Min-cash of €500 on the Cup

228 players will return to the €330 BPC Cup on Day 2 at 1pm on Saturday. The last 151 survivors from a field of 1,033 entrants will pocket at least €500, with the champion cashing in for the bulk of a €280,000 prize pool - a €45,000 ticket.

Position	Prize
Winner	45,000 + CPS Main Event ticket €2,200
Runner-Up	28,700 + CPS Main Event ticket €2,200
3e	20,500 + CPS Main Event ticket €2,200
4e	15 800 €
5e	12 200 €
6e	9 350 €
7e	7 200 €
8e	5 550 €
9e	4 260 €
10-11e	3 450 €
12-13e	2 860 €
14-15e	2 390 €
16-17e	2 080 €
18-20e	1 810 €
21-23e	1 565 €
24-27e	1 365 €
28-31e	1 195 €
32-39e	1 040 €
40-55e	900 €
56-71e	770 €
72-95e	670 €
96-119e	590 €
120-143e	540 €
144-151e	500 €

Seatdraw Day 2 BPC Cup 2024

Payday

Play resumes on 2000 - 4000 (4000) with 228 players in contention out of the 1,033 entries in this €330 BPC Cup... Most of the survivors are in the Salle Océan, with a few tables in the main room reserved for the launch of the Main Event, the €1,100 Belgian Poker Challenge, which kicks off at 2pm this Saturday! 

Falling backwards

Victim after victim on this 15th level of play in the opening event of the BPC 2024. The Cup field is narrowing, with around twenty outgoing players in the first 40 minutes of play. 

Luxembourg's Yann Nasser (above) put his last 14 blinds on the button with Ace, JS Denissa woke up on his left with Ace-King to send him into the rail. Anne Millot, Robin Fore, Evert Rosseel, Pascal Honai and new PokerStars Team Pro Kenny Hallaert also came to an end.

A former member of the Namur team, Kenny is off to kick off the festival's main tournament, which starts today...  

No Time

Level 16 comes to an end, and the blinds are about to go up... Level 2500 - 5000 (5000) has already proved fatal for a number of Namur regulars. Serial perfumer at Circus Casino Resort, Djamal Boutaleb (below) lost everything in two moves, first a confrontation with Jacks against Queens, then an Ace-Queen clashing with Ace-King... no miracle heading for the rail. 

"We lost several big shots," says Cédric Huysmans, also in the rail. No €500 min-cash for Isaac Borghouts, Daniel Liegeois, Daniel Tordjman, Robin Engelmann, Raf ielegems, Walter van Camberg or Virginie Toury either.

The 151 paid places are getting closer, as only 180 players are left in the running... There were 48 exits and nearly 80 minutes of play. 

Show me The Money

The first break of Day 2 of the BPC Cup 2024 has just ended... the resumption took place with 9 players in the money and min-cash at €500. 

There are 160 players in 151 paid positions, and Dominique Potenza remains in front with just over half a million chips. Ashwin Badrisingh (a Dutchman) is hot on his heels, while Danny Ummels has lost some of his superb form after starting the day just under this mark...

Bjorn Frings, Michael Ender, François-Louis Vlassis, Valentin Bury, Martin Schneiders and Alexander Ulrich gave up their weapons and left the Salle Océan empty-handed... 

We're off to follow the bubble, and meet up again for a full tournament update after the money's in.

The game is played on blinds 4000 - 8000 (8000) with an average of 25 blinds...

Bulle Express

One deal per hand, no suspense, no vibration and 151 players cashing for €500 without suffering... or almost!

At the table of Thomas Schaeven and Mehdi Malinowski, a duo who are at 250,000 for an average of 205,000 chips with 33 minutes to play on 4000 - 8000 8000), Wouter Dehaene had his butt in a sling. Wouter was down to 500 chips an hour before the bubble burst. The Belgian doubled up 6 times to get his eggplant... now with 6 blinds, mission remontada begins! 

Just before the hand-by-hand, Jonas Viaene, Johnny Nedved (above) and Stéphane Caumartin fell. But it was Salvatore Alessi who got everyone off to a good start: the Namur regular opened shove for 58,000 chips in the small blind, and was paid off by Mario Tiederman in the big blind. After all the other tables were completed, Salvatore revealed his mismatched ace-ten and lost to his opponent's ace-valet off in an ace-six-four-six-valet table. 

Magnificent Spew, Magnificent Spot

After entering the money, there are always improbable moves... like the one that sees Tony Antunes go all-in in the small blind to put pressure on his left-hand opponent. With another 7 blinds in front of him, Kamil Szewczyk decides to call with 9 and 4 of hearts... logically behind Tony's King-Queen who stays ahead after a smooth table to climb to 54 blinds. Kamil is in the rail!

The scene is set before Gilles Magny's eyes... short-stacked 3-bet shove 6 blinds on the next hand after a JS Denissa open. Just to his left, Farid Azarkan wakes up at the cutoff with Kings for an easy reshove. Denissa discards and Farid's premium holds against Gilles' Ace Valet... heading for the rail too. Azarkan (below) raises to 35 blinds...

Last-minute bustos also saw Mohammed Boudazdit disappear with Ace Roi impaled in Kings, and Sandro Gangi eliminated with Ace 8 against Ace 9 preflop all-in...

The end of level 18 also proved fatal for Gaetano Moreci, Gilles Masaud, Angelo Aliberto, Christophe Colantoni, Adel Naoun, Nikola Wicquart and Rayane Mokhtar...

There are only 130 players left in the field, competing in blinds 5000 - 10 000 (10 000)... 

139 Leaving in 4 hours

The second break of Day 2 of the BPC Cup 2024 is imminent... the 228 players present at the start of this second day of competition have played 6 levels since the restart... plenty of time to patch up the field and get into the money.

The 151 players in the money have won €500, but the prize pool is €280,000! The 89 players on the break have locked in a minimum payout of €670... there's €45,000 and a €2,200 CPS ticket right at the top. 

Rami Awad is out of the game after losing the checkers to Ace Roi, as is Reda Haidar and Day 1D Turbo chipleader Orhan Virus. Anne Trebitsch is also out, as is Pascal Libert and Dutchman Danny Ummels, chipleader after 4 starting days.

Shoo! 

The game is played over 8,000 - 16,000 (16,000) with a 40-minute level behind, then it's on to the 75-minute dinner break starting at 7:40 p.m....

Dinner break

There were 1,033 players on the starting line, 228 more at the start of Day 2... and 48 players reached the dinner break. These survivors will return at 9:05pm on blinds 10,000 - 25,000 (25,000) with an average of 26 blinds.

Play is in 40-minute levels, and the plan is to make it to the end of level 27, or stop before if the final table is made up.

So we'll finish a little before 1 a.m. at the most, since the restaurant will be back on level 23... 

Full Chipcount
Rafael Lion 2,280,000
Fabian Rolli 1,785,000
Fabio Percio 1,360,000
Hening Wendtland 1,345,000
François Grossmann 1,255,000
Mohamed Hassan Daher 1,175,000
Ippolito Rocchetti 1,120,000
Elias Bahri 1,105,000
Antonius Wildhagen 1,000,000
Artan Harizaj 900,000

Vincent de Neve 875,000
Abdel Douair 840,000
Damiano D'angelo 790,000
Christos Triantaphyllou 780,000
Rainer Emde 730,000
Raynald Coppin 725,000
Glenn Laureys 715,000
Sory Sidi 705,000
Kristof Verhoeven 670,000
Kristof Everaerts 595,000

Arne Noel 595 000
Mario Tiederman 590 000
Stephane Croes 585 000
Wouter Dehaene 545 00
Murat Kilinc520 000
Kurt Vandeven 510 000
Alen Pavlic 505 000
Guillaume Navaro 500 000
Moh Razab Sekh 480 000
Florin Bilan 470 000

Mathias Moutaoukil 460 000
Rico Roumen 455 000
Orhan Amet 415 000
Anuar El Bakkali 400 000
Younes Abkal 380 000
Dario Sorrenti 365 000
Markus Wellen 310 000
Wesley Peinen 300 000
Franck Landre 295 000
Jan Vos 275 000

Dominique Potenza 265 000
Danny de Graaf 235 000
Ludovic Klein 235 000
Sabri Philips 180 000
Medhi Malinowski 175 000
Markus Osinga 90 000
Michele Ferro 85 000
Jelle Jansen 20 000

"J'ai Fait Septante"

You know you've been living in Belgium for a long time when you lose your French. France's Aurélie Dassi lost out in 70th place on the Cup BPC 2024, and she tells us about her outing in Belgian in the text. 

"I made seventy, sorry 70th, the UTG player has the 8s while I have Ace King in the big blind with 10 blinds... he pays and it comes 8 3 2 with two hearts, the Ace of Hearts on the turn which opens the draw for me and it's not the good heart that comes river since the2 gives him the Full House", concludes the player... 

Trois Tables En Approche

The field has been whittled down to 27 players in the €25,000 - €50,000 blinds (€50,000), with €1,365 guaranteed in this €330 Belgian Poker Challenge Cup... and it's Vincent de Neve who's firmly in the driver's seat. A regular at Namur, the German has 4 million chips, almost 4 times the average of 1.1 million. None of his pursuers has reached 2 million, while Mathias Moutaoukil has repositioned himself! 

Chips
Vincent de Neve 4 000 000
Henning Wendtlandt 1 780 000
Mathias Moutaoukil 1 700 000
Mohamed Daher 1 700 000
Elias Bahri 1 450 000
Florin Bilan 1 450 000
Glenn Laureys 1 350 000
Rafael Lion 1 315 000
Abdel Douair 950 000
Mario Tiederman 920 000
Rico Roumen 880 000
Wesley Peinen 700 000
Artan Harizaj 565 000
Kristof Everaerts 480 000

The 20 qualifiers for the Final Day will share €175,500

The 2024 BPC Cup drew 1,033 entrants and 228 remained in the running as Day 2 got underway on Saturday at Circus Casino Resort... 20 players made it through to the Final Day, which kicks off at 1pm on Sunday, with 40-minute levels and a televised final with the cards revealed. Most of the €280,000 prizepool is still up for grabs!

151 players took at least €500 after Salvatore Alessi's bubble, and many regulars can still dream of the €45,000 first prize and a €2,200 CPS Main Event ticket. After winning a big pot against Vincent de Neve with 20 minutes to go, Mathias Moutaoukil can once again dream of a big final in Namur.

Artan Harizaj, Wesley Peinen, Fabian Rolli, Rico Roumen, Henning Wendlandt, Florin Bilan and Kristof Everaerts are still in the running for the big ticket... Last eliminated of the evening, Medhi Malinowski (21st) makes a fine comeback in Namur after being absent for several months nursing a meniscus...

Dominique Potenza (37th), Guillaume Navaro (41st), Sabri Philips (47th), Bryan de Riddere (53rd), Thomas Schaeven (58th), Aurélie Dassi (70th) and Daniel Domb (84th) also enjoyed a fine deep-run... At the very bottom of the leaderboard with 8.5 blinds going into Day 2, Frenchman Raynald Coppin is not done yet, as he will be returning with the 10th stack of the survivors. Hope is still out there... even if Rico Roumen is the most hopeful. The Dutchman has never won in Namur... it's about time! 

Chipcount complete before Final Day 
Rico Roumen 3,835,000
Younes Abkal 3,015,000
Mathias Moutaoukil $2,565,000
Hassan Mohamed Daher 2,470,000
Vincent de Neve $2,395,000
Glenn Laureys 1,730,000
Mohamed Razab Sekh 1,470,000
Francois Grossmann 1,370,000
Raynald Coppin $1,315,000

Christos Triantaphyllou 1,315,000
Rainer Emde 1,215,000
Florin Balance sheet 1,165,000
Kristof Everaerts 975,000
Stephane Croes 780,000
Wesley Peinen 750,000
Ippolito Carpe 595,000
Fabian Rolli 560,000
Artan Harizaj 500,000