Our reporting team - which escaped the temptations of Grand Casino before the end of first day yesterday - woke up today to find a text message from Vili telling that he was knocked out of the tournament late yesterday showing his less than 20BB stack with ATs against an early position opener´s AK. No ten or a straight to provide the much needed suckout.

So Finnish Championship of Poker has ended on Team Redkings´ part but we will return shortly in EPT Vilamoura and other events coming up. Hopefully we will see both Daniel and Vili back in action soon too.

AJ vs. AQ - can´t blame him for putting in the approx 10 big blinds.

After a good start Toni´s tournament was quite rough. No matter how good a .at some point one needs some cards too.

He will be back in action in EPT Vilamoura, and hopefully gets some help from the deck and we´ll see another deep run from our Finnish star.

The tournament will now be on a break for approximately an hour.

Vili started opening up during the last hour or so and now has 28k in chips and a good touch on his table. He is now enjoying a well deserved sandwich for dinner, but should be hungry for more chips in 45 minutes again.

Toni was rather card dead during the last levels and has slide back to 20k, but everyone in the table knows he is still a threat. At the moment we don´t what Toni is having for dinner but we will keep you posted if we hear any news.

“An aggressive player raised me again and I couldn´t let go of my tens” described very calm Daniel how his tournament came to an end. This time his aggressive opponent held AA and no tens came on the board to give Daniel an another life.

Next time!

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.