After the ridiculous trip from the Northern Mariana Islands to Denmark, it could be a shorter run in this tournament for Victorino Torres than he might have hoped - he's taken a substantial hit and is down to around 23,000.
The board read when we arrived and there was around 18,000 in the pot already. Torres checked, and his opponent bet a hefty 13,650. Torres gave it some serious thought, but eventually gave his opponent the benefit of the doubt and folded, looking rather less cheerful than he usually does.
Allan Bække and Theo Jorgensen are continuing to try and kick lumps out of each other (strictly in the professional sense, they're actually friends). On the turn of a board the Team PokerStars Pro checked across to Bække whoe fired 1,625, Soren Lovgren made the call and Jorgensen sighed and folded.
The river was another six, the and this time Bække bet a substantial 7,500 to which Lovgen quickly folded.
Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden's aggressive, if-in-doubt-then-bet playing style has not got him off to the greatest of starts.
The board read when we arrived, and three players were in the hand. The gentleman in the big blind checked to the chap under the gun, who bet 1,300. Lodden called in the hijack, the big blind folded, and they went heads up to the river.
Said river came down the , putting four hearts on the board. The under-the-gun player checked and Lodden bet 3,075, but when the action returned to Mr. Under The Gun, he now check-raised to 8,075. This prompted a long period in the tank from Lodden, who stared sullenly at the board, idly tapping the requisite yellow T5,000 chip for the call against the felt - but eventually he folded, and is at around 25,500 now.
APPT Winner Victorino Torres is back in Europe again, having travelled over 10,000km to reach Copenhagen from the Northern Mariana Islands. Torres went deep in Vienna making the final three tables, but he hasn't started so well here having just been forced to fold the river of a after Damien Gautier fired out 3,000 on the river.
Ciaran Burke has augmented his 30,000 starting stack by 7,500 after receiving a big river call from Liviu Ignat. Their pot had swelled to over 5,000 with the board standing when Burke bet out 5,700. He patiently waited for his opponent to make a decision, and after a good minute or so Ignat announced, "Call."
Burke flipped over and despite the pairing on the river took the pot down with no show of the losing hand, just one of those reluctant but quick count-outs of the calling chips.
It might be the first level of the day, but Allan Bække and Theo Jorgensen are wasting no time getting their chips into play against each other. Keeping up a stream of Danish chat while cheerfully trying to dent their opponent's stack, these two got involved in a pot which swelled into the thousands just now.
Jorgensen raised preflop to 300, and Bække raised to 950 out of the small blind. Undaunted, and smiling all the while, Jorgensen called to see a flop. Both players checked and the turn brought a bet out from Bække of 1,175. This was called, but the 2,625 he bet on the river proved too rich for Jorgensen, who folded.
Despite not understanding a word of their conversation, "Good fold," sounded like "Good fold" to me.
Players are still trickling in, but a few extremely entertaining table shares have already emerged.
Norwegian wunderkind Annette Obrestad is sharing a table with reigning champion and fellow Scandie Anton Wigg. Elsewhere EPT Snowfest winner Allan Baekke is sharing a table with Team PokerStars Pro Theo Jorgensen; and right at the other end of the room the twin young British talents of James Akenhead and Martins Adeniya are seated right next to each other, Akenhead with position.
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when we arrived and there was around 18,000 in the pot already. Torres checked, and his opponent bet a hefty 13,650. Torres gave it some serious thought, but eventually gave his opponent the benefit of the doubt and folded, looking rather less cheerful than he usually does.
and this time Bække bet a substantial 7,500 to which Lovgen quickly folded.
when we arrived, and three players were in the hand. The gentleman in the big blind checked to the chap under the gun, who bet 1,300. Lodden called in the hijack, the big blind folded, and they went heads up to the river.
, putting four hearts on the board. The under-the-gun player checked and Lodden bet 3,075, but when the action returned to Mr. Under The Gun, he now check-raised to 8,075. This prompted a long period in the tank from Lodden, who stared sullenly at the board, idly tapping the requisite yellow T5,000 chip for the call against the felt - but eventually he folded, and is at around 25,500 now.
and despite the pairing on the river took the pot down with no show of the losing hand, just one of those reluctant but quick count-outs of the calling chips.
turn brought a bet out from Bække of 1,175. This was called, but the 2,625 he bet on the 
river proved too rich for Jorgensen, who folded.