Said Abdel Attey chipleader, 3 Belgians at 17 left

There were 219 players in the running at the start of Day 2 of the €330 Super Side, and only 17 in the running for €1,900 after 9 hours and 10 minutes of poker at the Circus Casino Resort on Monday. 

The last 143 players in the running have begun to share €266,075, with €164,000 still in the prize pool ahead of Day 3, which will take place over 60-minute levels from 1pm on Tuesday. Mathias Moutaoukil came close to a correction, cracking the Kings with Ace Ten at the very end of the day to stay in contention for the top prize of €41,100. 

The last three players in the running will pocket a €2,200 CPS Main Event ticket in addition to their winnings, so you need to be in the Top 5 to win a 5-figure prize! Jean-Michel Texier, Bob Seelen, Zhong Chen, Lionel de Hondt, Claudio Merolillo, Nagib Raji, Fabrice Somers or Mosjin El Yak are still in the game too... in pursuit of Said Abdel Attey which will resume with 4.1 million out of 20,000 - 50,000 (50,000)... 

Full table-by-table chipcount to come as players resume in their current positions on three tables. At the next exit, a redraw on 2 tables of 8 will take place... Still in the hunt for the jackpot, Sait Akman had started" Day 2 with less than the starting mat!



Table 23 (in seating order)
Fabrice Somers 1,405,000
Sebastiaan Kruiswijk 1,085,000
Mathias Moutaoukil 1,260,000
Spider Belgium 2,380,000
Bob Seelen 1,780,000 (button)

Table 28 (in seating order)
Zhong Chen 2,640,000
Claudio Merolillo 915,000
Mohammed Fekir 1,630,000
Lionel De Hondt 2,525,000
Nagib Raji 520,000
Ferry Sparla 2,060,000

Table 30 (in seating order)
Jean-Michel Texier 445,000
Moritz Pape 665,000
Mosjin El Yak 1,390,000
Sait Akman 2,930,000
Said Abdel Attey 4,155,000
Anthony Havret 1,840,000

3 for 3

It's Day 3, and the Super Side levels are on at one o'clock... 3 players have jumped on the first level and the blinds 25,000 - 50,000 (50,000)! 

Mohammed Fekir (17th - €1,900) will not be the best Frenchman in this tournament, which attracted 984 entries, Claudio Merolillo (photo) put in the best Italian performance of the field, reaching Day 3 and taking home €1,900... 

15th in the GRND On Tour Main Event three weeks ago, Mathias Moutaoukil follows this up at home. The Moroccan falls to the same place. The same way! On the previous festival, Mathias had held out at the end before sending in a suit King with very few blinds, but this time he lost with 13 blinds and a suit King Ten to two 9s for 15th place and €2,280. 

It's the second double in Namur for Moutaoukil (in the background, laughing), who has twice finished 7th in fine tournaments in the Belgian poker stronghold (the Carnival and the CPS Cup, editor's note), so it'll be a double 15 this time! 

The 14 survivors are guaranteed a €2,280 payout as the blinds increase to 30,000 - 60,000 (60,000), there are 35 average blinds and €158,000 still in the prizepool! 

WaSOP Super Side Day 3 Payout (984 entries - €266,075 prizepool)
Champion - €41,000 + CPS Main Event ticket €2200
Runner Up - €28,040
3rd - €20,150
4th - €15,750
5th - €12,145
6th - €9,340
7th - 7,200€
8th - 5,530€
9th - 4,260€

10th and 11th - 3,275€
12th and 13th - 2,730€
14th - 2,280€
15th - Mathias Moutaoukil (Ma) 2,280€
16th - Claudio Merolillo (It) 1,900€
17th - Mohammed Fekir (Fr) 1,900€

Jump Around

The blinds are raised again, and the game is played over 40,000 - 80,000 (80,000) with 14 players still in contention... heading for the televised final and the €41,100 first prize. Three €2,200 CPS Main Event tickets for the podium! 

Fabrice Somers cracked the Aces with 9 and 7 to raise himself, while Zhong Chen held with two 8s against Ace 3s to win a huge pot, the Dutchman now has just over 4 million...

Keeping pace

Two hours of play and 6 runners-up, and three more runners-up in the second hour of this Super Side Final Day, played out over 50-minute levels... 

End of the road for Rob Seelen who loses a big Ace-King flip to the Ten to finally cash in for €2,280. Then it's the turn of the two Belgians who come out behind. 

That's €2,730 for Spider and Lionel de Hondt. Fabrice Somers signs the best performance of the tournament for local players! 

Four Frenchmen and four Dutchmen remain in the game, two places from the final... 

WaSOP Super Side Day 3 Payout (984 entries - €266,075 prizepool)
Champion - €41,000 + CPS Main Event ticket €2200
Runner Up - €28,040
3rd - €20,150
4th - €15,750
5th - €12,145
6th - €9,340
7th - €7,200
8th - €5,530
9th - €4,260 4 260€

10th and 11th - 3 275€
12th - Lionel de Hondt (Bel) 2 730€
13th - Spider (Bel) 2 730€
14th - Bob Seelen (Lux) 2 280€
15th - Mathias Moutaoukil (Ma) 2 280€
16th - Claudio Merolillo (It) 1 900€
17th - Mohammed Fekir (Fr) 1 900€

Break

Still 11 after 3 levels of 50 minutes on Day 3 of the €330 Suped Side... The field has shrunk from 17 candidates to 11 players guaranteed a €3,275 payout. Resumption in a few minutes on blinds 50,000 - 100,000 (100,000) with an average of 27 blinds.

Just before the break, the action overflowed by 5 minutes on the break, Jean-Michel Texier sent a big praline to 1 million river which was eventually paid by Said Abdel Attey with Top Pair Top kicker and Ace King. Texier returned Ace 4 for trips 4 on the turn on a board with a 4 and a King on the flop!

Things should get moving again! 

TV table  (in seating order)
Jean-Michel Texier 3,700,000
Moritz Pape 630,000
Mosjin El Yak (photo) 3,400,000
Sait Akman 2,300,000
Said Abdel Attey 2,900,000

Table 15 (in seating order)
Nagib Raji 3,100,000
Fabrice Somers 2,650,000
Ferry Sparla 3,250,000
Sebastian Kruiswijk 1 850 000
Anthony Havret 925,000
Zhong Chen (chipleader) 5,535,000

Dessert without Attey

Missing out on the final. The Frenchman Said Abdel Attey bowed out in tenth place after starting Day 3 with the chiplead at 17 left... Hailing from Paris, the man who finished 4th in the last Sismix tumbled before the break in a setup against Jean-Michel Texierbehind he lost a flip and King Queen against King 3 preflop at Pape Moritz !

Down to 10 blinds, the Frenchman held on and finally lost 80 minutes after the restart, in the blinds 60,000 - 120,000 (120,000). He pushed almost all of his 700,000 chips with Jack 9 of spades and Mosjin El Yak goes all-in in the big blind. The Frenchman adds and quickly understands when he discovers Ace Valet in front. The dealer unloads an As Valet brick flop that leaves Said with a runner-runner 9 and drawing dead on the turn! 



Meanwhile, at the other table, Anthony Havret who played 1 million double against Fabrice Somers before finding Kings in the small blind. He opens and Zhong Chen pays with the 4s... it's fair to say there was a bit of a ruckus as both men went three of a kind on the flop. This was enough to reposition the Frenchman, who had feared the TF bubble 5 minutes earlier! 

WaSOP Super Side Day 3 Payout (984 entries - €266,075 prizepool)
Champion - €41,000 + Main Event CPS ticket €2,200
Runner Up - €28,040
3rd - €20,150
4th - €15,750
5th - €12,145
6th - €9,340
7th - €7,200
8th - €5,530
9th - €4,260

10th - Said Abdel Attey 3 275€
11th - Sebastian Kruiswijk 3 275€
12th - Lionel de Hondt (Bel) 2 730€
13th - Spider (Bel) 2 730€
14th - Bob Seelen (Lux) €2,280
15th - Mathias Moutaoukil (Ma) €2,280
16th - Claudio Merolillo (It) €1,900
17th - Mohammed Fekir (Fr) €1,900

Streaming finale to savor! 

4,260 guaranteed for the last 9 players in the running on the €333 Super Side, there's still €143,000 in the prize pool with 3 €2,200 CPS Main Event tickets for the podium! 

Zhong Chen is out in front heading into the final straight, Anthony Havret is back in the thick of things, while there are 3 Frenchmen and 3 Dutchmen against 1 Belgian, 1 German and a Turk!

Streaming with cards revealed will resume with half an hour of play on blinds 60,000 - 120,000 (120,000), it took nearly 4 hours of poker to drop from 17 to 9 players on this Final Day... 

The WaSOP Super Side Final Table (984 entrants - €266,075 prizepool)
Seat 1 - Moritz Pape (All) 2,05,000
Seat 2 - Ferry Sparla (NL) 2,680,000
Seat 3 - Nagib Raji (Fr) 1,240,000
Seat 4 - Zhong Chen (NL) 5,675,000 Seat 5 - Jean-Michel Texier (Fr) 4,095,000 Seat 6 - Mosjin El Yak (NL) 1,965,000 Zhong Chen (NL) 5 675 000
Seat 5 - Jean-Michel Texier (Fr) 4 095 000
Seat 6 - Mosjin El Yak (NL) 1 965 000
Seat 7 - Fabrice Somers (Bel) 2 965 000
Seat 8 - Anthony Havret (Fr) 4 080 000
Seat 9 - Sait Akman (Tky) 4 625 000

Status Quo

Two hours of play on the final and no outs before the first break... play resumed for two 50-minute levels before the one-hour dinner break!

The blinds are now 100,000 - 200,000 (200,000) with 29.5 million chips in circulation and an average of 17 blinds. Players stretch the structure!

The WaSOP Super Side Final Table (984 entrants - €266,075 prizepool)
Seat 1 - Moritz Pape (All) 4,625,000
Seat 2 - Ferry Sparla (NL) 3,380,000
Seat 3 - Nagib Raji (Fr) 1,000,000
Seat 4 - Zhong Chen (NL) 4,425,000 Seat 5 - Jean-Michel Texier (Fr) 3,775,000 Seat 6 - Mosjin El Yak (NL) 1,665,000 Zhong Chen (NL) 4 425 000
Seat 5 - Jean-Michel Texier (Fr) 3 775 000
Seat 6 - Mosjin El Yak (NL) 1 665 000
Seat 7 - Fabrice Somers (Bel) 3 000 000
Seat 8 - Anthony Havret (Fr) 4 480 000
Seat 9 - Sait Akman (Tky) 3 100 000

Dinner break

3 hours and 40 minutes to the final, with three runners-up! No elimination in the first two hours, and there are no Belgians left in the running after the fall of Fabrice Somers. Short, the Frenchman Nagib Raji had jumped a few minutes before...



Boss of the final table at the start of the final, Zhong Chen has been losing strokes since the last break, he too has given up the ghost...

Resumption with 6 players guaranteed a €9,340 prize. The next outgoing player will be the last to miss out on the 5-figure mark, and must also reach the podium to take a €2,200 CPS Main Event ticket on top of his winnings!

With an average of 4.9 million chips for a restart on blinds 150,000 - 300,000 (300,000), there should be plenty of action on the restart. 

The WaSOP Super Side Final Table (984 entrants - €266,075 prizepool)
Seat 1 - Moritz Pape (All) 3,675,000
Seat 2 - Ferry Sparla (NL) 6,600,000
Seat 5 - Jean-Michel Texier (Fr) 2 250 000
Seat 6 - Mosjin El Yak (NL) 6 450 000
Seat 8 - Anthony Havret (Fr) 2 350 000
Seat 9 - Sait Akman (Tky) 8 200 000

CPS in Freeroll

It's the bubble of the three €2200 CPS Main Event tickets... the survivors have secured €15,750!

WaSOP Super Side Day 3 Payout (984 entries - €266,075 prizepool)
Champion - €41,000 + CPS Main Event ticket €2,200
Runner Up - €28,040
3rd - 20,150
4th - €15,750
5th - Sait Akman (Tky) €12,145
6th - Anthony Havret (Fr) €9,340
7th - Zhong Chen (NL) €7,200
8th - Fabrice Somers (Bel) €5,530
9th - Nagib Raji (Fr) 4 260€

10th - Said Abdel Attey (Fr) 3 275€
11th - Sebastian Kruiswijk (NL) 3 275€
12th - Lionel de Hondt (Bel) 2 730€
13th - Spider (Bel) 2 730€ Spider (Bel) €2,730
14th - Bob Seelen (Lux) €2,280
15th - Mathias Moutaoukil (Ma) €2,280
16th - Claudio Merolillo (It) €1,900
17th - Mohammed Fekir (Fr) €1,900

Pope elected on a Straight Flush (€37,890)

After working out a financial head's up, Moritz Pape and Ferry Sparla played for the trophy... the Dutchman was varnished all day, finishing the job with a straight flush! 



Ferry Sparla opens on the button with Ace-Queen and it's defended by the German with Jack-9 of diamonds... The dealer unravels a King Ten Queen flop with two diamonds being the straight and a straight flush redraw for the chipleader who check-raises to 2 million on the continuation bet. The turn 5 of diamonds gives Moritz flush and opens up outs to Sparla who holds the Ace of Diamonds. Sparla hits the Ten of Diamonds river for max flush, this card gives a straight flush to Pape who goes all-in and is paid instantly. 

The duo laugh at the showdwon, everyone having fun and turning €330 into a mountain. The final 5 players in the field of 984 entrants took a 5-figure, final podium finish at the end of the year on the CPS Main Event thanks to a €2,200 ticket! Third for 20 bars, Jean-Michel 'Doyoubelieve' Texier will be there.

The game had started at 1pm with 17 players, and it took almost 11 hours of poker to hold a champion. In the end, Germany won...

The €550 WaSOP Main Event kicks off this Wednesday at 2 p.m.! 

The Last Hand

WaSOP Super Side Day 3 Payout (984 entries - 266,075€ prizepool)
Champion - Moritz Pape 37,890€ + ticket Main Event CPS 2200€
Runner Up - Ferry Sparla (NL) 31,250€ + ticket Main Event CPS 2200€
3rd - Jean-Michel Texier (Fr) 20 150€ + ticket Main Event CPS 2200€
4th - Mosjin El Yak (NL) 15 750€
5th - Sait Akman (Tky) 12 145€
6th - Anthony Havret (Fr) 9 340€
7th - Zhong Chen (NL) 7 200€
8th - Fabrice Somers (Bel) 5 530€
9th - Nagib Raji (Fr) 4 260€

10th - Said Abdel Attey (Fr) 3 275€
11th - Sebastian Kruiswijk (NL) 3 275€
12th - Lionel de Hondt (Bel) €2,730
13th - Spider (Bel) €2,730
14th - Bob Seelen (Lux) €2,280
15th - Mathias Moutaoukil (Ma) €2,280
16th - Claudio Merolillo (It) €1,900
17th - Mohammed Fekir (Fr) €1,900