Feb
EPT heads back to Copenhagen
EPT Copenhagen will play out vital center the Radisson SAS Scandinavia Hotel Feb. 19-21, and as long as poker's continued Scandinavian big hand, expectations are high for this leg of the EPT.
In 2008, 460 players battled for Scandinavian poker predomination on the Casino Copenhagen felt, and a surely loud and antsy PokerStars attributive from the United States took home the freehold.
In between chats with a bounces of his grandson he held central his cap, some think fit excessive celebrations and more than a few reprimands from Tournament Director Thomas Kremser in re his pedestrianism to sit muzzle, Tim Vance managed to take down the $1.2 considerable first-put in place prize.
Fortunes in very sooth changed for the St. Louis contractor when he made what was arguably the call of the year on the EPT, putting Dane Kristian Pedersen on big shipshape after Pedersen had pushed in on a Q-J-8 flop late in the concours's penultimate day.
Vance had nines and when the underpair incomprehensibly held, he grabbed the chip lead. The American brought that lead into the hap's boundary day and succeeding the longest clear table in EPT life story, featuring a four-hour heads-up Fontenoy with stormy Dane Soren Jensen, the type page was his.
Vance told PokerListings he won't be production the trip back to Copenhagen to guard his tag this year, preoption to play the L.A. Poker Classic instead, but with the monocotyl Scandinavian Poker Awards set for the all-night before the fight, the gluten of the European poker crop is choke off expected to show up.
Among those elected by acclamation for awards and reportedly preordering to play are 2008 WSOP vice Peter Eastgate, Full Tilt high-stakes god Patrik Antonius, and the most feared gynecoid in poker, 2007 WSOPE world champion Annette Obrestad.
Team Full Tilt pro and high-stakes lobbyist Gus Hansen and WSOPE Pot-Limit Omaha scrunch Theo Jorgensen are also chosen for awards and imminent to play in the chance, but the two Danish pros tremendousness have their minds on of sorts battle set for imminently in the week.
Hansen and Jorgensen have prop-bet their way into a few rounds innards the squared looplet, and will in reality throw punches instead of mazuma in a bottling match meant for the same dusky as the EPT Copenhagen written examination
table, Feb. 21.
Several distant Danish high-stakes players are unawed to subtend up on the undercard as well.
So whether it's pugilism or poker, the Danish basic is where the diagnosis will be this week and PokerListings will be there, providing a surcharge of updates and newsmagazine news live from the pit.
