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EPT Copenhagen – Day 5 report: Anton Wigg wins
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-02-22 14:16
The final day of the
EPT Copenhagen Main Event saw 9 players return to the green felt, instead of the 8 that had been scheduled initially. Because the final table bubble just wouldn’t burst on day 4, organizers had decided to end the day anyway to get all 9 survivors back to the table on the final day.
The unofficial final table action kicked off at a swift pace, though that didn’t mean eliminations would come about just as fast. As a matter of fact, about two hours had passed before Magnus Borg Hansen became the unfortunate official final table bubble boy. His pocket 10s lost the coin-flip against Anton Wigg’s A,K and he was finally bounced from the poker tournament. This move gave Wigg the chip lead heading into the official final table.
It took the final table another hour to eject the next weak link: Jesper Petersen. Petersen had been playing awfully tight all through the final table and he gave up massive amounts of committed chips several times. There was no way this approach would take him anywhere other than the rail.
Confined to a short-stack, he was eventually forced to make his move on an A,Q. Wigg was keen to look him up with A,4o and he hit a pair of 4s on the flop to send the rock packing.
After a long dry spell, another elimination finally came about when Morten Guldhammer decided to take a coin-flip for his tournament life. Sure enough, Yorane Kerignard called him with his Q,Q and the coin-flip was on. The river brought another Q to give Kerignard a set and to send Guldhammer packing in 7th.
Wigg then proceeded to eliminate Roberto Romanello, his pocket rockets never even endangered by Romanello’s 8h, 9h. Richard Loth fell next, at the hands of Francesco de Vivo.
Wigg’s pocket Ks made another victim in Kerignard, whose A,Q got blown away. Play once again slowed to a crawl, until Wigg made yet another victim. With Klein’s departure, the heads-up stage got underway, and the trend of careful, slow play continued. Wigg got hit at one point and his stack whittled down to around 1 million chips. He bounced right back though, and he was back in the saddle soon. The final hand of the
poker tournament was an A,J vs K,10 match-up, on a board which bricked out.
