European Poker Tour Copenhagen

As expected, the tournament participation is largely dominated by the Scandinavians, there is 115 Danish players here accounting for 27 per cent of the field, followed by Sweden (85 players, 21%) and Norway (69 players, 17%).

Day 1b is still in progress, 78 players are left from yesterday; these are the top 5 after day1a:

1. Brent Wheeler, United States with 74000 chips
2. Marco Lucidi, Italy with 69700 chips
3. Anton Smolyanskiy, United States with 68500 chips
4. Peter Fischer,Denmark with 59400 chips
5. Stefan Maglicic, Sweden with 53200 chips

The total prize pool for EPT3 Copenhagen is 13,824,000 Danish Kroner (approximately 1,855,000 euros). The top prize is 4,078,080 Danish Kroner (nearly 550,000 euros). The pay-out is down to 40th place.