The Belgian casino Namur prepared the 13th edition of the WaSOP series for its players from July 24 to August 4, offering players a total of more than one million euros in guarantees. The Main Event grabbed the biggest part of the guarantee, guaranteeing players €500,000 at a buy-in of €550. Well, this amount was easily surpassed.

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Even before Friday's final opening days, it was clear that the guarantee in this tournament would be impossible to resist. After the last, fifth 1E flighter, the number of entries into this tournament came to a standstill at 1,728, making the prizepool worth €777,254.

A slow structure consisting of 45-minute levels let 441 players into Day 2, but nothing is certain yet. In fact, cash prizes starting at €870 mincashy await the top 255 players. At the end of tomorrow's final day, we will also know the champion, who will have a bonus of €106,200 waiting for him!

The chipleader is currently 81-year-old Belgian legend Pierre Neuville, who once again proved that age is just a number and has no influence on poker results. The current number four on the Belgian all-time money list has managed to turn a 50,000 starting stack into a 713,000 stack, which puts him in first place.

As for the DACH players, there are no fewer than 59 of them still in the tournament. The current current top 10 is Phung Helmut (521,000), followed by Oeztuerk Ilker (430,000) in 21st place and the top three DACH players are rounded out by Wellen Markus (418,000) in 26th place.

The list of all those advancing to Day 2 can be found here

Source - circus-poker.com, FB/CircusPoker, FB/PokerCityNL