Toni Ojala has made an incredible effort here in EPT Barcelona, probably playing his best tournament poker ever, and he got a nice paycheck for it. It all ended like this.
Mihai Manole raised UTG and Carter Philips just called on the button. Toni is in the Small Blind and raises to 400.000. Manole folds, but Carter Philips re-raises to 1.080.000 and Toni goes deep in to the tank, and then announces “All-in”. Philips snapcalled and turned over _As _Ad and Toni wasn’t very happy showing _Qh _Qd.

Flop _3d _Tc _5c
Turn _Jd
River _7c

Toni leaves his chair and heads over to the bar. Of course he is disappointed right now, but in a couple of days he will understand that he did win €160.000.

Toni Ojala have now got the taste of the final table, and he said himself that he will do better in EPT London.

For you readers it’s not over yet, tonight we have the Toni Ojala $1000 Freeroll at 21:00 CET. I hope you all will participate to celebrate Toni’s success in EPT Barcelona.

At last, congratulations Toni Ojala for another incredible tournament result!

Matt Lapossie raised it up to 140.000, Toni in the position after made it 310.000, Matt Lapoise announces “All-in” and almost before he finshed that short sentence you can from Toni hear “Call”. This time Toni doesn’t fold his _Qh _Qs, and he was way ahead against Lapossies _Jc _4h.

The flop comes out _5s _6s _Qd giving Toni the top set and pretty much ends it already here.

Turn _5c seals the deal and Toni takes Matt Lapossie out in 7th position!

Toni is now up to 2.500.000, and he is guaranteed the huge amount of €160.000..

Tonis comment was “Now we will party tonight no matter how it goes from here”, and yes I am looking forward to that party!

Carter Philips raised it up to 125.000, Toni didn’t think that was enough and re-raised to 305.000, then Marc Goodwin goes over the top re-raising to 1.230.000, Philips folds and Toni starts thinking and decides to fold _Qh _Qd face up.

We will not know if it was a good or bad laydown, but I know that Toni still is in the tournament with a nice stack, and that is what counts.

We just lost the first player on the final table, and we are now down to 7 players giving a guaranteed pay out of €120.000.

Toni Ojala, 1.205.000

In the third hand of the day Santiago Terrazas raised it up, Santiago gets re-raised by Asa Smith to 450.000, then Toni Ojala starts thinking and moves all-in for 726.000, Santiago folds and Asa Smith calls.

Toni shows _As _Ac and is up against Smiths _Ah _Qh which gives Toni a huge lead pre-flop.

The flop is _Js _4h _4s

Turn _2c and Toni can’t lose even if the river is a Joker.

River _6h

Toni wins a huge pot, and is one of the players in the top now with 1.724.000..

Go Finland, Team RedKings and Toni Ojala!

To celebrate and to get as big support for Toni as possible we will give you the chance to play in a $1000 FREEROLL. The only thing you need to do is to post a “Congratulations and Good Luck Toni” comment to any post in the blog!

Name - Final Table Toni $1000 Freeroll
Date – 09/09/09
Time – 21.00 CET
Where – Special Tab in tournament Lobby
Who – Everybody that makes a “Congratulaions and Good Luck Toni” comment to the blog will get in to the freeroll!

I hope that you will stay here all day to follow Toni on this last day of the tournament.

Go Toni!

The final day of EPT Barcelona by pokerstars.com is here. We have a Team RedKings member on the very last table of the tournament, his name is Toni Ojala, the Finnish Champion who already has cashed in three EPT tournament now has the chance to take his first title outside Finland.

Toni felt confident this morning after a good nights sleep, and he has now arrived in the casino to do some interviews before he will sit down at the TV table to hopefully play the best poker of his life.

Here is the players Toni need to beat today
Seat 1: Georgios Kapalas - 826,000
Seat 2: Mihai Manole - 410,000
Seat 3: Santiago Terrazas - 546,000
Seat 4: Asa Smith - 1,380,000
Seat 5: Carter Phillips - 4,421,000
Seat 6: Matt “Lapozie” Lapossie - 2,938,000
Seat 7: Toni Ojala - 754,000
Seat 8: Marc Goodwin - 3,100,000

And here is the money these 8 players will bring with them home:
1st - €850,000
2nd - €530,000
3rd - €300,000
4th - €250,000
5th - €200,000
6th - €160,000
7th - €120,000
8th - €80,000

We wish Toni all luck in the world, and we’ll leave the skills for him..

The featured table has been running for a little while, and we have had one all-in situation where the short stack managed to double up. As fast as any of these 9 players goes bust in chips, we will stop the day and continue tomorrow at 14:00 CEST.

1 - Carter Phillips - 4,015,000
2 - Matt Lapossie - 2,870,000
3 - Marc Goodwin - 2,280,000
4 - Asa Gregory Smith - 1,595,000
5 - Georgios Kapalas - 893,000
6 - Julien Nuijten - 856,000
7 - Toni Ojala - 755,000
8 - Mihai Manole - 687,000
9 - Santiago Terrazas - 424,000

It’s hard to not like Toni even if he bust in the first hand in a tournament, but now it’s hard not to love the Finnish poker master..

And he’s got himself to thank for that.

They were 11 players left when Mike McDonald left after moving all-in with _Kd _Qs meeting the major chip leader Carter Philips _6c _6h, no K or Q on the board and they were only 10 players left, playing 5-handed on two tables.

Then Toni was UTG and decided to move all-in for about 400.000, and Cornel Cimpan called with his stack of about 250.000. Toni turned over _Qc _9c and he was up against _Js _Jd, and Toni needed to find the Q or a flush.

The flop _Ac _Qs _3h, giving Toni a big lead in the hand.

Turn _3d

River _3s and Toni wins the pot with a higher full house!

Talking to Toni just after the hand he said with a smile “I’m running good”.

Now they are all moving over to one table, but they won’t stop playing as the official final table only has 8 players. Toni is now guaranteed €50.000, and he’s got 755.000..

Go Toni Ojala!

Level 23 just finished, and they are now going over to Level 24 with blinds of 15.000/30.000, so it’s really starting to get expensive to play poker. Jens Kyllönen just got beaten out on Tonis table with _Jh _Jc vs _Kh _Kc. So now it’s up to Toni Ojala to show what Finland got, and also Team RedKings.

There will soon be action as Toni’s stack is at around 450.000 which means 15 BB, and that gives him not many more options than all-in when he wants to play a hand.

He’s been pretty active the last hands by stealing blinds, and he still got respect with his small stack as it is not to often they re-raise Toni when he’s in a pot.

We are down to 11 player, and Toni is guaranteed €40.000, and here is the list of what it can become:
1st - €850,000
2nd - €530,000
3rd - €300,000
4th - €250,000
5th - €200,000
6th - €160,000
7th - €120,000
8th - €80,000
9th - €50,000
10th - €50,000
11th - €40,000

They will now play 15 minutes on this level, then the players id going on a dinner break.

Toni Toni Toni!

Time for another blog freeroll to celebrate Toni’s success in EPT Barcelona, check the details:
Name: Blogs.redkings.com freeroll 3
Date & Time: 8/9 at 20:00 CEST
Buy-in: FREE!
Prices: $250
Password: rkwinept

Toni has played 6 hands on the new level, but not a single hand has shown a flop. He’s got 600.000 and the average stack is 1.105.000…

Good luck!