46-year-old Tim Vance from St Louis, Missouri has won Season 4 EPT Copenhagen and a record first prize of 6,220,488 Danish Kroner (€834,964). Father-of-one Tim Vance didn't pay anything to enter the 50,000 DKK No Limit Hold'em event - instead he qualified online with PokerStars in a Frequent Player Point satellite.

Second place - and 3,521,429 DKK (around €472,000) - went to local player Soren Hansen. Both Vance and Hansen, who manages a car paint finish business, became well-known throughout the tournament for their excitable behavior, but when it came to heads-up it became a four-hour endurance test for them both as the chip lead switched back and forth.