Live coverage of Day 2, Saturday September 9th from 2pm onwards on blinds 2000 - 4000 (4000). 

Seatdraw by Names in the document below 

Circus Namur French Open attendance at a glance


With stack withdrawals, there will be 350 on the start line on Saturday September 9...

In the document below, seatdraw by Names

50,000 to win, 167 Places Paid


The 1,139 entries to the Circus Namur French Open have generated a prize pool of €314,364, which will be shared between the last 167 players in the running.

Half of Day 2's entrants will be rewarded, or nearly so, as 350 players will be on the starting line at 2pm.

The min-cash prize is €450, while the Top 39 must be reached to pocket at least €1,000... The 9 finalists will pocket a CPS Main Event ticket worth €2,200 and a cheque for at least €4,585.

The final 6 players will turn a €330 buy-in into a 5-figure prize!

The Circus Namur French Open Payout
Winner €50,000 + a CPS ticket €2200
Runner Up €30,800 + a CPS ticket €2200
3rd €22,100 + a CPS ticket €2200
4th €17,010 + a CPS ticket 2200€
5e 13 080€ + un ticket CPS 2200€
6e 10 064€ + un ticket CPS 2200€
7e 7 740€ + un ticket CPS 2200€
8e 5 955€ + un ticket CPS 2200€
9e 4 585€ + un ticket CPS 2200€

10 et 11e - 3530€
12th and 13th - 2935€
14th and 15th - 2445€
16th and 17th - 2125€
18th to 20th - 1850€
21st to 23rd - 1610€
24th to 27th - 1400€
28th to 31st - 1215€
32nd to 39th - 1055€
40 to 55e - 920€
56 to 71e - 800€
72 to 95e - 695€
96 to 119e - 600€
120 to 143e - 520€
144 to 167e - 450€



In the document below, seatdraw by Chips

Top 20

The Top 20 at the start of Day 2 with 350 players for 167 places paid. Blindes 2000 - 4000 (4000)...

Bilal Atila 601 000
Joost Kuijpers 540 000
Yuksel Tok 445 000
Tino de Zutter 410 000
Amanullah Khall 410 000
Mihaita Georgita 407 000
Salvatore Sablone 395 000
Gilles Frere 390 000
Nicolas Steils 385 000
Davy Maes 374 000
Firat Baltaci 365 000
Daniel Pirlot 364 000
Yacine Beztout 363 000
Olivier Carosella 351 000
Simon Simsalabim 341 000
Andrei Cosma 340 000
Karim Ryad 338 000
Yves Terrier 336 000
Jean NC 330 000
Kader Slila 325 000

Big Rhythm at the start

350 players at the start of Day 2 of the Circus Namur French Open... and already 5 out in the first 7 minutes of play. 

Head for the 167 paid seats before trying to get to 4 or 5 tables for Sunday's Final Day! 

Barely time for the Shuffle up and deal and it's finito for Daniel Veloson, who had bagged a micro stack on the last-chance Turbo. It was also the end of the road for Ralf Becker and Fabien Nguyen... 

Washing machine

Half a level over 2000 - 4000 (4000) and the field is down to 328 players, there's an outgoing per minute in Namur on this Day 2! 

It's all over for Rami Awad, David Kahan, Shana Oyen, Jérôme Balthazar, Simon Bouaska, Nasser ABdouni, Marcel Diel, Frederik Simon and Ahmed Jirjees... 

30 minutes, 35 outgoing

There are 315 players left in the tournament after half an hour of play on Day 2. Many players had tightened their belts to make it to the weekend, and the floodgates have opened. 

Johann Compagnon had 10 blinds at the start, he's on the rail, heading for the €100 Extra satellite for the High Roller (15,000 chips - 10 minutes)... 

It's all over for former Namur Main Event winner Farukh Tach. Tach had 50 blinds at the start, and his chips were gone. 

Finito also for Yucheng Li, Daniel Domb, Nicolas Bouteiller or the Mystery Bounty runner-up, Robertus de Wildt. 

The 300 mark

There were 1,139 on the starting line, and still 350 at the start of Day 2... 47 minutes later, only 297 were left. 

The blinds rose to 2500 - 5000 (5000) with an average of 38 blinds, but some just didn't have the time. Samir Akhoullou was short-stacked at the start with 10 blinds, but fell, as did Sama Ziarati, who was also short-stacked at the start. 

Finish also for Morten Faas, Salvatore Sablone, Jorden Verbraeken, Bayram Guezeli, Cerdic Dorveaux, Simon Cuachy and Jan Keunen... 

60 minutes of play, 70 outgoing players

One elimination follows another. With 20 minutes left to play on 2500 - 5000 (5000), there are now just 278 in the running - quite a pace from the start. 

Lukas Oster, Ismael Joly, Alena Weiss, Robin Cornet and Fouad El Mouhmouh gave up the ghost, as did Mateusz Kubik, who had put on a ton at the start of Day 1G before starting Day 2 with 25 blinds. 

As for the big stacks, the chipleader at the start of the day lost some more. Bilal Atila had just over 600,000 in chips, with just under 300 to go to the 167 paid places... Tino de Zutter also dropped back with 350,000 to go. 

Yves Seghers (400,000) added to his stack, as did the new boss. Yuksel Tok already had a Top 20 stack at the start, and is now comfortably ahead with 680,000 chips. 

Joost Kuijpers is still on a roll with 560,000, as is Antonino Mangano with 540,000 chips, over 100 blinds...

New Level

The blinds climb to 3000 - 6000 (6000), 80 minutes of play and the field has fallen to 261 survivors for an average of 218,000 chips...

Daniel Pirlot continues his ascent, topping the 600,000 chip mark... just the opposite of Nicolas Bardoux or Last Chance Turbo chipleader Steve Berdoyes. 

Romain Becker, on the wrong side of the coin on a flip, and Fabio Percio were also out. Octavian Ripan, Laurent van den Eyde and Jeremy Baldisseri are also out of the picture... 

Pause en Approche

Another 20 minutes to go before the end of the level and a first break. The field was down to 242 players, with Djamal Boutaleb having to surrender his queens. He came up against his opponent's kings in a pot of 60 blinds...

It's all over for Jonathan Jolimont, Tommazo Loperfidio and Raphael Muller... Ali Bilgin, Glen Laureys, Prash Knight, Jensen Bernard, Fouad Serrar, Florent Wanlin, Celine Diot and Abdel Slila are also off the track.

Break

120 minutes of play and 218 players on break, there were 132 exits in two hours of poker. 

Just before the break, Kader Slila went all-in on a 5 7 4 flop with three of a kind to climb to 770,000 chips. He accepted Dominik Sluthe's invitation for 241,000, who didn't back down with the queens... and the dealer turned over a queen river to allow Dominik to climb to 700,000! 

Kader Slila reached 70,000 at the break, while the game resumed on 4000 - 8000 (8000) with an average of 263,000. 

Heidi Croon is right in this zone, betting everything for 121,000 chips with Ace Queen just before the break... paid by Ace King she also hit a Queen River! 

In the minutes before the break, Armel Dai, Arnaud Debaille, Fabrice Bensaid, Ralph Pijls and Martin Schneiders didn't have the same success, and so got on the busto wagon. 



Chips
Noah Allem 860
Yuksel Tok 730,000
Dominik Sluthe 700,000
Karim Ryadi 620,000
Luigi Hubert 600,000
Linda Hamdi 520,000
Jean Yip 510,000
Bryan de Riddere 490,000
Sébastien Guidez 400,000
Firat Baltaci 340,000
Ohran Serbes 305,000
Cédric Huysmans 300,000
Mihaita Georgita 300,000
Fabrice Somers 270,000
Pascal Honai 210,000
David Remillon 180,000
Dalil Masaud 170,000
Sammy Barka 112,000
Kader Slila 70,000
Fabien Perrot 65,000

Top 200

The field is down to 200 survivors with 17 minutes left to play on 4000 - 8000 (8000) with an average of 281,000 chips or 35 blinds. 

With 167 places paid and a €450 min-cash, there's less room for error... for Alexandre Murgia, Fabien Perrot, Antoine Vincendez, Amir Khaled, Dirk Langen, Christophe Joncquel, Aymeric Dolignon, Kader Slila and Wim Verhaegen won't make the money... 

Bulle en Approche

There are now just 183 players (for 167 paid seats), while the blinds have risen to 5,000 - 10,000 (10,000). The average is 31 blinds, and Morgan Poisson is in a bit of a funk. 

After picking up the €2200 ticket to the CPS Main Event, Morgan 3-bet then called the opposing shove with Ace King to create a 50-blind pot... There was Ace-King in front and his opponent had to flush! 

Firat Baltaci, Ludovic Ruperto, Julien Gillain, Mario Adel, Pierre Pezzuto, Raphael Canta, Agim Gizmo, Melvin Maas, Isa Yuksel and Patrick Prijot were also unhappy...

173 Left

With 167 places paid, the bubble is just around the corner... The average is 32 blinds, with 20 minutes left to play on 5,000 - 10,000 (10,000).

Yves Senterre, Alban Grainville, Calin-Nelu Pop, Mohamed Sahli, Vincent de Neve and Theo Plagneux won't be making the €450 min-cash... 

Say 168

1 minute left on 5,000 - 10,000 (10,000) with an average of 33 blinds and 168 players on the rail for 167 paid seats.

Bona Chap jumped in with the Aces, all went in the middle on a 9-high flop and Kevin Brichet had hit max flush to climb to 240,000 pawns two bricks later. Bona Chap is on the rail in 172nd place, having been eliminated at a table where Noah Allem is up to 1.1 million.

Behind him, Gregory Dewinne was eliminated from the big blind after an open from Thomas de Kerchove. "You're winning every hand," says Arne Coulier (300,000) to Dewinne after he's claimed one more victim to climb to 1.3 million chips, probably leading the tournament.

Meanwhile, Lucas Ligny doubled up with the Aces to climb to 300,000. Open late at 21,000, Noah Allem put the pressure on in the small blind with a stack of 500,000 to put the opener all-in... and Lucas woke up with the Arrows in the big blind to play out his tournament with 130,000. Noah's mismatched A6 won't even let him get a buzz going, back to 950,000 chips for Allem, who has plenty to enjoy on the bubble...

In the meantime, Andrei Cosma (170th) and Rene Middelberg (169th) give up and the floor announces the stopwatch. Main par Main will start on the next deal, and there are still a few hands left in the room...

Wilhelmus Crolla The Empty Hands

The hand-for-hand play lasted for just one deal... After an overlimp by Robin Fournez (950,000) paid by his neighbor on the left, Guy Goosens, Wilhelmus Crolla (in seat 1 in the photo) went all-in for 6,000 more chips in the big blind. 

Sandro Gangi (320,000), who had limped under the gun, completes and the trio with chips checke all the way on a King Ten 3 4 3 board. Sandro reveals Jack 5 for high Jack, Robin Ace 7 for high as well, imitated by Guy who reveals Ace 5 for high... but Wilhelmus' Jack 9 didn't connect and so he bowed out in 169th place.



The 167 survivors are guaranteed a €450 payout, including Arne Coulier who doubled up on the deal before the hand-by-hand. Arne paid an open with ace-queen, trained the button which then 3-bet to queen-ten 3 5 9 to push the two-time BPC winner all-in. No fear for Arne, who called to get up to 600,000 chips. "No Fear? We'll see, maybe tomorrow," laughs the Belgian. 

Vincent Verdickt also made the money with 480,000 after starting with ten times fewer chips... Bryan de Riddere (550,000), Rudolf Wigchert (760,000), Davy Maes (940,000) and Rachid Oufaska (920,000) also made the money...

Approach Dinner Break

In a few minutes the survivors will go on break, jumping around after entering the money. 

Dalil Masaud, for example, gave up the fight when he sent in 10 blinds from the cutoff with King 9 of clubs... unluckily, his neighbor on the left found Ace Queen of clubs and flopped him too! "I console myself with the 600,000 brother (Gilles, editor's note)", Dalil concludes... 

Yves Seghers is off again... Yves sends 121,000 chips directly to MP and the Cutoff announces 'raise' without having seen the shove... in short, he has to put in 231,000 chips, a bet that scares everyone away. Yves returns Ace King of Diamonds and discovers 7 and 3 mismatched at villain. The Ace 3 5 flop keeps the suspense alive, but the turn and river are safe for Yves, who returns to 25 blinds...

Pascal Honai, Remco Koops, Mihaita Georgita, Damien Hupe have secured the €450 min-cash, so they're off to the High Roller... 

Dinner break

Resumption at 8 p.m. with 138 survivors in this €330 Circus Namur French Open. The average will be 412,000 chips in blinds 10,000 - 15,000 (15,000)...

Chips
Thomas de Kerchove 1,200,000
Pierre Neuville $1,200,000
Robert Seelen 1,100,000
Linda Hamdi 830,000
Danny Maes 825,000
Tino de Zutter 800,000
Arne Coulier 670,000
Cem Muhtar 650,000
Noah Allem 630,000
Vincent Verdickt 625,000
Luigi Hubert 592,000
Constantin Ifrim 565,000
Jerome Neis 501,000
Bryan de Riddere 500,000
Jeremy Pillault 490,000
Luigi Pacilli 340,000
Yves Seghers 254,000
Anne Trebitsch 240,000
Sébastien Guidez 212,000
Nikolas Wicquart 165,000

They cashed in at €450

These players reached the €450 min-cash for their run in this €1,139 field. They jumped in before the dinner break...

144th - Steven Kronzkalla
145th - Stephane Buki
146th - Christophe Debaene
147th - Alain Caliber
148th - Pierre Baronville
149th - Norbert Jansen
150th - Benjamin Malpel

151st - Alexander Schust
152nd - Orhan Serbes
153rd - Dalil Masaud
154th - Stefan Wegmann
155th - Mihaita Georgita
156th - Moritza Pape
157th - Pascal Honai
158th - Thomas Jansen
159th - Christophe Chalons
160th - Siegfried Bund

161st - Peter Op den Camp
162nd - Damien Hupe
163rd - Levent Altin
164th - Angelo Hans
165th - Remco Knoops
166th - Jose Deliege
167th - Jonathan de Schepper

Collecting €520

With 20 minutes left to play on 10,000 - 15,000 (15,000), there are 119 players in the running, averaging 470,000 chips. The survivors have moved up a level and are guaranteed a €600 payout.

Yvan Marsus is disgusted: not only did he miss out on the extra small ticket, but he was well ahead when he went all in with Ace 5 on Ace 5 3... His opponent paid with Ace King to hit a runner-runner Valet!


120th - Mathieu Raibaud
121st - Jeremy Pinson
122nd - Johannes van Leeuwen
123rd - Xiao Chen
124th - Christophe Lecocq
125th - Yvan Marsus
126th - Viorel Merisan
127th - Mark Blockhaus
128th - Mohamed taabouni
129th - Tim Frantz
130th - Thierry Six

131st - Amine Belkaid
132nd - Majid Bozakraft
133e - Karim Boutaleb
134e - Jean Yip
135e - Hans van Vlaanderen
136e - Tycho Damen
137e - Schakeri Aghajan
138e - Razvan Cirstian
139th - Dario Sorrenti
140th - Karen Harutyunyan

141st - Gerard Reiff
142nd - Cedric Huysmans
143rd - Jerome Maeques

Unloading

It's all over for Sammy Barka and Gunther Rettel... this duo fell to 110th and 109th place respectively within a few minutes of each other, each time against Gabriel-Mihail Radu. 

Meanwhile, Bryan de Riddere, Abdel Lamrani and Eric Goffin have given up the ghost. Radu, for his part, is in ascendancy mode, with 1,450,000 chips now in front of him. 

Gabriel-Mihail first sucked in 400,000 from Barka. A UTG limp, a 40,000-chip isolation attempt paid off once, Sammy Barka completes on the button with Queen 9 of spades and they're 4 to discover a 4 Ten Ten flop with two spades. 

Radu bets 100,000, Sammy goes all-in for 340,000 chips, it's paid and Sammy discovers Ace 2 of spades in front. A spade turn puts an end to the BPC champion's hopes of winning. 

A few minutes later, Gabriel-Mihail Radu opened to 40,000 chips early in the hand. It's paid in the small blind but Gunther Rettel goes all-in for 120,000 in the big blind. Radu all-in to go heads-up and the sb quickly gives up his cards. 

Gabriel-Mihail (photo) eliminated his opponent, who only had a poor ace-queen, with a king-valet. The board 2 2 Roi 9 7 was fatal for the German player...

Top 100

Get out of here. It's all over for Day 1G's chipleader, the biggest of the tournament, Joost Kuijpers, who 3-bet shove King Jack into the Aces to join the rail in 103rd place. Walter Buss also left us recently, also for a €600 ticket. 

The blinds are now 10,000 - 20,000 (20,000) with an average of 590,000 chips...





They collect 600€.
96th - Dainius Kudarauskas
97th - Jerome Auxenfans
98th - Dang Nguyen 
99th - Yves Sergeant
100th - Ahmed El Kaddouri

101st - Theo Gerritsen
102nd - Fred Heyvaert 
103rd - Joost Kuijpers
104th - Schakeri Aghajan
105th - Filip Debaedts 
106th - Marlon Czopnik 
107th - Allan Nguyen
108th - Yuksel Tok
109th - Gunther Rettel
110th - Sammy Barka

111th - Robin Fore
112th - Walter Buss
113th - Bryan de Riddere
114th - Sami Agel
115th - Peter Ruehmer
116th - Nathalie Sifre
117th - Matthias van Der Perre
118th - Abdel Lamrani
119th - Eric Goffin

Arne Coulé

"Just enough to play the High-Roller... It'll pay off the first time," laughs Arne Coulier after jumping into 94th place in the Circus Namur French Open Main Event. 

The two-time BPC winner went from 1 million to the rail in three straight losing moves. First, he lost 15 blinds with ace-queen versus ace-king to a preflop all-in short stack. 

In the process, he opened Ace Valet and saw the big blind defend with 15 blinds behind. Arne got check-call on a Valet 9 4 flop and then check-raised all-in on his second barrel on a double-up of 4. 

Coulier paid to discover 4 and 2 mismatched at his opponent's... and drop to 15 blinds. A few minutes later, he defended Ace 4 of spades in the big blind after an open under the gun paid once... then he led all-in on a King 3 2 flop with two spades. 

The player under the gun had opened with 3s and paid, but no spades came to Arne's aid, so he'll be joining the High-Roller... 

Not This Time

At the very end of level 10,000 - 20,000 (20,000°), Daniel Pirlot joined the rail. "That's not normal," laughs Daniel, a regular deep-runner in Namur...

Down to 10 blinds, Daniel went all in with 6 and 7 of spades and was paid by Ace-Queen for his survival. The draws appeared but didn't go in... Next! 

Arriverderci les 7Bello

They were two, they jumped in two minutes. With 36 minutes left to play in the 10,000 - 25,000 blinds (25,000), the last two representatives of Team 7Bello have joined the rail.

Luigi Pacilli bowed out in 88th position after opening-shove 12 blinds and losing the flip with Ace Ten suiter against the 9s in the small blind...

In the process, Robin Fournez jumped into 86th position. Robin opened the 6s on the button and placed a 3-bet on an opening from Mohamed Boudazdit. The latter simply paid before leading 200,000 on Ten 6 4.

Robin decided to go all-in for 640,000... Mohamed paid with the queens to take his opponent out two bricks further and climb to 1.5 million chips.

A fortune when the average is 720,000... 

Piano

The payout clerk is bored, it's been a quarter of an hour without an exit... There are 79 players still in the running on this Main Event, with ten minutes left on 10,000 - 25,000 (25,000) before a break.

The break will last 20 minutes, with the survivors playing at least 3 levels of 40 minutes each... 

Break

Thomas de Kerchove seems to be the only player in the field with more than 2 million chips, and he'll be in the lead on the restart for 15,000 - 30,000 (30,000)... 

78 players will return in a few minutes, and the average is 730,000 chips or 25 blinds... 

Linda Hamdi jumped into 79th place just before the break...



Chips
Thomas de Kerchove 2,200,000
Gabriel-Mihai Radu $1,580,000
Tino de Zutter 1,500,000
Karim Ryad $1,450,000
Anne Trebitsch 1,400,000
Rachid Oufaska 1,300,000
Fabrice Somers 1,300,000
Sandro Gangi 1,200,000
Kristof Verhoeven 1,200,000
Kevin Brichet $1,200,000
Vincent Verdikt 1,200,000
Ian van Hove 1,100,000
Bart van Heugten 1,100,000
Pierre Neuville 1,000,000
Simon Ebhomeya 850,000
Sebastien Guidez 800,000
Noah Allem 700,000
Damien Di Pasquale 700,000
Arne Noel 700,000
Marc Thumelaire 700,000
Theo Erkamps 650,000
Heidi Croon 600,000
Danny Maes 600,000
Yves Seghers 335,000
Antonino Mangano 310,000
Andrea Cazzi 300,000
Constantin Ifrim 200,000

Collecting €690

The 70 survivors in this field of 1,139 entrants are now guaranteed a payout of €785. There are still 8 minutes to go before the blinds go from 20,000 to 40,000 (40,000° with an average of 813,000 chips).

Here are the players who fell for €690

72nd - Moh Eshaqzai
73rd - Mart de Bie
74th - Dylan Royer
75th - Heidi Croon
76th - Damien Bierry
77e - Nikolas Wicquart
78e - Adriano Abbracciavento
79e - Linda Hamdi
80e - Andrei Turcanu

81e - Konrad Franck
82e - Maxence Cingu
83e - Nicolas Armand
84th - Yves Terrier
85th - Hamid Bashardoust
86th - Robin Fournez
87th - Yohan Leclercq
88th - Luigi Pacilli
89th - Simao Da Silva
90th - Vincenzo Malvetti

91st - Jonathan Masson
92nd - Bennardo Gattuso
93rd - Daniel Pirlot
94th - Arne Coulier
95th - Ricardo Podda

Ouch

10 players jumped in 15 minutes, Nicolas Steils disappeared as did Salvatore Alessi and Antonino Mangano. Mangano bet his last 7 blinds with King Jack and found no help against his opponent's Ace King to finish 64th... 

For his part, Amanullah Khall jumped in 61st position. Amanullah min-raised with Arrows at the end of the hand and nearly 700,000 behind. Kristof Verhoeven defended in the small blind before donk 100,000 on Jack 4 3. 

Amanullah went all in and Kristof paid with Jack 9 to hit a Jack river... heading for a stack of 1.5 million chips. 

Three minutes later, Alessio Curia sends 3.5 blinds under the gun and Kristof pays with King 8 of hearts... in front of Curia's mismatched Queen 7. A King 9 Jack Ten Ace board gives Curia the straight, and he doubles up before moving into the big blind. 

They are still 61 in the running for an average of 933,000 chips... 

Here We Go Guy

It's all over for Guy Goossens, who opens shove 350,000 on 20,000 - 40,000 (40,000) and runs into the Dames at Dejan Bralo. Guy found no help with the 6s and rejoined the rail in 56th place.

Things were much better for Yves Seghers, who was on the ropes at the previous break. Patience has paid off, as Yves has climbed to 2 million and is now at 1.8 million in chips.

At his table are Mihai Stinca (750,000), Bart van Heugten (800,000) and Vincent Verdickt (700,000)...

Flip Out

The blinds are down to 25,000 - 50,000 (50,000) with an average of 1.1 million chips. Bart van Heugten just left the game... the Dutchman called from the big blind with ace-valet suit following an open shove from Mihai Stinca for an equivalent stack.

The Romanian flipped the 3s for a flip and nothing happened to upset the hand order... van Heugten finished 54th, Stinca at 1.6 million chips.

At another table, David Ramillon gave up the ghost. After an open from Anne Trebitsch, David committed his entire stack of 3 blinds with 5 and 3 of hearts. He faced the queens and, despite a flush draw on the flop, eventually lost out in 53rd place...

30 minutes remain on 25,000 - 50,000 (50,000) with an average of 1.1 million and 51 players. A break will take place at the end of this level, and play could even be stopped...

They collect €785

Here's the Hall Of Fame for players eliminated between 56th and 71st place...

56th - Guy Goosens
57th - Gilles Masaud
58th - Maxime Dubois
59th - Constantin Ifrim
60th - Jorge Oliveira

61st - Amanullah Khan
62nd - Jonas Schug
63rd - Luigi Hubert (photo)
64th - Antonino Mangano 
65th - Greg Bellard
66th - Vincent Callis
67th - Salvatore Alessi
68th - Nicolas Steils
69th - Chris Garguilo
70th - Marc Kirchdoerfer
71st - Jerôme Neis

He won't win

Sandro Gangi joins the list of the eliminated. For his 3rd ITM of the festival, Sandro bowed out in 48th place on a flip. 

Down to 435,000, Sandro calls with Ace-Ten and loses to a pair of 8s despite a straight draw on the turn... 

The pace of the bustos increased in the final minutes, as only 44 were left in the running with 17 minutes to go before the end of level 25,000 - 50,000 (50,000°) and the final break of Day 2. 

The average is 1.3 million chips...

La Faille

It's all over for Andrea Caizzi, a little chaffed to jump with ten minutes to go. As he sends in 500,000 and 10 blinds in the small blind, he's snapped by Kristof Verhoeven who turns over the Jacks. 

At the same time, the organizers announce that when the timer stops, the last three hands of the day will be played. Andrea is behind and will remain so to jump into 43rd place... Kristof enters the final minutes of Day 2 with 2.4 million. 

He's not even chipleader of his table, since Fabrice Somers is at 3.1 million chips with just a few seconds to go! 

They collect 905€.

Day 2 ended with 37 survivors from this field of 1,139 entrants. A final mention for those who just missed out on Day 3...

Alessio Curia (39th) and Mohamed Razab Sekh (38th) also missed out on the Final Day but pocketed €1,040...

40th - Dominik Suthe
41st - Ian van Hove
42nd - Dimitris Kostikas
43rd - Andrea Caizzi
44th - Mathieu Ozkucuk
45th - Arne Noel
46th - Mathias Henin
47th - Karim Khandid
48th - Sandro Gangi
49th - Rachid Oufaska
50th - Marceau Ligny

51st - Davy Maes
52nd - Cem Muhtar
53rd - David Ramillon
54th - Bartjan van Heugten
55th - Ludovic Klein

Gabi Radu leads on Final Day, Somers on provisional podium

The field shrank from 350 to 37 players over 12 40-minute levels on Saturday at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur for Day 2 of the €330 Circus Namur French Open Main Event. 



It took three hours to get to the money, with the bubble lasting only a hand-to-hand deal after Wilhelmus Crolla's exit. Gregory Dewinne, Manu Poznanski, David Yardin, Robin Onati, Morgan Poisson, Yves Senterre, Firat Baltaci and Ludovic Ruperto also just missed the min-cash... 

After the last 167 players had entered the money for a prize of €450, the action was fast & furious. Gone were Bryan de Riddere, Damien Hupe, Jean Yip, Pascal Honai, Dario Sorrenti and co...

BPC winner Samy Barka just missed out on the Top 100, falling short of two-time BPC champion Arne Coulier, who finished 94th. Dang Nguyen, Yves Sergeant, 7Bello Robin Fournez and Luigi Pacilli also added an ITM to their collection. 

Andrei Turcanu, Nikolas Wicquart, Linda Hamdi, Nicolas Steils or Salvatore Alessi and Antonino Mangano also made up the Top 100 of this tournament with 1,139 entries.

Guy Goosens (56th) and Bart van Heugten (54th) came within a whisker of the Top 50, losing out in the final hour of play. They were joined on the rail by Rachid Oufaska, Sandro Gangi, Arne Noel and Mohamed Razab Sekh (38th), the final eliminated player of the evening. 


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Pierre Neuville at Final Day 

The 37 survivors are guaranteed a €1,040 payout, and will return on Sunday at 2pm to contest the Final Day on 50-minute levels. Belgian Gabriel Radu will start in pole position with 3,320,000 chips on 30,000 - 60,000 (60,000). The boss's stack represents twice the average and almost 55 blinds, a fortune at this stage. 



Radu is ahead of Seeiar Noran (3 1 50 000) and Fabrice Somers (3 020 000), with Kiryn Antonius (2.7 million), Jeroen van der Grevel en (2.8 million) and Tino de Zutter (2 730 000) at the foot of the podium. 

Then we fall to 2.4 million with Gilles Frère or 2 million with Thomas de Kerchove... behind everyone can still believe, including the legendary Pierre Neuville, well placed with 1.6 million.

Vincent Verdikt, Anne Trebitsh, Yves Seghers, Jonas Viaene, Mihai Stinca, Kristof Verhoeven and Sébastien Guidez are also still with us! 

See you at 2 p.m. on Sunday for the conclusion of the tournament, the final will be available in stream with the revealed cards... 

Chipcount partial Day 2 
Gabriel Radu $3,320,000
Seeiar Noran 3 150,000
Fabrice Somers 3,020,000
Kiryn Antonius 2,795,000
Jeroen van der Grevel 2,800,000
Tino de Zutter 2,730,000
Gilles Frere 2,450,000
Thomas de Kerchove 2,070,000
Kristof Verhoeven 1,895,000
Mihai Stinca 1,860,000
Pierre Neuville $1,625,000
Dejan Bralo $1,410,000
Karim Ryad 1,400,000
Robert Seelen 1,335,000
Sébastien Guidez $1,300,000
Yacine Beztout $1,215,000
Simon Ebhomeya 1,200,000
Anne Trebitsch 935,000
Damien Di Pasquale 865,000
Olivier Carosella 800,000
Jonas Viaene 780,000

As soon as possible the complete chipcount in the document below