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| Finnish poker player Mika Paasonen. |
Estrellas
Poker Tour online satellite tournaments came to an
exciting conclusion recently when Mika P. aka “VibeKing” won the Final and a $3100 (€2750) prize
package sending him to the Estrellas Main Event in Barcelona
With total Live Tournament Earnings, The Hendon Mob ranks Paasonen 9th on its Finland All Time Money List. He was the first Finnish poker player on Team PokerStrategy.com
Mika, 38, had some serious
competition at the online satellite tournament Final July 19th.
“I had some tough players
in my table and they had position to me so I just tried to be patient and pick
my spots carefully.”
The Finnish poker pro
realized early on that he could win the Final.
“Very soon my starting
stack tripled up. After that I thought these can go deep.”
“One key hand was when
there were four players left. I had chip lead with 82K. Then there were stacks
of 12K, 39K and a tough opponent with 23k which was 20 big blinds.
Against that 23k stack I get in hand where I get unopened to sb KdTd and
this tough player was in bb. Knowing that he is high 3bettor and with a
reshove stack I’m not able to steal here a lot so I open and thinking of calling
when he shoves. Thinking this through now actually make me to like more to
open shove this 20bbs and avoid flipping but in reality I raise 2,2bb and call
his shove. He had Q8s and I won a pot. After that I was kind of confident I
could take this down.”
The winner had this advice
for online tournament players before he sets off to the big live tournament in Barcelona
