Purple Lounge Poker Tour storms Stockholm

We're delighted that the tour has been so successful and we've had the chance to give many of our online Swedish players, their first chance to play live. Congratulations to Robin on his win and we look forward to bringing live poker to many more of our players in the near future. In a bid to ensure the poker was uninterrupted by unwanted attention from poker party poopers, players were taken to a more secluded destination for the tournament and the evening got off to a good start with a total of 30 players in the field.

The players were aiming for the top prize of a week-long trip for two to Macau, gambling-haven of the East. And although the tournament retained a relaxed Purple Lounge atmosphere, there was no doubt that everyone was out to win.

Battle of the Sexes winner, Shaun Williams was one of the first out of the tournament, however he was happy to enjoy the rest of the evening watching the competition and pick up tips from some of the Scandinavian players.

After two and half hours of play, the tournament was whittled down the final table. First to leave the table was Andreas Johnson in ninth place, followed by Bo Sehlstedt - one of Sweden's most highly-respected players, in eighth place. After this Andre Sjodal was knocked out in seventh place and in sixth was Daniel Nilsson.

In the top five we had Robin Ylitalo, Kennth Lundh, Jimmy Sundell, Rune Bjerregaard from Denmark and Conny Olsen. Conny was knocked out in fifth place and walked away with a compact PSP games console.

Rune came in at fourth place, leaving the tournament with the very latest Sony Cybershot camera. He had no choice but to push with J4 and ran into Robin with Q8. He had live cards but the Q came. The J of course popped out to rub salt in the wounds on the River: