Toni was UTG and raised it up to 50.000, got called by Carter Philips and Julien Nuijten on the BB. THe flop ran out _Js _Ah _2c, Toni is first to act and bets out 85.000, Carter Philips folds, Julien Nuijten raises it up to 210.000. Toni thinks for a while and then calls the bet, and now it is a huge pot. The turn is _6h and now Nuijten moves all-in. Toni does not like this, and after a while he folds.

Toni is still in there, together with 12 other players, Toni’s stack has just become a little bit smaller and is now at 485.000.

Toni is now guaranteed €35.000, and only 5 more players need to go and we have the final table set..

Toni raised UTG to 41.000, and Oleksandr Vaserfirer moved all-in for 221.000, Toni didn’t need to think about it and snap called.

Toni Ojala _Kc _Kh vs Oleksandr Vaserfirer _Ah _Jh

Flop comes out _2s _7c _5h and Toni still in a big lead, turn is _3c and the river gives the other RedKing _Kd giving Toni three of a kind and taking out Oleksandr Vaserfirer in 16th position.

Toni has really improved his chip stack during the last level, and we have now started level 22 (10.000/20.000 Ante 2.000). Toni is not anymore on the featured table, but it is the same table that were on the featured table before.

Toni had some comments about the feature table “The first 15 minutes was a bit weird as I was not used to it, but I got in to it after a while and it was not problem for me, hopefully I’ll be there tomorrow as well”.

Toni Ojala, 850.000
Average stack, 958.000

If that last race between Bueno and Ojala was a big race this new race was enormous. Toni moved all-in for all his 294.000 and Patrick Bueno thought for a while before making the call.

Toni _9c _9s vs Bueno _Ac _Qh

Flop shows _Ks _Qc _5d and Toni now needs either _9d or _9h to win this pot

Turn _2s and it looks dark.

River _9d TONI HITS ONE OF HIS TWO OUTS! And doubles up to 698.000…

Now only 16 players left and we are going over to two tables.
More of this to come..

Toni moves all-in for 143.000 and this time he got called by Patrick Bueno.

Toni Ojala _Kc _Tc vs Patrick Bueno _4c _4d

Flop _9h _9d _Qd giving Toni all Tens, Jacks, Queens and Kings as outs.

Turn _6h giving Toni also all the sixes as outs.

River _Td which is enough for Toni to take down the pot!

He is now up to 294.000!

Toni moves all-in for 129.000, and gets called by Julien Nuijten who needs to put in 93.000. Toni turns over _Ac _8s, and he is not ahead of Julien, but he is not behind either as Julien shows the same hand _As _8c.

The flop doesn’t give any action as it is _7d _Js _3h

Turn _Tc

River _Ts

The very hand after Toni moves all-in again, and everybody folds, hopefully this is the start of a long upswing!

Toni Ojala, 155.000

In the break I had the opportunity to have a chat with our Team RedKings star Toni Ojala and the other Finn Jens Kyllönen, doing everything I could to convince Jens to double Toni up, but he rejected me and said with a smile “I just doubled up, and now I will try to hold on to my chips”.

For those of you that is following the tournament live and is wondering what Toni called with in the pot when it was raised up to 60.000, Toni had _Jc _Qc and he still doesn’t know if he played correct, but he had to fold on the board _As _Kc _5d when there was a bet. Two other players saw the turn _Td which would have given Toni the nuts straight..

I also asked Toni about his strategy during the coming level 21 (8.000/16.000, 2000) and his answer was clear “All-in, All-in, All-in, I only have 16 Big Blinds left”..

Let’s hope he can double up!

Julien Nuijten limped from the button, and Toni raised it up to 60.000 on the SB, BB folded, but Nujiten went all-in. You could see on Toni that he didn’t really like that, and he started thinking about it, after a while he leaves this opportunity to double up to find a better one later on.

First player just left the tournament today, and we have 22 players remaining. Here is the payout list again:
1 850,000
2 530,000
3 300,000
4 250,000
5 200,000
6 160,000
7 120,000
8 80,000
9-10 50,000
11-12 40,000
13-14 35,000
15-16 30,000
17-24 26,000

Toni Ojala, 230.000

Go Toni!

Team RedKings player Toni Ojala is soon starting day 4 in EPT Barcelona by pokerstars.com. We have just got the table draws and Toni will be on the table everybody wants to follow today, the table looks like this:

Patrick Bueno France 1,467,000
Mihai Manole Romania 641,000
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier France 520,000
Jens Kyllonen Finland 371,000
Carter Phillips USA PokerStars qualifier 338,000
Julien Nuijten Netherlands 329,000
Toni Ojala Finland 323,000
Oleksandr Vaserfirer Ukraine 258,000

This will of course be the featured table today, with the big names Toni Ojala, ElkY and Jens Kyllönen. A small fight will of course be between the two very good friends and fellow countrymen Toni Ojala and the winner from EPT Copenhagen Jens Kyllönen. Toni is a bit shortstacked but as you can see, it’s not only him, so let’s hope for an early double up and this could get even more interesting than it already is.

I can’t wait! You will be the first to now when anything happens, so stay with me!

I am proud to say that Toni Ojala has throughout the day played solid poker, and it hasn’t been easy as his cards has been cold, but Toni did it, and he is now through to day 4 in EPT Barcelona!

He had a tough table, but you can see that Toni really has evolved to not only one of the best Finnish tournament poker players, but also that he is catching up with the absolute top tournament poker players in the world. He got big respect from all the big players, and you can see that they don’t mind not playing too much against Toni.

There is Toni and 22 other players still in the tournament, among these you can find the other stars:
Mike McDonald
Jens Kyllönen
Roland De Wolfe
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier

Toni is now guaranteed €26.000, and tomorrow you will be able to follow him here closely to see if he can advance to another day, which also means the final table!

The average stack is at 613.000, and the blinds will tomorrow continue at 6.000/12.000 with an ante of 500. It starts at 12:30, you don’t want to miss it!

UTG+1 opens to 43.000, Toni raises to 110.000 with _As _Ks, ElkY re-raises to 240.000, the first player moves all-in for 550.000. Toni folds, and ElkY calls, ElkY shows _Ad _Kh, and his opponent shows _Ah _Kc. This means that all of them had the same hand, and it ends with that ElkY and his opponent splits the pot, but Toni doesn’t get a share..

Toni has now gone down under the average, but still has a very playable stack, and only needs a pot to get back to where he was.

There is only 28 players left in the tournament now, only 4 more to go..

Go Toni Ojala!!