En Avant les Mystères

Event #15 Mystery Bounty €350 is the DNA of the Circus Casino Resort d'Namur: a reasonable buy-in and fun with a big field!

This two-day tournament features two starting days. Day 1A started at 3pm with 30-minute levels and 13 levels on the program... Day 1B starts at 8pm with 20-minute levels...

Junction on Sunday at 2pm for a Final Day with 30-minute levels... Around 15% of the field will enter the money, when the Mystery Envelopes will be put into play. From each entry fee, €100 goes into the prize pool.

On each starting day, registration is open for 10 levels, i.e. until 9.50 p.m. on Day 1A (and around midnight on Day 1B).

The tournament got off to a strong start: after 30 minutes of play on the first starting day, there were already 100 players in the running for 102 entries...

Keep Growing

Level 4 is underway on Day 1A of the €350 Mystery Bounty Event #15, with 114 players in the running for 130 entrants and an average of 45,000 chips on blinds 200 - 500 (500).

The tournament guarantees a €25,000 prize pool, which should make for another successful run at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur. Anthony Bui Ngoc, Noah Alem, Pakinze Altunsoy, Lukas Trzcinski, Samir Bou Dahdir, Gaetano Morecci, Bryan de Riddere, Theo Erkamps, Guillaume Fontaine, Bayer Demirci, Moncef Karoui, Kader Slila, Jonathan Masson, Danny Ummels or Anne Trebitsch are on this tournament... Walter van Camberg and Carina Voncken too. 

Play by Play

Play continues on Day 1A of Event #15 Mystery Bounty with isncritions still open for another good hour. It's currently Level 9, and 85 of the 175 entries are still in the running.

The game is being played on blinds 600 - 1200 (1200), which will also be the blinds for level 10. After this doubled level, a short break will allow latecomers to register in-extremis...

In this field we still find Ken Claessens, Anthony Bui Ngoc, Yann Nasser, Walid Belmessaoud, Stephane Croes, Claudine Couppe, Theo Erkamps, Ekin Kandemir or Robert Seleen...

Day 1B of the Mystery Bounty began at 8 p.m., with 13 levels scheduled for the opening day. Levels here are 20 minutes long, and the 22 entrants in this final flight are still on track at the very end of Level 2.

Fabio Percio, Sebastien Hebette, Gaetano Moreci, Jordy Sanchez and Claus Spiekermann are all in contention on this faster-paced day, which is due to finish around 1am.

Late entries allowed until just before midnight on this flight...

49 qualifiers on Day 1a

The first of the two opening days of the €350 Summer Festival Mystery Bounty Event #15 attracted 181 entrants... only 49 remained in the running after 13 half-hour levels on Saturday.

Circus France executive Prash Somas was the biggest stack of the first session, bagging 361,500 chips - 9 times the starting stack... 

Dennie Cordromp, Bryan de Riddere, Moncef Karoui, Kader Slila, Yann Nasser, Anthony Bui Ngoc and Lukas Trzcinski also had a great day, positioning themselves for the Final Day... 

Play will resume on 1000 - 2500 (2500), Sunday at 2pm. The Mystery Bounty component of the tournament will be activated from the money entry, at around 15% of the remaining field... 

Full chipcount Day 1A (missing players are anonymous)
Prash Somas 361,500
Heinz Peters 307,500
Dennie Cordromp 296,000
Stephane Blaser 293,500
Arnoldus Thomassen 282,500
Mitch Thomassen 246,500
Bryan de Riddere 237,500
Tom Sagnal 230,000
Moncef Karoui 223,500

Francois Jaecque 215 000
Johnny Steimetz 215 000
Kader Slila 210 000
Patryk Chromy 207 000
Yann Nasser 205 000
Lukas Oster 182 000
Egemen Orhan 181 000
Anthony Bui Ngoc 167 000
Tibor Seenbrink 158 000
Stefan Fischer 158 000

Lukas Trzcinski 157 000
Fred Goedefroy 134 500
Pascal Huguin 133 500
Ekin Kandemir 130 000
Mehdi Rebai 126 000
Anne Trebitsch 116 000
Giel Timmers 115 000
Aurelie Dassi 113 000

Pascal Protin 108,000
Nick Penning 95,500
Leopold Darcheville 73,500
Guillaume Fontaine 72,500
Andy Victorion 71,500
Chau Han Soo 69,000
Roel Kohlen 62,500
Kobe Vandepitte 60,000
Damien Podvin 55,000

237 entries on Mystery Bounty

Registration is closed for Day 1B of Event #15 Mystery Bounty. 31 of the 56 entrants on this second and final opening day are still battling it out at the end of level 11... with two 20-minute levels left to play.

49 players have already qualified for Day 2, which starts on Sunday. Who will join them? Among the contenders still in the running are Djamal Boutaleb, Bayer Demirci, Sam Hilger, Julien Lauer, Robert Seelen, Gaetano Morecci and Remco Verbakel...

These regulars are battling it out to take part in Day 2, where a prizepool of €39,058 will be shared, plus €23,700 in bonuses. Bounties activated on entry into the money at around 15% of the remaining field...

See you at the end of the day for the full chipcount of qualifiers...

65 players on Day 2 of the Mystery Bounty

Day 1B of the €350 Event #15 is in the books. 16 players joined the 49 qualifiers from the first flight to form a contingent of 65 players on Day 2 of this tournament, which attracted 237 entrants.

The action resumes on Sunday at 2 p.m. with the aim of entering the money, when Mystery bonuses will be introduced. Players will share just over €62,000 on this Final Day! 

Dutchman Melvin Maas bagged the most chips, ahead of Morocco's Anouar Boushab and Belgium's Dimitri Devert. At the back of the pack, Gaetano Morecci bagged 1,000 chips, while Sam Hilger bagged 4,000! 

Chipcount complete 1B*
Melvin Maas 303,500
Anouar Boushab 286,000
Dimitri Devert 192,000
Julien Lauer 189,000
Tufan Solak 156,500
Harun Karakus 153,000
Olivier Ghanem 148,000
Giuseppe Soffio 131,000
Florian Moreno 96,500
Robert Seelen 70,000
Sylvester Fernande 66,000
Sam Hilger 4000
Gaetano Morecci 1000

* 3 players have requested anonymity

31 places paid, €7,500 for the champion

Mystery Bounties come into play from the cash access at 31 left of this €350 entry Event #15 Mystery Bounty. There will be 65 of them when the action resumes on Sunday from 2pm at Circus Casino Resort in Namur...


Event #15 Mystery Bounty payout
Winner - €7,500
Runner Up - €5,040
3rd - €3,600
4th - €2,800
5th - €2,140
6th - €1,750
7th - €1,500
8th - 1 280 €
9th - 1 105 €
10 - 11th - 960 €
12 - 13th - 825 €
14 - 15th - 710€
16 - 17th - 595€
18 - 20th - 520€
21 - 23rd - 455€
24 - 27th - 400€
28 - 31st - 350€

Two €5,000 premiums up for grabs on Sunday

Mystery Bounties come into play from the cash access at 31 left of this €350 entry Event #15 Mystery Bounty. There will be 65 of them when the action resumes on Sunday from 2pm at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur...

Mystery Rewards
2 €5,000 bonuses
3 €2,500 bonuses
4 €1,000 bonuses
5 €500 bonuses
6 €250 bonuses
11 €150 bonuses

Draw Again Bonus
1 bonus €2,200 CPS Ticket
1 bonus €150
1 bonus €125

Seatdraw in the document below

First Break

It's the first break of Day 2 on the Mystery Bounty... the money and the Mystery Bounty action is not so far away as the game resumes at 4.20pm with 39 players for 31 paid places, when the Mystery Bounty will start with nearly €62,000 to share in total.

Two €5,000 bounties are up for grabs, and that won't be the case this time for Moncef Karoui, Roel Kohlen, Heinz Peters, Leopold Darcheville, Gaetano Morecci, Sam Hilger, Chau Han Soo, Pascal Protin and Nick Penning, all of whom have been eliminated since the resumption of play at 2pm.

The cards are back on 4000 - 8000 (8000) with an average of 234,000 chips or almost 30 blinds. ... 

No Rebuy for Mehdi

The bubble for Mehdi Rebai in this €350 Mystery Bounty Event #15. The Tunisian player went all-in after Bryan de Riddere opened for 44,000 chips from blinds 6000 - 12,000 (12,000). Bryan pays with a Queen Ten to hit a River Ten and in-extremis pass Mehdi's Ace King, who leaves empty-handed.

There are 22 minutes left in this level, the average is 305,000 chips and the first envelope draw will take place at the end of this level as a break is scheduled.

Antony Bui Ngoc, Melvin Maas, Ekin Kandemir, Moncef Karoui, Dimitri Devert and Patryk Chromy gave up shortly before the bubble and are no longer in the running for the two €5,000 bonuses, unlike Kader Slila.

Kader leads the way with 1.4 million chips, ahead of Prash Somas (800,000), Yann Nasser (400,000) and Anne Trebitsch (400). Aurélie Dassi is also in the running, but with just 200,000...

Ouch

As the first bounty draw got underway, Kader Slila and Prash Somas engaged in a duel between big stacks. Kader opened under the gun and Prash called in position to discover a Ten 7 5 flop on which he raised to 83,000 chips after a continuation bet. Slila responded with a 3-bet to 215,000 chips and Somas went nowhere!

On turn 6, Kader Slila bet 300,000 chips and snapped the Parisian's 640,000-chip stack. With a trio of 5s in his hands, Slila was well placed to bust his chiplead as Prash revealed ten and seven suiter for two pair. The river 10 dropped Kader Slila to 650,000 chips, while Prash soared to 1.7 million! 

The draw then went to Bryan de Riddere, who drew a €500 bonus and a CPS Main Event ticket worth €2200. Good draw too for Andy Victorion... who won a 4-way all-in after the bubble to take out 3 players at once! Andy turned that into two cash wins of €1,000 each!

Since then, play has resumed on 8,000 - 16,000 (16,000) and there are only 22 players left... The average is 431,000 chips. 

Event #15 Mystery Bounty payout
Winner - €7,500
Runner Up - €5,040
3rd - €3,600
4th - €2,800
5th - €2,140
6th - €1,750
7th - €1,500
8th - 1 280 €
9e - 1 105 €
10 - 11e - 960 €
12 - 13e - 825 €
14 - 15e - 710€
16 - 17e - 595€
18e - 520€
19e - 520€
20e - 520€
21e - 455€
22e - 455€

23rd - Julien Lauer €455
24th - Pascal Huguin €400
25th - Stefan Fischer €400
26th - Giu Soffio €400
27th - François Jaecque €400
28th - Florian Moreno €350
29th - Damien Podvin €350
30th - Mitch Thomassen €350
31st - Fred Goedefroy €350

Dinner break... without Max bonuses

There are 11 players still in the running for the Mystery Bounty, and they'll be back at 9.25pm for the home stretch of this tournament, which attracted 237 entries over two days.

At the start of the dinner break, the players made their second draw, and the two €5,000 envelopes were gone. Big wins for Prash Somas and Andy Victorion. Andy Victorion had taken two €1,000 envelopes on the first draw, but this time he went for his wife's birthday to draw the 18th envelope in the stack and capture €5,000! Prash first drew an envelope for his daughter's birthday, without success, before counting on his son's birthday and taking a jackpot at €5000.

Jens Mueller drew an envelope at €2500, leaving an envelope of this value as the biggest bonus to finish off this always fun event.

On the poker side, Prash Somas is still very well placed, as is Yann Nasser. Bryan de Riddere and Andy Victorion are still in the game too... 

Event #15 Mystery Bounty payout
Winner - €7,500
Runner Up - €5,040
3rd - €3,600
4th - €2,800
5th - €2,140
6th - €1,750
7th - €1,500
8th - €1,280
9th - €1,105
10th - €960
11th - €960

12th - Kader Slila 825€
13th - NC 825 €
14th - Dennie Cordromp 710€
15th - Aurélie Dassi 710€
16th - Guillaume Fontaine 710€
17th - 595€
18th - Robert Seelen 520€
19th - Lukas Trzcinski 520€
20th - Ohran Egemen 520€
21st - Kobe Vandepitte 455€
22nd - Anne Trebitsch 455€

23rd - Julien Lauer €455
24th - Pascal Huguin €400
25th - Stefan Fischer €400
26th - Giu Soffio €400
27th - François Jaecque €400
28th - Florian Moreno €350
29th - Damien Podvin €350
30th - Mitch Thomassen €350
31st - Fred Goedefroy €350

Final Countdown

It's the home stretch for the €350 Mystery Bounty Event #15. Only 7 players remain in the running, with an average of 1.3 million on blinds 30,000 - 60,000 (60,000) and 30-minute levels.

Prash Somas and Lukas Oster are still in the game, unlike Andy Victorion (9th after drawing a €5,000 max bonus). Yann Nasser and Bryan de Riddere jumped just after the dinner break to miss the final...

Event #15 Mystery Bounty (237 entrants - €63,000 prizepool)
Winner - €7,500
Runner Up - 5,040
3rd - €3,600
4th - €2,800
5th - €2,140
6th - €1,750
7th - €1,500
8th - Giel Timmers €1,280
9th - Andy Victorion €1,105
10th - Bryan de Riddere €960
11th - Yann Nasser €960

12th - Kader Slila 825€
13th - NC 825 €
14th - Dennie Cordromp 710€
15th - Aurélie Dassi 710€
16th - Guillaume Fontaine 710€
17th - 595€
18th - Robert Seelen 520€
19th - Lukas Trzcinski 520€
20th - Ohran Egemen 520€
21st - Kobe Vandepitte 455€
22nd - Anne Trebitsch 455€

23rd - Julien Lauer €455
24th - Pascal Huguin €400
25th - Stefan Fischer €400
26th - Giu Soffio €400
27th - François Jaecque €400
28th - Florian Moreno €350
29th - Damien Podvin €350
30th - Mitch Thomassen €350
31st - Fred Goedefroy €350

Anouar wins the Mystery, Dima Maghreb

Prash Somas dominated the final of Mystery Bounty Event #15 for a long time, finally amassing a Max bounty accompanied by multiple scalps. After a long final duel, it was time to accept a 50/50 deal and flash for the trophy. In the end, it was a Moroccan player who triumphed. Sahha! 

Prash Somas captured a third of the Mystère bounties at stake in this tournament, and the 31 players in the money shared just under €63,000 between the prizepool and the Mystère prize pool (€100 per entrant, editor's note). Anouar turned up the heat at the end, but there were only mini bonuses left in the safe... 

Tournament finalist Andy Victorion drew the other €5,000 Max bonus, ultimately pocketing €7,150 in prize money and €1,105 of the prizepool for his 9th-place finish. 

Event #15 Mystery Bounty (237 entrants - €63,000 prizepool)
Winner - Anouar €6,270 (+€1,475 bonus)
Runner Up - Prash Somas €6,270 (+€10,100 bonus)
3rd - NC €3,600
4th - NC €2,800
5th - Tufan Solak €2,140
6th - Arnoldus Thomassen €1,750
7th - Lukas Oster €1,500
8th - Giel Timmers €1,280
9th - Andy Victorion €1,105
10th - Bryan de Riddere €960
11th - Yann Nasser €960

12th - Kader Slila 825€
13th - NC 825 €
14th - Dennie Cordromp 710€
15th - Aurélie Dassi 710€
16th - Guillaume Fontaine 710€
17th - 595€
18th - Robert Seelen 520€
19th - Lukas Trzcinski 520€
20th - Ohran Egemen 520€
21st - Kobe Vandepitte 455€
22nd - Anne Trebitsch 455€

23rd - Julien Lauer €455
24th - Pascal Huguin €400
25th - Stefan Fischer €400
26th - Giu Soffio €400
27th - François Jaecque €400
28th - Florian Moreno €350
29th - Damien Podvin €350
30th - Mitch Thomassen €350
31st - Fred Goedefroy €350