Day 1B kicks off

Around 30 players are present at the start of the second of four starting days of the €2,200 Main Event, guaranteeing a €750,000 prizepool.

Play begins with 50,000 chips and hour-long levels, with blinds of 100 - 200 (200) on this deep, progressive sturcture...

Nine levels are on the program, with registration open during the first two one-hour levels of Day 2, i.e. until Friday December 6 at 2.30pm.

Dinner break at the end of level 6 for 75 minutes, between 7 p.m. and 8.15 p.m... End of game around 11:30 p.m... 

FLV FTW

François Louis Vlassis For The Win. A very good start for this Namur regular, who reached 92,000 chips at the first break of Day 1B of the €2,200 CPS Main Event. Mercedes Osti (112,000) and Michele Galatola (123,000) are the only ones to have done better so far...

Play resumed on 200 - 400 (400) for the 3rd of 9 levels on the opening day, with an average of 54,000 chips. Romain le Dantec has just made his appearance as the board shows 56 players for 61 entrants with an average of 54,000 chips. There's time. 

Also in the field on Day 1B is Iman Ghasheyar, third in the €43,000 Circus Cup 2023. The Dutchman is on 41,000 chips and his tournament is just getting underway.

His compatriot and winner of the Winter 2024 for over €90,000, Pel Nieuwenhuis, has got off to a good start with 86,000 chips and a safety cushion to put him all over the place.

Daniel Pirlot, Vincent Gabel, Damien Hupe, Leonardo Armino, Salvatore Ciccarelli, Jimmy Livramento, Stéphane Gabarre, Soner Guzel and Kevin Mad Max are also in the running...


Chipcount Day 1B
Michele Galatola 123 000
Mercedes Osti 112 000
Damiar Plank 91 000
Pel Nieuwenhuis 86 000
Zhong Chen 84 000
Daniel Pirlot 73 000
Sam Sztarkan 67 000
Vincent Gabel 61 000
Romain le Dantec 50 000
Damien Hupe 47 000
Iman Ghasheyar 41 000
Guy Goossens 40 000

Reprise

The second break of Day 1B comes to an end at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur. Play resumes at blinds 300 - 600 (600), with 71 players in contention for 91 entries and an average of 64,000 chips.

Players will play two one-hour levels before taking a 75-minute dinner break. There will then be three 60-minute levels... For the moment, Daniel Pirlot and his *4 are dominating proceedings.

Axel Hallay, Patrick Prijot, Idir Haiche, Damien Hupe and Xavier Servais are also there...

Chipcount
Daniel Pirlot 192 000
Axel Sebire 185 000
Sam Sztarkman 129 000
Stefan Leenen 126 000
Romain Locquet 118 000
Chen Zhong 106 000
Gaetan Cacciaguerra 105 000
Dalil Masaud 100 000
Mercedes Osti 91 000
Pel Nieuwenhuis 78 000
Francois Louis Vlassis 75 000
Kjelle Bailleu 73 000
Heni Mokni 72 000
Romain le Dantec 72 000
Guillaume Navaro 69 000
Soner Guzel 68 000
Miro Alilovic 62 000
Xavier Servais 55 000
Damien Hupe 55 000
Patrick Prijot 44 000
Axel Hallay (below)38,000
Idir Haiche 17,000

Dinner break

Resumption at 8.25pm for the 7th of 9 levels on Day 1B of the Main Event... 61 players are currently on the dinner break, with 103 entrants on this second of four starting days. Three hours of poker remain when the action resumes.

Mercedes Osti and Dalil Masaud have passed on the last two levels... In particular, Dalil made a three-of-a-kind encounter in a pot he had 3-bet with the Jacks! Things are going well for Kenny Hallaert... 

Registration is open for the first two levels of Day 2, until 2.30pm on Friday December 6th... This is also the dinner break for the Mystery Bounty Final and the High-Roller, where there are only 6 players left for 5 paid and a €12,000 min-cash...

Chipcount
Dalil Masaud 229 000
Daniel Pirlot 214 000
Axel Sebine 178 000
Kenny Hallaert 171 000
Mercedes Osti 165 000
Pel Nieuwenhuis 162 000
Sam Sztarkman 135 000
Wim Verhaegen 123 000
Gaetan Cacciaguerra 123 000
Michele Galatola 117 000
Matei Lupascu 112 000
Vincent Gabel 102 000
Sabare Atmani 98 000
Thimister Colson 91 000
Quentin Roussey 91 000
Rob Hendrikx 85 000
Xavier Servais 81 000
Romain le Dantec 78 000
Romain Locquet 74 000
Francois Louis Vlassis 72 000
Leonardo Armino 72 000
Axel Hallay 69 000
Lorenzo Arduini 68 000

Extensions

There are 35 minutes left to play on level 8, the penultimate level of Day 1B of the €2,200-entry CPS Main Event. 59 players will take a break before moving on to level 9... so far the counter shows 114 entrants and an average of 96,000 chips. Matei Lupascu dominates with 325,000 chips.

The blinds are 600 - 1200 (1200) and Guillaume Navaro has just started. It all starts with a clash between Romain Locquet (below) and Raoul Kanme... In a 3-bet pot by Romain preflop under the gun, the Frenchman bets 28,000 in 40,000 chips on 3 7 Ace King 4 with two spades on the flop and a final spade river. From the button, Raoul goes all-in for just over 80,000 chips... Romain tanks for 5-6 minutes before throwing in the 7 at the end of the time. "Good one", says Raoul, revealing a king of spades. 

The Dutchman reraises to 160,000 chips while Romain falls below the average but still with depth. Two hands later, Guillaume Navaro raises to 52,000 chips from the button after a 13,000 bet from Raoul Kanme (below) in the big blind on 3 6 Ace 7 9 with 3 spades on the flop and a spade on the turn. It's paid with two Queens including the Queen of Spades by Raoul who loses to King-Queen with the King of Spades in Guillaume's hand. Navaro is now up to 160,000 chips, while Raoul is down to 73,000. 

Xavier Servais doubled up preflop with Ace-King against the Jacks at the end of a Queen-As-9-King-Queens board... which took him up to 63,000 chips, a new start. For a new start, Damien Hupé will have to go back into the pot.

The boss of Poker One lost a big pot with Aces to Romain Dantec, who was ambushed with an Ace-King and made a flush... Down to 6,000 pawns, Damien put it all in with a pair of 2s, heading for the rail. WSOP winner Romain le Dantec, who re-entered at the start of the day, now stands at 222,000 chips.

François Louis Vlassis also ended the day, turning a pair of button tens into a bluff on 5 8 King 6 Ace. Oissim Zaidi bet 13,000 small-blind chips and ended up calling the Belgian's 70,000-chip stack, which now stands at 215,000, well placed as the end of the day draws near...

Just eliminated from the High-Roller in 5th place for €12,000, Mark Roovers has joined the party and is already up to 85,000 chips... 

Last Level

Play resumed on blinds 1000 - 1500 (1500) for the final level of Day 1B of the €2200 CPS Main Event. The average is 111,000 chips and Matei Lupascu (photo) still hangs in the air, even though Mercedes Osti makes his poker roar today at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur. The Romanian has $260,000 in winnings and is making the circuit, his greatest success being an Italian Poker Sport for 6 figures, in Rozvadov... he was overtaken by the WSOP Europe champion, in Rozvadov, Romain le Dantec. 

Chipcount
Romain le Dantec 295 000
Matei Lupascu 287 000
Mercedes Osti 267 000
Axel Sebire 265 000
Dalil Masaud 254 000
Lorenzo Arduini 231 000
Sofian El Yachou 228 000
David Olurebi 217 000
Daniel Pirlot 205 000
Guillaume Navaro 190 000

Isaac Kawa 172 000
Pl Nieuwenhuis 170 000
Gaetan Cacciaguerra 169 000
Kevi Mad Max 140 000
Kenny Hallaert 125 000
Marco Niederdeppe 120 000
David Hu 117 000
Romain Locquet 92 000
Tobias Peters 87 000
Paschalis Papadopoulos 77 000

Jimmy Livramento 72 000
Wim Verhaegen 55 000
Axel Hallay 55 000
Quentin Roussey 35 000

116 entries on Day 1B, Romain le Dantec chipleader

With 187 entries, a €700,000 guarantee and open registration on the first two levels of Day 2 until 2.30pm on Friday December 6, the Circus Poker Series Main Event got underway in earnest on Wednesday. Day 1B saw 116 entries added to Tuesday's 71... With 24 qualifiers on the first of four sessions and 39 survivors on the 9 one-hour levels of Day 1B, there are already 63 on the starting line for Day 2, Friday at noon on 1,000 - 1,500 (1,500)...

Romain le Dantec won't need to come back on Thursday for either of the two sessions on the program, with Day 1C starting at noon on one-hour rounds and Day 1D at 8pm on half-hour levels. The WSOP champion passed the hurdle with 368,000 chips - just over 7 times the starting stack... Happy with his day, the Frenchman remains an enthusiast despite his track record.

 

He edged out another Frenchman who didn't yo-yo as much as the Yellow Jersey. Axel Sebire (below) bagged up 352,000 after a day in which he always had a bigger stack than the others. Romanian Matei Lupascu completed the podium with 352,000 chips... ahead of a Belgian quartet including David Olurebi, Dalil Masaud and Isaac kawa, a certain Davidi's cousin.

Another good day for Mercedes Osti, Daniel Pirlot, Lorenzo Arduini, Guillaume Navaro and Tobias Peters. The same goes for Kevin Mad Max, Rob Hendrikx, Axel Hallay, Kenny Hallaert, Romain Locquet, David Hu, Xavier Servais, Wim Verhaegen and Lorenzo Furia...

Chipcount complete Day 1B (39 players - 116 entrants)
Romain le Dantec 368,000
Axel Sebire 352,0000
Matei Lupascu 352,000
Dalil Masaud 286,000
Isaac Kawa 272,000
NC 267,500
David Olurebi 247,000
Mercedes Osti 233,000
Sam Sztarkman 216,000
Damian Plank 200,500
Daniel Pirlot 197,000
Lorenzo Arduini 193,000
Guillaume Navaro 187,000
Tobias Peters 159,500
Gaetan Cacciaguerra 156,500
NC 152,500
Zaidi Oissim 144,5000
Jozef Cibicek 142,000
Pel Nieuwenhuis 136,000
Rob Hendrikx 126 500

Kevin Mad Max 125 000
Mark Roovers 115 000
Kenny Hallaert 112 500
Heni Mokni 110 000
David Hu 100 500
Raul Gallego 94 000
Axel Hallay 92 500
Romain Locquet 85 500
Xavier Servais 76 500
Julien Monfort 70,000

Lorenzo Furia 61,500
Wim Verhaegen 49,000
Thimister Colson 45,000
Paschalis Papadopoulos 42,000
Oghuzan Yildiz 41,000
Dotan Kelijman 39,000
Bart van Dijk 36,500
Vincent Gabel 23,000
Jimmy Livramento 21,500