EPT Scandinavian Open ends
January 23rd, 2006 | Published in No Limit Holdem, Tournaments
The EPT Scandinavian Open finished on Sunday night with Denmark’s own Mads Andersen taking the first prize of 2.5m Kr (that’s £235,000, or $420,000) after entering the final table with a big chip lead. The final table took ten hours to play (the longest EPT final table so far) and incredibly, the players came within half an hour of the casino’s official closing time!! (Yes, some European casinos close in the early hours). I’ll bet EPT boss John Duthie was a little nervous given the amount of trouble he’s had organising venues for the EPT, and in particular after the fiasco in Barcelona last year. This month’s Card Player Europe has an article all about how Duthie put together the EPT here. It’s interesting to read about why there are hardly ever any cash games at EPT events.
The two PokerStars qualifiers who made the final table (Markus Gonsalves and Anina Gundesen) finished 5th and 6th respectively. Anina had said she wasn’t intimidated by any of her opponents because she had no idea who any of them were. I must confess that I’d barely heard of any of them either.
As ever, the PokerStars blog has a detailed final table report, in which writer Howard Swains deserves a special award for straining the “playground of the rich” metaphor about as far it it will go:
http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2006/01/copenhagen-ept-final-table-report.html