Poker news tagged with 'theo jorgensen'

The world's biggest poker site and well-known Scandinavian poker pros Johnny Lodden (Norway) and Theo Jorgensen (Denmark) are no longer working together.

Read more » Johnny Lodden & Theo Jorgensen part ways with PokerStars

Theo Jorgensen has been playing EPT events since the very first season but not once been able to bring back a trophy to his home in Denmark... well, until yesterday that is! The Team PokerStars Pro decided to enter a €1,100 buy-in bounty event (€500 + €500 + €100 fee) last night and defeated 154 other entrants to lay hands on the €16,940 first-place prize, along within bounties and an EPT trophy!

"Only problem now is that I have to sleep with 2 covers on, since I still have goosebumps over how great I played this tourney," Jorgensen told his fans on Facebook following his victory. 

The first day of the first ever European Poker Tour Main Event in Malta has come to an end. Approximately 260 players turned up for Day 1A, and 153 remained after eight 75-minute levels of play in the Grand Masters Suite of the Portomaso Casino.

Read more » The First Ever EPT Malta Main Event Has Started

In case you missed it: The 2013 European Poker Tour London Main Event kicked off a few days ago and attracted a 604-player field. Now, after 2 days of play, there are about 110 players left and Tudor Purice, from Romania, is the chip leader with 628,200 chips.

Read more » EPT London: Tudor Purice Leads The Way Into Day 3

Many big names were lost during the second day of the EPT Berlin main event: Max Lykov, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Eugene Katchalov, Jeff Hakim, Tobias Reinkemeier, Mattias De Meulder, Benny Spindler, Jake Cody, Vanessa Selbst, and a few others. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, the Day 1B chip leader, also failed to make it through the day. Mizrachi was sent packing during the fourth level with the nut flush against the turned full house of Khiem Nguyen, a young German player.

Boris Becker is the most familiar name among the 175 players who will return to play in a few hours. The former German tennis pro will bring 113,000 chips to the tables, which is about average. He will be joined by notables such as Theo Jorgensen (171,600), Olivier Busquet (170,000), Alex Kravchenko (135,000) and Liv Boeree (85,400). The money bubble will burst when 136 players remain (€8,000 minimum cash) and the winner will take home an incredible €880,000!

The final table of the European Poker Tour London main event was one of the most interesting and exciting final tables in EPT history because 4 of 8 finalists were well known talents in the poker world: Steve O'Dwyer, Theo Jorgensen, Ruben Visser and Chris Moorman.

Read more » Ruben Visser Won Star-Filled Final Table at EPT London

Day 4 ended up being a short day of poker as the field of 32 players only had to be cut in half to 16. However, 15 players remained when the tournament crew called it a day and the American poker pro Steve O'Dwyer had the largest stack (2,279,000).

Read more » EPT London: Steve O'Dwyer Leads Final 15

Day 4 of EPT London will kick off in a few hours time and there are only 32 players remaining. The plan for Day 4 is to play down to 16 players, who tomorrow will continue the road leading up to the final table (Day 5).

Read more » EPT London: Jorgensen, Obrestad and Mercier Among Final 32

Today the third day of the European Poker Tour London Main Event will be played. There are 114 players still standing and the chip leader is Mantas Visockis (522,200), followed by (equally unknown) Matthias Tikerpe (507,600). Day 2 chip leader and UKIPT London champion Sergio Aido will also return to play today with 251,400 chips.

Read more » EPT London: Viktor Blom Through to Day 3

On Sunday, the Danish Team PokerStars Pro The Jorgensen was shot three times in the leg by robbers who forced their way into his house in Greve, Denmark and demanded money. Jorgensen's wife, who had to watch helplessly as her husband was shot multiple times, called the police, who searched the house and the neighbourhood with dogs, but no one has been arrested yet.

Read more » Theo Jorgensen Talks About The Home Invasion

Denmark's biggest poker star Theo Jorgensen was last night shot in the legs by three masked men who forced their way into his home in Greve. Ekstrabladet.dk reports that he's hospitalised but not in danger of his life after the bloody drama that occured in his family home in front of his wife.

Read more » BREAKING NEWS: PokerStars Pro Shot During Home Invasion!

The World Poker Tour Copenhagen Main Event attracted a total of 229 players this time. After two days of play, the field has been reduced to 141 with Day 1A winner Andre Petrovic (picture), from Sweden, out in front with 220,400 chips. Day 2 kicks off at 12:00 CET (03:00 PDT) and the biggest names in the remaining squad of players are Sean Jazayeri (91k), Theo Jorgensen (53k), Kara Scott (43k), Steve O'Dwyer (38k), Marvin Rettenmaier (31k) and Ana Marquez (26k). Famous players who were eliminated during Day 1A and Day 1B: Tony G, Daniel "Jungleman" Cates, Ville Wahlbeck, Anton Wigg & Ramzi Jelassi.

Check back tomorrow for another update!

In case you didn't read our WPT Grand Prix de Paris updates last week, Philipp Gruissem finished both Day 2 and Day 3 with the largest pile of chips, and he had about 3 times the average stack and $100k more than his closest opponent Matthew Salsberg when Day 4 kicked off with 24 remaining players.

Read more » Weeds Producer Matthew Salsberg Wins WPT Grand Prix de Paris

When 63 players sat down at the tables and Day 3 kicked off, the tournament director had a plan to get as close to 12 players as possible. But in the end there were still 24 remaining players, and the man with the biggest pile of poker chips was the same as when the day started, Philipp Gruissem.

Read more » WPT Grand Prix de Paris: Gruissem Leads For The Second Consecutive Day

Day 2 of World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris has now come to an end. The day started with 143 players (we got the numbers wrong yesterday) and ended with 63 after some really exciting and wonderful four levels of poker.

Philipp "Philbort" Gruissem will bring the largest stack (280,600) to the tables today, and there are many well-known faces with healthy stacks in the remaining squad. Just to mention a few: Juha Helppi (222,800), Faraz Jaka (157,400), Jason Mercier (140,700), David Benyamine (137,600) and Theo Jorgensen (126,900).

The money bubble will burst when 27 players remain - all players will then be guaranteed at least $17,154 each. The winner of the tournament will take home bank-busting $515,720, and the runner-up gets $341,149!

The second day of the WPT Grand Prix de Paris main event saw a field of 228 players. It was a very slow day, with nobody really willing to put their entire stack at risk. On the final 30-minute level, five or six players had about 100k each and battled for the top spot.

Read more » WPT Grand Prix de Paris: French Musician Tops Day 1b

The poker phenomenon Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was involved in some really thrilling games this weekend. For example: Blom played some shorthanded $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha against Theo "TheoJ" Jorgensen, Jeans89, Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky and other regulars at PokerStars nosebleed tables. There were plenty of pots where more than $100k was up for grabs, and one 3-way-pot even exceeded $200,000 (below you can see how this hand was played out).

Read more » High Stakes: $700,000 swing for Isildur1

It's not long ago since William Thorson, the swedish poker pro, announced that he was leaving Team PokerStars Pro after 2 successful years. Now, about a month later, PokerStars announces that they have found someone to replace him. Theo Jorgensen from Denmark is PokerStars' new pro who will get to travel around the globe and play with the rest of Team PokerStars Pro - for free!

Thanks to some fantastic results at WPT, EPT and WSOP over the past few years, Theo Jorgensen has really created a name for himself in the poker world. For some of you, the alias "THEDONKEY01" might sound a bit familiar? That's no one else than Theo Jorgensen playing at the nosebleed tables online against some of the best poker players in the world.

Best of luck to Theo Jorgensen and his future with Team PokerStars Pro.

205 players returned to Amazon Room at Rio Hotel & Casino to play Day 6 of the main event yesterday. At around midnight, the tournament crew called it a day and there were only 78 players remaining. In the lead is the danish poker pro Theo Jorgensen with 9,300,000, and almost 2 million in chips behind him are Michael Mizrachi and John Racener, both from USA.

Theo Jorgensen has played extremely well in the past few days and he has been advancing in the field every day. If you ask me, I think that he deserves to be where he is right now. I'm 100% sure he will make it to the final table if he continues playing this well. And who knows, maybe he will be the second dane ever to win a Main Event? Another player to watch out for is the PokerStars Pro William Thorson from Sweden. William has been running extremely well in live tourneys this year and I hope that he will be one of the 27 players who make it to the final day before the tournament goes on a break. 

Day 5 of the 2010 WSOP Main Event finished about an hour ago. It was a super thrilling day with huge swings, at least for some of the players. Chip leader of the tournament is the PokerStars sponsored player Evan Lamprea, 21, with about 3,5 million in chips. Not far behind him are notables such as the danish poker pro Theo Jorgensen and also the poker legend Johnny Chan. Unfortunately only 1 woman made it through Day 5. Her name is Breeze Zuckerman (picture) and she will bring about an average stack to Day 6 of the tournament. Best of luck to her!

Ladies and gentleman, the 2010 WSOP Main Event start getting very exciting now! Tonight, 205 players will return to the tables to play Day 6 of the tournament. It's almost impossible to predict which players that will be in the top after this day comes to an end. We don't have any big chip leader(s) yet and most of the remaining players have decent stacks to work with.

There were 25 players who began day 4 of the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris with the hopes of bagging the first prize which was worth €633,902.  The day ended with eight players in the finals with each player being guaranteed of not lower than €70,000 along with their position in the event at the first WPT which will be televised by MatchRoom Sports.  Theo Jorgensen led the way when the match had been decided during the early hours of the morning.

Jorgensen did not waver all day and had his chip stack between 700,000 to 1,100,000 in the first 6 hours at the finals table.  It was when the two tables joined that Jorgensen ensured the other players that the final bust-out of the night will not take more than 6 hours.Read more » WPT Grand Prix Paris Day 4: Jorgensen Surges to Massive Chip Lead

The Danish poker player that we reported about earlier ended up take down the whole tournament and the £218 626 first prize and a WSOPE bracelet. Read more » Theo Jorgensen Takes Down WSOPE Event#3