Finland’s Tritium Automotive is on the verge of launching its first electric supercar. Only the drive and the battery is fixed in the sleek looking speedster, meaning owners can customise the entire thing, and you have to think that some of those owners might well be online poker phenoms.
If you weren’t aware that Finland is a hotbed of high stakes online poker talent, then the 2020 Poker Masters Online is going to stick a big fat exclamation mark at the end of that secret.
At the end of Day 3 of the communion between Poker Central and partypoker, 11 Finnish players have contributed to 13 in the money (ITM) finishes – supercars indeed.
In pole position is Pauli Ayras.
The man who won the €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) High Roller at the inaugural Patrik Antonius Poker Challenge a year ago this month, took down Event #6: $10,300 Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) for $303,422.
By the end of Day 3, Ayras had made money in three successive events, taking $373,122 from the Poker Masters tables, and leads the Championship Leaderboard by 63-points going into Day 4.
The event pulled in 97-entrants, almost double the field size of the first PLO event. $970,000 entered the kitty, and Jens Lakemeier pushed Ayras closest at the chequered flag.
Jorryt van Hoof and Ole Schemion also finished ITM for the second time.
Results
- Pauli Ayras – $303,422
- Jens Lakemeier – $189,150
- Ami Barer – $116,400
- Jorryt van Hoof – $84,875
- Samuli Sipila – $60,625
- Ole Schemion – $41,225
- Lauri Varonen – $31,525
- Pacsal Lefrancois – $31,525
- George Wolff – $31,525
- Jens Kyllonen – $26,567
- Aku Joentausta – $26,576
- Marius Kennelly – $26,576.06
Alexander Kolonias Wins Event #7: $10,300 NLHE
Event #7: $10,300 NLHE saw 86 miscreants and magicians managing their mice in an $860,000-yard line dash, and the winner came from good stock.
Alexander Kolonias added Poker Masters glory to the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event title he won in the Autumn. George Wolff pushed Kolonias the hardest, finishing second. Wolff finished sixth in the 2019 Poker Masters, and the poker world noticed his fantastic 2019 performances short-listing him for the Global Poker Awards Breakout Player of the Year (Robert Campbell snagged it).
As previously spouted, Ayras made his third successive cash to lead overall, and Van Hoof and Juan Pardo Dominguez also registered their third cash of the series.
Kolonias squeezes into the #3 spot in the Championship Leaderboard.
Results
- Alexander Kolonias – $269,013
- George Wolff – $167,700
- Ali Imsirovic – $103,200
- Mustapha Kanit – $75,250
- Michael Addamo – $53,750
- Pauli Ayras – $36,550
- Juan Pardo Dominguez – $27,950
- Ian Engel – $27,950
- Nick Petrangelo – $27,950
- Elio Fox – $23,562
- Timothy Adams – $23,562
- Jorryt van Hoof – $23,562
Poker Masters Online Championship Standings
- Pauli Ayras – $373,122 (373)
- Alex Foxen – $309,677 (310 pts)
- Alexander Kolonias – $294,513 (295)
- Elias Talvitie – $481,250 (289)
- Andras Nemeth – $285,129 (280)