Fearsome Finnish foursome to play heads-up battle

March 19th, 2008
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Some idle bragging about who is the best Finnish poker player may be turning into an epic high-stakes showdown.

Patrik Antonius (pictured) wrote in his blog that while traveling on vacation in France with friends and fellow pros Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies amd Jani “KObyTAPOUT” Vilmunen, that they got into an argument of who is the best of the trio.

The bragging turned into planning, as the three began plotting out a competition to see who is the best. They decided to include Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelpuro in the mix as well.

According to the blog:

The boys [Sahamies and Vilmunen] flew back to Finland that night and met Sami at the night club and got him to agree on a bet. It is going to be a team HU match, Ilari and myself vs Jani and Sami. All matches will be played on Martins Poker with 200BB stacks. I will play LarzLuzak in NL HU and Ilari will play Jani in HU PLO. If one team wins both matches, then they are crowned Champions. If it is a split, then I will play Sami in a final tie breaker, the final match will be NL to decide the Champion.

You can read the blog here.

Seeing as all four players are very successful, and they’ll be playing for a “large amount of money,” according to Antonius, the stakes could get very high.

Antonius also talked about his challenge of Doyle Brunson that he made in CardPlayer magazine, and it appears they will be meeting in a heads-up match of some type in the future.


Article Credit: Dustin

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