Poker news tagged with 'joel nordkvist'

Not only a Main Event Champion was crowned yesterday, but also the High Roller event got a winner! Joel Nordkvist from Sweden had a huge lead with 1,2 million chips when the final table kicked off, and his closest opponent was Benny Spindler with about 840k

Read more » EPT Sanremo: Another High Roller Title For Benny Spindler!

44 survivors returned for the second day of the 2012 PokerStars EPT Sanremo €10,000 High Roller yesterday. When the day started, Brandon Barnes was the chip leader, and other notables remaining were Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano, Jonathan Duhamel and Eugene Katchalov. Unfortunately neither of them made it to the money, and Barnes was eliminated in 9th place for €20,600.

Read more » EPT Sanremo High Roller: Swede Leads Star-Filled Final Table

The 2011 EPT Copenhagen Main Event is down to 24 players and now it starts getting really exciting! Yesterday, Michael Tureniec from Sweden was in the lead. Now, another Swede has overtaken the lead! Per Linde (picture) has accumulated 1,622,000 chips and he will for sure make it to the final table with a healthy stack if he continues like this.

In second place is Florian Langmann from Germany with 1,304,000 chips, followed by the Swedes Joel Nordkvist and Michael Tureniec. In fact, the most of the remaining players are from the Nordic countries. Well, maybe that something one should expect from a tournament held in Denmark? :)