Henrik Lotto Sørensen, as he appears on our player list, is busto. 'Lotto' is not in fact an odd middle name, we are reliably informed, but a nickname - this gent apparently won the Danish lottery and as is becoming traditional over here moved into the arena of high-stakes poker tournaments. He's mincashed today as will everyone finishing up to 49th.
Claus Tversted pushed all-in from UTG for 30,000 and Florian Langmann made the call next to him. Olivier Sangalli then reraised to 100,000 from the blinds and Langmann folded, "ace-jack of hearts," said the Team Pro.
Tversted: 
Sangalli: 
The board was 
and Tversted hit the rail in a high fifties position.
A moment of hope followed by the inevitable yet disappointing chop for Johan "busto_soon" van Til. He got it in with 
against Martin Jacobson's 
and the first three cards out of the deck were all hearts - 
. But the turn and river came down the 
and 
respectively, and they chopped it up.
No good for Soren Avngaard, all-in for 200,000 with against Johnny Jensen's 
. Avngaard let out a cry like a dying swan on the turn of a 
board which left him with precisely one out, which the 
was not.
Jensen, who was chip leader briefly yesterday, has a huge stack now.
Søren Avngaard opened to 11,500 and it folded around to Jonathan Weekes, who made it 27,500 to go. In the small blind, Thorsten Schafer cold four-bet to 67,000. Avngaard folded, but Weekes shoved; Schafer snap-called and they were on their backs.
Weekes:
Schafer:
Board: 
With that, Weekes is going to have to wait a while to improve on his EPT best, ninth place at Tallinn - he is out of the running in 60th place. Schafer is now up there with the big boys on 560,000.
Table 31 seems to be undergoing some sort of weird vacuum effect - it's as though there's a strange gravitational pull on the chips, moving them all to one end of the table. The folks at the wrong end of that table include Pernille Ravn (39,000), Pierre Neuville (50,000) and Nicolo Calia (started the level with 37,500, the official short stack).
Things may be on the up for Calia, though, as he just now managed to reverse gravity, as it were, and double up to around 55,000 - still very short, but at least moving in the right direction.
Calia: 
Daniel Pettersen:
Board: 
Calia did a little arm-wavy celebration to mark the outdraw. "Not a good flop," deadpanned his opponent.
Now guaranteed DKK 55,000, those with just a few big blinds left are taking the plunge all around the room. So far we've seen only elimination resulting from the preflop all-ins, most recently that of Steen Vester and Martin Hansen.
Vester's final mini stack was all-in backed up by 
called by Per Linde with 
. Vester hit on the 
flop, but the 
on the turn sealed his fate - to exit in 63rd place.
Hansen had around 20k (4bb) after the big blind went through him, and he found a good spot with - his eliminator held 
. A six on the board busted him, though, and he too heads to the cash desk.
Alber Hanna is the first official casher of EPT Copenhagen, he pushed with 
and Simen Johannessen next to him woke up with 
, flopping a king to boot. Hanna gets 55,000 DKR as compensation.
A very brief raising war saw Dennis Bjerregaard all in and called by Ørjan Skommo; it took a while to run it, though, as hands were still going on at other tables and the two players had to sit there, their cards not yet turned over, for some minutes. A crowd formed around the table. "Come on," said a cheerful Jonathan Weekes, "The suspense is killing us."
Eventually all the other tables finished their hands, and Bjerregaard and Skommo turned their cards over. A classic race.
Bjerregaard:
Skommo:
Flop: 
giving Skommo a flush draw as well as overcards
Turn: making Skommo a pair of kings and leaving Bjerregaard with exactly one out
River: not that one out, but the
With that, Bjerregaard suddenly became the most popular man in the room, yet also the unhappiest. Ladies and gentlemen, we are In The Money.
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