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Written by: adminFebruary started off nicely with some steady winnings online and I was really looking forward to Copenhagen and my debut on the european poker tour.
I arrived in Copenhagen the day before the tournament started, along with a couple of friends. I wasn´t going to play until day 1b but I wanted to be there in time, relax a little and build a nice focus for the tournament.
Unfortunately, things didnt go so well for me down in Denmark, and I busted pretty quick, I think I got approximately 2,5 hours worth of EPT-experience. I can´t really be that disappointed though, I told myself before the event started that my only goal was to not be afraid to go bust, but to really give myself a chance to win the whole thing, which I did (not win the whole thing, clearly 
I ended up at a pretty good table with the danish player Rene Mouritsen and a very competent swedish cash game player who wants to remain an unknown as my toughest competitors in my book.
I saw no reason not to play pots with the players at my table, but unfortunately for me, I just couldn´t win the pots I entered.
Actually, in the beginning I did win a couple of pots and built my 10k starting stack up to almost 11k, but then things started to go wrong.
At 50/100 I squeezed from the BB with AQo, got called by Rene Mouritsen who shipped over my bet on a flop of TT9 with two diamonds.
I actually considered calling with my ace high for a second because of all the draws he could have in that spot, but I ended up folding. In retrospect, I think a check/raise from me might have gotten him off a hand as good as a pair of jacks, so maybe I should´ve gone for that instead, but in reality he probably looks me up with jacks more often than not so my play was probably fine. Even a check/fold isn´t terrible in that spot.
A couple of orbits later i 3-bet 44 to a button raiser who had been entering a lot of pots but folding to all 3-bets thus far. He calls med, and I c-bet a dry Jxx board. He calls and I shut down, we check it down and he scoops the pot with TT. I´m pretty certain that I could have moved him off his hand with a triple barrel in this spot, and now that I´ve had time to think about it, I probably like that play best, especially if he´s the kind of player who will raise a jack on the flop as a standard play. I didn´t really know if he was or not, so I ended up taking the safe route and just give up on the hand.
By now I was pretty short, and when with blinds at 75/150 I had decent stack for re-shoving. I did re-shove succesfully one time, but the second time I moved my chips in I got an insta-call from a brittish player holding AK. I had pocket 2s och all the way until the river things were looking good, but unfortunately he rivered his king and my tournament was over.
I spend a few more days in Copenhagen before I left for Sweden again.
My plan was not to play any live poker until the EPT San Remo, but as I got home I changed my mind and decided to give EPT Dortmund a shot as well. I´m really looking forward to my second tournament in the RedKing-shirt, and hopefully I can perform a little better this time and make the executives happy with ther signing
Anyways, I´ll get back to y´all from Dortmund. Until then, ship the red kings!