Main Event
Day 1b Completed
bwin.be WPTN Brussels
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
bwin.be WPTN Brussels
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€417,197
Entries
391
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
15,000
Yves Senterre Jumps into Overall Lead After Day 1b of the bwin.be WPT National Brussels
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
As expected, the second starting day of the 2015 bwin.be World Poker Tour National Brussels Main Event at the Grand Casino Brussels Viage attracted a larger field than Day 1a. Once the registration was closed at the end of Level 9, the screens showed 247 entries to boost the overall attendance to 391. Only 93 of the participants bagged up chips, joining the 52 Day 1a survivors.
When bagging and tagging occurred, it was Yves Senterre with an incredible 311,100 in chips to take the overall lead. According to his Hendon Mob profile, the Belgian has $26,859 in lifetime tournament earnings with the biggest cash of €4,450 coming from a 22nd-place finish in the Belgian Open Poker Championship in Namur back in October 2010. Niels Gybels (225,200) also eclipsed Day 1a chip leader Mike Gerry, and Gerry will return third in chips when play resumes at 2 p.m. local time in the capital of Belgium.
Other Day 1b big stacks include Sergio Benso (203,000), Kyne Elmouloua (197,200), World Series of Poker bracelet winner Barny Boatman (176,100), WPT National Cyprus fourth-place finisher Marco Della Tommasina (171,500) and Jussi Matilla (170,000). Among those that didn't bag up anything were Sinem Melin, Michiel Brummelhuis, Bernard de Breyne, Pascal Vos, Patrick Renkers, Niels van Leeuwen, Jonas Lauck, Martin Mulsow, Fabio Sperling, three-time WSOP bracelet winner George Danzer, Kenny Hallaert, Laurent Polito, and Guillaume Darcourt.
Former November Niner Brummelhuis ran into the full house of Jerome Sgorrano, but the Sgorrano also bowed out before the end of Level 12. Darcourt was off to a flying start and then lost two massive pots against PMU online qualifier Jean Michel Texier, who advanced to Day 2 with 148,000. As consolation prize, Darcourt won his ticket to the €2,200 High Roller Event in a €220 satellite, which attracted 90 entries and gave away eight tickets. Hallaert, now tournament director at the Casino de Namur, mis-clicked early on and lost to the pocket aces of 2014 WSOP Asia-Pacific Main Event finalist Henry Szmelcer.
The action will resume at 2 p.m. local in Level 13 at blinds of 1,000/2,000 and a running ante of 300, the level duration will increase to 60 minutes. There are 145 hopefuls left to battle for the trophy and title of WPT National champion. The prize pool hasn't been announced yet, but it will be published before the cards go into the air on Day 2.
Below is a chart of all WPT National Brussels stops thus far and where the current one ranks in terms of participation:
| Date | Buy-In | Entries | Prize Pool | Winner | First-Place Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2015 | €1,200 | 391 | € 417,197 | --TBD-- | €88,000 |
| October 2014 | €750 | 330 | € 216,068 | [Removed:373] | €50,000 |
| July 2014 | €750 | 319 | € 208,865 | Mohamed El Bakkouri | €47,000 |
| March 2014 | €1,500 | 376 | € 492,372 | Lasse Frost | €102,000 |
| December 2013 | €750 | 440 | € 288,090 | Nicolas Pitte | €58,000 |
| February 2013 | €1,650 | 450 | € 675,000 | Yunoz Tuguz | €135,000 |
Be sure to follow along with the PokerNews Live Reporting team to find out who makes it into the money or has to leave the Grand Casino Viage empty-handed.
Day 2 Redraw
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
| Table | Seat | Player | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Anooj Sareen | 58100 |
| 1 | 2 | Kamel Djemai | 172000 |
| 1 | 3 | Jean Koja | 18100 |
| 1 | 4 | Oleg Knyazkov | 29800 |
| 1 | 5 | Bert Geens | 143800 |
| 1 | 6 | Tobias Peters | 33900 |
| 1 | 7 | Patrick Prijot | 24700 |
| 1 | 8 | Kamil Tarabay | 91100 |
| 1 | 9 | Alain Medesan | 48700 |
| 2 | 1 | Jussi Matilla | 170000 |
| 2 | 2 | Sebastien Regue | 39200 |
| 2 | 3 | Guillaume Reverchon | 51300 |
| 2 | 4 | Mohamed Mamouni | 67200 |
| 2 | 5 | Danut-Florin Chisu | 98700 |
| 2 | 6 | Olivier Duran | 55100 |
| 2 | 7 | Candido Goncalves | 44000 |
| 2 | 8 | Philipp Salewski | 97200 |
| 2 | 9 | Kyne Elmouloua | 197200 |
| 3 | 1 | Miroslav Alilovic | 112000 |
| 3 | 2 | Albano Llani | 87200 |
| 3 | 3 | Mathieu Alciato | 36700 |
| 3 | 4 | Julien Duveau | 131500 |
| 3 | 5 | Jean Michel Texier | 148000 |
| 3 | 6 | Henry Szmelcer | 38000 |
| 3 | 7 | Vlad Anghelescu | 69600 |
| 3 | 8 | Jan Brandejs | 119600 |
| 3 | 9 | Theunis Booi | 45800 |
| 4 | 1 | Benjamin Dadon | 30000 |
| 4 | 2 | Andrey Dimitrov | 41300 |
| 4 | 3 | Omar Lakhdari | 120000 |
| 4 | 4 | Bjorn Wiesler | 14700 |
| 4 | 5 | Florian Tissier | 42200 |
| 4 | 6 | Jeffrey Szlanyinka | 79600 |
| 4 | 7 | Eric Theissen | 26500 |
| 4 | 8 | Christian van der Haegen | 142800 |
| 4 | 9 | Mohamed El Bakkouri | 33000 |
| 5 | 1 | Daniel Domb | 95700 |
| 5 | 2 | Christophe Breucq | 59900 |
| 5 | 3 | Antoine Saout | 112000 |
| 5 | 4 | Barny Boatman | 176100 |
| 5 | 5 | Florian Ravier | 98000 |
| 5 | 6 | Jean Montury | 101000 |
| 5 | 7 | Julien Brulet | 70500 |
| 5 | 8 | Jamel El Bachiri | 111900 |
| 5 | 9 | Charles Chattha | 58300 |
| 6 | 1 | Alexandre Reard | 18400 |
| 6 | 2 | Simon Steinberg | 63300 |
| 6 | 3 | Yves Senterre | 311100 |
| 6 | 4 | Danny van Zijp | 110000 |
| 6 | 5 | Anthony Owens | 90400 |
| 6 | 6 | Yehoram Houri | 115000 |
| 6 | 7 | Dario Amorello | 28600 |
| 6 | 8 | Shahriar Soltaninassab | 107500 |
| 6 | 9 | Isabel Baltazar | 65600 |
| 7 | 1 | David Duoek | 25600 |
| 7 | 2 | Sebastien Ta | 20800 |
| 7 | 3 | Vincent Roget | 43800 |
| 7 | 4 | Francis Muyshondt | 67800 |
| 7 | 5 | Charles Calfelis | 79100 |
| 7 | 6 | Jozsef Szabo | 53900 |
| 7 | 7 | Conelis De Cocq | 49400 |
| 7 | 8 | Do Tran | 17200 |
| 7 | 9 | Bart De Roose | 26700 |
| 8 | 1 | Kevin Ayow | 89000 |
| 8 | 2 | Thomas Lust | 143800 |
| 8 | 3 | Jean Marie Vandeborne | 73800 |
| 8 | 4 | Vincent Scaringi | 50700 |
| 8 | 5 | Saied Lege | 106300 |
| 8 | 6 | Niko Koop | 115400 |
| 8 | 7 | Stefan Aerts | 39000 |
| 8 | 8 | Youssef Hammas | 184000 |
| 8 | 9 | Guerwan Blumbergs | 170500 |
| 9 | 1 | Bart Lybaert | 86800 |
| 9 | 2 | Michel Leibgorin | 62400 |
| 9 | 3 | Gilles Huet | 59800 |
| 9 | 4 | Jens Obijn | 33800 |
| 9 | 5 | Eric Vuissoz | 94000 |
| 9 | 6 | Pierre Merlin | 78600 |
| 9 | 7 | Alessandro Sarro | 111500 |
| 9 | 8 | Christoph Maurer | 83600 |
| 9 | 9 | Ruddy Carpentier | 70700 |
| 10 | 1 | Marco Damico | 31200 |
| 10 | 2 | Viktor Lyuzkanov | 32800 |
| 10 | 3 | Todd Jatras | 33200 |
| 10 | 5 | Dominique Terzian | 59200 |
| 10 | 6 | Kamel Hachmi | 74000 |
| 10 | 7 | Farid Azarkan | 103300 |
| 10 | 8 | Alexander Ivanov | 71100 |
| 10 | 9 | Sergio Benso | 203000 |
| 11 | 2 | Marco Della Tommasina | 171500 |
| 11 | 3 | Eugenio Landi | 89000 |
| 11 | 4 | Tonny van Eck | 172000 |
| 11 | 5 | Ertan Sekerci | 98200 |
| 11 | 6 | Pierre Pezzuto | 30000 |
| 11 | 7 | Nico Lombaerts | 90800 |
| 11 | 8 | Franck Boyer | 69700 |
| 11 | 9 | Stephen Woodhead | 82600 |
| 12 | 1 | Heinrich Pauker | 170500 |
| 12 | 2 | Dupuy | 92300 |
| 12 | 3 | Jean Christophe Fechter | 84100 |
| 12 | 4 | Pascal Masset | 72900 |
| 12 | 5 | Aleida Gunthermorh | 75400 |
| 12 | 6 | Nicolas Nicolopoulos | 121900 |
| 12 | 7 | Khoder Benziane | 51600 |
| 12 | 8 | Maurice Vieira | 49000 |
| 13 | 1 | Marcel Luske | 61000 |
| 13 | 2 | Salvatore Alessi | 105600 |
| 13 | 3 | Claude Buccelli | 50900 |
| 13 | 4 | Mike Gerry | 210900 |
| 13 | 5 | Gurkan Cifci | 57500 |
| 13 | 6 | Corentin de Boeck | 27500 |
| 13 | 7 | Dimitro Monfroy | 92600 |
| 13 | 8 | Guy Beiruty | 83600 |
| 14 | 1 | [Removed:373] | 73400 |
| 14 | 2 | Patrick van den Dries | 31700 |
| 14 | 4 | Quentin Lecomte | 18200 |
| 14 | 5 | Jerome Thiebaud | 34100 |
| 14 | 6 | Samuel Bovy | 73600 |
| 14 | 7 | Teresio Ciancanelli | 25500 |
| 14 | 8 | David van Roosbroeck | 90600 |
| 14 | 9 | Matthias De Clercq | 121000 |
| 15 | 1 | Mathieu Laurain | 97600 |
| 15 | 2 | Thierry Gogniat | 80000 |
| 15 | 3 | Cedric Masson | 21100 |
| 15 | 4 | Guy Goosens | 35000 |
| 15 | 6 | Jonathan Abdellatif | 2900 |
| 15 | 7 | Niels Gybels | 225200 |
| 15 | 8 | Pieter de Korver | 71700 |
| 15 | 9 | Micha Hoedemaker | 29900 |
| 16 | 1 | Vincent Verdickt | 45400 |
| 16 | 2 | Omar Dahmani | 74000 |
| 16 | 3 | Michael Gathy | 63500 |
| 16 | 4 | Matas Cimbolas | 52500 |
| 16 | 5 | Jeremy le Bolzer | 57100 |
| 16 | 6 | Paul Hofer | 58300 |
| 16 | 7 | Dieter van Itterbeeck | 130200 |
| 16 | 9 | David Taborsky | 58600 |
| 17 | 1 | Jeffrey Brouwer | 125600 |
| 17 | 2 | Ismael Joly | 19900 |
| 17 | 4 | Jean Baptiste Hall | 159300 |
| 17 | 5 | Stefano Garbarino | 97700 |
| 17 | 6 | Damien Lhommeau | 99300 |
| 17 | 7 | Erwann Pecheux | 151200 |
| 17 | 8 | Anthony Rodrigues | 152000 |
| 17 | 9 | Michael Goosens | 53800 |
Combined End-of-Day Chip Counts (full)
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
311,100 | 141,100 |
|
225,200 | 20,200 |
|
210,900 | |
|
203,000 | 88,000 |
|
197,200 | -2,800 |
|
|
184,000 | |
|
176,100 | -3,900 |
|
172,000 | |
|
172,000 | |
|
171,500 | 54,000 |
|
|
170,500 | 170,500 |
|
170,500 | -13,500 |
|
170,000 | 20,000 |
|
159,300 | -5,700 |
|
152,000 | |
|
151,200 | |
|
148,000 | 7,000 |
|
143,800 | |
|
143,800 | |
|
142,800 | |
|
131,500 | -31,500 |
|
|
130,200 | 80,200 |
|
|
125,600 | 125,600 |
|
121,900 | 121,900 |
|
|
121,000 | 42,000 |
Again Three Hands Drawn
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Only three hands remain before everyone gets to bag and tag.
Gybels Thriving
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Heinrich Pauker bet a flop of 
for 3,700 and folded to a raise by Niels Gybels for 9,000. It was also the Belgian who had raised the button with 
and flopped a flush previously. The player in the big blind held 
and improved to trips kings on the turn when going broke before getting delivered the bad news.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
205,000 | 80,000 |
Saout Busts Le Bihan
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Gael Le Bihan committed his last 18,000 chips with pocket deuces and initial raiser Antoine Saout called with 
to win the flip. Shortly after, the screen was adjusted to show 96 players remaining.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
120,000 | 26,000 |
|
|
Busted |
van Morckhoven Busts to Jacks
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Roland van Morckhoven was all in for around 23,000 from middle position and the player in the big blind called with slightly more chips and the 
. The Belgian held the 
and failed to improve on a board of 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
The Chronicles of Boatman
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Barny Boatman busted the player in seat one that had joked to be a fish, calling a raise to 2,500 with and spiking two pair on the 
flop. His opponent had check-raised and called all in with kings to hit the rail. Boatman continued to tear apart his table and then lost with pocket sixes against pocket fives due to a five on the river.
Another player doubled up in a 90,000-pot with 
on a flop when Boatman put his opponent on the flush draw and called with eights. But, despite all this sudden run-bad, the Brit is still among the big stacks.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
180,000 | 105,000 |
Getting Close to the Last 100
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Kyne Elmouloua knocked out a short stack with pocket jacks versus pocket sevens and the same hand would be the last for another short stack on table 5, as a big stack with 
spiked a king to send yet another player to the rail. The screens show 102 participants remaining and this number will surely drop considerably in the last half an hour of day 1b still.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
200,000 | 35,000 |