APAT Belgian APC 25-27 Sept: LIVE UPDATES

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

Good evening from Belgium!

Welcome to a new edition of the Belgian Amateur Poker Championship! Last season"s Namur event attracted 271 players; this season"s regional event had 349 players.

It will be hard to surpass that number since last time, because it was a regional event, allowed for re-entries.

Play started half an hour ago and around 100 players have chips in front of them. Late registration lasts for 4 levels, so we are expecting more players to enter in the next 2 hours.

For the live updates we are trying something else. We have arranged for Pokerclub.be to handle this year"s live blog... David Vanderheyden is well known in Belgium for his live coverage of the Unibet Open and the bigger Belgian Pokerstars events. You can follow all the action on http://www.pokerclub.be/forum/content.php?566-BAPT-3-Namur-Day-1A-Live-Reporting-Main-Event-(%80100-%8010)

Of course we will absolutely keep an eye on the UK players!

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

Tom Clark is down to 8.5k.
Mark Duguid has 16k


Level 3 (75/150) just started
133 players registered so far, 3 players are out

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

First break of the day; we"ve played 3 levels so far.

131/141
avg 16.145

Tom Clark 13.5k
Mark Duguid 7k

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

First Side Event of the weekend started half an hour ago.

41 players have entered so far, with unfortunately a few ME-bustees.

Mark Duguid just busted the Main Event and he"s hoping for better luck in the Side.
Also in the field our 2 "The Red Jacks" poker players Joachim Wallaert & Niki Raskin.

A lot of the Dutchies have arrived, with Maarten Westbroek (last year"s Main Event Runner Up) leading the pack.
He will play tomorrow"s Day 1B


In the Main Event, Tom Clark chipped up to 29k.

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

Final numbers for Day 1A: 143 players.
Expected for tomorrow: more than that.


116 players left, average 18.491
level 5: 150/300-25

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

Reseat for Scottish Tom. He is moved to Yves Bormans" table!

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

Tom Clarke is doing well... He is playing 55k.

400/800-100
84/143
25.5k avg


Reminder: general Live Update => http://www.pokerclub.be/forum/content.php?566-BAPT-3-Namur-Day-1A-Live-Reporting-Main-Event-(%80100-%8010)

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

We just lost Danny Covyn... don"t know the exact hand but he got rivered in a 60k pot, leaving him with only 2 big blinds... The very next hand he is eliminated.

70 players left, near the end of the 8th level.

We are playing 3 more levels, so it"s going to be a late one tonight. But we have no choice... last time around the Main Event lasted until 4:30am on Day 2, so we want to reduce the field a bit further on Day 1 this time.

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

And Tom is over the 100k mark... Not bad at all for the Team Scotland captain

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

Last break of the night.

53/143
avg 40.471
next level: 600/1200-200

We"ll play 2 more levels tonight.

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

We just started the final level of the day in the Main Event.

Blinds are at 800/1600-200. 45 players left with an average of 47.666

We are not seeing a lot of bigstacks, so it looks like a lot of players are around the average mark. A lot can still happen in the final level of the day, with possibly some last minute bustouts of players that don"t want to come back with a smaller stack.

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

[DodgyEnd (Tom APAT.be)]

Chipcount Day 1A:

KEELDAR Jayton	170.900
SIMON Antony	122.500
POTENZA Dominique	117.000
DE CLEENE Patrick	103.300
CAPELIER Reynald	102.400
DAHROUCH Tohim	93.500
LIGRECI Adrien	88.600
VAN KEMENADE Tim	86.200
TENNEKOON Janaka	83.200
DE SIMONE Carmine	82.900
MARCHIONE Pietro	78.700
MARIA Giuseppe	72.200
FORREZ Nick	72.000
VANDOREN Didier	71.300
VANDERMOTTEN Yves	61.500
KABSI Yasmina	56.500
TREBITSCH Anne	55.200
GALLARDO Nick	53.200
CUYPERS Thierry	52.500
BANUSZ Eddy	50.500
PINO Salvatore	49.000
LANCIOT Stephen	47.800
FLAMAND Inez	46.400
CLARK Tom	40.900
WIJNANTS Patrick	40.000
IDE Cem	38.400
DRAGOTINLIS Konstantinos	35.700
PLOMP Gordon	35.000
PERNELET Guy	34.600
SEGHERS Yves	32.900
BELLEFLAMME Gwennael	32.000
WEYNE Jimmy	28.800
STEVENS Hugues	20.000

            


Average: 65.000
Players left: 33/143