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I was in over in .DK @ Copenhagen for 7 days (I mean of course København) during the EPT Copenhagen. I arrived on day 2 of the EPT to a snowy Copengagen (brr.) It was too late to do any satellites for the event, but work was paying for the trip (the joys of working in the poker industry) and there would be plenty of opportunities to play poker regardless.
Casino Copenhagen was pretty nice. I wasn’t impressed at actually having to pay in to the casino (about a tenner IIRC), but I was impressed by the smoking booths around the casino (literally little indoor phone-booth type things, with an ashtray instead of a phone, and an extractor fan in the ceiling). I had a mooch around the poker tables on the 2nd floor and didn’t see anyone I recognised.. It seemed all the big-names had played on day 1a), so I had some drinks in the lobby with my colleague and some poker club owners etc. It was there I saw annette and her manager sitting next to us. Little was I to know that within 24 hours annette would be crushing high stakes SingStar (okay, so it wasn’t high stakes!)
Live poker in copenhagen
The next night I ended up in a copenhagen poker club and played a donkament there (30quid freezeout).. I was amazed at the terrible play on the tables (guys opening K2o utg etc) but I didnt play a hand for an hour, then got moved. 1st hand on new table UTG ships about 8bb all in. I isolate w/ 25bb total with 77 and a donkey with chipps decides to coldcall with Kto and busts me obviously. I then played some cash and made a few hundred pounds there. I got Aces twice and got paid off nicely.. the 2nd time it was like a 5 way pot: flop KQQ, i get some chips in and get 2 callers. turn 8, more chips in and I’m headsup to the river 8. I hate this card but decide to check call anyway. I check, matey pots it and I call after a minute or two.. he looked like he had a king.. I called and he mucked.. WEeeee…
Annette_15 Singstar
While I was playing cash with the Danes, Annette_15 waked in w/ her manager Per and Annette played some singstar with my Danish colleague. Somehow Annette won versus my colleague who reckons that she is excellent at singstar. It was amusing that many of the players on my cash table had no idea who she was.
We went to the post-EPT party in some cool club in Cope and ended up sharing a table with annette, her manager and a buch of danish dudes. A big Icebox was brought over with 4 bottles of chilled vodka, a buch of glasses/mixers and we had table service from a pretty waitress. I got drunk, chatted shit to annette and anyone else who happened to be sitting next to me and did some “networking” 
We got some wristbands to the Laddies aftershow bit on the other side of the club (thanks to Per) for free booze etc over there, but we never ventured over as we were already sorted and had the best table in the place fwiw. I Left the Club at 5am, slept till 7pm the next day and I recall shaking from hangover while eating my dinner in my hotel restaurant! damned vodka!
Gus Hansen Boxing
The next day, Gus Hansen was launching his new online tv station Gushansen TV, so to build a media hype he had to put on a spectacle, and he did! We attended the “gus hansen vs theo jorgensen” boxing match @ KB Hallen. The event was packed with media, poker industry, VIPs, players etc and consisted of a bunch of celeb boxing matches, hip-hop rappers and dancers in between games etc.Both Gus and Theo got some good punches in and after 4 rounds, Jorgensen was declared the winner.. There was a big party on in a club after the match too..
Copenhagen was expensive relative to UK ( I spent so fking much on taxi’s!), but it’s a great place to visit, everyone speaks english and everone I met was very hospitable. I managed to get a nice guided tour around Copenhagen from a nice girl I met over there too, so that was cool. I thought the Food was good, hotel I was in was sweet, and clubs/pubs etc were pretty sweet and full of “beautiful people” too.. I will definitely revisit the place as I loved it there! hopefully when I visit again, it’s not snowing!
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