Where Are They Now: Season 3 EPT Barcelona Champ Bjorn-Erik Glenne
The buy-in was upped again in 2006, this time jumping to €5,000, and again the number of entries increased as 480 players took to the felt, creating a prize pool of €2,304,000. For the third year in a row the final table included big names including Jeff Lisandro and Phil Ivey, who finished sixth and second respectively. It’s not often Ivey loses heads up, but he did to Norway’s Bjorn-Erik Glenne, who was a former chess champion turned poker pro.
The $875,404 Glenne earned for that score was by far the biggest of his career up to that point; in fact, prior to that he had just two cashes for $10,486. After winning, Glenne attempted to live the life of a poker pro and looked like he might be able to do it after finishing 65th in the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event for $130,288 and 35th in the €7,700 EPT Barcelona Open a month later for $20,027. Unfortunately for him, his pro aspirations dwindled and died after that.
Glenne’s only other cash came in February 2009 when he took second in the European Masters of Poker €1,000 No Limit Hold’em in Tallinn for $56,383. Since then, Glenne has not been in the media spotlight.