Eelis Parssinen To most people who follow the high stakes online scene he’s “EEE27.” Today at the final table of Event #64: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha he was Eelis Parssinen , the newest World Series of Poker bracelet winner.
The Finnish pro was already among the best online cash game players in the world. He now has his breakthrough win on the live tournament scene, but he doesn’t plan to change anything because he has a gold bracelet around his wrist.
“I don’t play these live tournaments too often. I wouldn’t consider myself as a live player,” Parssinen said. “I like to play live, but, I mean, this is my fifth WSOP tournament ever and there is so much luck involved.”
Parssinen needed all the luck he could get just to arrive at the final table. With around 40 players left, he lost a big pot that knocked him down to one big blind. He texted his friends in a group chat that he was out of the tournament. He managed to build that stack up to 2,800,000 at the start of the final table, in the middle of the pack among the nine players remaining.
He was far from alone. Outlasting a starting field of 579, at the final table were three fellow Scandinavians and his closest friends: Niklas Astedt , Samuli Sipila , and Joni Jouhkimainen . Event #64: $5,000 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Results
1 Eelis Parssinen Finland $545,616 2 Noah Bronstein United States $337,216 3 Ezra Abu Gazal United States $239,321 4 David Prociak United States $172,332 5 Joni Jouhkimainen Finland $125,940 6 Kyle Arora United States $93,425 7 Niklas Astedt Sweden $70,367 8 Vikranth Anga India $53,824 Final Table Action
Parssinen doubled up through Jouhkimainen at the start of the final table by making quad queens. As Sipila fell in ninth place and Astedt in seventh, Parssinen doubled up again to get near the chip lead.
The fast structure left little room for maneuvering, and the remaining five players traded chips pre-flop before Jouhkimainen was knocked out in fifth place by Ezra Abu Gazal , who […]
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