Big Bang approaching

More than 100 bookings, already 50 payments with 3 hours to go, a huge queue at the entrance to the Circus Casino Resort in Namur from 2pm... Day 1E is shaping up to be Dantesque! 

242 players to start! 

Day 1E is already the biggest of the Spirit Fest at €250 per entry. Play begins at blinds 100 - 200 (200) with 242 players in the running with 50,000 chips!

13 half-hour levels are scheduled, with 4 levels and two hours to play before the first half-hour break between 5 and 5.30 p.m. Afterwards, the organizers will announce the day's schedule, with a dinner break split into two groyupes in view of the large turnout.

It's a holiday, everyone's here! Registrations and re-entries are permitted until the start of level 11, at around 10 p.m... For latecomers and the unlucky, last chances to qualify from 9.30 p.m. on Day 1F Turbo!

165 players have validated their ticket for Saturday's Day 2, which will be contested over 40-minute levels... and a ton of them are dreaming of joining them.

Keep Growing

The first level ended with 280 players in the running for 282 entrants. The Ocean Room opened with 4 tables... then 4 new tables started filling up before the dealers were even in place.

There are players everywhere as the game is played over 100 - 300 (300) with an average of 50,400 chips... 

300+

Level 3 of the 6th and penultimate starting day of the €250 Spirit Main Event gets underway... with 320 players seated at the tables of the Circus Casino Resort in Namur.

The table shows 325 entrants, while the game is now being played on blinds 200 - 400 (400). The average is still not at 51,000 chips on what promises to be a crazy day. 

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With 29 minutes left to play in blinds 300 - 600 (600), the fourth level of Day 1E has begun at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur. 

Attendance continues to climb, with 370 seated players for 390 entrants!

Overall attendance topped the 1,000 mark, generating a provisional kitty of €204,000.... 

Knock Knock

Who's there? Everyone, my friend. The regulars have all turned up, and there's no question of arriving in dribs and drabs - it's a holiday and we're playing at poker!

BPC winner Samy Barka, David Ethuin, Abdel Chenoufi, Dennie Cordromp, Heidi Croonenborgs, Laurent Brach, Alexis Houspie, Samuel Bovy, Mathias Moutaoukil, Bayram Guezeli, Ayhan Taner, Marcel Berger, Luc Boeckx, Arnaud Danes or Bayer Demirci are in the game.

Marc Hanesse, Jackie Hu, Somsong Intharanop, Claudio Guadgnino, Eric Goffin, Michele Galatola, Theo Erkamps, Louison Dury and Alexandra Kouao also feature in this massive flight. Yacine Naciri, Fred Motte, Kim Pauwels, David Olurebi, Pascal Masset, Eddy Meyfroot, Viorel Merisan, Kevin Leite, Mischa Wieten and Alexandra Quach also took part.

Walter van Camberg, Anne Trebitsch, Farukh Tach, Xavier Salcede, Chau Han Soo, Alexis Renard, Octavian Ripan, Pascal Vos as well as Denneth Roders and Robert Kalka also have chips in front of them. The list is not exhaustive, of course.

Thank you all for your loyalty and good luck on this massive day! There's still a quarter of an hour to go before the first break, with 380 players currently in the running for 404 entries. 

Have a Break

The staff at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur take a beating on Day 1E of the Spirit Fest. There are players everywhere, and the half-hour break has been extended by 5 minutes to allow everyone to leave the room and come back for a break.

At the end of the first four levels, 400 players (for 443 entrants) had taken a break... while play had not resumed, the counter now showed 420 players in the running for 463 entrants!

The prize pool now stands at €220,000...

Chipcount
Ludovic Foucher 166 000
Didier Bergougnan 161 00
Thomas Dirheimer 156 000
Kobe Wauters 154 000
Laurens Haspeslagh 151 000
Nicolas Monet 142 000
Kim Pauwels 137 000
Jan Schilmoeller 137 000
Thomas Atkins 119 000
Enzo Bourlois 118 000
Serguei Ivanoff 115 000
David Olurebi 114 000
Kevin Borens 103 000
Cliff Maertens 101 000
Krzysztof Kulpa 100 000
Gino Scazzar 94 000
Kevin van Ballen 91 000
Denneth Rodgers 91 000
Fred Renard 86 000
Simon Crowe 75 000
Rudi van Mol 74 000
Philippe Dosogne 68 000
Wesley Lonnoy 65 000
Mathias Moutaoukil 64 000
Alexis Renard 51 000

Toujours Plus

Play resumed two minutes ago at blinds 400 - 800 (800) for the 5th of 13 levels on this mammoth day. During the break, players continued to enter, bringing the provisional attendance to 465 and the prizepool to €222,000.

Over forty tables are open on Day 1E of the Spirit Fest Main Event! 

Quads

Play continues in blinds 500 - 1000 (100) and the leaderboard shows 410 players on track for 491 entrants on this 6th and penultimate starting day of the €250 Spirit Fest.

The average is 61,000 chips and Angelo Mantegna is looking ahead. Angelo opens under the gun and gets paid three times, betting 7,000 chips on a 5 9 3 flop and getting a payer... the Belgian pushes straight to the King turn... He's snapped by his only opponent, who returns Ace-King. Angelo reveals three of a kind and hits the last 5 of the river pack to confirm his advantage. Ace-King no good, heading for 115,000 chips for Angelo! 

Well on track

There are 10 minutes left to play in blinds 500 - 1000 (1000), with 405 players in the running for 497 entries and an average of 62,000 chips. The walls continue to come down at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur.

Winner of the BPC, Samy Barka couldn't resist a €250 tournament offering such a handsome prizepool. The Frenchman has arrived on the 5th level, and is already up to 130,000 chips... in particular, he has just won a multiway pot on a board with a Jack's double - his Aces held!

There's now €230,000 in the pot, and the 1,100-entry mark has also been passed. Day 1F Turbo has been delayed by an hour, and will now start at 10.30pm...

Special lunch break

The last-chance opening day was moved back an hour, with a 10.30pm kick-off... the organization also communicated a shared dinner break.

The field was split into two groups. Players at tables 18 to 45 will take a dinner break at 7.05 p.m. for 75 minutes. During this time, the second group will play two levels...

At 8.05 p.m., the second group, made up of players from tables 101 to 118, will also go for a meal. A quarter of an hour later, the first group returns from their break to play two levels before joining up at 9.20pm... 

Early Dinner

Another 10 minutes of play on level 7... and the first group will be leaving for a dinner break straight away. Players at tables 18 to 48 will have a 75-minute break after battling it out over blinds 600 - 1200 (1200).

Players in the secondary room will play two more levels before taking a 75-minute dinner break. The junction will take place on level 10, the last of the late registrations, from 9.20pm. Late reg' until 9.50 p.m. on Day 1E, with Day 1F Turbo starting at 10.30 p.m.!

These logistical considerations don't prevent the field from continuing to swell. There are currently 418 players in the running for 551 registrations on this huge flight. Provisional attendance is approaching 1,200 entries, with a prize pool of €241,000! 

Dinner Break (I)

The first group took a break at 8:20 p.m. after playing 7 half-hour levels...

The second group continued playing at the end of level 600 - 1200 (1200) and went on break at 8.05 p.m. for 75 minutes...

The field currently stands at 413 players for 578 entrants on this massive Day 1E. Late registration ends just before 10 p.m.!

The prize pool now stands at €247,000, so we take a look at the stacks of players in the break so far...

Chipcount
Samy Barka 284,000
Laurens Haspeslagh 214,000
Dario Mancuso 190,000
Adil Benkhaled 161,000
Loic Maddens 148,000
Nicolas Monet 146,000
Elias Heise 145,000
Raffaello di Benedetto 135,000
Jens Noel 130,000
Philip Meyer 130 000
Kilian Hauviler 128 000
Enzo Bourlois 124 000
Denneth Rodgers 123 000
Nicolas Nicolopoulos 123 000
Moulay Benharrat 121 000
Mathias Moutaoukil 109 000
Kevin van Badden 104 000
Sebastian Benes 95 000

Dinner Break (II)

Play resumes on 800 - 1600 (1600) for the first group, which has just taken a 75-minute dinner break. The second group, which played this level and then level 1000 - 2000 (2000), leaves for a dinner break after having played 9 levels. They join up at 9:20 p.m. for the kick-off of level 10, the last level of the late registration.

The players in the second group have played longer and there are a few more big stacks in this Ocean Room... the tournament boss seems to be Fred Max with 382,000 chips, just over 7 times the starting stack.

When the first group resumed, the table showed 402 players in for 586 registered on Day 1E, with an average of 73,000 chips! 

Chipcount
Frederic Max 382 000
Jay Hoebe 233 000
Stephen Bourdon 222 000
Aziz Laib 222 000
Alexandra Quach 209 000
Mischa Wieten 195 000
Sebastie Semal 184 000
Tahar Bibot 183 000
Greg van der Weckene 175 000
Louison Dury 161 000

Fernando Pedrosa 154 000
Kevin Pietquin 143 000
Pierre Pezzuto 135 000
Samuel Bovy 132 000
Serguei Skyrpnikov 125 000
Leon van der Velden 115 000
Christophe Alexandre 112 000
Mohamed Boulakhrif 111 000
Walter van Camberg 110 000
Leandro Morais 108 000

Heni Mokni 95 000
Leo Toque 84 000
Chau Han Soo 79 000
Romain Becker 60 000
Yoann Argence 52 000
Pascal Masset 51 000

600+

While one group is still on dinner break, joining at 9.20 p.m. 1000 - 2500 (2500) for the last half-hour of late registration, Day 1E attendance has climbed to 606 entrants! Currently, 387 players are still on this penultimate flight of the Spirit Fest at €250 per entry...


These figures, not yet definitive for the opening day, are set to rise further as Day 1F Turbo, contested over 15-minute levels, gets underway at 10:30 p.m., with registration open until at least 1 a.m.!

At the moment, there's €257,250 in the prize pool and provisional attendance stands at 1,271! 

Namur Junction

With the dinner break over, all the players still in contention on Day 1E are seated at the tables at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur. It's level 10, with 27 minutes left to play on 1000 - 2500 (2500) and just as much time to enter or re-enter this sixth of seven Spirit Fest flights at €250 per entry.

377 players are still in the running for 612 entries, bringing the total provisional attendance to 1,227 and the prize pool to almost 260,000€. Numbers are set to climb a little higher on Day 1E, before Day 1F gets underway at 10:30 p.m., with 13 quarter-hour levels and another 10 levels of late registration...

Some 50 players have already registered for 1F...

621 entries on E Day

Registration is closed for the penultimate chance to qualify for Day 2 of the €250 Spirit Fest. The 11th level has begun and 320 players are competing in blinds 1500 - 3000 (3000). 

Circus Casino Resort de Namur welcomed 621 entrants on this massive flight! Leavers and latecomers can now head to Day 1F Turbo... 84 players have already registered, with play starting at 10.30pm for 13 levels of 15 minutes each... 

Last break

Play resumes on blinds 2000 - 4000 (4000) after a slightly longer break to give everyone a chance to catch their breath. 282 players return from the 621 entries on Day 1E. The average is 109,000 chips, giving us the opportunity to take stock of the players in the main room...

Meanwhile, Day 1F Turbo got underway with 115 entries! 13 quarter-hour levels are on the schedule for this ultimate flight, which is also set to be a sell-out...

Chipcount
Marcel Schaeffer 283 000
Samy Barka 249 000
Jan Schilmoeller 255 000
David Olurebi 246 000
Tonio Ruggiu 233 000
Jonas Bauerdick 232 000
Jens Noel 231 000
Sofiane Tigrine 212 000
Pascal Vos 211 000
Olivier Hegy 208 000
Daan Vandewalle 207 000
Loic Maddens 205 000
Jonas De Jaeger 203 000
Benjamin Narbonne 203 000
Rudi van Mol 202 000 (photo)
Maxim Brandibas 194 000
Sebastien van looy 192 000
Nisad Muratovic 192 000
Roy Peeters 191 000
Serguei Ivanoff 183 000
Sem van Wortswinkels 180 000
Mathias Moutaoukil 179 000
Andreas van Deyck 162 000
Kevin van Balen 160 000
Fabien Ayadi 141 000
Andy Verhelst 140 000
Ferat Vysal 131 000

Sprint

The final level of Day 1E is underway, and play is running at 2000 - 5000 (5000) with 226 players still in contention... a ton of players yet!

The average is 138,000 chips for these last few minutes of play... 

188 players cross a Dantesque flight

The Circus Casino Resort in Namur pushed back its walls on Day 1E, with over forty tables open. This resulted in 621 entries, taking the field to over 1,200. The numbers will be finalized at the end of Turbo 1F, where registrations are still possible and where there have already been more than 180 additional entries. There's almost €290,000 in the prizepool already! 

At the end of 13 half-hour levels, it was an old hand who came out on top. David Olurebi put 546,000 chips and almost 11 times his starting stack in the bag for Day 2, which gets underway on Saturday at 2pm, in blinds 3000 - 6000(6000). And on 40-minute levels. So far, 353 players have returned! 

Donato Sparavilla rounded off the Top 5 in a crowded field with no escapees except the chipleader. Abdel Chenoufi, Andreas van Deyck, Leo Toque, Sofian Tigrine, Patrick Jouven, Claudio Guadagnino as well as Laurent Brach, Samy Barka, Samuel Bovy, Mathias Moutaoukil and Robert Kalka all passed through... 

Partial Chipcount Day 1E (complete in the documentbelow as soon as possible)
David Olurebi 546 000
Jens Noel 440 000
Wuyts Seppe 431 000
Laurens Haspeslagh 405 000
Donato Sparavilla 385 000

Kamel Boutayeb 383 000
Sebastien Semal 365 000
Dario Mancuso 336 000
Tahar Bibot 319 000
Andreas van Deyck 288 000
Jan Soch 281 000
Claudio Guadagnino 266 000
Johann Berger 263 000
Laurent Brach 253 000
Samy Barka 250 000

Samuel Bovy 246 000
Chau Han Soo 239 000
De Waegenere 238 000
Thomas Atkins 227 000
Leo Toque 211 000
Kevin Spiesser 202 000
Walter van Camberg 185 000
Loic Maddens 178 000
Sofian Tigrine 174 000
Mathias Moutaoukil 163 000

Robert Kalka 158 000
Olivier Hegy 156 000
Didier Bergougnan 114 000
Patrick Jouven 82 000
Abdel Chenoufi 71 000

77 more qualifiers on the last-chance Turbo

Day 1F, contested over 15-minute levels, attracted 208 entrants, with 77 players bagging chips at the end of the 13 levels on the program.

This small group of players will join Day 2 on Saturday at 2 p.m., forming a pool of 430 qualifiers. With the tournament at stack choice, the number of qualifiers is expected to be slightly smaller when the 40-minute levels resume... 

Monsour Ghassemi was the most efficient player in this last session, turning 50,000 chips into 363,000, a nice nest egg on the resumption on 3000 - 6000 (6000)...

He will be joined by Gaetano Moreci, Ludovic Ruperto, Alexandra Quach, Dominique Potenza, Farukh Tach, Dang Nguyen or Taner Ayhan, all qualified on Day 1F... 

Partial Chipcount Day 1F
Monsour Ghassemi 363 000
Mike Gysbrechts 272 000
Ludovic Ruperto 250 000
Jean-Luc Fournier 244 000
Gaetano Moreci 236 000
Andreas Kreilein 212 000
Wai Kee Tang 201 000
Dominiqu Potenza 175 000
Jaroro Weihrauch 166 000
Simon Perez 148 000
Alexandra Quach 146 000
Ayhan Taner 122 000
Marcel Berger 69 000
Bayer Demirci 68 000
Dang Nguyen 65 000
Alexis Renard 55 000


Chipcount complete as soon as possible in the document below.below.