Peter Jepson
Never in his wildest dreams did Peter Willers Jepson think or imagine that he would one day be a professional poker player with many winning streaks to his credit. It was a quirk of fate, which actually paved the way for him to take up poker professionally. Peter Jepson then a young lad of 23 years served in the Royal Danish Army for around 3 years when he was laid down with a knee injury. This happened while he was serving with the army in Iraq when he managed to get his knee hurt. This forced him to leave the army and head back home for recuperation.
The many arduous weeks of recuperating and nursing his knee injury provided him with plenty of time on his hands. With nothing much to do Peter started playing poker for fun with friends and soon discovered his hidden natural talent of winning at the game with great ease. This prompted him to take up playing poker more seriously and thus paved the way for him to become a professional poker player in a short time. It was in 2004 that Peter Jepson started his professional career in Full Tilt Poker.
He is the current Polish EPT Champion and is also the first poker player to make millions in Zlotys. Peter Jepson uses aggressive moves during the game and his girlfriend who is a real stunner has helped him by being his lucky mascot at the card tables. He remains unmarried till date.
Presently Peter is busy playing in major poker games and tournaments online and is considered an excellent player by other top players in the field. He has now joined the ranks of other professional players like David Benyamine, Jeff Madsen, and Carlos Mortenson and is referred to by his nick name “Zupp” in the poker world. He presently plays Full Tilt Poker with whom he has a sponsorship deal. He played in the Carribean Poker Classic in 2006, and he took home $165,000 as earnings and was placed third. He has also won the 2007 EPT Poland Poker championship and took home earnings of $415,679.
Peter Jepson has over $500,000 as career earnings to his credit and he is the founding member of PokerTeam.dk. He plays poker online, and has his home in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently Denmark’s most promising players in Full Tilt Poker. He has earlier also involved in playing poker as part of a Danish National Poker team with fellow countrymen. He also claims that he is extremely happy playing for his country and doing her proud by winning some tournaments.
He has set great standards and for himself and nurses his pet ambition of winning in a WSOP/WPT event soon. Presently you can find him playing Full Tilt Poker in tournaments and ring game tables mostly online.
His recent winnings are at the 2008 Aussie Millions where he made winnings to the tune of 15,000 Australian dollars and was placed 78th. He has taken 1st position in EPT Season 3, EPT3 Polish Open and has taken home earnings to the tune of Euros 325,633. Peter Jepson is an aggressive poker player who is currently making himself seen as a true world poker champion. Though Peter spends a majority of his time playing online but he is just as formidable a force in live plays.
Always the casually dressed and cool charmer, Peter is the young rising star of poker. The heart throb of many female poker followers, he has a tendency to excel in the worst of conditions with his cool attitude.
Common Misspellings: Peter Jepsen, Peter Jopsen
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