We have reached the second level and one player has left the room. Fortunately all our team players are still in the game.

Vili Ronkainen has 16,000 chips left of his 20k starting stack and hasn´t 6-bet bluffed anyone yet.

Greetings to all blog-readers!

Team RedKings is now in Helsinki, where the Finnish Open Championship of Poker has justed kicked off.

Currently there is 80 players in the tournament but the late registration is still open so we are expecting a prize pool of over 200,000€.

We have three players in the event, Toni Ojala, who should not need to be introduced to our regular readers, is looking to shine his 13th place from EPT Tallinn laste week and two satellite winners Daniel Boije (right) and Vili Ronkainen (left).

Daniel, although describing himself as a casual player has some impressive merits in the Live Scene such as 2010 Helsinki Freezeout PLO/NLH 1st place and Vili is a professional Midstakes player, so we should have a good chance of a RedKings player taking down a tournament in Helsinki again.

12 June 2010 – RedKings Poker Team pro Ramzi Jelassi showed his awesome live poker talent yesterday by winning the 2010 Helsinki Midnight Sun in Finland.

The 2850€ buy-in tournament drew a field of 139 players with Jelassi taking down an impressive 117000€ first prize.

This was Jelassi’s fourth money finish after winning the IPT San Remo in August last year. With two EPT money finishes and two wins in the last 11 months the star of Swedish poker is finally achieving the results so many poker people in the know have been expecting for some time now.

Determined to win the famous Gnome which goes to the Midnight Sun winner huge chip leader Jelassi made a deal in the final stages to be declared the winner of the Tournament. Commented Jelassi, “I have played the Midnight Sun and Helsinki Freezeout quite a few times now and being part Finnish I just wanted to go home with the Gnome this time . It cost me some money but it’s like winning a WSOP bracelet in this part of the world so it was very important to me”
Commented RedKings Poker Director Michael Golembo, “we are delighted for Ramzi for yet another fantastic win. He is such a great guy and as a poker player and ambassador for RedKings he is just outstanding. The whole of RedKings congratulates him and we all look forward to seeing him in action again soon. Live Poker, Ramzi Jelassi and Team RedKings are very important part of our online poker strategy which will become even more apparent when we announce our first major Live Tournament in the next few weeks.”

Team RedKings comprises Poker pros like Swedish Ramzi Jelassi and Finnish champion Toni Ojala, first time live poker tournament players chosen by RedKings and players who qualify through the huge number of Live Poker Events promoted online at RedKings. RedKings has tournament guarantees of over $16,000,000 each month and qualifiers for their online live poker event satellites start from as little as $2.00.

Ramzi Jelassi looking for a 117000€ payday in the Helsinki MNS Main Event final table

After some great runs at the EPT during the spring, Team RedKings Pro Ramzi Jelassi has made his first major final table of the year in the Helsinki Midnight Sun Main Event. The 3000€ buy-in tournament drew a field of 139 players with the winner taking down an impressive 117000€ first prize.

After struggling a bit being shortstacked most of the day one, Ramzi changed gears on the day two and after getting somewhat lucky with his jacks winning his opponent´s aces in a huge pot, Ramzi was one of the most aggressive players in the table taking advantage of his big stack. Picking up pots from left and right before the final table, he finished the day two with a stack of 416000, good for second in chips.

Final Table payouts:

1. 127.956€€
2. 81.211€€
3. 54.669€€
4. 36.842€€
5. 25.750€€
6. 18.619€€
7. 12.677€€
8. 9.508€€
9. 7.527€€

Seating order and chip counts:

Minna Ritakorpi 106,000
Samuli Sipilä 327,000
Ramzi Jelassi 416,000
Mika Haarala 329,000
Ilja Savolainen 124,000
Aki Laitila 381,000
Markus Ristola 573,000
Johan Palokangas 177,000
Pasi Sormunen 349,000

Blog freeroll? Wish Ramzi goodluck!

Ramzi will begin his quest for the first prize at 17.00 CET, but the blog followers will have to wait a bit longer before their cards are dealt. Wish Ramzi good luck in the comments section and when we get 200 people who want to see Ramzi take down the final table, we will issue the password for the $200 Midnight Freeroll for Midnight Finaltable!

Tournament information:
Name: Ramzi FT Freeroll
Time: 00:01
Buy-in: FREE!
Password: will be given later
Where: In the regular RedKings tournament lobby.

Thats it, he is out unfortunately. I know you all were supporting him, but unluckily he is out with a card on the river.

Ramzi went all in with Q 10 of diamonds just to get called with AK of diamonds. The flop was 4 9 6 rainbow, but the turn came a 10 and our hopes were raised.. Unfortunately it was time for the killer river in the form of an Ace and that was it. The remaining swedish player was out.

Well played Ramzi.. Ooh what a future awaits for that boy..

You can send your comments to Ramzi by posting under this post. He will try to answer all your questions.

RedKings Pro Ramzi Jelassi starts his day in the Pokerstars Monte Carlo EPT 2010. His table is number 2

Seat 1: Claudiu Saizu (1220000)
Seat 2: Mesbah Guerfi (758000)
Seat 3: Emanuele Rugini (575000)
Seat 4: Ramzi Jelassi (590000)
Seat 5: Jean Francois Talbot (2427000)
Seat 6: Sami Kelopuro (1094000)
Seat 7: Nicolas Chouity (2037000)
Seat 8: Paul Berende (148000)

Already 2 players have dropped.

Stay tuned for more info..

RedKings Pro Ramzi Jelassi has been battling with the best in Poker for 3 days now and he is still in there with the last 24 players. He dropped a few chips in the end of the day, but still has almost 600k in chips. He is already guaranteed €50,000 in prize money, but now that he is so far, he is going for the win. You never know what is going to happen, thats the best part of poker.

Follow us again tomorrow for some great poker action or play now at RedKings Poker

If you also want to play live, RedKings hosts a wide range of qualifiers. Now you can qualify for the WSOP. You can find more information at RedKings Live-events page

Dont forget that with your first deposit to RedKings, you will get a Free ticket to the $10,000 Gtd. FishMarket tournament played on thursday the 13th of May at 19.15 CET. This is a tournament not to be missed.

Until Tomorrow!! Good night

We are playing today until 24 players are left. Right now there are 27 so this must be the last level of the day. Blinds 12000/24000 and ante 2000. Our RedKings Pro still going strong. He has little over 700k in chips when the average is about 1 million.

Are you guys watching this??? Ramzi Jelassi, RedKings Swedish Pro is doing amazing. There are only 70 players remaining. Blinds are 10k/5k and ante is 1000. Ramzi has over 1 million at the moment and he doesnt look like he is stopping at that.

Go On Ramzi!!

RedKings Pro Ramzi Jelassi is having a great tournament in Monte Carlo. He is already in the money but he wont be satisfied with that. Right now he is up with 411.000 chips and is on the 14th position with 116 players remaining.

For those of you in Monte Carlo, You can follow Ramzi at table 6.

Matthew Kay - Canada 115,000

Sander Lylloff - Denmark 286,000

Ramzi jelassi - Sweden 411,000

Rony Halimi - France 131,500

Björn Verbakel - Netherlands 159,000

Cristiano Guerra - Italy 362,000

Toby Lewis - UK 126,000

Nicolas Dervaux - France 54,500

Come Oon Ramzi! ONE TIME!