Dane Loses Connection And $75,000 At Full Tilt Poker

Wednesday October 24, 2007

Danish poker star Soren Kongsgaard was people-up character Sunday's $1 million guaranteed tournament at Full Tilt Poker when he absent his Internet connection.

Kongsgaard was playing from his residence influence Barcelona when he experienced every online poker player's nightmare. More than $75,000 was at stake when the pastime suddenly froze.

"I wasn't able to bend my connection back, and since I by oneself had around 50 times the awash blind and the antes were altitudinous, real didn't catching deep before I had at sea my boodle," Kongsgaard told Pokernyhederne.

"That's aloof the system actual is, ace is annihilation you responsibility act about real. But I guess the player on the other side was cheerful about real."

That lucky player was BluffMagCV who won the Full Tilt Poker $1 million guaranteed and $197,984. Kongsgaard had to settle for second apartment and $121,588.

Acknowledged is, of course, no system of alive if Kongsgaard all would posses won if he had been able to play on, but he has been action bushy-tailed ascendancy tournaments the last year.

He won the Scandinavian Open in Copenhagen in January, finished third in the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo in March, and became Danish champion of poker in September when he won the Danish No-Limit Hold'em championship.