En Avant les Mystères

The Holiday Festival's Mystery Bounty kicked off on Wednesday at 7pm. Event #7 features a €400 buy-in (€150 Bounty - 30,000 chips - 30 minutes) and two days of competition.

Day 1 features 12 levels and 6 hours of poker to get through... registration is open until the start of the 11th level, at around midnight 40. Latecomers will then enter with 20 blinds!

Bounties will be activated on players' heads once they've entered the money, at around 15% of the field, on Thursday afternoon, September 5.

Level 3 closes with 66 players still in the running for 76 entrants... the €20,000 guarantee has already been exceeded, with almost €14,000 in the prizepool and over €11,000 in the bounty pool! 

Over 100 entries, €35,000 already in the kitty

With registration open for 10 levels until midnight 40, the Holiday Festival's €400 Mystery Bounty Event #7 is a hit. With 107 entrants, there's already 19,000 in the prizepool and €16,000 in bonuses which will be activated from the cash entry on Thursday, Day 2... 

The blinds are 400 - 800 (800) with an average of 53,000 chips, and there are still 60 in the running. Among the contenders are Ekin Kandemir, Pierre Neuville, Rico Chevalot, Ohran Serbes, Wesley Peinen, Noah Alem, Gaetano Moreci, David Opdebeeck and Roger Sacre...

117 players on the Mystery Bounty

Registration is closed for the Holiday Festival's €400 Event #7, a No Limit tournament run in the Mystery format over two days with 30-minute levels, which finally attracted 117 entrants.

This created a prize pool of €21,200 to be shared between the players in the money, at around 15% of the field. From there, each player will have a target on his head and there will be €17,550 to take in the form of an envelope to be drawn at random afterwards.

There are only 39 players left in the field with around 40 minutes to go, and David Opdebeeck has just jumped after attempting to bluff the Arrows. The remaining players include Wesley Peinen, Rico Chevalot, Pierre Neuville, Daniel Tordjman, Daniel Dodet, Neven Papic and Nicolas Destercq. With 250,000 chips and an average of 85,000 chips at the end of the 1000 - 1500 level (1500), the latter has taken a slight lead... 

Nicolas Destercq takes 28 players to Final Day

6 effective hours of poker and 12 30-minute levels brought the Mystery Bounty field down to 28 players... who will meet again on 1500 - 3000 (3000) from 3pm on Thursday at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur.

Nicolas Destercq (348,000) wrapped up the chiplead ahead of Germany's Danny Ehrenberger (339,000) and Roger Sacre (336,000)... Daniel Dodet (281,000), Christianus Lovrencevic (159,000) and Francois Heine (149,000) are well positioned, while there will be 17 paid places.

When the action resumes, the €370 min-cash will be the first thing on the agenda, before the envelope hunt begins. There will be 21 envelopes, with 3 envelopes awarding €3,000 to the winner. A €2,200 CPS ticket will also be up for grabs, starting at the first break after reaching the money.

The tournament champion will walk away with a trophy and a €5,080 first prize. The field of 117 entrants includes Neven Papic, Pierre Neuville, Marco Esposito and Gunther Rettel...

Join us on Thursday afternoon for the continuation and conclusion of this €400 Festival Holiday event... 

Complete Chipcount and Redraw in the document below

Final Day

Day 2 of the €400 buy-in Mystery Bounty Event #7 got underway at 3pm with 28 players for 17 paid seats... there were still 23 in contention an hour later.

The game is being played over 2000 - 5000 (5000) with an average of 30 blinds, so 5 players have given up their hopes of drawing one of the two €3000 envelopes or capturing the €5,080 first prize. No min-cash for Claus Spieckermann, Mad Max, Jerry van Der Vloedt, Quentin Peeters and Hamid Mazari... 

In The Money

Only 6 Belgians remain in the last 16 qualifiers for the €400 Mystery Bounty Event #7. Guaranteed a payout of €370, the survivors of this field of 117 entrants are now also playing for bonus envelopes... each player eliminated gives you the opportunity to choose an envelope with up to €3,000 in cash inside!

Mateo Perreti (18th) made the bubble after a collective exit by the Belgian representatives. The last 6 victims before entering the money were Belgian players!

The blinds are now 3000 - 6000 (6000) and the first draw for the Mystery bonuses will take place during the break following this level... The average is back up to 219,000 chips.


Event #7 Mystery Bounty (117 entries - €21,083 prizepool)
Winner - €5,080
Runner Up - €3,370
3rd - €2,415
4th - €1,880
5th - €1,453
6th - 1,130€
7th - 880€
8th - 730€
9th - 625€
10th and 11th - 530€
12th and 13th - 455€
14th and 15th - 405€
16th - 370€
17th - Christianus Lovencevic 370€

Neuville stays Cool

Having arrived with 15 blinds at the start of Day 2, Pierre Neuville has moved on. Two after the start, the WSOP Main Event finalist is chipleader at 13 left in this €400 Mystery Bounty Holiday Festival Event #7. 

Play resumed at 5.25pm on blinds 4000 - 8000 (8000) and the Namur boss is up to 695,000 pawns. The Serial Qualifier has taken a lead, but nothing too definitive yet... At the front at the start of Final Day, Danny Ehrenberger (480,000) and Roger Sacre (470,000) continued to make chips.

Chipleader at the end of Day 1, Nicolas Destercq is still there, but in the doldrums with 80,000 in chips. Donovan Kool, with 320,000 in chips and a €1,500 bonus from the first break, is looking good.

There were 4 envelopes revealed during this first break following the cashes, with two €800 bonuses, one €400 bonus and Donovan's... two €3,000 bonuses and the CPS ticket worth €2,200 remain on the big money side! 

Event #7 Mystery Bounty (117 entries - 21,083€ prizepool)
Winner - 5,080€
Runner Up - 3,370€
3rd - 2,415€
4th - 1,880e
5th - 1,453€
6th - 1,130€
7th - 880€
8th - 730€
9th - 625€
10th and 11th - 530€
12th and 13th - 455€
14th - Tom Flammang (Lux) 405€
15th - Heinz Baer (All) 405€
16th - Marcel Berger (All) 370€
17th - Christianus Lovencevic (NL) 370€

Tous En Finale

It's the final table of the Holiday Festival's €400 Mystery Bounty, down to 8 after the elimination of Frenchman Nicolas Plassier.

With an average chip count of 438,000, there's still plenty of depth for the top players... Pierre Neuville lost a little ground when he doubled up Samir Nasri, a Dutchman who had been in agony and almost returned to the average thanks to three double-ups.

Level 6000 - 12,000 (12,000) is almost over, and there's a break at the end of the next level with the second Mystery Bonus draw. 

The Final (in seating order)
Samir Nasri (NL)
Donovan Kool (NL)
Danny Ehrenberger (All)
Rudolf de Boer (NL)
Neven Papic (Cro)
Francois Heine (Bel)
Roger Sacre (Bel)
Pierre Neuville (Bel)

Event #7 Mystery Bounty (117 entries - €21,083 prizepool)
Winner - €5,080
Runner Up - €3,370
3rd - €2,415
4th - 1 880e
5th - 1 453€
6th - 1 130€
7th - 880€
8th - 730€
9th - Nicolas Plassier (Fr) 625€
10th - Joen Debauve (Bel) 530€
11th - Daniel Dodet (Bel) 530€
12th - Gunther Rettel (All) 455€
13th - Nicolas Destercq (Bel) 455€
14th - Tom Flammang (Lux) 405€
15th - Heinz Baer (All) 405€
16th - Marcel Berger (All) 370€
17th - Christianus Lovencevic (NL) 370€

Dinner break

The dinner break comes to an end, resuming at 8.25pm on blinds 10,000 - 20,000 (20,000) with 6 players and an average of 29 blinds. Rudolf de Boer is in the lead and the Dutchman has extended his lead on the final hand before the break.

Rudolf opened in the middle of the hand to provoke a duel with his closest pursuer on the leaderboard, Pierre Neuville on the button. Rudolf bet Valet Ten 9 rainbow and Pierre apayed to discover a King on the turn.

There, Rudolf check-raised all-in for just over a million after a 225,000-chip bet from Pierre Neuville. The Belgian eventually passed and the Dutchman slammed him King 6. "The bluff of the year", laughed Pierre, who had Queen 9 and therefore only saw the boss on Ace Queen...

The Final (in seating order)
Samir Nasri (NL) 150,000
Donovan Kool (NL) 360,000
Danny Ehrenberger (All) 655,000
Rudolf de Boer (NL) 1,505,000
Francois Heine (Bel) 165,000
Pierre Neuville (Bel) 630,000

Event #7 Mystery Bounty (117 entries - 21,083€ prizepool)
Winner - 5,080€
Runner Up - 3,370€
3rd - 2,415€
4th - 1,880e
5th - 1,453€
6th - 1,130€
7th - Roger Sacre 880€
8th - Neven Papic 730€
9th - Nicolas Plassier (Fr) 625€
10th - Joen Debauve (Bel) 530€
11th - Daniel Dodet (Bel) 530€
12th - Gunther Rettel (All) 455€
13th - Nicolas Destercq (Bel) 455€
14th - Tom Flammang (Lux) 405€
15th - Heinz Baer (All) 405€
16th - Marcel Berger (All) 370€
17th - Christianus Lovencevic (NL) 370€

Bo Bo Bonus

Event #7 Mystery Bounty has delivered its verdict and all envelopes have been distributed. The in-the-money players shared a €17,550 Mystery prize pool with 3 big jackpots up for grabs.

Rudolf de Boer was the first to draw one of the two €3,000 envelopes. Then Pierre Neuville found the other! The WSOP Main Event finalist had already hit the €2,200 CPS ticket an hour earlier... This duo was therefore the most prolific, with the Dutchman finally capturing €5,600 in bonuses and the Belgian pocketing €6,350 thanks to the envelopes. 

Finally 4th, Donovan Kool drew a €1,500 envelope to finally collect €2,100 in prize money. In the top three going into the Final Day, and finally in 7th place, Roger Sacre took advantage of his stack to go after envelopes and capture €2,300 in bonuses/. 

Rudolf de Boer's triumph (€10,680)

After a final twenty-minute duel against Francois Heine, Rudolf de Boer won the €400 Mystery Bounty Event #7. The Dutchman had started the heads-up play in front and stopped his opponent's big blind comeback. Open for the Belgian, who goes all-in for 30 blinds with Ace Ten following a 3-bet from the eventual winner.

Rudolf De Boer returns Ace-Queen and stays ahead to collect the €5,080 first prize... and the last two bonuses in play to round up his total to €5,600 in bonuses and a 5-figure payout. His runner-up didn't make the cut in the final and survived as best he could, pocketing €3,370 and €400 in bonuses.

Chipleader in the semi-finals after starting Day 2 with 15 blinds, Pierre Neuville completes the podium after chasing envelopes. The WSOP Main Event finalist was king of the bounties, capturing €6,3150 in bonuses including one of two €3,000 Max envelopes.

Event #7 Mystery Bounty (117 entries - €21,083 prizepool)
Winner - Rudolf de Boer (NL) €5,080 (+€5,600 bonus)
Runner Up - François Heine (Bel) €3,370 (+€400)
3rd - Pierre Neuville (Bel) €2,415 (€6,150)
4th - Donovan Kool (NL) €1,880 (€2,100)
5th - Danny Ehrenberger (All) €1,453
6th - Samir Nasri (NL) €1,130
7th - Roger Sacre (Bel) 880€ (2 300€)
8th - Neven Papic (Cro) 730€
9th - Nicolas Plassier (Fr) 625€
10th - Joen Debauve (Bel) 530€
11th - Daniel Dodet (Bel) 530€
12th - Gunther Rettel (All) 730€ Gunther Rettel (All) 455€
13th - Nicolas Destercq (Bel) 455€
14th - Tom Flammang (Lux) 405€
15th - Heinz Baer (All) 405€
16th - Marcel Berger (All) 370€
17th - Christianus Lovencevic (NL) 370€