2010 EPT Copenhagen

Main Event
Day: 1b
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Event Info

2010 EPT Copenhagen

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a♥j♦
Prize
3,675,000 DKK
Event Info
Buy-in
35,000 DKK
Entries
423
Level Info
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
0
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How Many Chips Do They Have?

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Richard Grace - 92,000
Thomas Brolin - 55,000
Jens Kyllonen - 36,000
Jorn Walthaus - 55,000
Freddy Deeb - 60,000
Roberto Romanello - 18,000
William Thorson - 55,000
Peter Eastgate - 45,000
Tristan Clemencon - 22,000
Pernille Ravn - 40,000
ElkY - 70,000
Sebastian Ruthenberg - 55,000
Ramzi Jelassi - 42,000
Ricky Fohrenbach - 29,500
Toni Ojala - 27,000
Juha Helppi - 45,000
Maxim Lykov - 30,000
Pierre Neuville - 5,000
Stuart Rutter - 91,000

A Piece of the Pie

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All right, it's pie chart time. Who doesn't love a good pie chart? We've just been tallying up the breakdown of nationalities for this event, and you can find out everything you need to know in this handy-dandy graph.

For those of you who may be graphically impaired, let me help. Not surprisingly, the Danes represent the biggest slice of the pie this week, their 154 players making up more than one third of the field. The Swedes are the next most populous group here in Copenhagen, sending 44 players across the Baltic Sea.

We also have players here from Argentina, Australia, the Faroe Islands, India, Malta, New Zealand, and Israel -- in total, 26 countries are represented here. The EPT truly is an international poker series, drawing players from all six continents. And if there were poker players living in Antarctica, they'd probably come play the EPT too!

Without further ado, said pie chart:

Pagano Climbing the Ranks

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Pagano no, there's No Limit
Pagano no, there's No Limit
We arrived tableside to witness a betting war over a {2-Clubs} {9-Diamonds} {7-Spades} flop between Luca Pagano in the small blind position and Yaron Malki. Roughly 30,000 chips found their way into the pot during the course of this war.

When they finally made it to the {6-Hearts} turn, Pagano promptly bet out 20,000 to cover his opponent. Malki stared unhappily at the board. He shrugged a couple times in a resigned manner, but didn't act. Eventually he folded.

Pagano is up to roughly 70,000.

Tags: Luca Pagano

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

Needle King Dethroned

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Woe
Woe
Marc Naalden was spotted good-naturedly complaining to a buddy at the rail, a sure sign of recent bustage.

It turns out that he'd only had around 4,000 left when he picked up pocket queens and raised. He found a caller, and said caller continued to call Naalden's bets down the raggy flop and turn. Thus Naalden was down to only 1,000 or so by the time a king came down on the river. He put his last in the middle, and discovered that his opponent had called two streets with {A-?} {K-?}. Good game, Mr. Naalden.

Tags: Marc Naalden

Jesper Goes to Vegas

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The last check by Jesper Hougaard's seat sees that he has been relieved of the remainder of his short stack. We've got no details for you, other than to say he looked awfully flustered and ready to get out of here following that cooler hand with Thomas Holm.

You'll see Hougaard again soon enough though. He's about to head to Las Vegas to take part in next month's NBC National Head-Up Poker Championship with some of the best players in the world.

Tags: Jesper Hougaard

The Power of Eastgate

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A lady who, according to the official player list, bears the awesome moniker Magdalena Lorent-In De Betou raised in early position. To what would soon become her endless sadness, Peter Eastgate called behind.

Shouting on the next table which turned out to be nothing of any note meant that the action on the flop would be a mystery, and by the time we turned back to Table Eastgate, the board read {8-Hearts} {2-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} {Q-Hearts}. De Betou bet out 2,000, her hands shaking in a manner that was not even subtle. Eastgate, still as a rock, raised to 6,625.

De Betou put one hand over the other in an attempt to quell the shakes. She tanked up for a while, muttering under her breath. Then she folded.

Tags: Peter Eastgate

A Numbers Game

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Registration for EPT Copenhagen is now closed, and the numbers are in.

Today's Day 1b flight welcomed another 232 runners to the party, joining yesterday's contenders to create a total field of 423. In an unusual trend, that number is actually down slightly from last year's number, but the staff seems content with the turnout overall.

We'll have the full breakdown of the nationalities and the prizepool as soon as they're made available to us.
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