And what a journey it has been. We had a record field of RedKings players at the start, traveling here from all over the world. Out of the magic 6, 4 made it through to the second day all with a hope and a big chance of getting to the top 40 players who got money, some with even higher expectations.

Joao Gabriel Fernandes got completely card dead on the second day, which made it hard for him to get to the end of the day. He finished around 70th position, and that is a great success for his first EPT tournament. Our Swedish pro player Jonas “Molle” Molander was next guy to leave the tournament, when he made a move on the player that now is on the final table top 4, J. Nevanlinna.

Then we had 2 players left, Ramzi Jelassi and Toni Ojala. Toni making his second cash in a row, and 3rd for the season, look at those stats 3/7 this year, that is sick. Now we are just waiting for the big one. Too bad for Toni that he was the first player to leave to the rail on day 3, about €9000 richer. Ramzi were in for a long time until he got a bad beat on the featured table, and Ramzi left in 20th position with €16000 in his pocket.

Team RedKings is growing, and so is our reputation. The team is now one of the biggest on the tour, and this week we have added three players to Team RedKings, Ivo “The Chessmaster” Donev, Christian Heich and Per Linde. Now with the White Label EU-License, Team RedKings and also with a lot of bad players online (fish), more and more players are choosing to start or continue their poker carriers at RedKings.com. You will always be able to follow the Teams progress here in the blog, and also their own thoughts about the tournaments and their life in their own blogs!

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Ramzi was pretty shortstacked after the A-10 hand and he needed to do something. He got a chance when Jonas Klausen raised up in late position, and Ramzi decided to go all-in. Jonas made the call with 9-10s, Ramzi showed KQ.

It was so exciting so I didn’t even dare to look, the flop looked promising with KQ9 and two pair for our King. Then I hear a “ohhhhh” from the crowd and I can see that another 9 has come up on the turn which gives Jonas trip 9s. Now Ramzi needs a K or Q to survive. Just to show that the poker gods hate Ramzi they give Mr. Klausen a 10, and a full house.

Ramzi is out, he played very good poker as usual and this time he got $21.282 for his 19th position.

So to sum up Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen, we had two RedKings players in the money, Ramzi Jelassi and Toni Ojala. Must say it is a big success and it is going to be hard to beat in Dortmund, but we are going to give it a try!

See you all in dortmund!

Ramzi just called an all-in of a shortstack with 105.000, almost half of Ramzis stack. His opponent showed 10-10, and Ramzi turned over A-10.

The flop comes out x78, no help. The turn shows an 6 that gives Ramzi a few more outs, he must have a A or 9 on the river to take home the pot. A ugly Jack comes and this time no help on the river, and Ramzi goes down to 120.000 in chips.

Now 23 players in, with an average chip stack of 200.000. Good Luck Ramzi!

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They just exchanged all the 100 chips, which Ramzi had a lot of, so Ramzi let the staff do it for him and he went away for a coffee. When Ramzi gets back he feels that he is missing 10.000 in chips, so he wants them to check the cameras. Now they should have stopped the play, but they keep it going and Ramzi has to play “shortstacked” without his 10.000. It takes about half an hour until he gets his chips back, and Ramzi was right as always.

He is playing a lot of pots against Peter “Nalle” Hedlund, first Nalle raised, Ramzi chipped in everything and Nalle folded. A few hands after that Ramzi raises 12.000, Nalle calls and the flop comes out 10-2-6, Ramzi bets out 12.000 and Nalle instafolds. Ramzi is not happy with this, and shows two 6s for a flopped set.

Now when there was re-draw for the tables he takes his time to count his chips and says:
- I better do this all the time from now, so my chips stay with me.

His chipcount is 230.000 and there is 24 players left, it just looks better and better for Mr. Jelassi.

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Ramzi is very liked by the crowd, he is a entertainer with a head full of poker. His table is very fun to watch at, especially when you are a Swede, because the Swede Peter “Nalle” Hedlund is also a entertainer and there are a lot of talking going on..

Ramzi just won a pretty big hand, where Ramzi first raised got a re-raiser but that didn’t scare him because Ramzi put all his money into the pot and his opponent folded. Now he’s got about 195.000 with 29 players left and a average stack of 157.000.

All players just went on a 15 minutes break, next level it’s going to be really expensive to play poker when the blinds goes up to 2.500/5000 and an ante of 500.

Here are the players Ramzi is fighting against at the moment:
Jens “Jeans” Kyllönen Finland
Erik Karlsson Sweden
Aleksander Strandli Norway
Gert Andersen Denmark
Remy Biechel France
Peter Hedlund Sweden
Christian Saxin Sweden
Ramzi Jelassi Sweden

It’s a big scandinavian war out there!

I am going to share you some information that could be good to know:

Payouts in the EPT Scandinavia Open by Pokerstars.com:
€
1. 878,057
2. 497,069
3. 288,717
4. 220,258
5. 181,564
6. 142,870
7. 113,106
8. 80,364
9. 49,112
10. 49,112
11. 38,694
12. 38,694
13. 29,765
14. 29,765
15. 20,835
16. 20,835
17. 16,371
18. 16,371
19. 16,371
20. 16,371
21. 16,371
22. 16,371
23. 16,371
24. 16,371
25. 11,906
26. 11,906
27. 11,906
28. 11,906
29. 11,906
30. 11,906
31. 11,906
32. 11,906
33. 8,929
34. 8,929
35. 8,929
36. 8,929
37. 8,929
38. 8,929 (Toni Ojala)
39. 8,929
40. 8,929

34 players left now in the tournament.

Ramzi just lost a pot of about 50.000 to the finnish player Jens “Jeans” Kyllönen, Ramzi was thinking about calling a big bet (30.000) on the river by Jens in a pot who already was woth 50.000, but decided to fold with the board of 4 - 8 - K - 3 - J.
- So close to call, says Ramzi.

Toni Ojala makes the raise to 6.900 pre-flop with KQ, he gets called by the Swede Ola Brandborn and after him a big chipstack also calls. The flop comes out Q68, with possible flush draw. The big chipstack checks, Toni doesn’t want anyone to get their draws so he decides to move all-in. Ola Brandborn decides also to go all-in, now we are expecting the third player in the pot to fold but he also decides to call.

Time to show the cards, Tonis pair of queens are not strong against Ola Brandborns pocket 6s for a set, and the chipleader shows a flush draw. Toni is out already on the turn when a low card comes out on the board. The river shows the flush draw and the big chip stack takes out 2 players at the same time..

That was sad, but I am nice to give you some good news to take away your tears. Ramzi just took out a players and is now up on about 170.000.

Ramzi is now the king you will follow! Go on Ramzi!

In just a few seconds day 3 will start, only 40 players remaining, 2 players are going to wear RedKings shirts, and that is as you know Toni Ojala and Ramzi Jelassi. We started the tournament with about 1.5% RedKings players, now we are up to 5% and hoping to get to the 100%!

I just met Ramzi in the lunch buffet, not stressed at all even if the tournament started 5 minutes from then. Ramzi has 140.000 to play with today, and we know what he is capable of.

I took the taxi here with Toni, he was calm and hoped to get an early double up, and he was also mumbling something about a girl. I think that means that he is happy. Toni has 50.000 to play with.

There is going to be a lot of action today, follow it here at the blog, and don’t forget to answer the quiz.

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Todays Quiz will be a bit different, only 2 questions. The winner can get $150!

1. What will be Ramzis chipstack at the end of the day?
2. What will be Tonis chipstack at the end of the day?

We will reward the top 3 closest answers. 1st $150, 2nd $100 and the 3rd $50. If (knock on wood not) both of the players are down to 0, then we will raffle 10 x $30 gift vouchers to everyone who has send in an answer!

Good Luck, and let the poker gods be with us! The tournament starts at 14:00 CET, be here then for live updates all day long!