Of the 462 players who entered the 50,000 DKK buy in PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Copenhagen, only 184 players returned for day 2. Among those vying for a top 40 payday were Jani Sointula, Noah Boeken, Klaus T Madsen, and Morten Erlandsen, all seated at the same table, while another saw Laurence Houghton face off against Annette Obrestad and Danny Ryan would battle Ilari Sahamies at another.
Andrea Benelli, chip leader at the start of the day, Martin Jacobson, Remy Biechel, Andreas Hoivold, and Johan van Til were seated together as were Thor Hansen, Orjan Holt, Arnaud Mattern, and Marcin Horecki.
Among those put to the sword during the day were Isabelle Mercier, Alex Kravchenko , Annette Obrestad, Danny Ryan, Johannes Strassmann, Markus Golser, current EPT Barcelona champion Sebastian Ruthenberg, Arnaud Mattern, Marcin Horecki, Peter Jepsen, Rueben Peters, Noah Boeken, Alain Roy, Tronde Erik Eidsvig, Ilhari Sahamies, Jani Sointula, Tomas Brolin, Jonas Molander and Luca Pagano.
Albert Iversen, who was among the chip leaders for much of the day, ran A-K into Jonas Klausen’s A-A and also hit the rail agaonisingly close to the money.
The battle for bubble boy was between Andrew Feldman, who raised on the button with 9
9
, and Christian Saxin on the big blind who went all in. Feldman called and Saxin shows K
J.
The board fell A1028Qx. Saxin hit his straight and Feldman is the unfortunate 41st place finisher.
Forty players will return for day 3 and the top 10 in chips are:
- Anders Langset (Norway) — 326,800
- Rasmus Nielsen (Denmark) — 254,700
- Peter Hedlund (Sweden) — 236,500
- Fredrik Boberg (Sweden) — 213,900
- Tore Lagerborg (Norway) — 192,000
- Christian Saxin (Sweden) — 166,500
- Michael Aston (UK) — 155,200
- Martin Wendt (Denmark) — 147,700
- Jens Kyllönen (Finland) — 143,700
- Ramzi Jelassi (Sweden) — 143,600
Be sure to check back at CardPlayer.com today for all the action anda full update from yesterday’s play at the Scandinavian Open as the players chase the $1.1 million top prize and check EPTLive.com for live action from the feature table from 1 p.m. GMT today.
