Main Event
Day 2 Started
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Copenhagen
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2012 PokerStars.com EPT Copenhagen
Buy-in
35,000 DKK
Entries
299
Level
31
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
10,000
Day 2 EPT Copenhagen: Emerging Forces
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Welcome to Day 2 of EPT Copenhagen, an event that started with 298 players and so far has 179 remaining. When the dust settles on these major tournaments you will generally find that the Champions often come from the early leaders of these fields. So let's have a look at some of the likely candidates.
The person leading the field is the very experienced Steve O'Dwyer. O'Dwyer has big time major final table experience on his CV, with a 2nd place finish at EPT London and a 2nd and 6th place finish at WPT final tables. So with 190,975 chips O'Dwyer is an excellent candidate.
Sitting in fifth place with 115,475 chips is Roberto Romanello. Not only does the Welshman know how to win a major event (EPT Prague and WPT Bratislava titles) but he also has form playing in this very casino after his final table appearance in the year that Anton Wigg won the tournament. Maybe the only thing stopping Romanello is the two-time EPT Champion curse?
Or maybe the title will go to a local lad? If so then Day 1b chip leader Mads Wissing is good value. Wissing has two six figure scores to his name and also an 11th place finish at this very event, the year Wigg won. Wissing starts the day with 127,575 chips.
Other players to keep a watchful eye on today will be Marcel Bjerkmann, Juha Helppi, Grzegorz Cichocki and former champion Anton Wigg. Johnny Lodden, Mickey Petersen, Theo Jorgensen, Luca Pagano, Martin Staszko, Arnaud Mattern and Pierre Neuville all represent Team PokerStars Pros.
The action will start in 40-minutes so stay with us at Pokernews for all of the action.
Level: 8
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 75
Day 2 Off to a Flier
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Day 2 got off to a rapid start at we lost four players in the first few minutes. The kind floor staff brought us the players’ ID cards before we had even made it to the tournament floor.
Klaus Schwarz only came back with 4,650 chips so his exit was probable. Eeki Ruponen (15,450), David Kristiansen (44,025), and Edouard Mignot Bonnefous (36,550) had more wriggle room so will be disappointed with their exits.
The Teeny Weeny Chip Stack Doubles Up
Just how on earth you end a Day 1 with only 3,050 chips is a riddle in itself but this is exactly what PokerStars qualifier Martin Prager somehow managed to do. We just saw him rising to his feet in jubilation after turning that 3,050 into a whopping 7,600 and this is how he managed it.
Prager moved his stack into the middle from the hijack seat, holding 
, and PokerStars qualifier Andreas Samuelsson made the call from the cutoff, holding 
. So Prager was in a whole world of hurt, but it all changed when the dealer handed him the 
on the turn and Prager doubled up.
Just a few more moments of magic like that and Prager will start feeling like he has a chance.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
14,000 | -6,250 |
|
|
7,600 | 4,550 |
Cortes Wins Early Pot
Level 8
: 300/600, 75 ante
Martin Jorgensen decided his best play was to open-limp from under the gun and that sparked what became a family pot. Two players folded before Ronnie Rasmussen called and Niela van Alphen in the small blind and Eric Cortes in the big blind called and check respectively.
The 
flop contained more clubs than Ibiza and each of the four players decided to check but when another club, the 
became the turn card a 1,800 bet from Cortes was enough to take down the hand.
An Early Exit For Eames
The man who finished 3rd in this event last year has had an early exit on Day 2 this year. John Eames started the day with around 21 big blinds and that stack was moved into the middle in just the first few hands of play.
PokerStars qualifier Eddie Tasbas raised to 1,500 in the cutoff seat and Eames moved all-in from the button. The small blind folded before Grzegorz Cichocki also moved all-in from the big blind. Tasbas folded and Eames asked Cichocki if he had a pair and the nod from the Pole looked like a death sentence for Eames.
| Cichocki |   |
| Eames |  |
So Eames was hoping for the same sprinkling of luck that befell Prager just one hand before. The dealer had other ideas and the board of 
made sure that the player with the best hand won and that was Cichocki. Eames is now left looking for flights out of freezing cold Copenhagen to head for freezing cold Southport.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000 | 16,125 |
|
Busted |
Volguardson Aggression pays Dividends
Achim Kruse raised to 1,350 from middle position, one player folded and Keld Volquardsen made the call from the hijack. Former EPT London champion David Vamplew was in the cutoff and he called, as did Liutauras Armanavicius in the small blind.
Flop: 
- Armanavicius checked, Kruse checked, Volguardson made it 4,200 to play and only Vamplew made the call.
Turn: 
- Volguardson instantly bet 7,000 and Vamplew stuck along and made the call.
River: 
- Again Volguardson instantly grabbed chips and bet 12,500 but Vamplew had seen enough and he let his hand go and now has just 15,000 chips in his stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
93,000 | 11,550 |
|
15,000 | -16,825 |
Semisoshenko Takes On Pagano
The action folded to Maksim Semisoshenko in late position and he made it 1,400 to play. Team PokerStars Pro Arnaud Matter passed but Luca Pagano, in the cutoff, had other ideas and he three-bet to 3,400.
Pagano's bet was enough to force the button and blinds fold putting the action back on Semisoshenko. He took a glance at Pagano before four-betting to 8,600. Pagano had seen enough and he mucked his hand around 30 seconds later.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
52,200 | 3,750 |
|
38,000 | -6,225 |
PokerStars Qualifer Manson Eliminates Hannaseth
Roger Hannaseth moved all-in for slightly less than 20,000 and PokerStars qualifier Alexander Manson made the call from the button. Nobody else was interested and we had a showdown with Hannaseth at risk of elimination.
| Manson |  |
| Hannaseth |  |
The board ran out 
and Hannaseth was out.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
135,000 | 21,975 |
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Busted |