Day 1G kicks off with over 1,000 admissions

Play got underway at 3pm on blinds 100 - 200 (200) with 206 players on track for the Oktoberfest Main Event. The penultimate starting day of this €350 Mystery Bounty is already the busiest of the tournament, and there are 10 levels of late registration, which means you can join the game until just after 9pm.

For latecomers and the unlucky, Day 1H Turbo kicks off at 9pm, with entries until almost midnight! 

Oktoberfest Mystery Bounty €350	Day 1A	1B	1C	1D	1E	1F	1G	1H
Qualified	52	20	24	30	60	13 (197)
Traffic	223	82	120	123	251	35 (834)

318,000€ in the prizepool

Players continue to arrive, as the second of 13 levels of Day 1G gets underway with 263 players in the running for 266 entries. The tournament has so far attracted 1,100 players and there is just over €318,000 in the overall prize pool.

Play is 100 - 300 (300) with some players already approaching 100,000 chips. Reda Belkhou is in the right wagon at a table featuring Yannick Ansenne.

Audrey Petitjean is also trying her luck, already seated in a field featuring 2010 WaSOP winner Muriel Gomez Aragon. Leandro Armino is there too, as are Rens Buijs, Anthony Bui Ngoc, Jensen Bernard, Eric Boge, Eric Denizart, Bayer Demirci, Bart Maes, Andreas Gondrom and Circus Knockout runner-up Leon Moris... 

300

It's all in the title, as the 300-entry mark is passed on Day 1G of the Oktoberfest. With 21 minutes left to play on the third level of the penultimate starting day, the field now stands at 292 players across two rooms, with 303 entrants.

The blinds are 200 - 400 (400) and the provisional total has risen to 1,136 entrants for this €350 Mystery Bounty. The overall prize pool is approaching €330,000...

RachidSekkai, Ruben Steenhuis, Quentin Roussey, Wesley Peinen, David Ramillon, ANtonius Roberts, Jorden Verbreaken and Paul van Oort are in the tournament...

Pause on approach

Just over two hours into poker and Level 5 is underway on Day 1G of the Oktoberfest. The blinds are 300 - 600 (600) with 339 players in the running for 382 entrants!

The average is 56,000 chips and I haven't seen anyone multiply their stack by 4 yet. We'll be looking for the luckiest guy in the field during the traditional half-hour break that's just around the corner!

Pascal Masset, Igor Pliner, WSOP winner Tobias Peters, Yves Sergeant, Chris Rubbini, Bartjan van Heugten, Nengming Wang, Luc Viry, Mischa Wieten or Lukas Trzrcinski are in the game before the first break of the day... 

Break

The first G-Day break is underway, resuming at 6 p.m. in blinds 400 - 800 (800), with 353 players currently in the running for 413 entries. The 400 mark was passed 10 minutes before the start of the break, after 140 minutes of poker.

There is currently €361,000 in the global prizepool, with late registrations through to the first deal of level 11. Then there's the last-chance 1H Turbo, starting at 9 p.m., with entries possible until almost midnight! 

Chipcount
Laurent Crochemore 205 000
Paul va Oort 164 000
Hendrik Mine 148 000
Raffaello di Benedetto 140 000
Dieter Edling 136 000
Ibrahima Diaby 133 000
Nicolas Lefebvre 125 000
Antoine Delporte 124,000
Samir Nasri 118,000
Mitch Vulpehorst 118,000

Stephane Woiry 118,000
Guy Lutz 116,000
Sofiane Tigrine 114,000
Wouter Dehaene 112,000
Cyril Jacquin 109,000
Alexandru Sandu 109,000
David Schaars 106 000
Melvin Maas 106 000
Morten Faas 104 000
Charly Lavigne 100 000

Gert Swolfs 98 000
Santi Sungkapas 96 000
Antoine Markarian 89 000
Alexis Kaiser 84 000
Andy Victorion 84 000
Marcel Berger 79 000
Audrey Petitjean 69 000
David Ramillon 59 000
Muriel Gomez Aragon 54 000
Eric Boge 51 000

Tim Verheyen 50 000
Danny de Graaf 48 000
Sem Peters 33 000
Pascal Groshens 23 000

PLO5 for the Oranje

100% Dutch duel for this 5-card Pot Limit Omaha at the Oktoberfest festival. This €150 entry tournament eventually attracted 78 entrants, with the final 11 players sharing a prize pool of €9,330. 

Lorenzo Furia made the bubble (12th), then Stephan Buzzo and Fabien Perrot missed the final. After the exit of Dalil Masaud (7th) and Mihai Stinca (5th), the final quartet shared the loot before playing for the trophy and a balance of almost 3 buy-ins.

Leendert Tavenier finally put everyone in agreement and concluded against Erik Bakker in a matter of minutes... The last four players of the tournament leave with 4 figures and at least 10 times their starting stakes... 




Event #10 Pot Limit OmahaOktoberfest €150 (25,000 chips - 20 min.)
Champion - Leendert Tavenier €2000*
Runner Up - Erik Bakker €1,550
3rd - Sergeui Ivanoff €1,425* (in French)
4th - NC €1,460*
5th - Mihai Stinca €720
6th - Ward de Bruyn €575
7th - Dalil Masaud €460
8th - Ridouan Madani €370
9th - Sven van Looy €290
10th - Fabien Perrot €240
11th - Stephan Buzzo €240

Split Dinner

In view of the crowds, the dinner break will be cut in two... The first group will take a break at the end of level 7, for 75 minutes between 7pm and 8.15pm. During this time, the second group will play levels 8 and 9, before taking a dinner break between 8pm and 9.15pm.

The junction will be made on level 10, heading for the end of late registration on Day 1G at 9.45pm...

Players at tables 15 to 45 will be the first to eat, so players at the 17 open tables in the Ocean Room will leave for dinner-break after playing 8 levels...

All players on the 7th of the eight Oktoberfest starting days are currently playing level 6 of the 13 scheduled this day. There are 8 minutes left to play on blinds 400 800 (800) with an average of 62,000 chips.

There are currently 364 players seated at the Circus Casino Resort de Namur tables, with 452 entrants! Provisional attendance for the tournament is approaching 1,300 entries... with the overall prize pool now at €373,000! 

Seven is Coming

Almost 7 p.m. and dinner arrives for the players in the main room. There are 17 minutes left to play on level 7, and players at tables 15 to 45 will complete the 500 - 1000 (1000) level before heading off for dinner-break until 8.15pm.

Thomas Jansen (35,000), Reda Belkhou (120,000), Farukh Tach (60,000), Quentin Roussey (60,000), Anthony Bui Ngoc (14,000), Giulliano Beerensteyn (47,000) and Nicolas Kojovic (35,000) are among those who will be eating with the hens.

The Salle Océan players will play two more levels before taking a break from 8pm to 9.15pm... 

Dinner break (I)

The first group is on break, while level 600 - 1200 (1200) is already well underway for the players in the group that will go on break at 8pm...

When the players in the main room went on break after 7 levels of play, the board showed 346 players in contention for 500 entrants on Day 1G! There is now more than €387,000 in the global prize pool! 

The average is 72,000 chips, while the stacks shown are only those of the paused players... 

Chipcount
Paul van Oort 204,000
Rafaelo di Benvenutti 198,000
Danique Dumitru 180,000
Julien Burckel 173,000
Andy Victorion 167,000
Sofiane Tigrine 162,000
Morten Faas 160,000
Willem de Graaf 160,000
Melvin Maas 144,000
Daniel Dodet 136,000
Dnny Moesman 131,000
Mitch Vulperhorst 126,000
Philippe Henry 123,000
Joseph Higny 122,000
Inigo Croes 121,000
Stéphane Woiry 120,000
David Ramillon 120,000
Guy Lutz 115,000
Dominique Fassin 115,000
Guido Kinna 114,000
Hendrik Klokdjik 114,000
Olivier Hegy 112,000
Reda Belkhou 106,000
Goncalves Alberto 102 00
Klaus Erkeling 75,000
Andreas Gondrom 72,000
Quentin Roussey 62,000
Leonardo Armino 48,000
Muriel Gomez Aragon 34,000
Nicolas Kojovic 30,000

Dinner Break (II)

The Salle Océan goes on break after playing 9 half-hour levels. The second group resumes at 9:15pm with blinds 1000 - 2000 (2000).

The first group will return in a quarter of an hour to play the 600 - 1200 (1200) level, followed by the 800 - 1600 (1600) level, two levels played by the Salle Océan players before their dinner break.

The table currently shows 333 players in the running for 522 entries, enough to boost the overall pprizepool to €395,000!

We're off to pick up the dinner-break stacks... 

Checkpoint

There's still around twenty minutes to play on blinds 600 - 1200 (1200) for the first group, who have taken a dinner break... The second group is on a break until 9.15pm, when they join the 1000 - 2000 (2000) blinds, the last level for late entries on Day 1G.

There are currently 334 entries for 529 on this seventh and penultimate flight, which will be the busiest of this Oktoberfest event. The average is currently at 79,000 chips, with part of the field only playing... and the provisional attendance has just reached 1,380 entrants and a global prizepool of just over €400,000!


Here are the stacks of players currently on break after having played 9 levels... it's our turn to dine at La Carte du Roi, and we'll be back around 9.30 p.m. for an update following the reunification... 

Chipcount

Greg Biermans 236 000
Hernan Castro 215 000
Peter de Bruin 209 000
Pierre Mothes 197 000
Robert Kalka 190 000
Fred Blehaut 189 000
Marcel Diel 187 000
Mohamed Assaad 184 000
Mohamed Razab Sekh 182 000
Mathias Derruan 172 000

Frank konrad 170,000
Gonzalo Araujo 168,000
Wesley Peinen 168,000
David Janssen 167,000
Rachid Oufaska 167,000
Chris Rubbini 167,000
Jan Kamps 164,000
Mohamed Bakkal 156,000
Harum Karakus 155,000
Raian Motte 153,000

Mehidi Sahli 152,000
Stijn van den Meerschaut 151 000
Coralie Gilson 140 000
Erwin Dijkman 139 000
Rolando Camardes 136 000
Fernando Pedrosa 135 000
Luciano Di Stefano 131 000
Michiel Jonker 129 000
Yves Sergeant 128 000
Ian van Hove 125 000

Thomas Evrard 124 000
Dominique Woiry 122 000
Ludovic Ruperto 122 000
Daniel Mueller 117 000
Bart Maes 109 000
Eric Denizart 105 000
Eric Bakker 105 000
Norman Bultot 101 000
Imran Chauhdy 95 000
Greg van der Weckene 84 000

Cyril Fabre 40 000
Damiano Nigro 34 000

552 entries on Day 1G

Attendance at the €350 Oktoberfest Mystery Bounty is not far off the 1,500-player mark, and the provisional global prizepool is now approaching €430,000.

On the penultimate starting day, levels were recently extended to 40 minutes. The blinds are 1,000 - 2,500 (2,500), and it looks as though a short break will take place at the end of this level.

Then it's back to 80 minutes and two final levels before Day 2 at 2 p.m. on Saturday... 

Oktoberfest Mystery Bounty €350	Day 1A	1B	1C	1D	1E	1F	1G	1H
Qualified	52	20	24	30	60	13 (197)	in progress	in progress
Traffic	223	82	120	123	251	35 (834)	552 (1.386)

Top 250

There are 20 minutes of play left on 1000 - 2500 (2500) on JOur 1G of the Oktoberfest and 250 players on track for Day 2. The average is now 110,000 chips and the boss seems to be Antoine Delporte (pictured) with 310,000. Yoan Argence is also in the field with 80,000 chips, the same stack as the man who fired Max on the Summer Festival Mystery Bounty, Prash Somas, who also arrived late

It's all over for Eric Boge, Jean-Claude Dahm, Guy de Mesmaeker, Erik Bakker, Gerrit Vos, Luc Viry, Sebastien Cozijn and Luc Viry... players who can still try to reach Day 2 via the Day 1H Turbo.

Extra-Time

After a 20-minute break to clear the 100 chips, the game resumes for two 40-minute levels, heading for Day 2. 

Day 1G continues at blinds 1500 - 3000 (3000) and there are 222 in the running, with an average of 42 blinds... Paul van Oort (photo) had a very short break as he checked-raised river to push an opponent all-in on Ten 7 2 8 9 with three hearts on the turn. His opponent was unhappy and folded after an eternity. This enabled the Dutchman to sail into the lead with 220,000 chips. 

It's finito for Eric Denizart, Bart Maes, Franck Rene, Anthony Bui Ngoc, Damiano Nigro, Fred Blehaut or Matias de la Sala and Wesley Peinen who have until ten past midnight to join the Day 1H Last Chance Turbo. 

Chipcount
Hendrik Blokdijk 300 000
Bayram Guezeli 280 000
Jan Bobbaerts 245 000
Alexandru Sandu 237 000
Paul van Oort 220 000
Bart van Heugten 200 000
Ibrahima Diaby 200 000
Melvin Maas 190 000
Audrey Petitjean 180 000
Remco Brok 185 000
Prash Somas 100 000

Rush Hour

There are 58 minutes left to play on the penultimate starting day, and the field has just been whittled down to 200 players. With 18 minutes left to play before the blinds are raised for the final time, we're still competing on 1500 - 3000 (3000) with an average of 138,000 chips.


Dominique Fassin, Dennie Cordromp, Pascal Groshens, David Motte, Christophe Colantoni, Davy Peleman and Julien Burckel have no option but to try their luck on the Turbo to reach Day 2... 

Last Level

The blinds are raised one last time, and it's time for the level contested on 2000 - 4000 (4000), the final hurdle of Day 1G of the Oktoberfest, which brought together 552 entrants.

There are still 182 players in the running to reach Day 2, with an average of 150,000 chips. Bart van Heugten (pictured) took the lead with 390,000 chips, ahead of Mohamed Taabouni (370,000) and Giuliano Beerensteyn (340,000). Muriel Gomez Aragon (250,000), Audrey Petitjean (280,000) and Antoine Delporte (290,000) are also well placed... 

1,578 entries and €455,754 prizepool at Oktoberfest

Registration is now closed for Day 1H Turbo and thus for the €35 Oktoberfest 2024. This Mystery Bounty tournament finally attracted 1,578 entrants over 8 starting days. This resulted in a total prize pool of €455,754.

On Day 1H turbo, it's level 11 and blinds 1000 - 2500 (2500) with 120 players in the running for 192 entrants. The average is 80,000 chips and levels are 20 minutes on this ultimate flight...

Oktoberfest Mystery Bounty €350	Day 1A	1B	1C	1D	1E	1F	1G	1H	Day 2
Qualified	52	20	24	30	60	13 (197)	150 (348)	in progress
Traffic	223	82	120	123	251	35	552	192	1,578 entries

74 qualifiers on the 1H Turbo, Kok Wai Ho finishes strong

The eighth and final day of qualifying stretched over 3 hours 30 of poker and 13 levels... 74 more players cleared the hurdle to secure a ticket for Saturday's 2 p.m. Day 2.

421 players bagged chips for the restart over 40-minute niveaxes, the €350 Mystery Bounty component of the Oktoberfest will come into play at the cash entry, with just under 15% of the field of 1,578 entrants registered at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur.

Attendance smashed the guarantee and players in the money will share just over €455,000... the biggest bonus will be a 5-figure bonus around €20,000!  

In the last-chance Turbo 1H, Kok Wai Ho took the biggest stack with 386,000 chips. He will be joined on Day 2 by the likes of Gaetano Morecci, Lukas Trzcinski, Max Zeroual, JS Denissa, Pascal Groshens and Tim Verheyen... 

Oktoberfest Mystery Bounty €350	Day 1A	1B	1C	1D	1E	1F	1G	1H	Day 2
Qualified	52	20	24	30	60	13	150	74	421
Traffic	223	82	120	123	251	35	552	192	1,578 entries

Partial chipcount Day 1H (full chipcount in doc.below as soon as possible)
Kok Wai Ho 386 000
Willem de Jong 288 000
Geissler 237 000
Max Zeroual 229 000
Pascal Groshens 227 000
JS Denissa 227 000
Wahid Daas 215 000
Stephane Buchs 191 000
Gaetano Morecci 190 000
Tim Verheyen 176 000
Lukas Trzcinski 156 000
Wesley Peinen 87 000
Stephane Meo 68 000

150 qualifiers on Day 1G, Rens Buijs chipleader

He had 65,000 chips with 80 minutes to go, and finished in the lead with 591,000. Belgian Rens Buijs had another great time at the Circus Casino Resort in his home town of Namur. Rens topped the biggest flight of the Oktoberfest, beating 149 other survivors from a field of 552 entrants. Enough to pose with his club mates...

With the 197 qualifiers from previous sessions, and pending the results of Day 1H Turbo, these are 347 players booked tickets for Day 2 from Saturday 2 p.m. Day 2 will be contested over 40-minute levels, and will feature just over €457,000 to share, as the tournament finally attracted 1,578 entrants! 

Among the 150 qualifiers on Day 1G, a number of regulars raised chips. Danny Ummels (583,000), Bayram Guezeli (498,000 - photo), Ludovic Lehaire (400,000), Ken Claessens (413,000), Eric Denizart (332,000), Daniel Dodet (324,000), Gregory Biermans (335,000) and Peter de Bruin (392,000) were all well positioned. 

Paul van Oort, Giuliano Beerensteyn, Muriel Gomez Aragon, Reda Belhou, Mischa Wieten, Patrick Aerts and Mohamed Taabouni (360,000 - photo) will also be in the money.

All of them will be on Day 2 on Saturday, hunting for the big prize once they've entered the money at around 15% of the field. The prize pool is €457,000, including €197,000 in Mystery bonuses. There should be two Max bounties at €25,000, with one of the two saved for Day 3!

Full Chipcount of this flight to come as soon as possible in the document below and in the Day 2 report... 

Chipcount partial Day 1G

Rens Buijs 591 000
Danny Ummels 583 000
Bayram Guezeli 498 000
Vincent Touil 445 000
Ken Claessens 413 000
Bart van Heugten 407 000
Ludovic Lehaire 400 000
Peter de Bruin 392 000
Mohamed Taabouni 360 000
Antoine Delporte 344 000

Gregory Biermans 335 000
Dieter Vandelle 335 000
Eric Denizart 332 000
Quentin Roussey 325 000
Daniel Dodet 324 000
Mehidi Sahili 313 000
Lavigne 313 000
Giuliano Beerensteyn 307 000
Stéphane Blaser 300 000
Nicolas Kojovic 284 000

Denis Verbruggen 283 000
Cyril Jacquin 255 000
Muriel Gomez Aragon 240 000
Audrey Petitjean 231 000
Paul van Oort 200 000
Mischa Wieten 182 000
Patrick Aerts 175 000
David Ramillon 130 000
Reda Belkhou 103 000