Turbo mon Amour

Day 1D is the fifth of seven starting days for this €250 Spirit Main Event. Play got underway at 9.30pm, with 13 15-minute levels on the schedule, heading into Day 2 at 2pm on Saturday...

Level 6 has just begun, with 20 players competing in blinds 500 - 1000 (1000)... registration closes at midnight 25! Thierry Bay, Dimitri d'Ortona, Stephane Balser, Stephane Meo, Kevin Muders, Mohamed Razkou Allah as well as Giovanni Ventura, Nengming Wang and David Olurebi are all on track for this flight...

Spirit Fest	Extra Spa	1A	1B	1C	1D	1E	1F	1G Turbo	Day 2
Qualified	10	30	41 (81)	In progress	In progress
Inputs	56	126	157	242 (581)	26 (in progress)

34 entries on Day 1D

The final break of the Spirit Fest's €250 JOur 1D is underway... 18 players will return in a few minutes for the final two 15-minute rounds.

Circus Casino Resort de Namur has received 34 entries for this flight, bringing the provisional attendance to 615 before a traditionally massive Friday! 

Spirit Fest	Extra Spa	1A	1B	1C	1D	1E	1F	1G Turbo	Day 2
Qualified	10	30	41 (81)	73	In progress
Inputs	56	126	157	242 (581)	34 (615)

Already 165 qualifiers for Day 2

After 13 levels and 6 hours 30 minutes at poker, 73 players finally bagged chips on Day 1C of the Spirit Fest. This brings the total number of qualifiers for Day 2 at 2pm on Saturday to 165 players, ahead of what promises to be a massive Friday!

After 5 of the 7 starting days, attendance has climbed to 615 entries... this should double tomorrow with two flights and the start of Day 1E at 3pm. Richard Van Wingerden will be quietly at home in the Netherlands. The Dutchman confided to us that he needed to "build a big stack". "I never play tournaments but I wanted to change... after that I've got a three-hour drive so I wouldn't come back if I didn't have a big stack at the end of the day," he added, wrapping up the tournament's overall chiplead with 616,000 chips. 

With more than 12 times the starting stack, King Richard has taken the lead... he had a rather quiet day, still at the top of the leaderboard. This was enough to put him ahead of Tino de Zutter, who pulled off a huge comeback in the last 45 minutes of play. "I held out for 3 hours at 30,000 chips", confided the Belgian, who finally bagged 457,000 chips when he had 14,000 an hour before! 

Rachid Sekkai was the last to give up, but Ismail Demir, Ekn Kandemir, TanguyPetitjean, Arnaud Desbrosses, Fabio d'Annolfo, Fabien Garcia, Andreas Gondrom, Ivo Hermans, Servne Barrault and the day's host, Ali Jabbar...

Chipcount to come as soon as possible! 

Spirit Fest	Extra Spa	1A	1B	1C	1D	1E	1F	1G Turbo	Day 2
Qualified	10	30	41 (81)	73 (154)	11 (165)
Inputs	56	126	157	242 (581)	34 (615)

Partial Chipcount Day 1C
Richard van Wingerden 616,000
Tino de Zutter 457,000
Sofian El Yachou 404,000
Ismail Demir 366,000
Ali Jabbar 339,000
Frank Richter 339,000
Bogdan Petrascu 332,000
Gianni Ferrone 328,000
Fabio d'Annolfo 309,000
Pascal Honai 265,000

Romain Thomassier 248,000
Vincent Touil 245,000
Ekin Kandemir 202,000
Fabien Garcia 200,000
Tanguy Petitjean 199,000
Yoann Huyghe 192,000
Jan Kars 183,000
David Garcet 170,000
Sajjid Miah 155,000
Arnaud Desbrosses 141 000

Nathalie Zeep 138 000
Maradona Abaz 128 000
Dylan Dereuddre 126 000
Claudio Guadagnino 70 000
Ivo Hermans 60 000
Andreas Gondrom 47 000
Servane Barrault 26 000

Mohamed shaves Day D

It was Mohamed Razkou Allah who finished top of a Day D that saw 11 of the 34 entrants bag up chips. This brings the contingent of qualifiers for Saturday's 2 p.m. Day 2 to 165 players ahead of the final two sessions of what promises to be a massive Friday.

With 311,000 pawns on the restart out of 3,000 - 6,000 (6,000) on Saturday, Mohamed will be in the right money, so he won't have to come back deman for what promises to be a long day, starting at 3 p.m. for Day 1E players. 

Raphael Muller, Stephane Meo, Dimitri D'Ortona and Nengming Wang also cleared the hurdle on Day 1D, which was contested over 13 quarter-hour levels... 

Full chipcount 1D
Mohamed Razkou-Allah 311,000
Dimitri D'Ortona 253,000
Nengming Wang161,000
Raphael Muller 158,000
Levi Mulders 153,000
David Lehnen 152,000
Stephane Meo 141,000
Damien Di Pasquale 139,000
Jeffrey van Hamburg 102,000
Guy Aiden 81,000
Isaac Borghouts 80,000

Spirit Fest	Extra Spa	1A	1B	1C	1D	1E	1F	1G Turbo	Day 2
Qualified	10	30	41 (81)	73 (154)	11 (165)
Inputs	56	126	157	242 (581)	34 (615)

Complete Spirit Fest Chipcount in the document below