For the past few weeks, Sami Kelopuro has been taking it easy; spending time with his girlfriend, house training his new Italian Greyhound puppy, and generally just getting some much needed – and much deserved – rest.

One of the winningest players in partypoker POWERFEST added to their legacy on Wednesday as one of nine players who took down a High Roller event.

One of online poker’s most popular players, ‘girafganger7,’ scooped the 2019 PocketFives February PLB title. Girafganger7’s February included 124 cashes for $454,604 in prize money and a leaderboard-topping 4,867.51 points.

The high stakes cash game world takes no time off for the holidays. This December featured more six-figure pots and huge swings. Finishing on top of the leaderboard for the month is ‘RaúlGonzalez.’ The total haul of ‘RaúlGonzalez’ topped out at $521,189 in winnings over the course of 32 sessions. This is according to the […]

Long gone are the days of Finland being in charge of all things online and live poker. The face of poker there, Patrik Antonius, stays below the radar these days and Fins making WSOP final tables are few and far between. The online presence remains healthy although the nation has taken a backseat to neighboring […]

Last month, Finland’s gifuhornawon the Full Tilt Sunday Major, defeating a field of 850 players en route to a $34,000 payday. The top 90 finished in the money and the final table consisted of three PocketFivers, including Jeff YoungSupremacy Hakim. We virtually traveled to balmy Finland to get the scoop on his latest claim to […]

Off to a hot start in 2014 is PocketFives member LarsLuzak(pictured), who is known in the real world as Sami Kelopuro. This Finnish poker pro has a final table in the Full Tilt Poker FTOPS Main Eventand a win in the site’s $250,000 Guaranteed already this year for a combined $134,000. Additionally, he has one […]