Lasse Aastrup won a reasonable pot from Theo Jorgensen just now after the Nordic Poker Award winner for Performance of the Year finally came to the decision to pay his river raise.
A rail had formed (and a very sober, polite, considerately quiet rail at that) to watch Jorgensen pondering the board and the 5,000 Aastrup had raised on top of his 3,000 river bet. He took quite some time, his stack having dropped to around 25,000, but made the call. He mucked when Aastrup revealed .
Claus Nielsen had fired out 1,700 on the turn of a board only for Danny Neess to bump it up to 6,050 next to him. Antonio Mattias now cold-called his bet and Nielsen also made the call.
The came on the river and it was checked around to Neess who bet 12,875, Mattias quickly folded but Nielsen was far more obstinate. The young Dane finally made a crying call but Neess flipped and Nielsen was left to flick his cards into the muck highly frustrated.
The latest casualty of EPT Copenhagen is Michael Ziemba, whose last chips went in preflop with , unluckily finding Ivan Chinyakou ready to take him on with . The board came nine-high and after a quick check it emerged that Ziemba was covered. Chinyakou up to 40,500.
We heard the whooping and hollering, and scuttled over to find the cards on their backs, the board dealt and the double up being shipped over to Tom Bedell. We suspect that the chips went in on the flop.
Bedell:
Morten Mortensen:
Board:
Yup, that's right - Mortensen's aces full was no good, as Bedell had made quads by the end of the hand and he doubled up to 45,000. Former chip leader Mortensen is still not in bad shape at all, but at 46,000 is way down from his earlier high point of almost 70,000.
We found Annette Obrestad (button) and Anton Wigg (utg+1) looking down at a flop. The air crackled with tension as these two titans of Scandinavian poker eyed each other up. After a moment Wigg bet out 1,175. Obrestad made the call.
Before the turn card had been dealt Wigg politely yet ominously asked, "How much are you playing?" Answer - 20,000 or so. But the media's excitement would be short-lived, as in the event Wigg checked the turn and then promptly folded to a 3,000 bet from Obrestad.
Current standings - Obrestad up a shade to 25,000, Wigg down a whisker to around 70,000.
Surinder Sunar is probably as "old school" as they come in this year's EPT, he opened preflop to 900 and then checked back a flop of against Peter Eastgate. The former Main Event champion making his poker comeback here then fired out 1,300 on the turn and Sunar folded face up.
Eastgate is still one of the shorter stacks with about 14,000.
Simon Persson is rebuilding his stack after that earlier kings vs aces setback. He check-called bets of 1,200 and 2,100 on the flop and turn of a board against Lasse Aastrup before both checked the river. Aastrup forced to show a missed and Persson took the pot with
Haykel Cherif Vidal wins one of what will become more and more common as the day draws to a close: short stack all-in pre races. His held vs. on a board to get him back in the game with over 20,000.
Meanwhile at about the same time, another, shorter stack decided not to take the plunge, despite needing to more than triple up to hit the average chips. Ciaran Burke in the big blind saw a limped threeway flop of and checked it. The first, early position limper bet 2,100 and cleared the other opposition, but Burke made the call. On the turn Burke checked, and after counting it out, his opponent bet 6,425 - exactly what Burke had left. He thought for a while, but whatever he'd called with on the flop, he was not prepared to put his tournament life at risk with it.
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board and the 5,000 Aastrup had raised on top of his 3,000 river bet. He took quite some time, his stack having dropped to around 25,000, but made the call. He mucked when Aastrup revealed 
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came on the river and it was checked around to Neess who bet 12,875, Mattias quickly folded but Nielsen was far more obstinate. The young Dane finally made a crying call but Neess flipped 
and Nielsen was left to flick his cards into the muck highly frustrated.
, unluckily finding Ivan Chinyakou ready to take him on with 
. The board came nine-high and after a quick check it emerged that Ziemba was covered. Chinyakou up to 40,500.
flop. The air crackled with tension as these two titans of Scandinavian poker eyed each other up. After a moment Wigg bet out 1,175. Obrestad made the call.
against Peter Eastgate. The former Main Event champion making his poker comeback here then fired out 1,300 on the 
face up.
river. Aastrup forced to show a missed 
held vs. 
turn Burke checked, and after counting it out, his opponent bet 6,425 - exactly what Burke had left. He thought for a while, but whatever he'd called with on the flop, he was not prepared to put his tournament life at risk with it.