2006-01-10
Report from EuroSuperPoker.com at the EPT, Copenhagen 2006

Team Eurosuperpoker welcomes you to the Casino Copenhagen where the Scandinavian Open was being held on the 19th-22nd of January. As you can see on the picture it was snowing and the temperature was below - 8 degrees, but inside the casino it was smoking hot because of the excitement at the pokertables.

The starting field of 288 entusiastic pokerplayers made the buy-in of 30 000 Dkr which gave the tournament a first prize of more than 2.5 million Dkk (app. €335,000) and a total prize pool of nearly 8 million Dkk (app. €1 million).

Some big stars appeared such as the great Gus Hansen who always gives a respectful appearance when sitting down at the pokertables. But he did not last long in the tournament as he was out after about 7 hours of play. To the left of Gus Hansen we could see Joakim Geigert from Sweden, who had great respect for the poker Pro after him. Maybe too much! Joakim also had to leave the EPT the first day.

Joe Hachem, 2005 World Series of Poker Champion, also went out early the first day. But that did not stop him from smiling.

The 2003 WSOP champion Chris Moneymaker, at the Pokertable. He went out in the worst kind of way. In this spectacular hand Chris Moneymaker picked up pocket kings. He raised and one person called. The kings were not under much threat when the flop showed a seven, a two and a six. Chris bet and was called once again. The former World Series champion did not know that a set of sixes were being slow-played. The turn brought another king so Chris went all in with lots of confidence of winning the pot with his tripple kings. That confidence was struck by lightning when the river showed the only out tripple 6's can get when under fire by tripple kings. Another 6! Chris Moneymaker where left without chips and another bad-beat story in the baggage.

One of Denmarks most famous soccer players, Stig Töfting at the pokertable. It was his turn to go all in a couple of hours later and time to exit the tournament.


"Dont take my chips"!!!!!!! The coolest chipguard we could find!

Here is Karin Lundgren from Sweden who finished at 20th place.

Karin was one of three women who got in the money. The other two was Xuyen "Bad Girl" Pham and Anina Gundesen. Anina is from Odense in Denmark and came to this tourmament through a $13 re-buy satellite. And she really made an good impression when she made the highest placed female finisher ever on the EPT. A respectful sum of 398,131 Dkr for a weekends work.

Cards resting in the break.

Approximatly 2,548,070 Dkr who is waiting for its new owner.

Erik Jensen

Erik Jensen, who is the Manager of the Copenhagen Casino, is responsible for this session of the EPT. He said that everything is going as planned, and he is very pleased with how much attention poker tournaments like this attract people to the casino. He told us that the interest was so huge that the casino arranged a 10 000 Dkr tourney for 120 people. This was a way for those who could not participate in the EPT to win a little extra money. The big interest for poker is here to stay he said, as an example he told us about the Danish Championship tournament which was held last year where over 700 poker players signed up.

Do you have plans to expand your poker department at the casino?
- "No, not at this time, our 3 tables are good so far."

How much have Gus Hansen's wins meant for the casino?
- "To have a world-class player like him is of course priceless to us. He means so much to us and he is always eager to participate in events like this here in Denmark. "

Back to the Final table!

The first one to go (as you can see above) was Jonas Bergquist who took home "merely" 25.000€.

Next to leave the table was Shek-Chi Hung.

The action was still on when there was 6 players left but after a while when Anina was beat for a 6th place the game slowed down tremendously. It almost felt like there was one flop every hour and even less when Marcus Gonsalves left the table. The action o nthe table was mostly brought by Mads Andersen and Edgar Skjervold who finally after a long time of play went heads-up.

The heads-up revealed great strengths and weaknesses in both players but it was finally Mads who evicted as winner of the EPT Copenhagen event!

Who would have imagined that all it took to win an EPT main event (except for skill) was a couple of queens. Is it not your time to join the Poker Revolution and maybe you can represent EuroSuperPoker.com and win an EPT,WSOP or WPT tournament?

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