Here I am in Namur, Belgium.

And I have to say that this city reminds me a lot of Tunica, for those who have read our trip report from last year;

Basically: I arrived at the reception, and asked about nightclubs and pubs, the girl at the desk looked at me like I came from another planet.I think she just discovered that the whole world doesn't necesarilly fall asleep at 9PM.

Well, a few friends of mine and myself manage to find a restaurant open after 9pm (you know the one owned by the step father of the hotel reception girl...), So here we are:

Team winamax players Ludo Lacay, Anthony Roux, Guillaume De la Gorce, and other friends as Michel Abecassis, Juliette, and Solody (from clubPoker).

After more than a 2 hours wait, (hopefully with wine and such), the food happens to find its way to our table (probably by mistake).

We spin credit card roulette for this one, and obviously find a winner as Guillaume (which loses here his 20th coinflip in a row.He was flipping last night 1k a flip on Fulltilt, and still remembers it.).

We finally head back to the Casino, where we gonna play Blackjack with one of the most sick dealers I' ve ever played with.Basically, you do 19, she does 20.You make 20, she makes 21.You hit 21, she snaps a Blackjack.I was tipping her everytime she would hit a magnificent suck out (which was virtually every round), and she didn't figure out why I was tipping, as she was winning EVERY SINGLE HAND.

By the end of the session (I was associate with world class coinflip artist Ludovic LACAY, thinking I could share his luck, but alas, I was not counting with me jinxing him badly.)

To sum it up, everytime we pushed it to "big" amounts, she was hitting like hell, everytime we were playing for the minimum she was paying.And I was tipping everytime lol....

At the end, we put everything on 2 different boxes, get 19 on one box, and double down to 20 (!) on the second one (yes we had to bring out some more money), there was 15 euros left in chips in front of me.I said to the dealer :

"Listen, if you do another 21, I give you the 15 euros.If you manage to do it with 5 cards or more, i add a special bounty of 50 euros from my pocket as well."

Well, I was maybe asking for too much.

She was hardly able to get 21....with only 4 cards.And was pretty disappointed for the matter.

Sounds like it' s gonna be a nice tournament.

Arnaud MATTERN