Starting the day with a stack just short of 16,000 I knew I'd be getting busy early on.  Just quite how early though was a bit of surprise.

This was the table, which coincidently enough was Table 13 again, and although I was in seat 3 this time (not 4), it was actually the same chair.  Variety being the spice of life and all that. 

1. Pernille Ravn
2. Simon Mycock
3. Daniel Phillips
4. Steven Heard
5. Atle Walgren
6. Peter Jepsen
7. Anders Berg
8. Donny Morris

Anyway, first hand, I had and my raise took a call and the blinds down uncontested.   Nice start.

Next hand, the UTG player shoves his remaining 9,000 in.  All fold round to me on the button, and I look at my cards - .  I re-raise all-in, and everyone else folds.  The other player shows , and the on the flop meant that I was back down to about 10,000.

So, two hands in and I've had the hole cards I wanted, but not the results to go with them.

After that, I fold a fair few, and then take the blinds down with a pair of queens.  Then a big hand takes place.  

Atle Walgren is first to act, and makes it 2,500 to go (blinds 400/800).  Everyone folds round to me, and it's an easy push all-in with from the small blind.  The big blind Steven Heard (a fellow Englishman) comes over the top, all in for 20k, which is too much for Atle.

Steven announces "Lucky sevens", but soon changes that to "Unlucky Sevens…" when I flip over my cards.  The board means that I more than double up, and I'm back up to 18,000.

A few more all-in pushes, with unopposed, and a re-raise all-in with against  Pernille's 4,000 raise - and I was happy for her to fold after she stared me down for a few minutes.

So I was up to about 19,000 - and the blinds were still going up.  So although I'd increased my stack, I was still hoping for a double up to put me in a more comfortable position.  The opportunity came sooner rather than later.

Simon Mycock, who was the chip-leader at the table was constantly raising all-in to steal the blinds.  As he was sitting directly to my right, he would be stealing my big blind a few times.  One hand, and all folded to Simon who, not surprisingly, moved all-in.  I called instantly with my and was fairly happy to see Simon turn over .

However, the flop of gave the hand a sense of inevitability
The turn was , and so any 4, 8 or 7 gave him the hand. The gave him a pair, and my adventure in Copenhagen was over in 90th place. 

Poker can be a cruel game at times, but I'm fairly happy with my play overall.  It's a shame I never got the opportunity to play with a larger stack and see what I could do.

Interestingly, Simon went on to win a monster pot soon after I was knocked out, and as of now (6pm), he's the current chip leader with a massive 180,000 chips.

So, it's back to the smaller tourneys for me.  But hopefully one day I can qualify for another major tournament…I enjoyed this one!