irish Open in 2026, after Sydney in September. The 46-year-old Irish festival will reach the United States in 2027.
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