21:45

Registration Open until 11:35 p.m.

Level 4 of Day 1c of the €250 Warm Up Namur Classics has begun. 39 players for 45 registrations and a few players already crossed paths this week in the arena. Anne Trebitsch, Rens Buijs and Tetiana Kovalchuk for example, switched to Turbo (12 levels of 15 minutes each) after an unsuccessful afternoon. 

For example Meggy Fournier whose first dumpling. The game is being played over 200 - 400 (400), with attendance provisionally at 396 entrants, compared with 399 for the record edition of 2023. The mark will fall in a few minutes' time... for the moment, only 26 players have qualified for Saturday's 2 p.m. Day 2. How many will join them from Day 1B and Day 1c? 

The contenders will play 8 levels for 2 hours at poker before taking a break for a few minutes. When play resumes, there will be a quarter of an hour to register or re-enter the battle... 

22:23

A record Warm-Up

There are 41 players in the running, with entries open until 11.35pm on Day 1c of the €250 Warm Up namur Classics... These contenders for Saturday's 2 p.m. Day 2 face off in blinds 400 - 800 (800)...

The previous edition's record attendance of 399 entrants has been wiped out... There's almost €83,000 in the pot.


Day 1a Day 1b Day 1c 
Qualified 26 (86) in progress (41) in progress
Registrations 120 231 57 (23h35)

23:41

77 which makes 428

Registration is closed for the Warm-Up, with 47 players in the running for 77 entries on this third and final starting day. Ludovic Ruperto was the last to jump in the last-chance flight, arriving with 30,000 chips in blinds 1,000 - 2,000 (2,000), with 45 minutes of play remaining.

Total attendance for the tournament was 428 entries, a record for the Namur Classics Warm-Up. This brings the tournament prize pool to €86,199! 

Day 1a Day 1b Day 1c  Day 2
Qualified 26 56 (47) in progress
Registrations 120 231 77 428

00:24

22 qualifiers on Turbo 1c, 104 players on Final Day

22 players survived the 12 15-minute levels on Day 1C of the Warm Up Namur Classics, so there will be 104 in the running on Saturday from 2 p.m. on blinds 1000 - 2000 (2000) for the Final Day.

The conclusion of the tournament will be played on 30-minute levels, a leisurely pace for the qualifiers of the last of the three flights of a record-breaking tournament. The Warm Up attracted 428 entrants for a final prizepool of €86,199, a record at the Circus Casino Resort de Namur. 



Le Français Alain Buisson (above) was the most efficient on Day 1c, bagging 263,000 chips or nearly 9 times the starting stack for the restart. 

Stefaan Skippers, Ludovic Ruperto, Fabio Percio, Dove Monaco, Dominique Potenza, Valentin Bury or Viorel Merisan also joined the Final Day of this Day 1c... 

Day 1a Day 1b Day 1c  Final Day
Qualified 26 56 22  104
Registrations 120 231 77 428

Full Chipcount Day 1c
Alain Buisson 263,000
Ludovic Ruperto 210,000
Michael Walfraevens 178,000
Dove Monaco 154,500
Stefaan Skippers 146,000
Valentin Bury 145,500
Didier Doijen 134,000
Vincent Paulissen 115,000
Lesley Ourdriz 104,000
Viorel Merisan 103 000
Wouter de Graaf 97 000
Alex Fries 95 000
Giuseppe Caria 86 500
Lionel de Hondt 78 500
Wim Verhaegen 71 500
Jhon Lienard 71 000
Dominique Potenza 60 000
Tetiana Kovalchuk 58 000
Fabio Percio 54 000
Arnold Chretien 52 000
Jonathan Bost 42 000
Bart Engbers 21 000