Tijmen Westeneng started the tournament by flopping two flushes where he managed to get some value. The Dutch player traveled to Namur with his friend Simon 'Mzzlaar' Steenstra, a very active member of Lex Veldhuis' community.
Westeneng is off to a great start but there is still a long way to go.
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Level: 2
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
The community feel of the event is what makes the Lex Live Spring Festival so special. More players are slowly arriving in Namur, Belgium and they're entering the Main Event.
The last one to make an appearance is Markus Borel. Borel is known in the community as 'l4zy_pigeon' and he just took his seat in the Main Event.
Morten 'Zeeth' Ottosen busted out of the tournament on Day 1A only a mere four hands before the players started bagging. Ottosen took his seat at the bar right now but he told PokerNews that he is gonna jump in this flight very shortly.
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Cards are in the air as the ''shuffle up and deal'' has been announced. There are a total of 92 entries on the clock at the start of the day which is already almost double the players that started on Day 1A at the start.
Level: 1
Blinds: 100/100
Ante: 0
Day 1A and Day 1A turbo are in the books and players are getting ready for Day 1B of the €225 Main Event at the 2019 Lex Live Namur in Grand Casino de Namur. Day 1A and the turbo version got an impressive 180 entries yesterday and today will probably be even bigger. At the end of the day, it was Frenchman Moise Alloun on top of the leaderboard with a stack of 490,000. Lex Veldhuis, 'Croaks', and Benjamin 'Spraggy' Spragg all made it through to Day 2 of the tournament, but none of them ended the day with more than they started with.
They will play the same twelve 30-minute levels as they did yesterday and all players will start with 50,000 in chips. The registration and reentry period will be open for the first eight levels of the tournament.
''I'm really happy with the turnout. I was happy when there were 80 players registered in the event so 168 on Day 1A is amazing. I expect Day 1B and 1C to be even bigger. If we cross the 800 player mark I would be extremely happy but everything above the 500 is amazing.'' said Veldhuis to PokerNews. He also said that he was expecting about 300 entries to made on Day 1B.
At 10 p.m. local time there will be a turbo version with 15-minute levels. Yesterday's turbo flight attracted 12 players but that number is expected to be much bigger today.
PokerNews will be on the tournament floor to bring live coverage throughout the event.
Main Event
Day 1b Started
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