Follow Cristiano, Thomas and Francesco battling in Copenhagen! It's Day1a of the European Poker Tour by Poker stars

Day1A of EPT Copenhagen has just begun. Cristiano Blanco, with the new Live The Dream Team members, the "local" Thomas Froslev from Denmark and fellow Italian Francesco De Vivo, will do their best to top the legendary aggressive Nordic competition.

Cristiano and Thomas are playing today. Francesco opted for an extra day of rest and he's going to play tomorrow on Day1B. We will see a lot of poker going on in the next few days here in the snowy Danish capital. We'll keep you updated!
Best of luck to Cristiano, Thomas and Francesco!

Update 17.00. Cristiano takes a hit, Thomas slides

Cristiano was playing solid and he had a 33k stack until this hand happened:
Cris raised 500 from UTG+1, SB re-raises to 2000, Cris calls. Flop comes Ad 7h 7c.
SB bets 2550, Cris calls.
Turn is 9s. Both players check.
River is Qs. SB bets 8000 and Cris calls.
Blanco shows a pair of 9s for a boat. But SB shows Queens for a very luckily rivered higher flush. Kudos to Cris: he cut the losses to the absolutely minimum. He's down to 23k.

Thomas told us that he lost 5 pots at the river. "I got very good starting hands but I never improved while my opponents did along the way". He's also down to 20k.

Update 20.30 Cris, nice quads!

Cris is back to 35k. Holding A9, he catches a nice flop that reads AAA! It's usually very hard to extract some money in this situation, but an opponent was holding poker Jacks and he could not believe that Cris had the case Ace. After some action the pot soared to 15k and it was shipped to Cris.

Final Update 01.00 Cris and Thomas sail safely to Day2

Cris and Thomas will be back on Thursday to play the Day2 of this EPT Nordic Open. The "Italian Stallion" leads the Italian chipcount with a wealthy 88k, while our local hero Thomas Froslev finishes with a very respectable 67k.
Cristiano managed to double up with AA when his stack was about 37k against a player who tried to squeeze pre-flop with 44 and an all-in bet. Cris obviously called and climbed among the chipleaders of the day.