Viktor Blom has taken a few hits and is now back below his starting stack.
Most recently we witnessed a curious hand which saw Blom open to 1,000 and the gentleman to his immediate left (let us call him Player A) call. The gentleman in the big blind (let us call him Big Blind) made it 3,600 to go, and both Blom and Player A made the call.
They saw a flop and Big Blind bet out 6,400. Blom and Player A both called again and they proceeded to the turn - the . This time it checked around to Player A, who promptly announced all in. Big Blind and Blom both folded and Player A took the pot. Curious.
The next hand Blom took another, smaller hit, opening to 1,000 again but then check-folding to his one opponent on the turn of the board. Blom is at 26,000.
Jani Valmunen has crashed out of the EPT Copenhagen in dramatic fashion, after a flop sealed his fate as tight as Unibond around a bathtub...
Michael Aron raised from the button when it folded round to him, and Vilmunen upped it to 3,200 from the small blind. Aron made the call.
The flop: . Out led Vilmunen for 6,100. An expressionless call from Aron.
The turn: . Now a pause while Vilmunen considered his <20k remaining and the board, his opponent, in short, all the things one generally might consider. He moved in and must have felt that sinking feeling when he was snap-called.
Vilmunen:
Aron:
The two Aces remaining somewhere in the deck stayed submerged (the river was the ), and Vilmunen hit the rail while Aron is up to around 60,000.
Josh Prager just managed to double up again after he moved all-in on the turn of a board with and found a caller holding . The changed nothing and Prager now has 35,000.
Easy game this, find a hand, bink/hold, rinse and repeat.
The day started off badly for the Prager family, with both Josh and Helen finding themselves super-short, super-early - but both now are staging impressive recoveries. Mrs. Prager enjoyed that double up courtesy of Carlos Oliveira around half an hour ago, and remains on a much-improved 20,000 as we type. Mr. Prager was even shorter than that on just 7,500 or so, but we just now witnessed him enjoying a full double up to 17,000.
There seems to have been a clerical error of some sort in assessing yesterday's field - it actually numbered 214 runners, instead of the 213 previously published. Today's field comprised 235 hopefuls, meaning that the total number of runners for this year's Scandinavian Open is 449 - well up from last year's 423.
Of these 449, 64 are going to get paid, with 64th place paying out DKK 55,000 (around €7,380) and first place paying out a very lovely DKK 3,700,000 (around €496,271 which is not too shabby, although it sounds better in kroner). Please head over to the Payouts tab for the full breakdown.
Staying ahead of the chip average, despite seeming to be unable to remain in his seat for a full orbit, Peter Hedlund is making his suggestions known to the TD, his acquaintances, the press etc.
On the coffee/juice table: "Take this f**ing coffee away and bring out some real liquor!"
On Pernille Ravn (handing her an orange juice): "She's a good girl."
On Arne Langset (addressing his table): "If you bust him, you get busted on the f**ing knee by me." Pause. A reconsider. "In the balls."
On breakfast: "I took a semi-cooked egg."
On war: "Thirty years of killing..."
On his opponent he outdrew, "He played it correctly."
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flop and Big Blind bet out 6,400. Blom and Player A both called again and they proceeded to the turn - the 
. This time it checked around to Player A, who promptly announced all in. Big Blind and Blom both folded and Player A took the pot. Curious.
board. Blom is at 26,000.
. Out led Vilmunen for 6,100. An expressionless call from Aron.
. Now a pause while Vilmunen considered his <20k remaining and the board, his opponent, in short, all the things one generally might consider. He moved in and must have felt that sinking feeling when he was snap-called.
), and Vilmunen hit the rail while Aron is up to around 60,000.
and found a caller holding 
. The 
changed nothing and Prager now has 35,000.
on a 
board but his opponent was holding 
...
