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We proudly announce the full schedule of the MEC Poker Open October 2020. From 15 to 18 October you are able to play several fun poker events at Casino de Spa. Since we broke several records last edition we decided to add more starting days to the Main Event and also add extra Side Events spread over the weekend! You can buy all your tickets online on March 2 at 8pm!
The €175,- Main Event gets two more starting days! The Main Event kicks off with an online starting day on Bwin (Day 1 Online). The first live starting day at Casino de Spa starts at 5pm on Thursday October 15 (1A). On friday you can play Day 1B at 2pm just as last year but this time there are only 90 seats available. The other 135 seats are added to one extra regular starting day on the same day starting at 7pm (1C). On Saturday there will be two more chances. At 1pm you can play Day 1D (180 seats) and in the evening we have our first Turbo starting day (1E) at 9pm with another 135 seats available!
Every starting day you can re-enter the tournament as much as you need untill Level 5. Countless opportunities for you to make it to Day 2! Also different from last year is that there will be an exciting bubble fase on Sunday, because the best 15% of the field is in the money instead of the previous ‘make day 2 and you’re in the money’ rule.
Long before the start of the MEC Poker Open you will be able to qualify yourself online for the Main Event on Bwin. All satellite information and the schedule will be announced on April 6. The date for Day 1 Online will also be announced on April 6.
Just as last time there is a €440,- No Limit Hold em Highroller! The Highroller will start Sunday at 2.30pm and you can register untill Level 9. You can also qualify yourself online for the Highroller on Bwin. New this time are the €50,- One Hand Satellites. These start half an hour before the Highroller. For every 9 players registered there will be one seat in the Highroller!
The previous editions we noticed that all players enjoyed the side events so much that we added a few more, so you can play poker all weekend long! On Thursday we have a brand new €90,- Short Deck Hold’em event at 8pm. On Saturday you get your chance to become the first winner of our €90,- Pot Limit Omaha or, later that day, the new €70,- Knock Out! The popular side events from last year (€75,- Secret Bounty, €75,- P.K.O. and the €60,- Freeze out) are also on the schedule.
Also new this year is that you can buy your tickets for the side events online! Almost all side events reached their maximum capacity last time so make sure you buy your ticket in time.
The ticketsale for all events will open on March 2 from 8pm. If you buy your ticket online on March 2 you are competing for a very nice Bwin pokercase! You can buy your tickets online untill the end of October 14. If there are any tickets left you can buy them the whole MEC Poker Open weekend in Casino de Spa at the register.
Our sponsor Bwin provided us with some nice give aways, like this very nice Pokercase (see image below). You can win this beauty by doing one of these two things:
Yesterday was the final day of the MEC Poker Open Main Event. 97 of the total 588 players made it to the money and battled on Day 2 for the title and the big trophy!
Day 2 had a livestream were you could follow the action from home. The livestream team of Pokercity BE made sure the tournament was broadcasted very professionaly. You can watch the livestream from yesterday here.
The first player who cashed in the MEC Poker Open Main Event was 🇧🇪 Valentin Jeukens. The min cash was €260,-. All the small stacks tried to dubble up at the beginning. Therefore there were a lot of bust outs. Other players with a min cash were 🇳🇱 Emile Cox, 🇧🇪 Bruno Englebert and 🇳🇱 Alex Bor. The first pay jump was after Cenk Oguz busted (72nd). After that 🇳🇱 Pascal Kuijper busted for €346. just as 🇫🇷 Giovanni Dupont and 🇧🇪 Maarten Verhaegen. The last pay jump before the break paid €442. Just before the break we lost 🇧🇪 Jorden Verbraeken, 🇳🇱 Marianne Stomp and runner up from last edition 🇧🇪 Tim Verheyen.
Break 1
42/588 players
Average: 350.000
🇵🇱 Mariusz Maicher – 966.000
🇧🇪 Kris Leppens – 910.000
🇳🇱 Jimmy Deun – 858.000
🇳🇱 Nicky Molmans – 827.000
🇳🇱 Melvin Olierook – 703.000
After the first break there were 42 players left.
Break 2
22/588 players
🇳🇱 Adriaan Quist – 1.255.000
🇧🇪 Wesley Peinen – 1.105.000
🇳🇱 Johannes Maas – 1.080.000
🇳🇱 Stijn Hoogendoorn – 1.050.000
Dinnerbreak
12/588 players
After the dinnerbreak we had 12 players left. Not much later after the start 🇳🇱 Stijn Hoogendoorn (12th), 🇧🇪 Luc Simons (11th) and 🇧🇪 Wesley Peinen (10th) finished their deep run in the MEC Poker Open Main Event and they all cashed €1.055.
Almost the first hand of the final table it was 🇳🇱 Joris Dirks who busted first (9th – €1.315). Not long after that 🇩🇪 Zoltan Kon came in 8th place (€1.670) and 🇵🇱 Mariusz Maicher ended 7th for €2.120. Not very much later was it 🇳🇱 Adriaan Quist who finished his tournament with a €2.814 cash (6th).
After a short break of 10 minutes the last 5 players went back to the table to battle for the first prize. After some play 🇳🇱 Johannes Maas was the one who finished 5th (€3.765).
When Nicky busted the last three players asked for ICM. After a little discussion they shook hands on a three way deal! But all three wanted to win the title so they started playing again for the trophy!
🇳🇱 Wouter de Graaf – €12.099
🇧🇪 Domien Deconinck – €10.364
🇧🇪 Patrick Jowa – €10.000
🇳🇱 Wouter de Graaf ended in third place and 🇧🇪 Patrick Jowa finished in second! So the winner of the MEC Poker Open Main Event October 2019 is 🇧🇪 Domien Deconinck! You can check out all results here!
We had 32 entries in the MEC Poker Open Highroller.
The winner was Stan van Dijk!
The Secret Bounty had 126 entries. The same event last October was won by Vincent Calis who now ended heads up again! Unfortunate for him it was Alexander van der Swaluw who won the tournament this time!
Day 1B kicked of at 1pm in Casino de Spa. With more than 100 entries online it was a lot busier than Day 1A (52 entries). At the start of the tournament there were 124 players. At the end of the day there were 184 entries and 33 of them were left to make it to day 2!
Today the first bust out was Maarten Kok who lost his JJ against the flopped flush from Arek van Schaijk. The same Arek built up a stack more than 4 times average in the first 4 levels of the day! Also Luc Simons from Belgium had a good start and reached the first break with a stack of 73.600.
134/147 players
Average: 27.425
Notable stacks:
🇳🇱 Arek van Schaijk – 116.825
🇧🇪 Luc Simons – 73.600
🇳🇱 Tse Ng – 56.525
🇧🇪 Christian Cougnet – 47.100
In April we had 134 entries on 1B. This year we had 134 entries with still 2,5 hours late registration left. Arek van Schaijk was at this point still the biggest stack. Also Tim Verheyen built a nice stack for the rest of his tournament. He was the runner up in April. At the end of level 6 we had 184 entries!
128/184 players
Average: 35.742
🇳🇱 Arek van Schaijk – 158.300
🇳🇱 Teun Bakker 106.100
🇳🇱 Maarten Roosenboom 89.600
🇧🇪 Christian Cougnet – 87.900
🇧🇪 Tim Verheyen – 82.200
🇳🇱 Martin van Meel 78.900
🇧🇪 Kristof Everaerts -73.200
🇧🇪 Maarten Verhaegen – 69.300
Two levels were played after break 2 before the players went on dinerbreak. In these two levels exactly 20 players left the feld.
98/184 players
Average: 46.939
🇳🇱 Arek van Schaijk – 177.200
🇳🇱 Jean-Marie van Tatenhove – 131.900
🇳🇱 Teun Bakker – 126.900
🇳🇱 Tse Ng – 123.500
🇳🇱 Menno Immers – 114.000
🇳🇱 Maarten Roosenboom – 103.500
🇧🇪 Kristof Everaerts – 99.300
🇧🇪 Ali Debreuille – 97.200
One last break before the players played level 14 en level 15 of day 1B. We saw 🇳🇱 Jean-Marie van Tatenhove with a monsterstack of more than 300.000 points. Fellow Dutch players Wouter de Graaf and Teun Bakker also built a decent stack.
44/184 players
Average: 104.545
🇳🇱 Jean-Marie van Tatenhove – 252.000
🇳🇱 Wouter de Graaf – 216.000
🇳🇱 Teun Bakker – 162.000
Eventually 33 players managed to go through to Day 2 and made it into the money! You can see their chipcounts below:
Country | Firstname | Lastname | Chips |
Netherlands | Gregory | van Aanholt | 380.000 |
Belgium | Luc | Simons | 328.000 |
Netherlands | Palletje | Ollskool | 302.000 |
Belgium | Wannes | Vercauteren | 237.000 |
Belgium | Tim | Verheyen | 209.000 |
Netherlands | Jean-Marie | van Tatenhove | 203.000 |
Netherlands | Teunis | Bakker | 194.000 |
Netherlands | Maarten | de Graaf | 166.000 |
Belgium | Martin | Remacle | 163.000 |
Netherlands | Martin | van Meel | 152.000 |
Netherlands | Danny | De Vos | 150.000 |
Belgium | Guy | Van Ginderen | 145.000 |
Netherlands | Tse | Ng | 142.000 |
Belgium | Nicolas | Steils | 141.000 |
Netherlands | Geurt | Janssen van Doorn | 136.000 |
Netherlands | Robert | Bulthuis | 135.000 |
Netherlands | Stijn | Hoogendoorn | 135.000 |
Belgium | Patrick | Jowa | 124.000 |
Netherlands | Jakob | Kerkhoff | 124.000 |
Netherlands | Wouter | de Graaf | 123.000 |
Belgium | Maarten | Verhaegen | 103.000 |
Belgium | Jorden | Verbraeken | 99.000 |
Netherlands | Pascal | Kuijper | 95.000 |
Netherlands | Jeroen | van Rossum | 93.000 |
Belgium | Jo | Embrechts | 89.000 |
Netherlands | Rick | van de Water | 84.000 |
Belgium | Christian | Cougnet | 75.000 |
Belgium | Bart | Hillewaere | 74.000 |
Netherlands | Paul | van Leeuwen | 53.000 |
Netherlands | Lowie | Westerdaal | 51.000 |
Netherlands | Patrick | de Jong | 50.000 |
Netherlands | Emile | Cox | 48.000 |
Belgium | Andy | Morel | 25.000 |
The P.K.O. side event was planned at 8.30 pm. The whole room was packed because we already had 100 entries at the start. After 5 levels of play there were 166 entries. After the first break Sven de Haan had the chiplead with 124 players left.
🇳🇱 Sven de Haan – 67.900
🇧🇪 René Croughs – 57.400
🇳🇱 Marco Rodriquez 46.200
At the start of break 2 there were only 40 players left. Average was 62.250 but some players built a much larger stack:
🇳🇱 Sandu Dumitru – 171.000
🇧🇪 Wesley Nobels – 137.000
🇳🇱 Esther Donze – 125.500
Not much later 26 player got in the money. A mincash was €97,- but that is of course without the bounties they won! First prize for the Progressive Knock Out was €1.452,-. Esther Donze finished in 11th place when she lost AK versus AQ. The last 10 players played the final table.
After a five way deal the remaning players decided to play for the bounties and the nummer 1 position. At the end Maarten Tuininga was the strongest and won the heads up against Sandu Dumitru with aces!
Yesterday was the first startingday of the MEC Poker Open after the online startingday. Day 1A had a total of 52 entries en eventually 8 players made it to day 2!
There is always someone who busts first. Sadly for 🇳🇱 Margaret Joan Scharff it was her (un)lucky day. After she had AA twice already she decided to limp her third pair of Aces and only the big blind came along by checking his option. The flop came K J 8. She bet and got called. Turn was a 9 and again a bet an a call from the big blind. After a blank on the river she decided to check and the big blinds shoved on her. She decided to call and the big blind tabled K J for two pair.
37/41 players
Average: 27.703
Notable stacks:
🇧🇪 Alain Gallet – 65.425
🇳🇱 Glenn Koster – 64.575
🇧🇪 Khalid Sektani – 58.950
🇧🇪 Bruno Englebert – 49.675
After 6 levels of play the players went on a dinerbreak of 1 hour. After the break the late registration closed. A total 52 entries for Day 1A. Some players already built a decent stack for the rest of their tournament.
33/52 players
Average: 39.394
Notable stacks:
🇧🇪 Khalid Sektani – 90.200
🇳🇱 Willem Lepelaars – 89.500
🇩🇪 Zoltan Kon – 75.300
🇳🇱 Johannes Maas – 68.000
🇳🇱 Glenn Koster – 64.200
20/52 players
Average: 65.000
Notable stacks:
🇳🇱 Glenn Koster – 131.000
🇧🇪 Kevin Marlet – 126.100
🇩🇪 Zoltan Kon – 84.800
10/52 players
Average: 130.000
3 more levels to play till Day 2
🇧🇪 Bruno Englebert – 250.000
🇳🇱 Johannes Maas – 206.000
🇧🇪 Wesley Carmans – 180.000
🇧🇪 Cédric Schumacher – 174.000
🇧🇪 Alain Gallet – 140.000
🇩🇪 Zoltan Kon – 112.000
🇩🇪 Daniel Grassl – 92.500
🇫🇷 Giovanni Dupont – 75.500
🇳🇱 Hielke Klingeler – 57.000
🇳🇱 Zoran Vucetic – 16.000
Finished 10th – 🇳🇱 Zoran Vucetic
Finished 9th – 🇧🇪 Alain Gallet
Rank Player Chips
1) 🇳🇱 Johannes Maas – 232.000
2) 🇧🇪 Bruno Englebert – 229.000
3) 🇩🇪 Zoltan Kon – 206.000
4) 🇧🇪 Cédric Schumacher – 190.000
5) 🇧🇪 Wesley Carmans – 131.000
6) 🇫🇷 Giovanni Dupont – 115.000
7) 🇩🇪 Daniel Grassl – 92.500
8) 🇳🇱 Hielke Klingeler – 42.000
At 20.30pm we started the first side event of the weekend with almost 40 players. The players could re-enter the tournament unlimited untill the start of level 6.
We reached the first break and also the end of the late registration. 70 entries were made in the first 5 levels en there were only 30 players left after the first break!
30/70 players
Average: 23.000
Notable stacks:
🇧🇪 Timothy Demeyere – 81.500
🇳🇱 Janneke van Veldhoven – 69.500
Only 11 players left and 5 will get in the money with a first prize of €820,-!
11/70 players
Average: 63.636
Notable stacks:
🇧🇪 Timothy Demeyere – 153.500
🇳🇱 Nynke Ruinard – 122.000
Final table
At the start of the final table the players made a deal so the bubble received €10,- from number 1 to 5. The tournament was finished at 3am after a new deal with the last three players. The winner was Nynke Ruinard!
1) 🇳🇱 Nynke Ruinard – €590,-
2) 🇧🇪 Philippe Wintgens – €500,-
3) 🇧🇪 Timothy Demeyere – €500,-
4) 🇧🇪 Guy Laffalize – €186,-
5) 🇧🇪 Gregory Hertay – €127,-
6) 🇳🇱 Robert Wiechers – €50,-