On September 3rd, the Circus Casino Resort Namur opened the next festival. €200,000 guaranteed for the €300 + 30 French Open, plus a side event.
The French Open Main Event is played with 50,000 chips, with blinds increasing every 30 minutes for the first nine levels, then every 40 minutes. The first flight was played yesterday and with 155 submissions, a solid basis for achieving the prize money guarantee has already been laid.
After twelve levels there were still 39 players left and of course the Belgians dominated the field. Tino de Zutter caught up with Amanullah Khall Muhmmadi with 410,000 chips.
There are seven more starting options until Friday, day 2 is on Saturday and then the final on Sunday. Today is Day 1B at 4pm, plus the €150 PLO 5 (25k/20′) at 7:30pm where €2,500 is guaranteed.
On the Circus Poker’s new website There is all the information and also the possibility to buy tournament tickets online.
Chip Counts 1A:
| Range | Surname | First name | nation | crisps |
| 1 | EN FOOD | Tino | Belgium | 410,000 |
| 2 | KHALL MUHAMMADI | AMANULLAH | Belgium | 410,000 |
| 3 | ALESSI | SAVIOR | Belgium | 317,000 |
| 4 | HUBERT | LOUIS | Belgium | 316,000 |
| 5 | THUMELAIRE | MARC | Belgium | 315,000 |
| 6 | CIFCI | CUCUMBER | Belgium | 300,000 |
| 7 | FOURNEZ | ROBIN | Belgium | 299,000 |
| 8th | A pity | PIERRE | Belgium | 299,000 |
| 9 | CARVALHO DA SILVA | SIMAO | Portugal | 282,000 |
| 10 | Nikita | Nikita | Belgium | 280,000 |
| 11 | RAMILLON | DAVID | France | 269,000 |
| 12 | CROONENBORGHS | HEIDI | Belgium | 266,000 |
| 13 | MUHTAR | EMC | Belgium | 261,000 |
| 14 | LECLAIR | ALEXIS | France | 238,000 |
| 15 | MASAUD | DALIL | Belgium | 236,000 |
| 16 | SERBES | ORHAN | Belgium | 232,000 |
| 17 | VANDROME | ERICK | Belgium | 221,000 |
| 18 | Bellard | Gregory | France | 216,000 |
| 19 | VAN DER PERRE | MATTHIAS | Belgium | 208,000 |
| 20 | VAN EWIJK | JORIS | Netherlands | 205,000 |
| 21 | PILLAULT ANGELIER | JEREMI | France | 195,000 |
| 22 | DEWINNE | Gregory | Belgium | 191,000 |
| 23 | PAINT | BENJAMIN | France | 188,000 |
| 24 | PACILLI | LOUIS | Belgium | 174,000 |
| 25 | ladies | Tycho | Belgium | 168,000 |
| 26 | Vladerius | Vladerius | Belgium | 139,000 |
| 27 | DJOHER | FAYCAL extension | France | 134,000 |
| 28 | FOREGROUND | ROBIN | Belgium | 126,000 |
| 29 | NORTHMAN | DIMITRI | France | 116,000 |
| 30 | LOVE | ABBAS | Germany | 113,000 |
| 31 | LIGHT UP | SLEEVE | Belgium | 108,000 |
| 32 | SOULS | ROBERT | Luxembourg | 107,000 |
| 33 | JORDAN | CARMINE | Belgium | 105,000 |
| 34 | PRIJOT | PATRICK | Belgium | 102,000 |
| 35 | HENDERIKX | CEDRIC | Belgium | 78,000 |
| 36 | HUZIJ | JOSEPH | Belgium | 70,000 |
| 37 | DEFRAEYE | QUENTIN | 63,000 | |
| 38 | CANDEMIR | EKIN | Turkey | 62,000 |
| 39 | BOUAKSA | SIMON | France | 51,000 |
