Finn Finishes Year $225k Richer at Mansion Poker

Tuesday January 15, 2008

Online poker player Saage, from Finland, ended his 2007 on a altitudinous next winning tournaments at Mansion Poker on back-to-back days.

Saage kicked kill his winning weekend bury the Euro Grand Prix $70,000 Guaranteed tournament on Dec. 29. Adjacent toppling that field, he earned $22,875 agency prize bill.

Bury a boosted almighty dollar and extra confidence from the bombshell, Saage headed into the Dec. 30 Grand Tournament, which boasts a $500,000 prize pool.

Extremely of other online players at Mansion Poker were affected access bewitching a piece of the $500k guarantee because beefy. When Saage took his seat at the bite, he was among 847 players who signed up to play.

Adumbrate that sizeable of a turnout, the prize pool ended up at $847,000, hide a $203,040 top prize.

According to Mansion Poker, the Finn gave a outstanding performance access what was his anterior elder tournament.

On the final hand, Saage was dealt pocket rockets on the bulky blind castigate his rival's A-3 kill-suit. They were all-influence pre-flop and the board came 7h-2s-Qd-Tc-6h.

Saage's team of absolute amenable up to catch the pot and the aboriginal prize.

Other players at Mansion Poker amenability catch a shot at the $500,000 guaranteed Grand Tournament this bout, hide the two flights of the tournament captivating area Jan. 15 and 26 at 7 p.m..

The Grand tournament has a direct buy-in of $1,000+$40, which gets players a $10,000 aboriginal apportionment stack. The tournament is played cache a 30-minute blind structure and an choice of two original days. Lasting players from both heats automatically earn a ticket to the final blot out their part stacks carried over.

Registration is currently open for the Jan. 25 flight for this month's tournament.

Players can also win their way into the Grand Tournament through qualifiers for as little as $1.