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Copenhagen has never really conformed to the eight-handed, eight-hour thank-you-very-much final. An early hours finish in season two, the flip-flop heads-up of Grospellier-Petersson in season three, and the five-hour marathon in season four. Casino Copenhagen seemed to have shed its malingering reputation when Jens Kyllonen made easy work of winning on home-ish turf last year.
But season six may have proved that the old curse never left, it just took a one year sabbatical. Anton Wigg, a 22-year-old PokerStars qualifier from Stockholm, Sweden, won 3,675,000 DKK tonight (€493,754), after an often debilitating final table, one featuring moments of sheer panic, separated by long periods of abject folding.
In a three and three-quarter hour heads-up match against Francesco De Vivo, the Swede finally put one of the longest running EPTs to bed for another year. In some sports the equivalent would have required a referee to make a points decision, but here the Danish judge said this one would continue to the death.
It was Wigg's perseverance that won it. Going into the heads-up Wigg caught and then pulled away from De Vivo, a former Italian player of the year. That was until one hand 90 minutes in flipped things back to De Vivo whose seven-eight caught the turn, trumping Wigg's ace-ten.
The full list of prizewinners is as follows:
1 - Anton Wigg, Sweden, PokerStars qualfier, 3,675,000 DKK
2 - Francesco De Vivo, Italy, 2,275,000 DKK
3 - Morten Klein, Norway, 1,400,000 DKK
4 - Yorane Kerignard, PokerStars qualifier, France, 1,050,000 DKK
5 - Richard Loth, Denmark, 715,000 DKK
6 - Roberto Romanello, UK, 570,000 DKK
7 - Morten Guldhammer, Denmark, PokerStars qualifier, 425,000 DKK
8 - Jesper Petersen, Denmark, PokerStars player, 282,800 DKK
9 - Magnus Hansen, Denmark, 215,000 DKK
10 - Paul Szyszko, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 215,000 DKK
11 - Mads Wissing, Denmark, 155,000 DKK
12 - Andrew Teng, UK, 155,000 DKK
13- Damien Fouquet, France, 120,000 DKK
14 - Andrey Vlasenko, Russia, 120,000 DKK
15 - Chris Dombrowski, USA, 100,000 DKK
16 - Steven Vollers, Netherlands, 100,000 DKK
17 - Ricky Fohrenbach, USA, PokerStars qualifier - 80,000 DKK
18 - Thomas Pettersson, Sweden, 80,000 DKK
19 - Stig Rossen, Denmark, 80,000 DKK
20 - Henrik Junker, Denmark, 80,000 DKK
21 - Janne Nevalainen, Finland, 80,000 DKK
22 - Peter Eastgate, Denmark, Team PokerStars Pro, 80,000 DKK
23 - Kristijonas Andrulis, Lithuania, PokerStars player, 80,000 DKK
24 - Nicolo Calia, Italy, 80,000 DKK
25 - Jens Sundberg, Sweden, PokerStars qualifier, 70,000 DKK
26 - Rasmus Vogt, Denmark - 70,000 DKK
27 - Pieter van Gendernen, Netherlands DKK
28 - Julien Haution, France - 70,000 DKK
29 - James Bowey, UK, PokerStars qualifier - 70,000 DKK
30 - Thomas Froslev, Denmark - 70,000 DKK
31 - Jens Klaning, Denmark - 70,000 DKK
32 - Fabian Gentile, Belgium - 70,000 DKK
33 - Kristian Kofoed, Denmark - 65,000 DKK
34 - Juha Helppi, Finland - 65,000 DKK
35 - David Adelskov, Denmark - 65,000 DKK
36 - Kristoffer Thorsson, Sweden, 65,000 DKK
37 - Thomas Quaade, Denmark, 65,000 DKK
38 - Stefan Raffey, Denmark, 65,000 DKK
39 - Vitor Pinho, Portugal, PokerStars qualifier, 65,000 DKK
40 - Bertrand Grospellier, France, Team PokerStars Pro, 65,000 DKK
41 - Csaba Toth, Hungary, PokerStars qualifier, 60,000 DKK
42 - Lee Gaines, USA, PokerStars player, 60,000 DKK
43 - Jan Djerberg, Denmark, 60,000 DKK
44 - Casper Toft, Denmark, 60,000 DKK
45 - Patrik Kaltrud, Norway, PokerStars qualifier, 60,000 DKK
46 - Richard Grace, New Zealand, 60,000 DKK
47 - Yury Kerzhapkin, Russia, PokerStars qualifier, 60,000 DKK
48 - Halldor Sverrisson, Iceland, PokerStars qualifier, 60,000 DKK
49 - Yngve Hella Steen, Norway, 55,000 DKK
50 - Kimmo Kurko, Finland, 55,000 DKK
51 - Patrick Sacrispeyre, France, 55,000 DKK
52 - Ronnie Gasseholm, Denmark, 55,000 DKK
53 - Alfio Battisti, Italy, PokerStars player, 55,000 DKK
54 - Berjar Rustom, Denmark, 55,000 DKK
55 - Anders Berg, Norway, PokerStars qualifier, 55,000 DKK
56 - Mark Bech, Denmark, 55,000 DKK
Players: 423
Total: 14,212,800 DKK