2009-02-14, at 11:55 - by Melanie Ferguson

EPT Scandanavian Open in Copenhagen, February 17th-21st

The PokerStars.com EPT Scandinavian Open, has arrived for season 5 in Copenhagen, Denmark on February 17-21.

Some of the world's best poker players will take a seat in the beautiful Danish capital at the Casino Copenhagen. The cap on players is currently 500 for the most popular and generous live poker events to take place in the Scandinavian countries. The buy-in is 50,000 DKK + 2,250 DKK for this respected event. 

Last year's top five in the EPT Scandinavian Open consisted of American and Danish poker players with Tim Vance winning the championship. The second place, third place and fourth place spots all went to players from Denmark; Soren Jensen, Magnus Hansen and Rasmus Nielsen finished in the respective order. Bringing up the fifth place was spot was American player, Daniel Ryan. Other popular Danish players will more than likely take a seat like Peter Eastgate and Gus Hansen. PokerStars is the main sponsor of the EPT Scandinavian Open and have made opportunities to win your way in through numerous online qualifiers.

After Copenhagen, Dortmund and San Remo the road will end in Monte Carlo for the Grand Final that will take place April 28 - May 3 2009. 

ThePlayr Poker News will be reporting live from the event so stay tuned for more updates!


PokerStars T$/W$ Exchange Free $25/w No Deposit on PartyPoker

This is a test story

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
Read more »


RakeUpdate Steals Millions From Poker Players and Affiliates

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
Read more »


Liv Boeree Pics

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
Read more »


Isildur1 and durrrr back at it

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book.
Read more »


Amir Vahedi Dies in Las Vegas

Amir Vahedi dies in Las Vegas, Nevada - January 2010
Read more »


Online Player "t soprano" Bests Negreanu for Bracelet in WSOP Event #14

Eleven players remained in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold ‘em event after three days of action-packed poker. Of these, some famous names lurked – Daniel Negreanu, four-time WSOP bracelet-winner was the most recognisable.
Read more »


Travis Johnson Wins WSOP Event #7 - $1,500 NLHE

Travis Johnson has become the newest addition to the list of World Series of Poker bracelet-winners after taking down Event #7, the $1,500 No-Limit Hold ‘em.
Read more »


Rami ‘arabiankinight' Boukai wins WSOP Event #10

Saudi born American Rami Boukai outlasted a field of 453-runners to claim the $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha event and with it prize money of $244,862. The 26-year-old battled his way through a final table lasting nine and a half hours before finally seeing off Najib Bennani to seal his first bracelet win.
Read more »


Ken Aldridge wins WSOP Event #9

1,459 runners bought in to $1,500 No Limit Hold Em Six-Handed Event but in the end it was American Ken Aldridge who claimed his first WSOP bracelet. Aldridge, known as Teach, won an epic heads up battle with Carmen Cavella to take the first prize of $428,259.
Read more »


Phil Ivey Wins Bracelet Number Six in WSOP Event #8

Phil Ivey, widely considered by many to be the best poker player in the history of the game, has cemented that opinion further by taking some time out from cash games to win his sixth WSOP bracelet and his first since 2003 in NL 2-7 Draw.
Read more »


Steve Sung wins WSOP Event #4 Stimulus Special

A big field for a small buy-in was what organisers of the $1,000 No Limit Hold Em Event #3 hoped for and boy did they deliver. A whopping field of 6,012 players sat down for the so-called Stimulus Special, a record for any event other than the WSOP Main Event.
Read more »


Steve Sung wins WSOP Event #3 Stimulus Special

A big field for a small buy-in was what organisers of the $1,000 No Limit Hold Em Event #3 hoped for and boy did they deliver. A whopping field of 6,012 players sat down for the so-called Stimulus Special, a record for any event other than the WSOP Main Event.
Read more »


Constant Rijkenberg Staking Scandal

Constant has yet to pay many of his backers for his big EPT San Remo win
Read more »


Rami 'arabiankinight' Boukai wins WSOP Event #10

Saudi born American Rami Boukai outlasted a field of 453-runners to claim the $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha event and with it prize money of $244,862. The 26-year-old battled his way through a final table lasting nine and a half hours before finally seeing off Najib Bennani to seal his first bracelet win.
Read more »


Ken Aldridge wins WSOP Event #9

1,459 runners bought in to $1,500 No Limit Hold Em Six-Handed Event but in the end it was American Ken Aldridge who claimed his first WSOP bracelet. Aldridge, known as Teach, won an epic heads up battle with Carmen Cavella to take the first prize of $428,259.
Read more »


Phil Ivey Wins Bracelet Number Six in WSOP Event #8

Phil Ivey, widely considered by many to be the best poker player in the history of the game, has cemented that opinion further by taking some time out from cash games to win his sixth WSOP bracelet and his first since 2003 in NL 2-7 Draw.
Read more »


Steve Sung wins WSOP Event #4 Stimulus Special

A big field for a small buy-in was what organisers of the $1,000 No Limit Hold Em Event #3 hoped for and boy did they deliver. A whopping field of 6,012 players sat down for the so-called Stimulus Special, a record for any event other than the WSOP Main Event.
Read more »


Steve Sung wins WSOP Event #3 Stimulus Special

A big field for a small buy-in was what organisers of the $1,000 No Limit Hold Em Event #3 hoped for and boy did they deliver. A whopping field of 6,012 players sat down for the so-called Stimulus Special, a record for any event other than the WSOP Main Event.
Read more »


Tom McEvoy wins WSOP Invitational

There may have been no entry fee and no million dollar pay day but the competition was as fierce as you would expect from a line up which featured 20 former winners of the WSOP Main Event.
Read more »