Already €155,000 in the prizepool, registrations open until 2.40pm

Day 1 of the Winter Festival's High Roller Black Track Event #13 was spread over 11 half-hour levels... this 11th level contested over 1000 - 2000 (2000) will be doubled on Sunday at 2pm for the resumption. Late registrations and re-entries will be allowed until 2:40 p.m... further boosting already insane numbers.

Day 1 brought together 343 entrants for a provisional prizepool of €154,624! 148 players bagged chips for an average of 116,000 chips (58 blinds on resumption). Those arriving on Sunday for this €550 tournament will be returning with 25 blinds!

Jonas Viaene followed up his 82nd place in the Main Event with a Top 10 finish in a tournament dominated by an ANonym. Raf Ielegems, Dang Nguyen and Alain Fleurent are also regular deep-runners at Circus Casino Resort. They're well ahead of the game in this huge tournament too.

Top 10 chipcount
Virus 400,000
Kevin Leite 378,000
Raf Ielegems 325,000
Jonas Viaene 324,000
Sven Magirus 257,000
Herve Decker 256,000
Dang Nguyen 252,000
Alain Fleurent 243,000
Bart Boermans 241,000
Nils Mazeaud 235,000

Full chipcount & redraw in document below

378 Black Track entrants, €170,024 prizepool

The Winter Festival High-Roller at 550 sold out. With a doubled level of late registrations, some thirty additional entries and re-entries were recorded. This boosted attendance to 378 and generated a prize pool of over €170,000! 

The champion will walk away with a ticket worth €30,000 or thereabouts... but before he does, he'll have to beat a ton more people. Level 13 is underway and 157 players are still battling it out over blinds 1500 - 3000 (3000). The average is 40 blinds for Event #13! 

30,059 to win on the High-Roller, 55 paid places

Circus Casino Resort in Namur has just posted the payout for the Winter Festival Black Track. The €170,024 prize pool will be shared between the final 55 players.



Event #13 Black Track €550 (378 entries - €170,024 prizepool)
Winner - €30,059 + CPS Main Event ticket €2,200
Runner Up - €20,660 + CPS Main Event ticket €2,200
3e - 14 755€
4e - 11 350€
5e - 8 730€
6e - 6 715€
7e - 5 165€
8e - 4 260€
9e - 3 550€
10th and 11th - €2,960
12th and 13th - €2,505
14th and 15th - €2,215
16th and 17th - €1,950
18th to 20th - €1,715
21st to 23rd - €1,505
24 to 27e - €1 3 10
28th to 31st - €1,135
32 to 39e - €980
4to 55e - €865

Money Is Coming

The field is now human-sized, with 80 survivors on level 17. The blinds are 4000 - 8000 (8000) with an average of 230,000 chips, so the money isn't far away. 

With 55 places paid and a min-cash of €865, the players in the running are close to finishing this Winter Festival in style... 

Also in the line-up are Rico Roumen, Paul van Oort, Pierre Neuville, Matthias van der Perre, Anne Trebitsch, Alexandra Quach, Ludovic Ruperto, Jonas Viaene, Dove Monaco, Samuel Bovy, Jensen Bernard, Eric Denizart, Niclas Thumm, Ken Claessens, Adrien Guyon, Dario Sorrenti, Yves Minkhorst, Rony Cebola, Alio Staes, Evert Rosseel, Daniel Dodet, Fabien Perrot, Vincent Verdickt and Dang Nguyen...

Bubble Time

The players had gone into the break at 57 for 55 places paid, and it took 20 minutes to hold the first outgoing player back from the break. Three shorts had doubled up before the fateful move that saw Dovidio Monaco narrowly miss out on the money and the €865 min-cash that goes with it. 

10 minutes left to play on 10,000 - 15,000 (15,000) with an average of 337,000 chips... The next player to exit the tournament will be the last to go home empty-handed. 

Franck Rene, Yann Descamps, Reouven Attias, Dang Nguyen, Kevin Leite, Yves Minkhorst jumped shortly before the break and the paid places... 

Black Track Final

The final kicks off with regulars such as Aliosha Staes, Ludovic Ruperto, Jonas V., Min Sung Lee and Nicolas Bokowski. 

The final game starts with an average of 21 blinds and still 30-minute levels...



After a long bubble, it took another good three hours to reduce the field to 9 players. Eric Denizart fell just short of the final, while Pierre Neuville and Erwin Vu Duc deep-run to the last three tables. 

Damien Hupé also won a place and a 4/4 for Poker One, with ITMs for Manu Lecomte and Fabien Perrot. Rico Roumen, Anne Trebitsch or Vincent Verdickt signed the double ITM Main Event - High Roller, just like the German who took 1 million on the WSOP Bahamas, Niclas Thumm...

A happy ending for Samuel Bovy, Daniel Dodet, Alexandra Quach, Ken Claessens and Davy Huyst...

Event #13 Black Track €550 (378 entries - €170,024 prizepool)
Winner - €30,059 + CPS Main Event ticket €2,200
Runner Up - €20,660 + CPS Main Event ticket €2,200
3e - 14 755€
4e - 11 350€
5e - 8 730€
6e - 6 715€
7e - 5 165€
8e - 4 260€
9e - 3 550€

10th - Gerben Sikma €2,960
11th - Eric Denizart €2,960
12th - Virus €2505
13th - Maxime Robin €2,505
14th - Maxime Broutier €2,215
15th - Jelle Joncheere €2,215
16th - Glenn Popken €1,950
17th - Fatih Yusufoglu €1,950
18th - Jeffrey Jol €1,715
19th - Pierre Neuville €1,715
20th - Erwin Vu Duc €1,715

21st - Paul Chum €1,505
22nd - Cedrik Domingos €1,505
23rd - Alexandre Okzul €1,505
24th - Andres de Bruin 1 3 €10
25th - Bart Boermans 1 3 €10
26e- Jordy Sanchez 1 3 €10
27th - Damien Hupé 1 3 €10
28th - Joan Lamotte €1,135
29th - Henk Pol €1,135

30th - Rony Cebola €1,135
31st - Ahmed El Kaddouri €1,135
32nd - Anne Trebitsch €980
33rd - Niclas Thumm €980
34th - Rico Roumen€980
35th - Samuel Ju €980
36th - Dustin van Weerdenburg €980
37th - Nicolas Kojovic €980
38th - Peter Buffel €980
39th - Yannick Garrigos €980

40th - Yuksel Tok €865
41st - Fabien Perrot €865
42nd - Bart Huskens €865
43rd - Alexandra Quach €865
44th - Davy Huyst €865
45th - Vincent Verdickt €865
46th - Daniel Dodet €865
47th - Emmanuel Lecomte €865
48th - Ken Claessens €865
49th - Samuel Bovy €865
50th - Yann Truchot €865
51st - Marcel Berger €865
52nd - Mickael Kaizer €865
53rd - Francesco Biribao €865
54th - Sven Magirus €865
55th - Jensen Bernard €865

Success for Jonas LimpShove on the BlackTrack

The WInter Festival's €550 High-roller ended with a home win for Belgian Jonas LimpShove, a regular at the Namur games. Leading the way in the head's up, Jonas accepted a small smoothing of the prizes to finally walk away with €28,719 and a €2,200 CPS ticket.



Jonas beats Jonathan Aussems... the Dutch hat-trick was not far off this Sunday at the Circus Casino Resort in Namur. Frenchman Ludovic Ruperto completed the podium for a 5-figure win.

5 figures also for Jimmy Dewerdt, who stopped at the foot of the podium. In danger at the bubble, Adriano Esposito passed the second afterwards to win a final that also featured Min Sung Lee, Nikolas Bokowski and Aliosha Staes. Barely back from a trip to Japan, the Poker One player signs a new final...  

Event #13 Black Track €550 (378 entries - €170,024 prizepool)
Winner - €28,719 + CPS Main Event ticket €2,200
Runner Up - €22,000 + CPS Main Event ticket €2,200
3rd - Ludovic Ruperto €14,755
4th - Jimmy Dewerdt €11,350
5th - Adriano Esposito €8,730
6th - Roberto Lanero €6,715
7th - Min Sung Lee €5,165
8th - Nikolas Bokowski €4,260
9th - Alio Staes €3,550