Latest version of the Belgian Gaming Law

**Note that we're not lawyers, or had any legal degree, and just try to give you our view on matters. Please make your own conclusions and judgements**

Here you can download the latest version (dutch & french) of the new belgian gaming law proposal, as amended and approved by the senate commission for justice, and now sent back the the chamber of representants for approval.

At this point, it's safe to say that there won't be any more amendements, and that it's just a matter of when this change to the law will be passed. To know exactly what changed, you will have to read the old text as well.

Here's a summary:

* the first 7 pages is basically about how the gaming commission is composed, what it can and can't do.
* Page 8 mentions that it will be the commission, who will be able to fine people. This will end the current practice that the commission only establishes a "PV", and depends on other bodies to prosecute and fine the criminals.
* After 5 years, the crime expires and they can't fine you anymore.
* Page 11 indicates that you can take the case to court, if you refuse to pay the fine.
* The existing classification of class A, B, C and E are replaced by A, A+, B, B+, C, E, F1, F1+, G1 and G2.

It doesn't make any sense that the text doesn't contain anything about the permits, internet gambling, ... compared to the original new proposal. It seems that only the stuff from pages 148-150 really made it through.

After some more research, it became evident that the original new proposal proposed to amend everything to law 77. On June 18th, it was decided to split it into two proposals, one for 77 (that contains all the stuff from above, with the changes on how the commission operates), and one for law 78, the law that also contains stuff about the national lottery.

Here is the link to this proposal page, to change law 78 in the constitution. The actual documents are on the website of the senate, but the final text is not available yet. Here is the temporary version.

In this temporary version you'll read that it will be forbidden to participate in games that aren't licensed by the commission, that credit card payments will not be allowed, and that social//non-profit events (like poker tournaments) will be allowed up to 4x per year, per organization.

Day 3 Tabledraw

Table 38 will be funny to watch, with Civell, Peleken and Christophe De Meulder playing.

Stanowksi Stephane 27000 Table 26 seat 9
Lauvais Bruno 71800 Table 26 seat 8
D'ugo Giovanni 260400 Table 26 seat 7
Gauter Laurent 93000 Table 26 seat 6
Charlier Xavier 68500 Table 26 seat 5
Wilms Elroy 14900 Table 26 seat 4
Wets Nicolas 44500 Table 26 seat 3
Tach Faruckh 84400 Table 26 seat 2
Okhotskyy Oleh 43100 Table 26 seat 1

Beeckx Alexander 157100 Table 27 seat 9
Valkenburg Paul 48500 Table 27 seat 8
Nguyen Viet Tri 44000 Table 27 seat 7
Bartoli Sergis 80800 Table 27 seat 6
Bodart Pascal 14500 Table 27 seat 5
Elkaim Prosper 11200 Table 27 seat 4
Ramirez Benjamin 21100 Table 27 seat 3
Buss Walter 63900 Table 27 seat 2
Errahmani Nabil 28400 Table 27 seat 1

Alomar Antonia 71800 Table 28 seat 9
Prinz Markus 73900 Table 28 seat 8
Debus Alexander 25600 Table 28 seat 7
Emo Wim 36100 Table 28 seat 6
Springael Joris 97900 Table 28 seat 5
Dieu David 79900 Table 28 seat 4
Jacquelinet Philippe 32500 Table 28 seat 3
Baldisseri Jeremy 46600 Table 28 seat 2
Aerts Stefan 50000 Table 28 seat 1

Monfort Ronan 33600 Table 31 seat 8
Palermo Christophero 24800 Table 31 seat 7
Brian Philippe 32400 Table 31 seat 6
Taneire Michael 31300 Table 31 seat 5
Rozenburg Daniel 21000 Table 31 seat 4
Sterken Rob 75900 Table 31 seat 3
Kubesch Sebastian 38400 Table 31 seat 2
Bodeux Pierre-Yves 43900 Table 31 seat 1

Marsin Clement 47300 Table 32 seat 8
Andre Thibaut 38200 Table 32 seat 7
Krischner Daniel 34400 Table 32 seat 6
Pollet Christophe 71100 Table 32 seat 5
De Korver Pieter 25400 Table 32 seat 4
Becquart Julien 103400 Table 32 seat 3
Macaluso Giovanni 54200 Table 32 seat 2
Sittinierre Giuseppe 54200 Table 32 seat 1

Lavenir Franca 50800 Table 33 seat 8
Deno Ivan 47200 Table 33 seat 7
Ribaud Paul 30600 Table 33 seat 6
Murgia Manu 24500 Table 33 seat 5
De Visscher Koen 26100 Table 33 seat 4
Wuyts Philippe 142600 Table 33 seat 3
Heinze Olvedo 65500 Table 33 seat 2
Putzeys Laurent 80900 Table 33 seat 1

Jackson Paul 139200 Table 34 seat 8
Buzzo Christopher 96400 Table 34 seat 7
Horst Koch 55000 Table 34 seat 6
Oosterlinck David 18500 Table 34 seat 5
Beraup Thomas 157000 Table 34 seat 4
Naamani Ammar 210800 Table 34 seat 3
Bordaut Francois 17000 Table 34 seat 2
Bauwens Tim 48200 Table 34 seat 1

Homann Sébastian 47800 Table 35 seat 9
Vanhex Raf 145800 Table 35 seat 8
Berende Paul 81400 Table 35 seat 7
Alouane Mohamed 20700 Table 35 seat 6
Nauder Coralie 55500 Table 35 seat 5
Coppée Brice 106600 Table 35 seat 4
Colos Patrice 66000 Table 35 seat 3
Lions Arnaud 175800 Table 35 seat 2
Yildiz Diren 30000 Table 35 seat 1

Jadoulle Olivier 31100 Table 36 seat 9
Dambruch Philippe 57000 Table 36 seat 8
Leclercq Jacques 49700 Table 36 seat 7
Hanssen Marc 24000 Table 36 seat 6
De Maso Christopher 116200 Table 36 seat 5
Van Bragt Frank 118100 Table 36 seat 4
Guida Antonio 60800 Table 36 seat 3
Blangenwitsch Martial 70500 Table 36 seat 2

Vanhaesendonck Luc 29400 Table 36 seat 1
Gallce Edouard 124500 Table 37 seat 9
Martinez Barbara 150700 Table 37 seat 8
Bonkowski Tyler 67800 Table 37 seat 7
Le Compte Malik 51300 Table 37 seat 6
Banusz Eddy 73500 Table 37 seat 5
Pignot Valerie 43800 Table 37 seat 4
Sadarnac Frederic 141800 Table 37 seat 3
Lambinet Patrick 78900 Table 37 seat 2
Vandenbergh Pieter 43900 Table 37 seat 1

Vandersmissen Kevin 119600 Table 38 seat 9
Inizan Marc 205100 Table 38 seat 8
Peelman Jurgen 39000 Table 38 seat 7
Chinek Nourredine 181100 Table 38 seat 6
Pïso Leon 41100 Table 38 seat 5
Bolognini Gregory 35700 Table 38 seat 4
De Meulder Christophe 16100 Table 38 seat 3
Gibson Nick 71600 Table 38 seat 2
Badrami Agron 108100 Table 38 seat 1

Gentille Fabian 111700 Table 39 seat 9
Melka Jean-Claude 17600 Table 39 seat 8
Beurms Alfred 50200 Table 39 seat 7
Vandenbroeck Samuel 113800 Table 39 seat 6
Nowak Stéphane 25800 Table 39 seat 5
Marchal Philippe 74900 Table 39 seat 4
Camardese Rolando 61300 Table 39 seat 3
Ciarrochi Sylvio 94300 Table 39 seat 2
Ben Slama Naoufel 40300 Table 39 seat 1

Muller Andreas 80600 Table 40 seat 9
Zian Mohammed 120570 Table 40 seat 8
Lorent Jean-Yves 62000 Table 40 seat 7
Stumbo Anthony 88100 Table 40 seat 6
Aldenhoff Patrick 73200 Table 40 seat 5
De Rosa Thomas 72100 Table 40 seat 4
Rotstein Paul 124100 Table 40 seat 3
Belleflamme Gwennael 25900 Table 40 seat 2
De Sanctis Guiliano 42400 Table 40 seat 1

Blom Maurits 66700 Table 41 seat 9
De Smet Laurens 61000 Table 41 seat 8
Schraeyen Bjorn 82600 Table 41 seat 7
Camus Antonio 45800 Table 41 seat 6
Hoogendoorn Robert Jan 170500 Table 41 seat 5
Khouri Matthew 90500 Table 41 seat 4
Joly Guillaume 41200 Table 41 seat 3
Cabero Miguel 49600 Table 41 seat 2
Masaus Dalik 104900 Table 41 seat 1

Day 2B survivors

As we had most of the flemish players in day 2A, this summary is very short. David "Davitsche" Vanderheyden unfortunately got eliminted, but Christophe De Meulder is still alive. However, with his stack of 16100, he will need to double up fast on day 3.

Also entering day 3 short stacked is Pieter De Korver. With 25400, he's just a few places ahead of Christophe. Noah Boeken and Pierre Neuville also failed to push through to day 3.

We'll bring you the day 3 tabledraw as soon as possible.

Day 2B Tabledraw

Although we had most flemish survivors yesterday, today is definitely day 2 of the stars, with Noah Boeken big in chips, Pieter De Korver, Christophe De Meulder, Pierre Neuville and several dutch sharks. Let's not forget Daniel Camus, who we recently had on the Poker Rail Radio. With 28000 chips and blinds starting at 250-500, he has some ammo left.

Check out the tabledraw:

Mura Antonino 15650Table 18 seat 1
Popalzei Magid 10050Table 18 seat 2
Brinkmann Torsten 16100Table 18 seat 3
Halleux Fabrice 28450Table 18 seat 4
Hoffmann Albert 25000Table 18 seat 5
De smidt Mattias 16500Table 18 seat 6
Langezaal Sander 16700Table 18 seat 7
Ciarricchi silvio 45100Table 18 seat 8
Pellitevi Salvatore 15350Table 18 seat 9

Perrault Pascal 27000Table 19 seat 1
Mattern Arnaud 8300Table 19 seat 2
Muller Andreas 62250Table 19 seat 3
Slot Wendy 5000Table 19 seat 4
Magnus Kris 11050Table 19 seat 5
Van Kalkeren Daniel 19850Table 19 seat 6
De Korver Pieter 40300Table 19 seat 7
Gibson Nicolas 46100Table 19 seat 8
Huttmacher Jean 16250Table 19 seat 9
Mazza Eric 12150Table 19 seat 10

Crocherie Axel 35900Table 21 seat 1
Marchal Philippe 32300Table 21 seat 2
Blom Maurits 80550Table 21 seat 3
Legrand Francois 31750Table 21 seat 4
Swillens Stefan 42600Table 21 seat 5
Misonne Jacques 19300Table 21 seat 6
Camardese Rolando 38550Table 21 seat 7
Biatco Marco 35000Table 21 seat 8
Raymackers Gunther 10650Table 21 seat 9
Ziaw Mohommad 31570Table 21 seat 10

Mierent Robert 23400Table 22 seat 1
Murray Derek 32200Table 22 seat 2
Laschen Jonas 11650Table 22 seat 3
Pollet Christophe 32000Table 22 seat 4
Vanderheyden David 15800Table 22 seat 5
Van de Moer Steven 18500Table 22 seat 6
Delabre Jean 8700Table 22 seat 7
De Roover Thomas 15050Table 22 seat 8
Molin Yves 12350Table 22 seat 9
Nistor Daniel 7200Table 22 seat 10

Hidalgo Rogelino 20400Table 23 seat 1
Melka Jean-Claude 19000Table 23 seat 2
Wilms Elroy 20850Table 23 seat 3
Lorent Jean-Yves 22000Table 23 seat 4
Razab-sekh Stieven 29500Table 23 seat 5
Putzeys Laurent 25800Table 23 seat 6
Van den Bergh Pieter 33900Table 23 seat 7
Gauyacq Gilles 17100Table 23 seat 8
Belleflamme Gwenaelle 30300Table 23 seat 9
Joly Guillaume 32600Table 23 seat 10

Prinz Markus 42950Table 24 seat 1
Faucher Dominique 8350Table 24 seat 2
Gierse Thomas 9100Table 24 seat 3
Oostburg Valentijn 12320Table 24 seat 4
Gentille Fabian 65100Table 24 seat 5
Jadoulle Olivier 18300Table 24 seat 6
Valkenburg Paul 38750Table 24 seat 7
Remy Sebastien 23700Table 24 seat 8
Reyskens Vincent 14250Table 24 seat 9
Lauwereys Koen 20050Table 24 seat 10

Van de Velde Jean 22000Table 25 seat 1
Mettevieri Antonia 6750Table 25 seat 2
Kuhlmann Tim 8350Table 25 seat 3
Wetemans Jasper 13800Table 25 seat 4
Coppee Brice 32000Table 25 seat 5
Kapitzke Laszlo 9950Table 25 seat 6
Stacquet Christophe 9700Table 25 seat 7
Demeyere Pedro 16300Table 25 seat 8
Boeken Noah 73050Table 25 seat 9
Rosenberg Olivier 10300Table 25 seat 10

Polarski Sven 15750Table 26 seat 1
Nowak Stefan 14300Table 26 seat 2
Da Silva Olivier 4850Table 26 seat 3
Sittiniere Giuseppe 47500Table 26 seat 4
De Meulder Christophe 21050Table 26 seat 5
Sterken Rob 16200Table 26 seat 6
Speer Haward 19850Table 26 seat 7
Pertuisot Philippe 21850Table 26 seat 8
Liboy Olivier 4950Table 26 seat 9
Piso Leon 19450Table 26 seat 10

Rachard Gregory 14400Table 27 seat 1
Said Ahbiti 20000Table 27 seat 2
Alomar Antonia 38770Table 27 seat 3
Ciammorcard Joseph 29900Table 27 seat 4
De Cleen Nivo 13750Table 27 seat 5
Zemski Hugues 30000Table 27 seat 6
Vandenkbroeck Samual 28550Table 27 seat 7
Adams Marco 26070Table 27 seat 8
Sita Catherine 18050Table 27 seat 9
Hoedemaker Micha 7800Table 27 seat 10

Stanowski Stephane 17250Table 28 seat 1
Nauder Coralie 8050Table 28 seat 2
Rozakis Elefterios 10200Table 28 seat 3
Pignot Valerie 17700Table 28 seat 4
Oleh Okhotsky 31450Table 28 seat 5
Amrane Kemel 10900Table 28 seat 6
Malherbe Cedric 9200Table 28 seat 7
Jodin Yvan 4900Table 28 seat 8
Jeandal Romain 14150Table 28 seat 9
Surinder Sunar 14700Table 28 seat 10

Buss Walter 13900Table 31 seat 1
Audre Thibaut 13400Table 31 seat 2
Baldisseri Jeremy 26000Table 31 seat 3
Hofman Guy 22900Table 31 seat 4
Danzel Markus 16100Table 31 seat 5
Martinez Barbara 41700Table 31 seat 6
Arcidiaco Mickael 46750Table 31 seat 7
Gilson Michael 9700Table 31 seat 9
Hong Catherine 32650Table 31 seat 8 (ElkY's girlfriend)

Verslegers Jeremie 57200Table 32 seat 1
Kreulen Marco 6550Table 32 seat 2
Berende Paul 44100Table 32 seat 3
Poortinga Yven 17600Table 32 seat 4
Inizan Marco 75900Table 32 seat 5
Van der Hoff Robin 13700Table 32 seat 6
Marsin Clement 52300Table 32 seat 7
Gouget Fabrice 68550Table 32 seat 8
Demoulin Vincent 19210Table 32 seat 9
Merckx Philippe 15350Table 32 seat 10

Chikar Kamal 34400Table 33 seat 1
De Smidt Maarten 14200Table 33 seat 2
D'ugo Giovanni 70050Table 33 seat 3
El Asyard Omar 19400Table 33 seat 4
Wafflart Renaud 9500Table 33 seat 5
Van Rompu Jerome 17800Table 33 seat 6
Tardieu Frnacois 13900Table 33 seat 7
Beckers Joel 20550Table 33 seat 8
Laurette Jerome 6800Table 33 seat 9
Di Salvo Gaetano 22150Table 33 seat 10

Stallone Vito 12900Table 34 seat 1
Gustin Thierry 11850Table 34 seat 2
Allard Stephane 16600Table 34 seat 3
Jackson Paul 12550Table 34 seat 4
Pirlot Daniel 31500Table 34 seat 5
Debus Alexander 6400Table 34 seat 6
Bodart Pascal 22500Table 34 seat 7
Smolak Christian 28500Table 34 seat 8
Radermecker Olivier 7500Table 34 seat 9
Blokhof Ruud 21000Table 34 seat 10

Demans Alain 11000Table 35 seat 1
Senteerre Yves 5150Table 35 seat 2
Neuville Pierre 7650Table 35 seat 3 (we love you Pierre, take it down !)
Gross Christophe 30650Table 35 seat 4
Vanhaeren Fabrice 16450Table 35 seat 5
Hanusse Christian 26250Table 35 seat 6
Heinze Olviedo 21550Table 35 seat 7
McCool Nick 12900Table 35 seat 8
Mangano Xavier 8850Table 35 seat 9
Rotstein Paul 59100Table 35 seat 10

Mebus Tijna 10700Table 36 seat 1
Van den Hole Jean-Louis 10800Table 36 seat 2
Francois Alain 11150Table 36 seat 3
Van Hese Raf 21100Table 36 seat 4
Khouri Matthew 20250Table 36 seat 5
Charlier Xavier 20650Table 36 seat 6
Launais Bruno 24500Table 36 seat 7
Brecard Julien 14050Table 36 seat 8
Nowak Patrick 23150Table 36 seat 9
Genova Roberto 13800Table 36 seat 10

Blangennitsch Martial 15400Table 37 seat 1
Mordaut Francois 11470Table 37 seat 2
Lambert Alain 29100Table 37 seat 3
Slotboom Rolf 6500Table 37 seat 4
Coomans Peter 14550Table 37 seat 5
Nigrot Yoann 9050Table 37 seat 6
Bonkowski Tyer 43400Table 37 seat 7
Kubesch Sebastian 9850Table 37 seat 8
Van Wieringen Pim 17700Table 37 seat 9
Zwickel Andreas 23000Table 37 seat 10

Tavella Mickael 16950Table 38 seat 1
Gautier Laurent 48420Table 38 seat 2
Van Trigt Merrill 11650Table 38 seat 3
Horst Koch 33050Table 38 seat 4
O'mara Jon 38050Table 38 seat 5
Van Overvelt Wim 23500Table 38 seat 6
Jeanesson Michel 28450Table 38 seat 7
Tonneau Juan 32900Table 38 seat 8
Lust Thomas 16550Table 38 seat 9
Brian Philippe 34900Table 38 seat 10

Yildiz Diren 19100Table 39 seat 1
Vanderhofstadt Nicolas 13600Table 39 seat 2
Monfort Ronan 12500Table 39 seat 3
Becquart Julien 43050Table 39 seat 4
Camus Daniel 28500Table 39 seat 5
Guignard Gilles 17400Table 39 seat 6
Ariaans Jos 7700Table 39 seat 7
Sermeus Frederic 24300Table 39 seat 8
Passe Jean Baptiste 15200Table 39 seat 9
Barrere Jean-Alexander 7850Table 39 seat 10

De Zeeuw Olaf 21200Table 40 seat 1
Wakeman Matthew 16900Table 40 seat 2
Homann Sebastian 21700Table 40 seat 3
Van Campenhout Wim 33500Table 40 seat 4
Wertz Marcel 8600Table 40 seat 5
Antonino Guida 14900Table 40 seat 6
Pellegrino Bryan 42950Table 40 seat 7
Vanhaesendonck Luc 23100Table 40 seat 8
De Vylder Marco 19350Table 40 seat 9
Weu Matthias 13650Table 40 seat 10

Dany Parlafes 22000Table 41 seat 8
Thewissen Jean-Philippe 35000Table 41 seat 1
Lion Arnaud 47250Table 41 seat 2
Ben Slama Naoufel 47000Table 41 seat 3
Massaud Dali 53650Table 41 seat 4
Colas Patrice 18300Table 41 seat 5
Laval Philippe 5150Table 41 seat 6
Salme Pierre 12300Table 41 seat 7
Pollak Benjamin 3550Table 41 seat 9
Genachte Daniel 12400Table 41 seat 10

Day 2A & 10k heads up event results

It was a pity to lose Johan Bastiaens and Rob Indesteege in day 2A. Other players, including the starting shortstack Joris Springael, managed to survive and will come back on friday for day 3.

Alexander Beeckx - 157100 (currently 4th)
Vandersmissen Kevin - 119600
Springael Joris - 97900
De Smet Laurens - 61000
Le Compte Malik - 51300
Bauwens Tim - 48200
Peelman Jurgen - 39000
De Visscher Koen - 26100 (apperently, he lost about half his stack in the last level)

The 10k heads up event was won by Team Pokerstars Pro, featuring frenchies ElkY, Arnaud Mattern, Julien Brecard and nordic assistant Johnny Lodden. In the final, they faced team Netherlands (featuring Marc Naalden), and the match was decided in a tie break win by Johnny Lodden, after it was 2-2.

BOPC Day 2A Seating

Van Uden Francis 34300 Table 23 seat 1 1
Lairing Ludovic 19650 Table 23 seat 2
De Maso Christopher 35800 Table 23 seat 3
Banusz Eddy 47800 Table 23 seat 4
Moens Hughes 19700 Table 23 seat 5
Bauwens Tim 17100 Table 23 seat 6
Benats Raphael 17050 Table 23 seat 7
Vreux Fabrice 34100 Table 23 seat 8
Jaron Gaëtan 31000 Table 23 seat 9
Belga Paul 8750 Table 23 seat 10

Sante Didier 9050 Table 24 seat 1
Indesteege Rob 11900 Table 24 seat 2
Palermo Christopheros 23000 Table 24 seat 3
Dierick Patrice 18900 Table 24 seat 4
Yvel Marciano 10800 Table 24 seat 5
Wolf Stanislav 20250 Table 24 seat 6
Bolgnini Gregory 23950 Table 24 seat 7
Kelly JP 34100 Table 24 seat 8
Macaluso Giovani 30400 Table 24 seat 9
Garrel Nicolas 13650 Table 24 seat 10

Elkam Prosper 23050 Table 25 seat 1
Krischner Daniel 21400 Table 25 seat 2
Zamora Mena Remigio 16600 Table 25 seat 3
Caspar Pinto Frerderico 5650 Table 25 seat 4
Baeten Christophe 25250 Table 25 seat 5
Schiepers Koen 56000 Table 25 seat 6
Halot Laurent 11900 Table 25 seat 7
Schobben Vincent 9000 Table 25 seat 8
Meurisse Patrick 22300 Table 25 seat 9
Bernard Donat 21150 Table 25 seat 10

Vanhollebeke David 3150 Table 26 seat 1
El Osta Eric 16650 Table 26 seat 2
Nicoli Lorenzo 33650 Table 26 seat 3
Murgia Manu 15750 Table 26 seat 4
Collin Nicolas 17400 Table 26 seat 5
Martin Bruno 17750 Table 26 seat 6
Christaens Joeri 18800 Table 26 seat 7
Leclercq Jacques 9100 Table 26 seat 8
Ribaud Paul 33650 Table 26 seat 9
Giovanni Carlo 16600 Table 26 seat 10

Le Compte Malik (demalik) 31800 Table 27 seat 1
Hologne Jean-Pierre 19400 Table 27 seat 2
Buzzo Christopher 25250 Table 27 seat 3
Bodeux Pierre-Yves 23800 Table 27 seat 4
Van Vlimnenes René 8200 Table 27 seat 5
Van Wynsberghe Thiebaut 26550 Table 27 seat 6
Debue David 33900 Table 27 seat 7
Dewinne Grégory 10600 Table 27 seat 8
Bastiaens Johan (Bear) 11500 Table 27 seat 9
Cerci Cenk 38400 Table 27 seat 10

Chinek Nouredine 34400 Table 28 seat 1
Libermenjl Serge 14650 Table 28 seat 2
De Smet Laurens 19850 Table 28 seat 3
Ayabi Nourdin 10650 Table 28 seat 4
Harrouschy Mohamed 17980 Table 28 seat 5
Bijnons Jan 9800 Table 28 seat 6
Alves Filip 7850 Table 28 seat 7
Van Bargt Franck 23000 Table 28 seat 8
Verboven Philip 32750 Table 28 seat 9
Amato Fabrizio 9400 Table 28 seat 10

Dambruch Philippe 21500 Table 31 seat 1
De'cat Rutger 7200 Table 31 seat 2
Gossens Guy 30450 Table 31 seat 3
Beraud Thomas 53750 Table 31 seat 4
Beeckx Alexander 57250 Table 31 seat 5
Valenziano Guiseppe 15100 Table 31 seat 6
Van Londersele Jeroen 28650 Table 31 seat 7
Zoufri Hakim 21900 Table 31 seat 8
Tombeur Benoit 12850 Table 31 seat 9
Janssen David Joseph 26150 Table 31 seat 10

Mahoux Benoit 20500 Table 32 seat 1
Bailly Jacques 15900 Table 32 seat 2
Joly Ismaël 1900 Table 32 seat 3
Stumbo Anthony 17500 Table 32 seat 4
Demayer Valerie 5400 Table 32 seat 5
Carosella Olivier 14400 Table 32 seat 6
Dalija Armend 6650 Table 32 seat 7
Bartol Sergio 13600 Table 32 seat 8
Melard Nicolas 9400 Table 32 seat 9
Van der Eecken Marc 27700 Table 32 seat 10

Mettivieri Giovanni 28600 Table 33 seat 1
Verhoeft Denis 15000 Table 33 seat 2
Hnatow Jean-Michel 20650 Table 33 seat 3
Badrami Agrone 16000 Table 33 seat 4
Fajga Michel 24550 Table 33 seat 5
Orlando David 40150 Table 33 seat 6
Vermeulen Lorent 12700 Table 33 seat 7
Lenders Bart 21150 Table 33 seat 8
Lambinet Patrick 25400 Table 33 seat 9
Ahzaaz Younes 9450 Table 33 seat 10

Van Oosterhout Peter 21900 Table 34 seat 1
Diz Villanueva Jean-Philippe 14050 Table 34 seat 2
Gallee Edouard 60950 Table 34 seat 3
Maghe Philippe 8000 Table 34 seat 4
Soltani Shariar 28150 Table 34 seat 5
Dieu David 41450 Table 34 seat 6
Desrevmaux Julien 13950 Table 34 seat 7
Errahmani Nabil 16600 Table 34 seat 8
Deckers Gerard 24350 Table 34 seat 9
N'Guyen Viet tri 7200 Table 34 seat 10

Refos Raoul 59100 Table 35 seat 1
Peelman Jurgen 28000 Table 35 seat 2
Manshoven Stéphane 15100 Table 35 seat 3
Nyst Benjamin 15200 Table 35 seat 4
Weiler Stéphane 15500 Table 35 seat 5
Vassallo Guiseppe 17500 Table 35 seat 6
Sequaris Michel 18550 Table 35 seat 7
Wuyts Philippe 41850 Table 35 seat 8
Aldenhoff Patrick 44500 Table 35 seat 9
Junkar Raul 9350 Table 35 seat 10

Springael Joris 7500 Table 36 seat 1
Desanctis guiliano 33350 Table 36 seat 2
Collotta Joseph 29650 Table 36 seat 3
Vandersmissen Kevin 43850 Table 36 seat 4
Rozenberg Daniel 34650 Table 36 seat 5
Ukela Dren 17150 Table 36 seat 6
Van Mol Rudy 11650 Table 36 seat 7
Gullekin Besim 24650 Table 36 seat 8
Ben Abda Mourad 4100 Table 36 seat 9
Somers Fabrice 70200 Table 36 seat 10

Wolkowicz Eric 27150 Table 37 seat 1
Lutri Stéphano 8550 Table 37 seat 2
Cabero Miguel 15350 Table 37 seat 3
Lavenir Franca 28900 Table 37 seat 4
Desterck Sonia 27300 Table 37 seat 5
Djerroud Slimanne 12500 Table 37 seat 6
Hawro Philippe 30400 Table 37 seat 7
Decae Audry 26750 Table 37 seat 8
Gilles Gilles 2800 Table 37 seat 9
Deno Ivan 22500 Table 37 seat 10

Beurms Alfred 19250 Table 38 seat 1
Leonard Arnaud 12100 Table 38 seat 2
Farahnick Philippe 47500 Table 38 seat 3
Oosterlinck David 10650 Table 38 seat 4
Janssen Tommie 47000 Table 38 seat 5
Wets Nicolas 60100 Table 38 seat 6
Hansens Marc 18900 Table 38 seat 7
Minet Danny 27650 Table 38 seat 8
Sadarnac Frédéric 46500 Table 38 seat 9
szymanski Marc 9300 Table 38 seat 10

Alouane Mohammed 26100 Table 39 seat 1
Flas Rony 22650 Table 39 seat 2
Tach Farukh 19000 Table 39 seat 3
Finn Mickey 13000 Table 39 seat 4
Lienard Jhonn 48050 Table 39 seat 5
Pomiez Benjamin 14850 Table 39 seat 6
Pietrapertaso Canio 11650 Table 39 seat 7
Hoogendoorn Robert-Jan 11350 Table 39 seat 8
Honhon Benjamin 13950 Table 39 seat 9
Leveque Fabrice 9700 Table 39 seat 10

Chaummond Yann 16850 Table 40 seat 1
De Visscher Koen 22450 Table 40 seat 2
Seymanski Mikael 32900 Table 40 seat 3
Aertz Stéphan 33150 Table 40 seat 4
Schraeyers Bjorm 39950 Table 40 seat 5
Keovilay Nang hop 8000 Table 40 seat 6
Debrouwer Jean-Pol 29450 Table 40 seat 7
Moernans Johnny 10350 Table 40 seat 8
Carrera Serge 15600 Table 40 seat 9
Fiandaca Salvator 18450 Table 40 seat 10

Rawoe Fabrice 24500 Table 41 seat 1
Gillard Luc 16500 Table 41 seat 2
Pezzuto Pierre 44150 Table 41 seat 3
Jacobs Dennis 13800 Table 41 seat 4
Caballero Benardo 7750 Table 41 seat 5
Naamani Ammar 20750 Table 41 seat 6
Cabanas Antonio 18950 Table 41 seat 7
Jacquelinet Philippe 22150 Table 41 seat 8
Gilles Ronny 9800 Table 41 seat 9
Emo Wim 31700 Table 41 seat 10

Noah Boeken ends day 1C of the BOPC second in chips

With an astonishing stack of 73050, Noah Boeken is just behind Maurits Blom, the day 1C chipleader (with 80550).

Christophe De Meulder - 21050
David Vanderheyden - 15800
Sven Polarski - 15750

Unfortunately, Matthias De Meulder, Vincent Gabel, ScanX and Don Stijn were eliminated from the tournament. Furthermore, there were not too many PCB member or other flemish players participating today.

Day 1D will probably be a full sell-out. According to the last rumours, even Johnny Lodden would be in Namur to participate, together with Betrand "ElkY" Grospellier.

Day 1B Survivors

These guys from day 1B are coming back on wednesday, for day 2A.

Beeckx Alexander 57250 - he's 3rd in chips from the day 1B survivors.
Vandersmissen Kevin 43850
Verboven Philip 32750
Van Londersele Jeroen 28650
Peelman Jurgen 28000
De Visscher Koen 22450
De Smet Laurens 19850
Bauwens Tim 17100
Indesteege Rob 11900
Springael Joris 7500

Kevin Spiessens and Evilduke11 got eliminated from the tournament. All in all, it was a great day, with most of the Flemish players actually surviving !

Today, former Belgian Champ ScanX and godfather of belgian poker Vingabel are playing. Hopefully Noah Boeken is feeling better now, as he was scheduled to play yesterday, but postponed his participation due to illness.

The passwords for tonight are out there !

If you want to know the passwords to the Poker Rail Radio and other freerolls, join us in the chat.

At 7.30pm, we'll also announce the pass on the radio show.

Day 1B Updates

I'll post some updates of day 1B here. The tournament started with a delay, but Kevin Derwael already managed to double up, when his set of kings proved to be better on the river than the set of fives of his opponent.

Go Kevin !

14u55 - Joep van den bijgaart is playing today as well.

16u21 - Rob "fees" Indesteege's stack has shrinked to 8300

16u30 - Kevin Derwael is down to 5000, Joep van den bijgaart to 7000

16u43 - Joep van den bijgaart is eliminated.

17u48 - A few stack updates: Laurens De Smet (10.5k), Marcel Luske (8.5k), Tim Bauwens (7.5k), Kevin "Civell" Vandersmissen (14.5K)

18u03 - Jurgen Peelman soars to 19.500 chips with KK vs AA, and his third K fell on the flop.

18u54 - Kevin Derwael is also eliminated. Just heard that Unibet highroller Flipius is also playing today.

BOPC Day 1A Roundup and Day 1B lineup

Yesterday was not an extremely successful day, judging by the number of flemish players who already bit the dust.

Jurgen Janssens faced KK when holding 33 in the last hand he played, while Jimmy "Knot_be" Praet really got coolered, getting his 16k stack all-in preflop with Aces, against a guy with AK. Queen high flop, turn jack, river ten ... exit Jimmy. Also Dislexik and Big Rounder 99 were elminated from the tournament, after never really getting good action with their good hands.

This leaves us with ... Johan "Bear" Bastiaens. With about 11k in chips, he's at the bottom of the 85 guys who make it to day 2. At least he's still in. However, he's not exactly "short" as the last level was 200/400, so the next one, on day 2, will probably be 300/600, still leaving him with almost 20 big blinds. I've seen him comeback from worse. Malik "demalik" Lecompte, also a pokerclub.be regular, finished day one, with a healthier stack of 31k.

It's interesting to note that 19 players from pokerclub.be are playing the tournament. Probably there are more participants from some of the Walloon communities, but PCB is definitely still the biggest flemish poker community.

Today, I'm on the lookout for these guys, and hoping to bring you some good news about them on the rail radio show.

Jeankenissan
Bauwes (a regular among the warmup & Sunday million players)
Alexander Beeckx
Laurens De Smet
Kevin Spiessens (Flemish poker challenge winner)
Civel (from Pokerinfo.be)
Complexion
evilduke (probably the guy who plays most tourneys online, from everyone in Belgium)
fees (the man who's been able to satellite // Luckbox to at least 5 major live events)
Jurgen Peelman (from pokerteam.be)

Don't forget: if you still want to play day 1C or 1D, there's a huge qualifier tonight where 7 seats are up for grabs on pokerstars.

BOPC day 1 updates

Today we have Johan "Bear" Bastiaens, Big Rounder99, Dislexik, Don Stijn and Jimmy "Knot" Praet.

Also Jurgen Jansens, the Belgian winnner of Late Night stars of Poker is playing today. Unfortunately, he's only got about half of his stack left after three hours of play.

Jimmy Praet is inmiddels bijna gedubbeld naar 18.000 punten.

Poker Rail Radio 15/11 recap

It's been a great night with a record number of Belgian people finishing ITM in the sunday warmup:

timdmd
poppiekimmie
Peleken
SpaceyFCB
breaker1987
Evilduke11
Pukemonster
clerky

Listen here to the interview with Jurgen Jansens (in dutch), the belgian poker enthusiast who managed to win the Late Night Stars of Poker show.

Kathleen Verwaest interview

Last sunday, we interviewed Kathleen Verwaest. Among other things, she talked about her first tournament at the WSOP this summer.

Click here to hear the interview

Tonight's Quiz Challenge

This is the challenge for tonight's quiz (you might need to click it).



Enter the answer in our chatbox (on the right) and win a Pokerstars copag deck

1st of November Rail Radio Interviews: Pieter De Korver & Daniel Camus

Not every day we get the chance to speak to an EPT Grand Final Winner. Today was one of these rare days. Dutchman Pieter De Korver was able to pull it off earlier this year in Monaco, netting € 2.1 Million after a deal was made at the final table.

Pieter was actually talking to us from Indonesia, where he was spending a holiday. During the interview, he was disconnected due to a power glitch, but we managed to get him back on.

Pieter De Korver - Part One
Pieter De Korver - Part Two

As a former 1st division soccer player, Daniel Camus was invited to play the weekly freeroll final for the Belgian Open Championship of Poker (BOPC), and he managed to win this final.

Click here to listen to his interview, about poker and soccer (in dutch).