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Poker.co.uk - Poker News Archive
Tuesday 23rd January 2007 Swede Plays It Cool To Take Home The Bacon
Magnus Petersson, a 29-year-old financial advisor from Stockholm, beat off competition from some of the best poker players in the world to win more than four million Danish Kroner (approximately €550,000) at this year’s European Poker Tour tournament in Copenhagen.
In a heads-up battle against Team PokerStars’ Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Petersson - whose biggest win until now was $30,000 after coming 438th in last year’s World Series of Poker - showed phenomenal daring against the French player to come out on top.
Grospellier, from Nancy, eastern France, won 2,308,608 Danish Kroner (approximately €309,955) for second place. The pair were among 400 players who entered the sell-out, four-day event, creating a total prize pool of more than 13 million Danish Kroner (approximately €1,855,000).
Petersson’s win was no mean feat. Having won his €5,000 seat in a $475 PokerStars online satellite tournament, he then battled past a field of world-class players including TJ Cloutier, Marcel Luske, Tom McEvoy and Isabelle “No Mercy” Mercier.
The next EPT event is in Dortmund from March 8-11, 2007 - the first to be held in Germany. It is closely followed by the inaugural EPT Polish Open in Warsaw, which takes place March 14-17, 2007.
The tour will culminate with the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Resort in Monaco, starting on March 28, 2007. As well his Copenhagen win, Petersson also wins a €10,000 seat at the event.
Source: OnlineCasinoNews
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