Belgian player Christophe De Meulder won the main event of Unibet Poker Belgian Championship 2018. In this tournamnet took part 438 players. The prize for the first place was $ 48,099. The poker world is open! It’s a great place; it’s not just the capital. Lamagnere kept hammering away at the competition, eliminating Dominique Potenza. Coming up from behind, however, was.

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1. However, the chip leader at the end of the day is Dominique Potenza who used a unique style of aggression and panache to bag 655,000 in chips, slightly ahead of well-known Irish player Marc.
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Dominique Potenza shoved all in from the button and Samir Akhoullou quickly folded his small blind. Christophe De Meulder asked for a count and the dealer confirmed Potenza had 2,375,000 in front of him. De Meulder called.

Dominique Potenza: Q♦J♦
Christophe De Meulder: A♠Q♥

The board ran out Q♠5♥7♠4♠6♦ for both of them to flop a pair of queens but the ace-kicker of De Meulder came into play to eliminate Potenza in third place for €18,120.

Samir Akhoullou – 13,250,000
Christophe De Meulder – 8,650,000
Dominique Potenza – Busted

At the end of Day 1a of the Winamax Poker Open Dublin Main Event , just 37 players booked their spot on Day 2 from a starting field of 183. Players making their way to Day 2 included Winamax Team Pros Joao Vieira (195,500) and Sylvain Loosli (142,000).

However, the chip leader at the end of the day is Dominique Potenza who used a unique style of aggression and panache to bag 655,000 in chips, slightly ahead of well-known Irish player Marc Macdonnell (639,000). Macdonnell, who has home court advantage, is used to success here in Dublin at the Winamax Poker Open, having finished fourth for €40,000 in 2013; it's also Macdonnell's biggest score on home soil.

'I just ran pretty good all day,' said Macdonnell, 'When it's short-handed and you make good hands all day...I mean I ran really good.'

The Irishman said that there was nothing crazy all day, just players not believing him in certain situations.

'Irish people never believe me, so it's kind of nice. The French more so; more than the Irish that's for sure. But tournaments like this are just a minefield sometimes.'

Other players bagging up stacks include last year's runner-up Sonny Franco (130,000) and former Winamax Team Pro Adrien Guyon (272,500).

Notable eliminations today included last year's winner Otto Richard and former champion Pierre Calamusa, both of whom fired two bullets. They will be back tomorrow, most likely joined by Winamax Team Pros Gaelle Baumann and Leo Margets, 2017 final tablist Teunis Kooij, Sander van Wesemael and Mark Buckley who were unsuccessful in their attempts to make Day 2.

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Photos courtesy of Caroline Darcourt