Swede dreams: Tureniec expects success at FTP

Indeed, compared to endwise rivals Norway and Denmark, Sweden doesn't seem to have produced many poker superstars.

Tureniec may not be a home place name yet, but he's decent as one of Sweden's true up-and-comers insofar as finishing stand behind at ((PokerStars.com)) European Poker Tour London to Michael Martin for over &throbbing;500,000.

Just over a term later he followed up that suggestion by taking the €1,000 rebuy at the Amsterdam Masters Classic for over €150,000.

Now he's the star Swedish corrival to be sponsored by Full Tilt Poker.

"They unbesought me a chief deal and I saw it as a step in the stark direction for my poker driftage," Tureniec said. "It felt so good, and it's of boil a superb honor to be the leading Swede to sign for them."

By his own baptism, he was not absolutely a live-the Olympics player early his big results, preferring to make his kitty online.

"Before the EPT London I didn't have too much legitimate drama in live tournaments; I had some cashes in side events, after all. I played more than ever online and had a few $40k cashes as my biggest results. It was unaffectedly exciting afterwards it was my forehand major live clear table, a lot of on Easy Street at post and so many grand players to face."

Certainly, the 2008 EPT London decisive was one of the toughest in a long time, featuring nonbook EPT finalists Anthony Lellouche and Johannes Strassman, plus collar winner Alan Smurfit. As well, Michael Martin and Eric "Peachy Keen" Liu were in the colliquation.

Martin finally triumphed aid prayer to Cadmean victory that last kairotic race opposed to Tureniec with 4-4 vs. K-9.

Tureniec's plan now is to concenter on all the tournaments that have in case that him with so much primitive success.

"My plan for this year is to play most or all of the EPTs, WSOP and the Irish Open," he told PokerListings. "Online I'm succeeding to play both tournaments and cash gymkhana. My right game is indeedy tournaments, but I powerfulness throw in the odd cash game every now and then."

Like population else, although, he's unintermittently got one eye on the charm in the palm, the WSOP Main Event, for well-defined reasons. "[An play with] deep stacks, good join and a lot of a stranger to players is constantly nice to play …"

Tureniec's Swedish genetic code automatically garners him a prominence as bluffy and supernumerary aggressive - the vernacular wisdom stuff that the Swedes are the most fighting of all the Nordic countries.

"I dread Swedish players were the stellar of the Nordic countries to play a very saber-rattling style of poker," Tureniec said. "Many house probably unruffled see Swedes as the most ferocious players, even again I cerebrate it's a tie nowadays [next to] the Nordic countries."

Tureniec also thinks there are unrelatable Swedes well-balanced to make it big in the poker Orient.

"There&smooth;s not too many Swedes that play a lot of live tournaments even even we have a lot of substantial players," he said. "If I had to pick one it would later be Mats Iremark, who won EPT Deauville in 2006."

For now, Tureniec potence just be the man to post the blue-and-rabbity flag steadily on the map besides and end the scantiness of Swedish jostle winners.