Main Event | 2010 EPT Copenhagen

02-21-2010 14:44 UTC+2

Seat 3: Yorane Kerignard, 24, Aix-en-Provence, France (1,164,000)

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Yorane Kerignard has been playing professionally for three years, concentrating on multi-table tournaments online.

EPT Copenhagen is only his third major live tournament but will be his best live result, beating his previous best payout of $7,000 in a €500 buy-in event. His biggest online cash was for $122,000 in a $1,000 buy-in tournament, and his online talents have been used well to win his seat to EPT Copenhagen on PokerStars.

So far things have been easy for Kerignard, who by his own admission lives and breathes poker. He’s had no need, so far, to make tough decisions for his tournament life but as he said at the end of day four he looks forward to whatever the final table brings.

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02-21-2010 14:43 UTC+2

Seat 2: Francesco De Vivo, 39, Turin, Italy (2,073,000)

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Francesco De Vivo has been playing poker online since 2005 and professionally for the past two years. The father of two from Turin is playing his first tournament as a sponsored professional since winning a special event in Vienna, earning a package of tournament buy-ins worth $100,000.

De Vivo cashed in the 2008 World Series Main Event, and at a side event at EPT Prague in 2007, but his best results have come in Italy, where he became Italian champion for his performances in 2008.

De Vivo spent the first three days of EPT Copenhagen short stacked and card dead, but two hands helped him on his way, the first a piece of luck, when his pocket eights beat aces. Then on day four he doubled through Roberto Romanello, leaving him with the chip lead going into the final.

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02-21-2010 14:35 UTC+2

Seat 1: Jesper Petersen, 27, Aarhus, Denmark (968,000)

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Jesper Petersen is a former economics student, who has been playing poker professionally since 2004.

He took up poker early that year and by the end of it was playing full time. To date Petersen’s biggest result came in a side event at the Irish Open in 2007 where he finished fourth and while he has cashed in WSOP events since 2006, EPT Copenhagen will be his biggest career cash.

Petersen was close to elimination on day one, dropping to 9,000 before doubling up with aces just before the dinner break. He went on to finish the day in strong position and has played solidly since, his fortunes helped greatly on day four when his straight beat the flopped set of Peter Eastgate.

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02-21-2010 14:31 UTC+2

Welcome Back to the Casino Copenhagen

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Good afternoon poker fans and welcome back to Day 5 of the EPT Copenhagen.

Nine players remain crowded around what should be an eight-handed table following a late-night decision to hit the bar instead of playing on and try again today. But however many players they squeeze around the TV table, by the end of today there will be only one winner.

PLay is due to start at 2pm CET, so sit tight until then and all the action will come to you via the medium of PokerNews. If you're not content just to read about it today, don't forget that you can see the whole thing happening live at EPT Live.