Poker Winners

February 27, 2009

The PokerStars.com European Poker Tour has a winner at their Copenhagen, Denmark stop. Jens Kyllönen took the title from the leaders much to the surprise of many of them in attendance. Norway’s Anders Langset and Denmark’s Rasmus Hede Nielsen were considered the favorites to win because they had played so strongly the previous two days. However, seemingly out of nowhere Kyllönen took the top prize.

In fact, both Nielsen and Langset found themselves out of the poker game before the heads-up duel had even been reached. Out of the upset Kyllönen took the title and the winning prize of $1141,474. He was actually one of the shortest stacks at the poker table and was expected to go out fairly quickly because of the seemingly unbeatable top two.

Many of the popular international poker players actually found themselves being eliminated fairly quickly – many on the first day. Obviously going out early at the final poker table means you get something, even if it isn’t the top prize of more than a million dollars. Denmark’s Jonas Klausen found himself out but not empty handed. He walked away with $104,473 – which is better than nothing.

Play continued with the various poker players being eliminated, and before you knew it Kyllönen was moving quickly up the ranks with his chip pile growing bigger and bigger with each passing play. He moved steadily and did not take unnecessary chances, showing that slow and steady does win the race. Truly the under dog he did well for himself in the end.