Toujours du Monde à Namur

Kick-off for the third of six starting sessions in the €330 SuperSide at WaSOP 2023. Play begins with 30,000 chips and no ante for the first of ten levels...

Just over 70 players are seated at the tables of the Circus Casino Resort in Namur and registration is open until the start of the 9th level... enough to boost the provisional attendance of 468 entrants at the end of Day 1B!

88 players have already validated their ticket for Day 2 on Monday July 31... the race for the bag is on, shuffle up and deal.


Saturday, July 29 at a glance
3 p.m.: Day 1C SuperSide WaSOP €330 (registration/re-entry until 11.45 p.m.)
4 p.m.: Freezout Event #5 €250 (25,000 chips - 20 min., 10 registration levels)
8 p.m.: Satellite Main Event €80 (10,000 chips - 15 min., 8 registration levels)
10 p.m.: Day 1D Turbo SuperSide WaSOP €330 (levels 25 min., registration/re-entry until 2 a.m.)

The 100 Bar

20 minutes of play and the board now shows 100 entrants in this third starting session of the WaSOP 2023 €330 SuperSide.

99 players are in the running as Salvatore Allatta jumped in a matter of minutes before returning to his seat for the first re-entry of the day...

Among those present were Samuel Bovy, just back from Las Vegas, and the return of François Louis Vlassis, who tried his luck unsuccessfully on Friday. Leonardo Armino will also try his luck from the start, as will Anthony Bui Ngoc, Marc Hannesse and Robin Cornet.

Maxime Servais will try to emulate his brother Xavier, who qualified in the first session with a big stack... Fred Blehaut and Xavier Brioit are also in the running, as are Olivier Baeten, Julien Lecamus, André Otten, Manu Poznanski and Francesco Pillitteri...

Having just been eliminated on the PLO, Olivier Dinand also took his place. Having exited in 17th position, he let his opponents explain themselves to enter the 13 paid places of the Omaha tournament... 

Regulars

JS Denissa, Jean-Michel Texier, Pascal Masset, Gaetano Moreci, Rico Roumen, Steven Rothheut, Paul van Oort, Farukh Tach, Martin Schneiders... a host of regulars from the Circus Casino Resort de Namur are present on Day 1C of the €330 SuperSide.

160 players have entered the tournament, with 40 minutes left to play in blinds 200 - 400 (400). Level 3 of the third of six opening sessions will be followed by a half-hour break, giving us a chance to look for the big stacks...

142 players are currently in the running, averaging 34,000 chips...

Up

Steven Rothheut has had a good start to the day and is up to 75,000 after another winning hand. He opens in early position and Giuseppe Genco defends in the big blind before paying a bet on the flop and calling-muck river on a 3 8 2 As As board... Genco slips to 58,000, another good start.

For Robin Cornet, it's an opening under the gun and a check-call against his neighbor on the left on Queen Ten 6 rainbow. There are 7,500 chips in the middle, the pot has been 3-bet and Robin check-calls 3,000 before betting 4,500 on turn 7. His opponent pays before folding following a 5,000 bet from Robin on a 5 river. Cornet climbs to 100,000 chips with 10 minutes to go before the break.

Leonardo Armino rises to 42,000 chips by going all-in for 20,000 in a 3-bet on a 6 7 5 3 board with two flush draws. There are 22,000 in the middle and Samuel Bovy hesitates in MP but folds, saving himself 31,000 chips. The button also takes its time... 

Break

First break of Day 1C at Circus Casino Resort de Namur... 135 players went on break (for 170 entrants), and will return at 6pm to play the 4th level. Blinds will be 300 - 600 (600) with an average of 38,000...

Chips
Sami Agel 87,000
Robin Cornet 86,000
Florian Collin 79,000
Hendrik Remmerde 78,000
Benjamin Labye 74,000
Sabrina Senden 73,000
Nasser Abdouni 72,000
Rico Roumen 68,000
Fred Bruggermans 68 000
Steven Rothheut 65 000
Gilles Frere 63 000
Giuseppe Genco 61 000
Leonardo Armino 46 000
Michel Fajga 33 000
Samuel Bovy 29 000
Dalil Masaud 26 000
Tetiana Kovalchuk 25 000
JS Denissa 21 000

Say 200

The 700-player mark is approaching as Day 1C now brings together 200 entrants.

The table shows 140 players on track with 43 minutes left to play in blinds 400 - 800 (800), so no huge upsets yet on this third of six opening days.

The average is 42,000 chips, and the survivors will take a dinner break at around 8:30 p.m., at the end of level 6.

"I do nothing, they give everything

"I do nothing, they give everything," joked Talip Sule as he cashed in David Ohana's chips at the end of a button versus big blind confrontation.

David put in 20 blinds on the turn of a Queen 9 4 3 board with Ace 8 in his hands... In position, Talip was able to pay serenely with a trio of 9s to climb well over 115,000 chips.

Dalil Masaud opened and 4-bet all-in when Talip sent a raise to the cutoff. Sule snap with the Jacks for a flip...

Dalil's Ace-King hits on the flop, but the river of an Ace-5-Queen-7-Jack board executes him! Direction 170,000 chips for Talip who makes two outs in two hands.

On the third hand played consecutively, Talip Sule opens and is 3-bet. He checks-calls a King-Queen-Ten flop with two spades and then there's no action on a 5 that opens diamonds on the turn. River, on a Ten of diamonds, Talip bets 4,000 chips but quickly gives his cards back after a 10,000 raise from his opponent. poker is easier when there's nothing to do!

SAMU

25 minutes before the dinner break and it will be without Samuel Bovy who will be back to try his luck on Sunday on Day 1E which starts at 3pm.

"Talip Sule limps (to the hijack), his neighbor on the left isolates as always for 3.5 blinds, I send my 15 blinds with Ace Valet on the button," says the man who has just returned from Las Vegas. "He pays 6 and 7 hearts, and makes runner-runner flush after a King Ten 2 flop," finishes Samuel, keeping up the morale of the players who have seen it all...

There are 127 players left for 226 entrants, and the average is 54 blinds...

Dinner break

Average at 61,000 chips for the resumption on blinds 500 - 1500 (1500) from 9:40 pm...

The table currently shows 111 players on break for 227 entrants... late registrations and re-entries will be allowed until 11:40 pm and the first hand of level 9.

Chips
Antoine Lecamus 182,000
Farukh Tach 178,000
Daniel Marcias 176,000
Talip Sule 176,000
Nagib Raji 173,000
maxime Servais 158,000
hendrik Remmerde 154,000
André Otten 144 000
Sébastien Wilk 128 000
Antonio Cabanas 109 000
Wim Buys 108 000
Fabio Percio 106 000
Marcellus van der Wolf 105 000
Fouad Baadoud 104 000
Jesus Castro 102 000
Jean-Michel Texier 80 000
Gianni Ferrone 79 000
Steven Rothheut 78 000
Serge Lenaerts 77 000
Rico Roumen 76 000
Marc Delimal 67 000
Agim Altindag 58 000
Tetiana Kovalchuk 56 000
Cornelis Vermeulen 44 000
Florian Collin 39 000
Yoan Argence 28 000
Paul van Oort 25 000

Top 100

There are 99 in the running for 231 entries with 7 minutes left to play in blinds 500 - 1500 (1500). The average is 71,000 chips on level 7 of Day 1C of the WaSOP SuperSide.

"Felix" Schneiders is in the red zone with 34,000 chips, Jean-Michel Texier (110,000) and Hendrikus Soering (190,000) are doing better...

Steven Lemarcq has just defended Ace 7 against an open under the gun of Wim Buys. Steven hit Top Pair with 7 on the flop and check-call, no action on turn 7... his pot-high bet on a river Valet was fuck-call by Wim. Buys flasks Kings to fall back to the mean, Steven is also in the right tempo.

237 entries on Day 1C, 73 players for the final package

Level 9 of the third of six SuperSide starting days has begun, and registration is now closed for this flight, which attracted 237 entries to bring the provisional attendance to 705...

73 players are still in the running on 1000 - 2000 (2000) with an average of 46 blinds... some participants have already multiplied the starting stack of 30,000 chips by 7!

There are two 50-minute levels left to play tonight...

Chips
Sule Talip 230,000
Dris Azghoud 225,000
Antoine Lecamus 215,000
Julien Desjardins 200,000
Jean-Michel Texier 192 000
Canio Pietrapertosa 180 000
Nagib Raji 162 000
André Otten 152 000
Gianni Ferrone 151 000
Kevin Boel 138 000
Dave Kroon 131 000
Marcellus van der Wolfe 120 000
Aksel Aygun 118 000
Jesus Castro 117 000
David Tal Ohana 112 000
Celine Diot 107 000
Farukh Tach 99 000
Tetiana Kovalchuk 95 000
Robin Cornet 88 000
Paul van Oort 29 000

Last Hour

There are 10 minutes left to play in Level 9, followed by the final blinds raise for Day 1C. Play will end with a 50-minute round on blinds 1000 - 2500 (2500).

There have been 5 withdrawals since the end of late registration and the start of the penultimate level of the third starting day of the €330 SuperSide... Michel Fajga, Andrei Turcanu, Benjamin Labye and Gil Thierry are no longer in the running...

There are still 68 players in the running, averaging 105,000 chips. 

Sprint Final

In ten minutes the clock will be stopped for a randomly chosen number of final hands, and there are still 60 in the running.

Ralf Werner, Fouad Baadoud, Francesco Pillitteri, Cornelis Veuremlen and Canio Pietrapitetrosa have given up the ghost, while Maxime Servais has moved into the lead with 410,000 chips.

A treasure trove to play with at blinds 1,000 - 2,500 (2,500) for the rest of Day 1C...

The tournament average is 47 blinds.

54 additional qualifiers on SuperSide Day 1C

Xavier Servais qualified on Day 1A with 218,000 chips, Maxime went one better with 394,000 chips and the chiplead on Day 1C of the €330 SuperSide. 



The third of six starting days for the WaSOP side event drew 237 entries to bring the provisional attendance to 705. With 54 players bagging chips for Monday's Day 2, 142 players have provisionally secured their berths for the remainder of an event whose guarantee is all but wiped out. 

Behind the Belgian, BP runner-up David Tal Ohana had a fine day despite a re-entry (233,000), while Ugur Cegen and Sule Talip also set up counters in ten 50-minute levels...

Chipcount complete Day 1C SuperSide WaSOP
Maxime Servais 394,000
Ugur Cegen 283,000
Julien Desjardins 256,000
H Soering 243,000
Tal David Ohana 233,000
Driss Azghoud 226,000
Julien Pincetaille 214,000
Wouter Spithuis 207,000
Aksel Aygun 204,000
Antoine Lecamus 204,000

Sule Talip 203,000
David Stephany 179,000
Theo Gerritsen 177,000
Robin Cornet 173,000
Mad Max 160,000
Patrick Chromi 158,000
Daniel Macias 143,000
Ludovic Bernard 142,000
Jean-Michel Texier 135,000

Jesus Castro 133,500
Cyril Jacquin 133,500
Sergej Schumacher 131,500
Antonio Cabanas 130,000
Kevin Boel 122,000
Serge Lenaerts 122,000
Mark Verhoeven 119,000
Cedric Schumacher 119,000
Boris Janas 117,000
Michael Holtmann 116,000

Tetiana Kovalchuk $115,000
Florian Collin 115,000
Dave Kroon 104,000
Celine Diot 99,000
Hendrik Remmerde 99,000
Marc Delimal 95,000
Mohamed Talla 94,000
Mykhola Komutov 93,000
Agim Altindag 88,000
Jacques Picard 84,500
Kevin Fluegel 83,000
Patrick Prijot 82,5000

Mathias van der Perre 82,500
Gianni Ferrone 82,000
Nasser Abdoun 77,000
Michal Gadzala 72,500
Fabio Percio 72,500
Baptiste Cospin 61,500
Nagib Raji 60,000
Marcellus de Wolfe 57,000
Martin Sougne 47,500
Farukh Tach 45,000
Paul van Oort 32,000
Steven Rothheut 26,000
Elliott Brown 18,500