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BOPC: Marcel Bjerkmann as winner
The biggest poker event of Belgium, the Belgian Open Poker Championship (BOPC), just ended in propelling Marcel Bjerkmann in the top of his pro career in this discipline. Indeed, the Norway's 21 years just proved his talent as being among the best players by winning the Main Event of 1,500. His career in the casino of Namur was just amazing because despite a few setbacks that marked his participation in the Day 1 of the BOPC, Bjerkmann distinguished himself by accessing to the status of chip leader of the event from Day 2 to the final table, a final phase which he completely dominated. Indeed, the young champion arrived at the casino with 5 hours of lateness which nearly eliminated him from the list of participants.
Note that the deepstack structure proposed in the main event tournament of the BOPC allowed players to spread their game a little more And because this is a great poker festival, talented players such as Paul Berend, Nicolas Cardyn (the runner-up of the Latin American Poker Tour in Punta del Este) and Bram Staes, a Belgian cash games pro were among the finalists. However, the young prodigy of online poker wasn't impressed, he didn't wavered from his position as leader until the final duel and ousted Cardyn during this head's up. After pocketing a gain of approximately £ 100,000 for his victory at a side event of the European Poker Tour London, Bjerkmann finaly win a prestigious title and an excellent first prize of 205,000.
Source: Poker 777
Thursday, 21 October 2010
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