Main Event Day 2 | 2019 Lex Live Namur

03-31-2019 04:31 UTC+2

Forty-Six Survive Day 2 of the Lex Live Main Event

Milko van Winden

Level 23 : 20,000/40,000, 40,000 ante

There are 46 players remaining in the €225 Lex Live Namur Main Event. The event, held in Grand Casino de Namur, had a total of 1,064 entries and the remaining 46 players will battle it out tomorrow for the first-place prize of €37,105. All are guaranteed to take home at least €708. Mohamed Adansar has the chip lead with 3,636,000. The closest follower is Kevin Muders with 2,705,000.

The day started out with a flurry of busts. It wasn't a great day and especially not a great start for the Lex Veldhuis community. A couple of the players that busted out in the first 15 minutes of the day include Markus 'L4zy_pigeon' Borel, Ben 'TheBenMartin98' Martin, Tjenno 'TjennoE' Eskes, moderator 'Croaks', and Veldhuis himself didn't make it past the first 15 minutes either.

Veldhuis busted after he found pocket tens with only six big blinds. He had to win a coin flip against two overcards but he couldn't recover when his opponent flopped two pair. Another Team PokerStars Online pro that didn't make it very far was Benjamin 'Spraggy' Spragg. The Twitch streamer busted out in the first level of the day as well. The only player from the community that did make it through to Day 3 is Tomislav Savov. The Bulgarian going by the name 'JustX' has bagged 505,000 and he is considered one of the shorter stacks left in the tournament.

Kalidou Sow, Jérôme Sgorrano, and Belgian actor Tom Dingenen busted out in the last level of the day. They all cashed for €708 but they are missing out on the top prize of €37,105. The registration of the €550 Golden Beaker High Roller is still open however and they can register before the start of Day 2 at 3:30 p.m. local time.

Earlier in the day at 11:30 a.m. Veldhuis had a pub quiz with sixty questions about himself and the stream. After fifty questions he announced that the top four would play a tag team style sit and go before the start of Day 3 of the Main Event. Sanne 'Antim00n' Bombeek, Milko 'Milkovw' van Winden, 'TjennoE', and 'TheBenMartin98 ended in that top four and they will be partnered up with either 'Spraggy', Fintan 'EasyWithAces' Hand, Felix 'xflixx' Schneiders, or Veldhuis himself. They are all guaranteed to take home at least €500 with the winner cashing for €3,000.

The Main Event will continue with 46 players remaining in the tournament at 3 p.m. local time. PokerNews will be there at the start until the winner is crowned in the first inaugural Lex Live Main Event.

Tags: Ben Martin Benjamin Spragg Felix Schneiders Fintan Hand Kalidou Sow Lex Veldhuis Milko van Winden Sanne Bombeek Tjenno Eskes Tom Dingenen Tomislav Savov

03-31-2019 01:01 UTC+2

Both Danes Go Down

Milko van Winden

Level 20 : 10,000/20,000, 20,000 ante

Gaetan Macaluso put his last 3,000 in the middle from early position and Kenneth Pedersen moved all in as well for his last 67,000. They were called by Mohamed Ammar in the small blind and the player in the big blind folded.

Kenneth Pedersen:
Gaetan Macaluso:
Mohamed Ammar:

The board ran out and that meant that Macaluso wins the main pot and Ammar the side pot. Pedersen got eliminated from the tournament.

Fellow Dane Morten 'Zeeth' Ottosen was eliminated from the tournament on another table after he lost with pocket eights against pocket tens.

Both get to collect €492.

Player	Chips	Progress
Mohamed Ammar	500,000 296,000	296,000
Gaetan Macaluso	20,000 17,000	17,000
Morten Ottosen	Busted
Kenneth Pedersen	Busted

Tags: Kenneth Pedersen Mohamed Ammar Gaetan Macaluso

03-30-2019 19:33 UTC+2

No Cash for Wesley Nobels

Milko van Winden

Level 15 : 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante

Wesley Nobels was down to 63,000 and he played multiple hands that eventually concluded in him busting out of the tournament. First he jammed with pocket deuces without getting a call and his now slightly bigger stack was pushed to the middle again the very next hand with pocket eights from the cutoff.

He was called this time by the player on the button with ace-ten and there was a ten on the flop right away. He was left with just 23,000 after the hand and he lost those chips with ace-deuce.

Player	Chips	Progress
Wesley Nobels	Busted

Tags: Wesley Nobels

03-30-2019 17:22 UTC+2

Lex Veldhuis Eliminated

Milko van Winden

Level 13 : 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante

The man of the tournament and Twitch Poker legend Lex Veldhuis just busted out of the tournament. He started the day with just six big blinds and he got it all in the middle with from under the gun. Virginie Idres moved all in as well for 26 big blinds with and they went off to the races.

The flop fell and Veldhuis had to come from behind. The turn was the and the river was the and Veldhuis got eliminated early in the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Virginie Idres	140,000 35,000	35,000
Lex Veldhuis	Busted

Tags: Lex Veldhuis Virginie Idres

03-30-2019 16:04 UTC+2

Day 2 of the Lex Live Namur Main Event Starts at 4 P.M.

Milko van Winden

All starting flights are in the books of the 2019 Lex Live Namur Main Event. Soufiane Gherbi from Belgium leads the 373 remaining players out of the 1,064 players that started the tournament. Gherbi collected 514,000 from his 50,000 starting stack. Job Trekpop finished Day 1C yesterday as chip leader, bagging 404,500, and some might know him as the biggest troll in Lex Veldhuis his Twitch channel.

The winner will receive the huge first place prize of €37,105 and the runner-up of the tournament has to settle for €22,614. A total of 111 players will end up cashing the tournament with a min-cash of €492. They will play ten 45-minute levels on Day 2 of the tournament which will finish at about 1:30 a.m.

Veldhuis himself will start the day as one of the short stacks. He bagged 23,000 and he only has four people below him on the leaderboard. Other community members that made it through to Day 2 include Nadia 'KaboomPoker' Wanzi (309,000), Joeri 'Zjoeri' van Kuik (137,000), and Tjenno 'TjennoE' Eskes (79,500).

The first goal players will have is to reach the money and we will see how quickly that will happen. PokerNews will be on site in Grand Casino de Namur.

Tags: Job Trekpop Joeri van Kuik Lex Veldhuis Nadia Wanzi Soufiane Gherbi Tjenno Eskes