With a win within the UKIPT Bristol this week, the Belgian poker community was celebrating a second win within the space of a couple of week. Pierrick Tallon was merely carrying on where Bart Lybaert had started in Lille a couple of days earlier.

Belgian pro Lybaert won the France Poker Series Main Event on the Hotel Casino Barriere in Lille last week, collecting a primary prize of €122,000 against a field that was 745 players strong. It came heads-up against French player Jamal Hassani, who was unable to win on home soil. Hassani settled for €85,300.

It was the highlight of a 14 event series which beat the €500,000 guarantee by some way, totalling €715,200 when registration closed for the €1,100, 3 day event. Some 103 players would finish within the money, including Team PokerStars Pro Christophe de Meulder, who earned €6,150 in 17th place.

It was the largest win thus far for Lybaert whose previous biggest win came when he won the Eureka Main Event within the Czech Republic back in 2013, collecting €115,000.

Here's the entire result.

FPS Main Event, LilleEntrants: 745Places paid: 103Prize pool: €715,200

1. Bart Lybaert (Belgium) € 122,0002. Jamel Hassani (France) € 85,3003. Sonny Franco (France) € 60,1004. Arthur Conan (France) € 45,6005. Julien Bottollier (France) € 36,1006. Romain Peacock (France) € 27,4007. Romain Morin (France) € 20,1008. Matti Konttinen (France) € 15,1009. Eemil Tuominen (France) € 12,100

After events in Monte Carlo and Online, the FPS, now in it's fifth season, now has a break until the overall event of the year at Enghien, near Paris, in December. For details of that and all aspects of the Series, visit the FPS homepage.

Stephen Bartley is a staff writer for the PokerStars Blog.

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