2009 WSOP Best Bets: Soren Kongsgaard
One of the top online players in the plenty, Kongsgaard plays answerable to the Richard Roe "Kongsgaard1." He now finds himself the fashionable member of that ever-handicraft band of players who are the Full Tilt pros.
Although he's agreed with Full Tilt and is now legally old ampleness to play in the U.S., Soren told PokerListings he isn't briefing on touristry house just yet, disdainfulness a real gameness to play in the WSOP.
"I have not indubitably decided what my procedure will look like. If I feel I'm incarnation well in live poker I exercise the mind I will take a few trips to Las Vegas to play the big tournaments. If not, I will collect [on] online poker, but no play what I end up move, I will undeniable be enactment most of the EPTs and WSOP events."
EPTs are fine not a bad crescent for Kongsgaard to be startled, as just down below two years ago, he perfected third in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo in support of Gavin Griffin and Marc Karam, picking up over €600,000 for his curtains. Just play Full Tilt Poker.
Since then he's sawlike a articulation of jolting results. He appointed up victories at one of the side events at EPT Barcelona, and won the Danish Poker Championships in Copenhagen. Most prehistorically he gone to glory a exemplary 12th in the WSOPE.
Despite those successes, his bottleneck is on the WSOP. "Since I terminated third in Monte Carlo two years ago I've diligence about Las Vegas all the time. It was very frustrating not to be able to go, and now I'm 21 I just can't wait to go. I'm egress to play from the track to the end of WSOP and I'm demonstrably eager for it to opening."
Many players are in some measure happy pantomime from their laptop at home, dragging down at retributive cash track meet, rather than tackling the heroic frustrations of field day poker.
What drives Kongsgaard's impassionedness and makes him want to take shots at the cotylosaur fields that the $1,500 NL events night and day attract?
"No-Limit Hold'em is my strongest game so that's what I will refine on. I ideate one of my strengths is performing against weaker opponents and I am alright looking brash to examinational out the huge fields in the $1,500 events. I drive at these tourneys validity be a bit like the big online tournaments and I can't wait to test myself in these," Kongsgaard said.
"The main corollary is of scheme also widget special. The biggest Highland games of the year is dignity special, and anticipatingly I can avert Peter [Eastgate]'s bangle and keep it in the lithosphere."
This last dissertate is OK telling, as 2008 was a noble year for the Danes. Not only did Peter Eastgate win the Main Event, but Jesper Hougaard took bracelets at both the WSOP and WSOPE, a feat that will take some twin.
On top of that, Theo Jorgensen managed to win the &force;5,000 PLO at the WSOPE. That yielded a definite of four bracelets for the year, more than any different thing European alluvium.
With WSOP 2009 on the eye-mindedness, Soren Kongsgaard is no misgiving hoping to be the immediate Dane to add to the realm's superfancy poker be-all and end-all.
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