Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen - Day 1A - Interactive

[Djinn]

Morning all,

Danafish and I are preparing to bring you the live updates from the Scandinavian Open (if it's still called that) all day - no - all week, for your reading delectation.

Today's play will see the sold-out event commencing at 2pm (that's 1pm UK time) with the first day's players taking on a host of, well, each other, in the comfortable surroundings of the SAS Radisson, safe from the elements which at the moment are mainly cold here in Copenhagen, Denmark.

We really meant to go along to the Pokerstars welcome party/Scandinavian poker Awards last night, but promptly fell asleep and have no idea what happened there.  But we do know that the city looks cool, this tournament is unbelievably popular and we even have a preliminary player list which we will be sharing with you in about a half hour's time.

Dana:  We could be looking at an all-Andersen final table
Me:  Where are the breakfast hotdogs?

[danafish]

Ok, we've successfully navigated our way through the inexplicably slow press registration queue and on to the very nice press room, and we now find ourselves in position to post the most up-to-date list we can find for Day 1a. Here it is:

Michael Aadal Olsen
Jan Aagren
Jarle Aasen
Nikolaj Adamsen
Rasmus Åkerblom
Kenno Albrechtsen
Alex Amarre
Mads Andersen
Ole Andersen
Michael Andersen
Mathias Andersen
Thomas Askeland Østerholt
Jesper Askholt
David Atrubin
Ziv Bachar
Ryan Badii
Allan Bække
Gesi Bason
Anders Bekhøj Hansen
Karim Bennani Smires
Claus Bentzen
Kim Bentzen
Dennis Bjerregaard Jørensen
Martin Bjerring Hansen
Lars Blom
Barny Boatman
Noah Boeken
Sidsel Helle Boesen
Lars Bønding
Alf Braam
David Brandberg Svensson
Ola Brandborn
Nicolas Briant
Frederik Brink Jensen
Nhi Bui
Fuat Can
Rich Caplan
Anthony Chatelain
Fawaz Chawki
Bill Chen
Thomas Christensen
Tobias Christensen
Thomas Christiansen
Henrik Christoffersen
Adam Clark
Terry Cook
Daniele Cuomo
Bruce Dacko
Jonas Danielsson
David Davidsen
Michael DeGilio
Camilla Denning
Ib Djervils
Børge Dypvik
Peter Eastgate
Lars Egil Nielsen
Peter Eichhardt
Trond Erik Eidsvig
Wim Emo
Morten Erlandsen
Hans Erlandsson
Andrew Ferguson
Luca Ferrario
Peter Fischer
Thomas Fjellheim
Karl-Johan Fösker
Marcus Friman
Ole Gammelfjord
Torben Garbers
Bulent Gormez
Paul Grabowski
Michael Greco
Magnus Grønnevik
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Jerzy Hajdamowicz
Per Hansen
Christoffer Egemo Hansen
Lars Hansen
Dennis Naci Hansen
Gus Hansen
Tommy Hansen
Jens Hansen
Stefan Hansen
Thor Hansen
Christian Harder
Peter Hauerslev
Rasmus Hede Nielsen
Tom-Even Heimstad
Pasi Heinanan
Juha Helppi
Christian Hemmingsen
Anders Henriksson
Karl Hevrøy
Philip Hilm
Flemming Hilt
Andreas Hoivold
Anders-Petter Holm
Tobias Holmeide
Christian Honoré
David Hopkins
Marcin Horecki
Carl Hostrup-Pedersen
Jesper Hougaard
Jan Iversen
Steven Jacobs
Nikolaus Jedlicka
Brian Jensen
Morten Lund Jensen
Lasse Jeppesen
Morten Johansen
Simon Johansson
Torbjörn Jonson
Kaj Jørgensen
Mel Judah
Peter Kalsen Petersen
Casey Kastle
Eero Kekäläinen
Mudasser Khan
Davidi Kitai
Stephan Kjerstad
Kris Kjøndal
Jonas Klausen
Christian Klein
Morten Klein
Marcel Kloof
Marek Kolk
Mohamed kowssarie
Alexander Kravchenko
Steffan Ruben Kristoffersen
Matthias Kurschner
Michael Kweik
Eric Larcheveque
Tom Larsen
Daniel Larsson
Jason Laso
Nikolas Liakos
Michele Limongi
Marcus Lind
Johnny Lodden
Torben Løkkegaard
Jeppe Lundsgaard
Sander Lyloff
Kenneth Lyons
Lars Juul Madsen
Mikkel Madsen
Andrea Manganelli
Reijo Manninen
Jose Martin
Dag Martin Mikkelsen
Anders Martinsen
Riccardo Mazzitelli
Jesper Mertz
Dario Minieri
Sorel Mizzi
Peyman Mohammadzadeh
Jonas Molander
Joseph Morneau
Sigbjørn Mortueit
Klaus Münster
Daniel Negreanu
Kresten Nielsen
Martin Nielsen
Claus Nielsen
Jeppe Nielsen
Dario Nittolo
Lennart Nyström
Annette Obrestad
Henrik Olsen
Egill Ormarsson
Christina Orth
Alan Otte
Piotr Paruszewski
Tommy Pavlicek
Ulrik Pedersen
Andreas Per Ragnar Davidsson
Jose Pereira
Thomas Petersen
Jesper Petersen
Pehr Petersson
Magnus Pettersson
Georgios Pittas
Jaime Ponte
John Poynton
Helge Rahbek Pedersen
Mats Rahmn
Mikael Rasmussen
Mattias Ressner
Runar Runarsson
Pier Ruscalla
Sebastian Ruthenberg
Daniel Ryan
Renee Schmidt
Jospeh Serock
Danny Silk
Ulrica Skönnemark
Leroy Soesman
Bengt Sonnert
Frederik Sørensen
Jeppe Sørensen
Anton Stendahl
Lars Stokhave
Michael Stryhn
Peter Swartling
Matin Talebi
Julian Thew
Peter Thomsen
Christian Toksværd
Stig Top-Rasmussen
Stale Torsvik
Niels Peter Toubro
Claus Tversted
Martin Vallo
Thierry van der Berg
Thijs van Tilburg
Ville Wahlbeck
Roar Wang
Martin Wendt
Viktor Wessman
Anders Wijk
Thomas Wissner
Jannick Wrang
Jacques Zaicik
Yaron Zeev Malki

We will be attempting to find some breakfast for the next 20 minutes or so. Play is due to start at 2pm. Take your picks now! I'm going for Christensen, Christensen and Christiansen.

[TightEnd]

come on my Ander/Christian/Svenss/Jens-son!

[boldie]

Ah another EPT for Thewy..go on

[NoflopsHomer]

Can you wish Lars good luck from me please? All of them.

[Laxie]

I'll go with the Andersens and the Hansens.  Easiest lot to spell.     Hope you found some breakfast!

[Djinn]

Play not really showing signs of starting yet... a lot of milling around in the lobby/casino/hallway areas.  Spotted Hendon Mobster Barny Boatman in the throng, as well as multiple Scandinavian-award-winning Annette Obrestad.  The full list of Winners:

Best Live Player - Gus Hansen, Denmark
- award presented by EPT media co-ordinator Mad Harper.

Best Online Player - Jonas "Nebuchad" Danielsson, Sweden
- award presented by EPT Season 3 Copenhagen winner Magnus Petersson

Best Female - Annette Obrestad, Norway
- award presented by William Thorson

Rookie of the Year - Trond Erik Eidsvig, Norway
- award presented by Thor Hansen

Best Performance - Annette Obrestad, Norway
- award presented by PokerStars Nordic blogger Lina Olofsson

Lifetime Achievement Award - Thor Hansen
- award created and presented by Daniel Negreanu

And there's more at www.scandinavianpokerawards.com if your curiosity has been piqued as to which Norwegians, Swedes and Danes will be terrorising the field today.

[JaffaCake]

Spotted - Jen and Dana angrily waiting for their brekky in the bar lol

[Djinn]

Spotted:  Jeff Kimber on the way to a press frenzy around him... the Ladbrokes lounge with its promise of 'fruit, girls and table football' beckons.  Amusing anecdote of the day - which also incidentally gives us another 'British Player' to follow:  Andreas Hoivold was born in the UK.  As Jaffa says, "He said he was born in Sunderland which wound me up because I'm from Newcastle."

[Djinn]

Update Challenge:

News has spread that a new Betfair Sponsoree will be announced tomorrow... Can anyone hazard a guess as to which poker star will be joining Annette et al. in the Betfair blue (I think it's blue)?

[NoflopsHomer]

Andreas Hoivold is a Mackem?

[Djinn]

Interesting table lineups plucked from the superhelpful Pokerstars list thing we now get a la the Raab system:

TABLE 23
 
Peyman Mohammadzadeh
Juha Helppi
Ulrica Skönnemark
Paul Grabowski
Anders Henriksson
Sander Lyloff   (Ladbrokes have this big sign up offering a competition to WIN 5% of SANDER LYLOFF which I thought was a cool prize.  Wonder if he knows)
Kresten Nielsen
Daniel Larsson
Johnny Lodden
Christina Orth

TABLE 31

Mel Judah
Lars Blom
Christian Klein
Stig Top-Rasmussen
Rasmus Åkerblom
Leroy Soesman
Barny Boatman
Gus Hansen
Tom-Even Heimstad
Jeppe Nielsen

TABLE Famous Young Norwegians

Stefan Hansen
Thierry van der Berg
Mikkel Madsen
Jens Hansen
Annette Obrestad
Wim Emo
Dag Martin Mikkelsen
Runar Runarsson
Andreas Hoivold
Peter Swartling

[TightEnd]

Update Challenge:

News has spread that a new Betfair Sponsoree will be announced tomorrow... Can anyone hazard a guess as to which poker star will be joining Annette et al. in the Betfair blue (I think it's blue)?

Jen  http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=31343.0

some good guesses in there

[Djinn]

Update Challenge:

News has spread that a new Betfair Sponsoree will be announced tomorrow... Can anyone hazard a guess as to which poker star will be joining Annette et al. in the Betfair blue (I think it's blue)?

Jen  http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=31343.0

some good guesses in there

Ah.  OK - dino beat me to it.  But we'll go stand at the back of the Press Conference tomorrow, and then we'll be the first to know.

[AndrewT]

Ah.  OK - dino beat me to it.  But we'll go stand at the back of the Press Conference tomorrow, and then we'll be the first to know.

Unless you stand at the front of the press conference, in which case you'll hear 0.05 seconds sooner.

Assuming a conference crowd depth of 17 metres.