The players from Norway have done very well at this year's EPT. There are three remaining out of the final four tables. About 25 or so Norwegians bought into the event (or about 3% of the entire field). Right now, they represent almost 10% of the remaining players.
Christopher Ulsrud and Kristian Kjondal are big time online cash game players. Both are 21 years old. Lars Eidissen is in his mid-20s and doesn't play as higher stakes as his fellow countrymen. However, he's considered to have the most poker acumen out of the remaining Norwegian players. He's not as reckless and plays a more conservative game, but if he gets more chips, members of the Norwegian press think he has the best shot to go all the way.
Richard Waters (UK) busted out in 30th place while Cristinel Dumitru (Romania) took 31st. Waters' A-J ran into Kristof de Smedt's Big Slick. While Erik Van Der Berg (Holland) had a full house with pocket jacks to bust Dumitru.
Herman Zango (Costa Rica) is out. His lost to Van Der Berg's . Zango won €26,550 for 28th place. Van Der Berg busted his second player of the day and is past the 500K mark.
Carlos Mortensen took down a big pot from Antony Lellouche with 10-10. He's in the chiplead after Andy Black lost two big pots at the feature TV table.
Jacob Larsson (Sweden) was involved in a three way pot with Josh Prager (USA) and Simon Johansson (Sweden).
Larsson had
Johansson had
Parger
Prager flopped a and his pair held up as Larsson's hand did not improve. Johansson picked up the side pot with pocket 8s against Larrson who headed to the rail. Larsson won €26,550 for 27th place.
Marc Karam (Canada) just doubled through Andy Black. Both were all in pre-flop Karam's J-J held up against Black's Big Slick. No improvement on the board 10-3-3-10-7 for Black as Karam adds more chips to his stack. Black has been bleeding all day.