Main Event
Day 2 Started
2019 Lex Live Namur
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2019 Lex Live Namur
Buy-in
€225
Entries
1,064
Level
33
Blinds
200,000 / 400,000
Ante
400,000
Day 2 of the Lex Live Namur Main Event Starts at 4 P.M.
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.
Level: 13
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 4,000
Shuffle Up and Deal
Level 13
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Cards are in the air for Day 2 of the 2019 €225 Lex Live Namur Main Event in Grand Casino de Namur. There are 373 players remaining and 111 will walk home with some extra cash in their pockets.
'L4zy_pigeon' One of the First Players Eliminated
Level 13
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Markus 'L4zy__pigeon' Borel started the day with just ten big blinds and it folded to him in the cutoff. The players in the blinds weren't present yet and Borel moved all in with 
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He was called by the player on the button with 
and that was more than plenty to take down the pot after the board ran out with an ace on the flop.
Borel said he is most likely going to play the progressive knockout tournament later in the day.
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Lex Veldhuis Eliminated
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 |
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140,000
35,000
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Not a Great Start for the Community
Level 13
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
The community has a hard time holding up in the big field. A lot of players already busted out of the tournament in the first 20 minutes of the day.
'Croaks' Got eliminated with 
against 
and , while Tjenno 'TjennoE' Eskes lost with ace-king against ace-queen and pocket nines. Others that already were eliminated as well include Ger 'Eyesolator' Kamerling, Ben 'TheBenMartin98' Martin, and PokerStars Team Online member Benjamin 'Spraggy' Spragg.
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Eliminations
Level 13
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
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Level: 14
Blinds: 2,000/5,000
Ante: 5,000
A Lot of Eliminations
Level 14
: 2,000/5,000, 5,000 ante
The tournament started only an hour ago and there are already about 100 players who were sent to the rail. The only PokerStars ambassador that is still left is Team Online pro Felix 'xflixx' Schneiders.