If you're playing online right now, or in a card room somewhere, take note: if you get it in good your hand will hold. If you're ahead, you'll stay ahead. That guy looking for a miracle? He won't get it. For today the capricious poker Gods tamed their impulses...more

How's this for a moral scruple. You're 22-years-old and your opponent, who is almost a septuagenarian* requests a dinner break. You had the chip lead albeit a narrow one but have since lost it and are now almost down to being a two-to-one dog. In other words you don't want...more

Pierre Neuville and Mickey Petersen are set to play an epic heads up for the EPT Copenhagen title and DKK 2,515,000 first place prize. Going down from three players that means it's Bjarke Hansen who has been squeezed out. Although Neuville had just grabbed the chip lead away him, it...more

Right now we were supposed to be writing about Michael Tureniec's chances of a second European Poker Tour title, how he will put that old monkey back in the cage and end years of speculation. Alas, we can't do that, and have spiked pre-written columns about the Swede's impending...more

Ladies and gentlemen, we are down to the last nine players, all of whom are currently stretching their legs ahead of the restart. Bjarke Hansen is our chip leader having won two huge all-ins with ace-jack and ace-queen against the respective ace-kings of Michael Tureniec (out, 11th) and Lauri Varonen...more

Bear with us as we harp on about the illusive double EPT winner again, but right now we have a live one. So let's put it all back in the hopper and see what comes out. It's a debate that has rattled (clanged) around the halls of EPT HQ...more

Like cheap wine, Day 3 never really got good until we'd had a few gulps of it. The early levels were a bland procession as players politely made their way to the rail, reaching the bubble after two levels and getting that little exercise wrapped up in the space...more

What a torrid time for Melanie Wesiner. At the end of level 15 Weisner was chip leader with 595,000, at the end of level 16 she was still in the top half of chip counts with 291,000, but around 15 minutes into level 17 she was leaning back in her...more

The bubble has burst, ten players have departed with money in their pockets and Melanie Weisner is back into the chip lead of EPT Copenhagen. And how does the New Yorker celebrate that achievement? She goes for a PokerStars Blog approved hot dog. Good on you, Melanie. Melanie Weisner playing...more

If Day 1 of EPT Copenhagen had been a little different - a small intimate gathering of professional and amateur players wondering where everybody else went - then Day 2 marked the return to normal operating procedure; with that familiar sense that the good players were thriving and taking...more

Two Team PokerStars Pros sit side by side, one enjoying his time at the table, the other looking far from thrilled. On the left sits Pierre Neuville who appears, quite understandably, happy with his stack of some 220,000. On the right is Johnny Lodden, slumped with his left arm hooked...more

"Have you got an invite to the EPT party?" whisper trendy young things in darkened corners of the hippest bars in the coolest metropolitan cities of Europe. "The EP what?" they ask in awe of an exclusive get-together they're never even heard of, let alone got their name on the...more

We predicted today the main event would shift up into a trot after yesterday's walking pace, instead is giddied-up into a canter. There was a general sense that things had gathered pace today as a field of 215 arrived at the SAS Radisson Hotel, more than double that of...more

If you regularly follow the EPT you'll know that the prize pool tends to hit the newswires sometime during level 4 on Day 1B, just long enough for player numbers to be confirmed after late registration closes at the end of level 3. Not so here. The prize pool has...more

It happens to everyone, well nearly everyone, and even the one person it doesn't happen to tends to experience it next time around. Regardless of whom it is, and when, the process of being eliminated is an individual thing and is experienced in various ways. Take one player, whose...more

There is one guarantee on the European Poker tour, other than the fact that someone will always want to smoke in the toilets, and that's that the Day 1b will be bigger, and often better than its predecessor. Not that today lacked much when it came to describing the...more

"Easy game," said Steve O'Dwyer. The tall American stood next to the central dais of the tournament room having got out of his chair to grab a drink (free from said platform). O'Dwyer had just moments ago finished stacking up to a monstrous 186,000 stack, way ahead of the 41,500...more

A wounding hand for Arnaud Mattern, the type to leave the Frenchman quietly shaking his head as Martin El-Kher raked in the pot and shared a joke, in Danish, with his friend in seat one. There were clubs on the flop, another on the turn and then a fourth...more