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Pole Axes Competition to take title and €66,240 at EMOP Gran Canaria

Maciej Lipny has won the European Masters of Poker Gran Canaria topping the sold out field of 288 players to take down €66,240 at the Casino Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
The final table, who were vying for the bulk of the €288,000 prize pool, consisted of five Finns, a Dane, two Swedes and Lipny from Poland.
The Pole started the final nine as chip leader and despite a slow start which saw his chips begin to dwindle he knocked one player out in sixth and got a couple of double ups before finding himself heads-up with Henri Ovasta from Finland.
Heads-up lasted under 10 minutes and the final hand saw Lipny bet 155,000 preflop and Ovaska call.
The flop came Q-J-5 with two spades and Lipny checked. Ovaska bet 165,000 and Lipny called.
The turn was a 4. Lipny checked once again and faced a bet of 385,000 from the Finn, which he called.
The river fell a queen and the Pole came out betting, pushing 215,000 into the pot. Ovaska pushed all -n and Lipny called.
Lipny had J-T for two pair (queens and jacks) which was too much for Ovaska’s A-7.

Lipny becomes season II EMOP’s second champion after EMOP Ljubljana winner Vladimir Mefodichev.

The final table payouts were:

1: Maciej Lipny (Poland) - €66,240
2: Henri Ovasta (Finland) - €39,744
3: Mika Nyyssönen (Finland) - €25,920
4: Reijo Anttila (Finland) - €16,128
5: Sören Godskesen (Denmark) - €12,672
6: Jimmy Östensson (Sweden) - €9,792
7: Björn Lundgren (Sweden) - €8,640
8: Tommi Heikinniemi (Finland) - €7,488
9: Mikko Pirinen (Finland) - €6,336

Lipny’s win marked a fantastic weekend for Polish players who won three out of the seven events played.
The tour now gears up for its third stop – Casino Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal - from March. 25 to 28, 2010.
Qualification for the €1,000+€100 buy-in main event in Lisbon is now underway on all poker sites on the Entraction network for as little as €2 or 200 VIP points.
There are 32 daily satellites feeding into the main weekly qualifiers which take place each:
Tuesday 20:40 (CET) - €100 buy in with five €2,000 packages guaranteed
Thursday 20:40 (CET) - €100 buy in with five €2,000 packages guaranteed
Sunday 20:40 (CET) - €200 buy in with eight €2,000 packages guaranteed

Online poker players on the Entraction network, including premium partners 24hPoker.com, C4A.com, NoIQPoker.com, Pokerihuone.com, Pokerdassi.com, and Potraiser.com, can also participate in the special €14,500 EMOP Lisbon Challenge at the end of February.
The three tournament-long ranking challenge has 10 packages to EMOP Lisbon. The ten players that performs best overall during these three tournaments will win an EMOP Lisbon package including €1,100 buy-in and €350 for travel expenses.
In order to qualify for the EMOP Challenge players must reach the minimum VIP-point requirement between Feb 1 (00:00:00 CET) and 21 (23:59:59 CET).

In season one over 1,000 players took part in EMOP events across European destinations, battling for prize pools which totaled more than EUR1.6 million. In excess of 1,400 players are expected to attend main events during season two.

Your second chance to collect valuable leaderboard points.

We have an extra treat for the lucky players who enjoyed the fun in Bulgaria: a freeroll with an added seat to the next EMOP event!

See tournament schedule for information.

All players will be automatically registered to the tournament. If you made a buy in direct at the casino we need to get your nickname on the Entraction network.

If you do not have an account within the Entraction network we urge you to sign up with one of our premium partners.

The tournament is a freeroll satellite with unlimited €10 rebuys and one add-on. If you participated in EMOP Bulgaria but is not in the list of players (tournaments, special) please email and we will register you.

Photos from the tournament event in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria can now be seen at the photo page.

More photos to come..

The event EMOP Bulgaria is now ended and the winner is Manig Löser from Germany.

The result from the event EMOP Bulgaria can now be found under results.
The leaderboard can now be found here.

The complete leaderboard (in PDF) can be downloaded here.
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German Comes From Behind To Take Down €49,080 in EMOP Bulgaria

Manig Löser from German has won the fifth stop of season II of the European Masters of Poker in Bulgaria, topping at he field of 260 players in the €1,100 buy-in event held at the Crystal Crown Casino, Sunny Beach over the weekend.

The fourth EMOP Online tournament is now finished. 58 players participated.

Johnny Ostbjerg from Denmark won the first prize €3,352 and collected 25 valuable leaderboard points.

See the leaderboard page for the current leaderboard.

Final Results EMOP Online 4:

The tournament is a freeroll satellite, to the upcoming EMOP €10 rebuy unl. And add-on, 1 EMOP package added. If you participated in Italy and are not at the list of players in the lobby (tournaments,special) please mail and we will add you to the list of players.

The photos from the EMOP tournament at the beautiful Casino di Campione, Italy is now published and can be found here.

Homegrown Player Tops 386 Strong Field to Take Down €61,520 in Campione, Italy.

Italian Giovanni Suetra came from final table short stack to take down the European Masters of Poker Italy winning €61,520 for topping the 386 strong field in Campione.

Suetra quadrupled up three-handed to reinvigorate his challenged and, after Urek Primoz was dispatched in third place at Casino di Campione, Sutra and fellow Italian Fabio Percopo got all their chips in pre-flop whit the former holding Ac-7c and the latter holding K-T.

The board fell 7c-6x-3c, catapulting Sutera into the lead with a pair of sevens while the 9c on the turn selad Percopo’s fate, filling Setuer’s flush and sending him home champion.

Deals were made when there were three and two players left respectively.

The event EMOP Italy is now ended and the winner is Giovanni Sutera from Italy.

The result from the event EMOP Italy can now be found under results.
The leaderboard can now be found here.

The complete leaderboard (in PDF) can be downloaded here.
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Here are the results from the four side events at EMOP Italy.

€300+30 Texas NL, May 27th
1. Hans Erlandsson - €12,657
2. Jami Juutila - €7,760
3. Janne Pitko - €5,020
4. Antonio Fiore - €3,880
5. Fennel Gonnor - €3,190
6. Giuseppe Ciarramella - €2,510
7. Roberto Lazzari - €2,050
8. Guido Buchich - €1,690
9. Luca Serrentino - €1,230
10. Gianluigi Petazzi - €730
11. Issam Salem - €730
12. Andrea Lucente - €730
13. Gerard Duruz - €630
14. Marco Mazzanti - €630
15. Manig Löser - €630
16. Alexandar Dinov - €540
17. Cesare Potere - €540
18. Dieter Gerard - €540

€300+30 Mixed, May 27th
1. Timo Koivuniemi - €3,144
2. Alfio Mazzoni - €2,357
3. Mauro Mastretta - €1,571
4. Damian Porebsky - €785

€500+50 Texas NL, May 29th
1. Dennis Bilde - €22,365
2. Deaniel Piccione - €13,760
3. Issam Salem - €8,900
4. Pawel Wasik - €6,880
5. Fabrizio Leonardi - €5,660
6. Fabio Mangano - €4,450
7. Maurizio Bergamaschi - €3,640
8. Maurizio Musso - €2,990
9. Domenico Tresa - €2,180
10. Dennis Bjorn - €1,290
11. Ivano Conforti - €1,290
12. Mario Albanese - €1,290
13. Andrea Negri - €1,130
14. Janne Seppala - €1,130
15. Mario De Paola - €1,130
16. Fabrizio Rossi - €970
17. Sandi Kolar - €970
18. Anders Kjaerulff - €970

€200+200 Turbo Texas NL, May 30th
1. Maurizio Mesiti - €10,588
2. Pekka Ikonen - €6,620
3. Matteo Taddia - €4,010
4. John Almquist - €3,410
5. Claudio Cattelan - €2,810
6. Marco Della Monica - €2,200
7. Alberto Tentori - €1,800
8. Svetlana Romanova - €1,480
9. Emiliano Codella - €1,000
10. Mattia Ceraudo - €640
11. Pontus Almsenius - €640
12. Carlo Cortellini - €640
13. Fabrizio Rossi - €520
14. Aleksi Savela - €520
15. Jennifer Delle Fave - €520
16. Olli Vilppo - €480
17. Pasquale Sarno - €480
18. Reuven Dayan - €480
19. Marco Mazzanti - €440
20. Luca Venece - €440
21. Renato Orlando - €440

The players c4a_angus, olteanu17 and g_banks wins a satellite seat worth €100 after completing a survey about EMOP Lisbon. The survey was sent to most of the participants in the tournament by email. We are happy that so many players participated.

The third EMOP Online tournament is now finished. 61 players participated.

Primož Urek from Slovenia won the first prize €4,020 and collected 25 valuable leaderboard points.

See the leaderboard page for the current leaderboard.

Final Results EMOP Online 3:

Your second chance to collect valuable leaderboard points.

The tournament is a freeroll satellite, to the upcoming EMOP €10 rebuy unl. And add-on, 1 EMOP package added. If you participated in Lisbon and are not at the list of players in the lobby (tournaments,special) please mail and we will add you to the list of players.

Here are the results from the two side events in Lisbon. Local player Goncalo Estevao won the €300 event and the finish player Jenny Pussinen won the €150 event.

€300+30 March 27th
1. Goncalo Estevao (Portugal) - €10,701
2. Lars Kjestrup (Sweden) - € 7,011
3. Stelyan Georgiev (Bulgaria) - € 4,428
4. Jari Mahonen (Finland) - € 3,321
5. Stefan Lindholm (Sweden) - €2,583
6. Martin Dragun (Slovakia) - €2,214
7. Frederik Lindqvist (Sweden) - € 1,845
8. Collucci Luigi (Italy) - €1,476
9. Sami Ollila (Finland) - €1,107
10. Margarida Marques (Portugal) - € 738
11. Robin Colbin (Sweden) - € 517
12. Magnus Hilmersson (Sweden) - € 517
13. Vili Ronkainen (Finland) - € 443

€150+15 March 28th
1. Jenny Pussinen (Finland) – €5,011
2. Johan Lendenius (Sweden) - € 3 283
3. Helder Conniea (Portugal ) - € 2,074
4. Patricia Lovboao (Portugal) - € 1 555
5. Alferdo Melo (Portugal) - € 1,210
6. Kristyan Ivanov (Bulgaria) - € 1,037
7. Niclas Lundqvist (Sweden) - € 864
8. Panu Oksanen (Finland) - € 691
9. Mikael Holm (Sweden) - € 518
10. Jani Saviatto (Finland) - €346
11. Jose Campahico (Portugal) - €242
12. Sampo Ryynänen (Finland) - €242
13. Sergio Pereira (Portugal) - €207

Information about the event EMOP Italy is now available.

You can find the information here.
The information can change so check this regularly.

The event EMOP Lisbon is now ended and the winner is Timothy Timotheau from UK.

The result from the event EMOP Lisbon can now be found under results.
The leaderboard can now be found here.

The complete leaderboard (in PDF) can be downloaded here.
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UK player tops 394 strong field to take down €86,680 in Estoril, Portugal

Timothy Timotheau has beaten 393 opponents to lift the European Masters of Poker Lisbon title and the first prize of €86,680 despite having been the short stack at the end of play on day 1a with just 5,300 in chips.
The event, held at Casino Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal, from March. 25 to 28, 2010 was the third stop on season II of the EMOP tour.
After three days of play only six hands heads-up were required to find the winner and the final hand saw Povilas Purtokas from Lithuania complete the blinds and Timotheau check. The flop came K-7-4 rainbow and both players checked.
The turn fell a jack and Timotheou bet 140,000. Purtokas shoved all in, and the Brit called. Timotheau had K-9, for top pair while Purtokas had T-T. Only one of the two remaining tens could save Purtokas but the river was a four and Timotheau was crowned EMOP Lisbon champion.

The final table payouts were:
1. Timothy Timotheau (UK) - €86,680
2. Povilas Purtokas (Lithuania) - €53,190
3. Henrik Torstensson (Sweden) - €34,672
4: Diogo Borges (Portugal) - €22,064
5: Paul Lucey (Ireland) - €17,336
6: Joao Candeias (Portugal) – 13,396
7: Mikael Tholander (Sweden) - €11,820
8: Mariusz Beranden (Poland) - €10,244
9: Pyry Oksanen (Finland) - €8,668

Among the big name players attending the event were recent EPT winner and former EMOP winner Anton Wigg, Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott, Joao Barbosa, Lars Kjestrup, Per Hildebrand, and Johan Storakers.

The players saschik, uldahl and LHarry89 wins a satellite seat worth €100 after completing a survey about EMOP Gran Canaria. The survey was sent to most of the participants in the tournament by email. We are happy that so many players participated in the survey and thank you for your interest!

EMOP Lisbon Challenge, a series of three tournaments with a leaderboard was arranged by Entraction.

Thirteen Guaranteed Seats Worth €26,000 to EMOP Lisbon Up for Grabs Through VIP Freerolls This March

Starting March 1 Entraction network players who have earned 50 VIP points can play a freeroll every second day (March 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15) at 20:15 CET for a €2,000 package to EMOP Lisbon. Players must earn the VIP points 24 hours prior to the freeroll they wish to play for one of the eight VIP freeroll packages.

Tuesday 20:40 (CET) - €100 buy in with five €2,000 packages guaranteed
Thursday 20:40 (CET) - €100 buy in with five €2,000 packages guaranteed
Sunday 20:40 (CET) - €200 buy in with eight €2,000 packages guaranteed

The second EMOP Online tournament is now finished. 65 players participated.

Manfred Kåvestam from Sweden won the first prize €4,283 and collected 25 valuable leaderboard points.

See the leaderboard page for the current leaderboard.

Final Results EMOP Online 2:

Your second chance to collect valuable leaderboard points.

The tournament is a freeroll satellite, to the upcoming EMOP €10 rebuy unl. And add-on, 1 EMOP package added. If you participated in Gran Canaria and are not at the list of players in the lobby (tournaments,special) please mail and we will add you to the list of players.

Photos from the event at Casino Las Palmas, Gran Canaria can now be found here.

The event on Gran Canaria is now ended and the winner is Maciej Lipny from Poland.

The results from EMOP Gran Canaria can be found here.
And the updated leaderboard after the second tournament can be found here.

Pole Axes Competition to take title and €66,240 at EMOP Gran Canaria

Maciej Lipny has won the European Masters of Poker Gran Canaria topping the sold out field of 288 players to take down €66,240 at the Casino Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.
The final table, who were vying for the bulk of the €288,000 prize pool, consisted of five Finns, a Dane, two Swedes and Lipny from Poland.
The Pole started the final nine as chip leader and despite a slow start which saw his chips begin to dwindle he knocked one player out in sixth and got a couple of double ups before finding himself heads-up with Henri Ovasta from Finland.
Heads-up lasted under 10 minutes and the final hand saw Lipny bet 155,000 preflop and Ovaska call.
The flop came Q-J-5 with two spades and Lipny checked. Ovaska bet 165,000 and Lipny called.
The turn was a 4. Lipny checked once again and faced a bet of 385,000 from the Finn, which he called.
The river fell a queen and the Pole came out betting, pushing 215,000 into the pot. Ovaska pushed all -n and Lipny called.
Lipny had J-T for two pair (queens and jacks) which was too much for Ovaska’s A-7.

Lipny becomes season II EMOP’s second champion after EMOP Ljubljana winner Vladimir Mefodichev.

The final table payouts were:

1: Maciej Lipny (Poland) - €66,240
2: Henri Ovasta (Finland) - €39,744
3: Mika Nyyssönen (Finland) - €25,920
4: Reijo Anttila (Finland) - €16,128
5: Sören Godskesen (Denmark) - €12,672
6: Jimmy Östensson (Sweden) - €9,792
7: Björn Lundgren (Sweden) - €8,640
8: Tommi Heikinniemi (Finland) - €7,488
9: Mikko Pirinen (Finland) - €6,336

Lipny’s win marked a fantastic weekend for Polish players who won three out of the seven events played.
The tour now gears up for its third stop – Casino Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal - from March. 25 to 28, 2010.
Qualification for the €1,000+€100 buy-in main event in Lisbon is now underway on all poker sites on the Entraction network for as little as €2 or 200 VIP points.
There are 32 daily satellites feeding into the main weekly qualifiers which take place each:
Tuesday 20:40 (CET) - €100 buy in with five €2,000 packages guaranteed
Thursday 20:40 (CET) - €100 buy in with five €2,000 packages guaranteed
Sunday 20:40 (CET) - €200 buy in with eight €2,000 packages guaranteed

Online poker players on the Entraction network, including premium partners 24hPoker.com, C4A.com, NoIQPoker.com, Pokerihuone.com, Pokerdassi.com, and Potraiser.com, can also participate in the special €14,500 EMOP Lisbon Challenge at the end of February.
The three tournament-long ranking challenge has 10 packages to EMOP Lisbon. The ten players that performs best overall during these three tournaments will win an EMOP Lisbon package including €1,100 buy-in and €350 for travel expenses.
In order to qualify for the EMOP Challenge players must reach the minimum VIP-point requirement between Feb 1 (00:00:00 CET) and 21 (23:59:59 CET).

In season one over 1,000 players took part in EMOP events across European destinations, battling for prize pools which totaled more than EUR1.6 million. In excess of 1,400 players are expected to attend main events during season two.

The EMOP tournament in Gran Canaria is now sold out.
The last possibilitys to qualify is in the last upcoming satellites .
The main qualifiers are Tuesday 12 Jan 20.40, Thursday 14 jan 20.40 and Sunday 17 jan 20.40 at the Entraction network.

We only have 260 seats for EMOP in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, and the interest has been enormous.
Next upcoming tournament will be in Casino Estoril, Lisbon 25-28 March.
We expect more participants in the Portugal event, probably 400 players or more.

Hotel Meliá Las Palmas are proud to welcome our tournament participators.

The Meliá Las Palmas hotel is located right alongside Las Canteras beach and in the city's commercial district.
The hotel offer leisure like an outdoor swimming pool, discotheque and a free gym for its guests.

We have seen a lot of big players in the EMOP tournaments, for example Mel Judah and Johnny Lodden. Next big name to try the EMOP tournaments will be Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott.



‘I’ve heard a lot of good things about EMOP and I’m really looking forward to playing in Gran Canaria as part of Team Devilfish. What could be better than a poker party in the sun in the middle of winter!”(Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott)

The first EMOP Online tournament is now finished. 78 players participated.

Kent Lundmark from Sweden won the first prize €5,001 and collected 25 valuable leaderboard points.

See the leaderboard page for the current leaderboard.

Final Results EMOP Online 1:

Your second chance to collect valuable leaderboard points.

It is a €200 tournament with a really nice structure and €10,000 guarantee.
You will find the tournament in the tournament lobby, special.

As appreciation for your participation in European Masters of Poker we will invite all players who played the last EMOP tournament to a freeroll with an extra added seat to the upcoming EMOP tournament.
If you play in Ljubljana you will be invited to the freeroll the month after the tournament and have a chance to qualify for EMOP Gran Canaria.
See tournament schedule for information.

We are proud to present the official tournament schedule for the EMOP tournament in Gran Canaria.

After the first stop of EMOP season two, we added new photos from the event in Ljubljana.

After the first stop in Ljubljana with a total prizepool of €253,000 and 253 players, this is how the EMOP Ljubljana finished:

Tomorrow, Saturday night, a player party will be hold in "Last bet club" at Austria Tend Hotel . Complimentary for EMOP Players.
Drink and enjoy!

Here are the chip counts from Day 1B in Ljubljana:

We are proud to present Potraiser as a premium partner.

Potraiser have decided to put in extra effort to make the European Masters of Poker even better. You can always challenge one of the Potraiser Pro Team players to a heads-up game during the EMOP tournaments.

24hPoker, Club4Aces, NoIQPoker Pokerihuone and Pokerdassi are already premium partners and more operators will join.

Here are the chip counts from Day 1A in Ljubljana:

All seats for day 1B in EMOP Ljubljana are occupied.
You can still reserve seat for day 1A

The second stop of European Masters of Poker will move from Warsaw to Las Palmas in sunny Gran Canaria . Also, the dates for the tournament will be changed – The new starting date is 28 January 2010 and the final table 31 January 2010.

The venue will be Casino Las Palmas. The players who qualify through satellites will stay at the Hotel Santa Catalina, a 5 star hotel with a perfect location in the same building as the casino. The hotel have a swimmingpool and a spa. It is also close to the beach and the city centre with all possible amusements within close range.

More information will be available soon.

A new tournament structure will be used during EMOP season two. With 20,000 in chip value to start with, all players will have plenty of time to make the best possible decisions.

After the Malta event in September the players were satisfied with the tournament structure. They started with 15,000 in chips and really enjoyed the slow structure. We will listen to player requests and give even more to start with. Enjoy the game!

We are proud to present two new premium partners to EMOP.

NoIQ Poker and Club4Aces have decided to put in an extra effort to make the European Masters of Poker even better. The players who qualifies through our premium partners will receive premium service. 24hPoker and Pokerihuone are premium partners already and more operators will join.

More than a thousand players enjoyed the first season of European Masters of Poker, and battled for more than €1,6 million , when the tour visited some of the best casinos in Europe on its way to the Grand finale in Casino di Venezia in Malta. Season Two sets off in November 2009 and at time for Season Two's thrilling final in Malta in 2010 partners in The Entraction network will have sent 1,400 players to European Masters of Poker events all over Europe, from Portugal to Poland.

European Masters of Poker Season I proved to be a great success and together with our partners the Entraction network has set out to make Season Two even better. There will be more events in new exciting venues with a high quality event that make both professionals and recreational players feel like high rollers.

European Masters of Poker’s success builds on that it is a high quality tournament with a buy-in that is affordable for recreational players.

"The players really love it and all Entraction partners within the network have shown great appreciation. EMOP Season Two is on its way and we are proud to present new great venues and we will send at least 200 qualifiers from the Entraction network to each event", says Christer Larsson, product manager European Masters of Poker.

Schedule EMOP season two:

• 25-28 Nov 2009: Grand Casino, Ljubljana, Slovenia € 1,000+100

• 3-6 Feb 2010: Olympic Casino, Warsaw, Poland € 1,000+100

• 25-28 March 2010: Casino Estoril, Lisbon, Portugal € 1,000+100

• 27-30 May 2010: Casino di Campione, Campione, Italy €1,000+100

• 28-01 July/Aug: 2010 Crystal Crown Casino, Sunny Beach, Bulgaria €1,000+100

• 23-26 Sept 2010: Casino Barcelona, Spain €1,000+100

• 17-20 Nov 2010: Casino di Venezia, Malta €1,500+150

Final 5-12 Dec 2010 EMOP Leaderboard Cruise LosAngeles- Mexican Riviera*

*Top 16 in the leaderboard participates in a pokercruise with a private tournament battling out for nice cash prizes.