Dane loses connection and $75,000 at Full Tilt
Danish poker star Soren Kongsgaard was heads-up in Sunday's $1 million guaranteed tournament at Full Tilt Poker when he lost his Internet connection.
Kongsgaard was playing from his residence in Barcelona when he experienced every online poker player's nightmare. More than $75,000 was at stake when the game suddenly froze.
"I wasn't able to get my connection back, and since I only had around 50 times the big blind and the antes were high, it didn't take long before I had lost my chips," Kongsgaard told Pokernyhederne.com.
"That's just the way it is, there is nothing you can do about it. But I guess the player on the other side was happy about it."
That lucky player was BluffMagCV who won the Full Tilt Poker $1 million guaranteed and $197,984. Kongsgaard had to settle for second place and $121,588.
There is, of course, no way of knowing if Kongsgaard actually would have won if he had been able to play on, but he has been doing well in tournaments the last year.
He won the Scandinavian Open in Copenhagen in January, finished third in the European Poker Tour (EPT) 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.
Related Article: Soren Kongsgaard Danish Poker Champion
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Comments
1JCfromGa
2010-10-17That's not right. Fulltilt has had (& still does) MAJOR connection problems, right at the oddest times. I would SUE Fulltilt poker if I was him. Make the game go right back where he lost connection & finish the game fairly. I know I don't lose my connection at any other time except when I'm on Fulltilt pokersite. So I know it's a problem on Fulltilt's end. This should be & needs to be investigated, whether by Fulltilt, or an outside company if Fulltilt can't seem to find & fix the problem. Just my humble opinion.