Here is the champ!

This is everything from Copenhagen, but we’ll soon be back from EPT Berlin on the 2nd of March! Congratulations again to Steven!

Steven Vollers, who bought in for $320 to a live events qualifier at RedKings.com just finished number 16 in EPT Copenhagen winning 100.000DKK! This is what I call a good investment.

Steven Vollers has probably been one of the most stable players throughout this tournament, keeping his stack in the same region for almost 3 days. Steven knows this game better than many, and it’s not a question about if he’s coming back, it’s about when.

Congratulations to Steven Vollers for bringing 100.000DKK with him home to the country of the Orange! A video interview will be up in just a few minutes..

We are down to the final 16, meaning that every player now is guaranteed 100.000 DKK!

€1 = 7.44 DKK
1 - 3,675,000 DKK
2 - 2,275,000 DKK
3 - 1,400,000 DKK
4 - 1,050,000 DKK
5 - 715,000 DKK
6 - 570,000 DKK
7 - 425,000 DKK
8 - 282,800 DKK
9-10 - 215,000 DKK
11-12 - 155,000 DKK
13-14 - 120,000 DKK
15-16 - 100,000 DKK

Steven has been All-In two more times, but they’re afraid of the Dutchmen, so he just picks up the blinds and is still at 115.000…

Steven Vollers went all-in on the SB with 115.000, and after some thinking his opponent called.

Vollers 8♦ 9♣
Opponent K♣ 9♥

Flop 7♠ A♥ Q♣
Turn 7♥
River Q♥

The tournament director says “Steven goes out in 20th position” but Steven corrects him and says it’s a split pot, and Steven is right.

Vollers is still alive, now with 119.000!

Steven Vollers has the smallest stack in the tournament, that now has 21 players remaining. He is doing everything he can to build it up though, so far he’s been all-in 3 times, one time showing A♣, one time showing 8♠ 8♣, but no callers.

Steven has about 110.000, meaning about 10 BB. He’s small, but the Dutch people knows how to become big, just look at Heineken.

Another interesting fact is that peter Eastgate the last big star is OUT.

Go Vollers!

We are down to 24 players, 3 tables, and 1 RedKings qualifier, Steven Vollers. Steven is on the same table as Peter Eastgate, meaning that he is also on the Featured table, with all TV-cameras and annoying lights. He didn’t look nervous for this, just as calm as he’s been all week.

Here is the three remaining tables:
1 269000 Francesco De Vivo Italy
1 193000 Nicolo Calia Italy
1 157000 Kristijonas Andrulis Lithuania 
1 452000 Chris Dombrowski USA
1 300000 Magnus Borg Hansen Denmark
1 426000 Ricky Fohrenbach USA
1 1005000 Andrew Teng UK
1 949000 Anton Wigg Sweden 

2 726000 Peter Eastgate Denmark
2 737000 Richard Loth Denmark
2 934000 Damien Fouquet France
2 641000 Andrey Vlasenko Russia
2 529000 Stig Rossen Denmark
2 377000 Jesper Petersen Denmark 
2 243000 Yorane Kerignard France 
2 127000 Steven Vollers Netherlands

3 761000 Paul Szyszko USA 
3 1400000 Roberto Romanello UK
3 265000 Thomas Pettersson Sweden
3 216000 Janne Nevalainen Finland
3 263000 Henrik Junker Denmark
3 621000 Morten Klein Norway
3 303000 Mads Wissing Denmark
3 592000 Morten Guldhammer Denmark 

We are today playing down to the official final table of 8. Good Luck Steven!

Steven Vollers, who barely hasn’t had a hand all day, only won two critical coinflips, but still managed to keep all his chips and now he is among the final 24 players in EPT Copenhagen 2010, what a sick effort!

He has a short stack, but everybody knows about the saying “A chip and a chair”, and now he has more than one, he actually have 127.000 of them.

He is also guaranteed 80.000 DKK (about €11.000).

We will be back tomorrow at 14:00 CET to follow his way down to the final 8 here in Copenhagen!

It was obvious that Pieter van Genderen had to do something with his stack and he got the chance when he got dealt 7♥ 7♦, he moved in and was called by A♥ J♣.

Board A♣ J♠ T♣ Q♣ Q♠

And Pieter had to leave the tournament, but what a tournament he has done! It’s his first big live tournament ever, and he finishes in 26th position! Amazing. He also gets rewarded with 70.000 DKK! Congratulations!

So only one Dutchmen left in Steven Vollers who is also on the edge with a small stack, let’s hold our hands, feets, arms, or whatever you want to that he will make it through the day!

Steven Vollers, 123.000

Go Steven!

Day 3 will end when we are down to 24 players, and we now have 26 remaining players, and guess what? Two of them are RedKings qualifiers!

Pieter has taken a bit of his stack back and is now up to 165.000.

Steven Vollers is still playing very solid and got 123.000.

Their stacks are pretty short as the average stack now is up to 488,076

Go Steven and Pieter!

The player on the button made it 22.000, and Pieter on the BB called.

Flop T♠ 9♦ 7♥

Both players checks.

Turn Q♦

Pieter checks, and his opponent leads out 36.000, Pieter makes a mini raise up to 72.000 and gets called.

River 7♠

Pieter bets out 62.000, and gets called.

Pieter Q♠ 5♥
Opponent Q♣ 9♥ for a higher two pair.

Pieter van Genderen, 100.000
Steven Vollers, 150.000

33 players remaining, and they are now both guaranteed 65.000 DKK! Congratulations!