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ANTON WIGG WINS POKERSTARS.COM EPT COPENHAGEN FOR €494,000

Anton Wigg from Sweden has won the PokerStars.com EPT Copenhagen for a first prize of €494,000,
beating a field of 423 players that included the very best of Nordic poker.
22 year old Wigg beat Italian Francesco de Vivo after a four hour heads up battle. This is his first
ever cash on Europe’s premier tour, although he took down the European Masters in Barcelona for
€55,000 last July and made a final table of a PCA side event last month. Despite his tender years, he
has played poker for four years, three as a professional, and won his seat here in a €500 satellite on
PokerStars.
Anton Wigg, who also wins a seat to the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in April, said: “It just feels so
wonderful right now. I was in real trouble many times but I kept my cool and told myself never to give up
and I am so proud to have come through.”
Team PokerStars Pro players again featured among the top-placed finishers, with both Bertrand “ElkY”
Grospellier and former world champion Peter Eastgate making the money. ElkY won €8,700 for his 40th
place while Eastgate earned €10,750 for his 22nd place finish.
Also in the money was the Danish actor and musical theatre singer Stig Rossen, who hit all the right
notes in his first major live tournament, finishing in 19th place and earning €10,750. Rossen credited his
acting abilities with helping him to pull off a great performance at Casino Copenhagen.
Four Danish players made the final table, but were eliminated in ninth, eighth, seventh and fifth places.
Most notable among the locals was Morten Guldhammer, an unpredictable but entertaining player who
had won his seat to EPT Copenhagen for just $1 on PokerStars.com in a tournament organised with the
Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet. He turned that investment into an a payday of €57,100 – a welcome
supplement to his main salary as a car mechanic.
The field comprised 423 players, generating a total prize pool of €1,909,000. More than 100 players
won their seats to the event on PokerStars. The event was held between 15-21 February at Casino
Copenhagen in the SAS Radisson Hotel.
EPT spokesperson Kirsty Thompson said: “EPT Copenhagen has seen so many personalities during
this week and the atmosphere has just been intense. Everyone from car mechanics to opera singers and
of course the world’s best poker players came together to create the upsets and fairy tales we’ve come
to expect from the Danish leg of the European Poker Tour.”
Final table/payouts:
Name Country PokerStars status Payout € Payout DKK
1 Anton Wigg Sweden PokerStars Qualifier € 494,000 DKK 3,675,000
2 Francesco de Vivo Italy € 305,000 DKK 2,275,000
3 Morten Klein Norway € 188,000 DKK 1,400,000
4 Yorane Kerignard France PokerStars Qualifier € 141,000 DKK 1,050,000
5 Richard Løth Denmark € 96,000 DKK 715,000
6 Roberto Romanello UK € 76,500 DKK 570,000
7 Morten Guldhammer Denmark PokerStars Qualifier € 57,100 DKK 425,000
8 Jesper Petersen Denmark PokerStars Player € 38,000 DKK 282,800
The next stop on the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour is EPT Berlin – the EPT’s first ever visit to
the German capital. The €5,300 EPT Berlin Main Event is running March 2-7, 2010 in conjunction with
SPIELBANK BERLIN at the luxurious Grand Hyatt hotel in Potdamer Platz. For more information, please
visit http://www.ept.com.

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