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The popular PokerStars Open tour is currently in Namur, Belgium, where a handful of players have become poker champions. Bulgarian Martin Tsvetanov is one of those winners; he triumphed in the €3,300 Super High Roller and banked €60,000.
The €3,300 No-Limit Hold'em Super High Roller drew in a 69-strong crowd, and they fought it out for a slice of a €201,894 prize pool. Only the nine grinders who navigated to the final table received a cut, with Kazuyuki Tanemura of Japan being the first to cash. Tanemura received €6,600 for his ninth-place finish.
Dutch star Mateusz Moolhuizen fell in eighth for €7,994 before his countryman Tobias Peters ran out of luck in seventh place, a finish good for €9,800.
Each of the six remaining players locked in a five-figure prize for their efforts. Hong Kong's Chaofei Wang crashed out in sixth for €12,650, with Dimitar Toshev bowing out in fifth for €16,400. Toshev also cashed in the €400 PokerStars Open Cup in Namur a few days ago.
Slovakian Michal Havavka saw his deep run end in a fourth-place finish worth €21,400, leaving only three players in contention for the €60,000.
The final trio, David Hu, Kalidou Sow, and Tsvetanov had more than €4.7 million in combined earnings, so it's fair to say they knew their way around a poker table.
Dutchman Hu was the first of that talented trio to bust. Hu banked €27,900 for his third-place finish. Hu's exit left Sow against Tsvetanov for the title, trophy, and the lion's share of the prize pool.
Sow, the 2017 PokerStars Championship Prague champion, fell at the final hurdle and had to console himself with a €39,200 runner-up prize, which left Tsvetanov to reel in a €60,000 prize, which is second only to the €449,034 he collected for winning the €1,100 Eureka Prague Main Event in 2024.
€3,300 Super High Roller Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Martin Tsvetanov | Bulgaria | €60,000 |
| 2 | Kalidou Sow | France | €39,200 |
| 3 | David Hu | Netherlands | €27,900 |
| 4 | Michal Havavka | Slovakia | €21,400 |
| 5 | Dimitar Toshev | Bulgaria | €16,400 |
| 6 | Chaofei Wang | Hong Kong | €12,650 |
| 7 | Tobias Peters | Netherlands | €9,800 |
| 8 | Mateusz Moolhuizen | Netherlands | €7,994 |
| 9 | Kazuyuki Tanemura | Japan | €6,600 |
Guillaume Marchard Marches Off With PokerStars Open Cup Trophy
Until he headed to the PokerStars Open Namur festival, Guillaume Marchand had only amassed €6,075 in live tournament earnings, with his first recorded result coming in March 2026. Marchand can now boast about a €35,000 score after coming out on top in the €400 PokerStars Open Cup.
Marchand would have returned home with an even larger prize had he not agreed to a deal when play was three-handed. The final three players paused the tournament clock to discuss a deal that reduced the pay jumps. Those discussions bore fruit, and play continued with the payouts changed.
Alban Laborie fell in third but took home €30,900, slightly more than the runner-up. That runner-up was Robin Schneider. He raked in a career-best €29,300 for his second-place finish.
Schneider's exit left Marchand as the last man standing, and he made his way to the cashier's desk to have €35,000 transferred to him. This may have been only Marchand's fifth result on his Hendon Mob Database profile, but it was also his third victory from those limited results. It seems Monsieur Marchand is one of French poker's emerging talents.
€400 PokerStars Open Cup Final Table Results
| Rank | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guillaume Marchand | France | €35,000* |
| 2 | Robin Schneider | Germany | €29,300* |
| 3 | Alban Laborie | France | €30,900* |
| 4 | Wim Verhaegen | Belgium | €16,500 |
| 5 | Fernando D'Alessio | Belgium | €12,900 |
| 6 | Patrick Prijot | Belgium | €10,050 |
| 7 | Yves Senterre | Belgium | €7,735 |
| 8 | Yoann Nigro | Luxembourg | €6,000 |
| 9 | Mustafa Findik | Germany | €4,600 |
The PokerStars Open Namur Main Event is in full swing, with five of its seven €1,100 buy-in Day 1s already in the bag. The tournament has seen 758 entrants so far, so another field of 1,000+ looks likely.
Belgian Gary Hasson (367,000) is the current chip leader, having amassed his impressive pile of chips during the tournament's Day 1d.
Day 1f and Day 1g both run today, June 3. The first of those two remaining flights starts at 12:00 p.m. local time, with a turbo-structured Day 1g scheduled to shuffle up and deal at 8:00 p.m. local time.
You can follow all of the action from the €1,100 PokerStars Open Namur Main Event from Day 2 onwards. Day 2 starts at 12:00 p.m. local time on June 4.
