At the end of Day 1A of the €225 Lex Live Main Event, Lex Veldhuis said he’d be happy if this tournament got 500 runners. Little did he know, for when play wrapped up after last night’s final Day 1 flights, there would be more than double that amount.

The first edition of the #LexLive main event just passed 1000 people. Can’t believe it. Thanks everyone for showing up.

— LexVeldhuis (@RaSZi) March 29, 2019

The grand total of 1,064 entries (including 343 re-entries) means the €100K guarantee was well and truly smashed. The final amount was almost double that amount too, with €196,148 set to be split between the final 111 players. A min-cash is worth €492, but here’s a look at the top prizes:

WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT?

A massive field of 497 entries on Day 1C meant there was not an empty table in the entire Grand Casino de Namur. Add the 82 entries from the Day 1C turbo flight, and that’s 579 unique entries on the night.

Nadia Wanzi topped the turbo

Job Trekpop bagged the end-of-day chip lead in the main flight with 404,500, while Nadia Wanzi finished top from the turbo with 309,000. Neither managed to eclipse the 514,000 stack of Day 1B chip leader Soufiane Gherbi, so he’ll be the overall chip boss when Day 2 kicks off at 4pm today.

Having arrived on Thursday night, both Fintan “easywithaces” Hand and Felix “xflixx” Schneiders sat down to play last night. Alas, despite a hot start, Hand would bust before the night was through. Schneiders fared better, however, and bagged up 73,500 (good for 18 big blinds).

Other notables to advance yesterday include Steven ‘Aka_nosebud’ Eckl (167,000), Jorden Verbraeken (163,000), and Christophe de Meulder (38,000). It was a case of third time’s a charm for Frenchman Kalidou Sow, who eventually made it through with 140,000 on his third bullet last night.

You can read through the live updates here.

Unfortunately for Veldhuis’s Twitch community, we lost some of the online qualifiers. Sanne ‘Antim00n’ Bombeek won a full package to this event via a €3.30 satellite on PokerStars, but she busted halfway through the day. Her husband, fellow Lex Veldhuis community member Bart ‘Rizn00’ Verboven, also exited with a couple of hours left on the night.

#LEXLIVE

Here’s a look at some your tweets:

I am so jealous.

1. Wish I was at #lexlive as it looks like a ton of fun
2. Wish I had a cool name like lex that would make a rhyme https://t.co/L98GRminkx

— Chris Moneymaker (@CMONEYMAKER) March 29, 2019

Good and bad news… Good: bagged #LexLive main event for Day 2 with 309K! Bad: most awesome pub quiz in the history of mankind starts in 6 hours and I am nowhere near my bed… pic.twitter.com/nvokoEemG7

— KaboomPoker (@KaboomPoker1) March 30, 2019

Bagged 255K on day 1C of Lex Live Main Event in Namur. Tomorrow day 2 will resume with 2K/4K blinds Let's have more fun and make some moolah #LexLive

— Sertofiets (@Sertofiets) March 29, 2019

Tüte izzzda!
73.500 sinds geworden.
Morgen geht es mit Tag 2 weiter. Jetzt aber gute Nacht. Kroko out. #LexLive pic.twitter.com/xcSfy9faMw

— Flix (@xflixx) March 30, 2019

MORE FROM LEX LIVE: CROAKS INTERVIEW | PARTY TIME VIDEO | DAY 1B RECAP | MEET THE QUALIFIERS | WATCH VIDEO FROM DAY 1A

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