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Jens Kyllönen
Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen (born 1989) is a Finnish professional poker player who won the European Poker Tour Copenhagen in February 2009. Kyllönen was the second Finnish EPT winner since Patrik Antonius's victory in 2005. He is an online cash game specialist and plays under the aliases Jeans89 on PokerStars and Ingenious89 on Full Tilt Poker. In 2009, Jens won the EPT Copenhagen Title for $1,120,815. In January 2012, he was awarded Finland's best poker player. Kyllönen was rewarded again as Finland's best poker player in January 2013. In October 2014, Kyllönen became a poker coach for Phil Galfond Phil Galfond (born January 16, 1985) is an American professional poker player. Galfond won three World Series of Poker bracelets, in the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event in 2008, the $10,000 no-limit 2-7 single draw championshi ...'s training website, Run It Once. As of 2016, his live poker tournament earnings exceed $2,750,000. World Series of Poker Refe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finns
Finns or Finnish people (, ) are a Baltic Finns, Baltic Finnic ethnic group native to Finland. Finns are traditionally divided into smaller regional groups that span several countries adjacent to Finland, both those who are native to these countries as well as those who have resettled. Some of these may be classified as separate ethnic groups, rather than subgroups of Finns. These include the Kvens and Forest Finns in Norway, the Tornedalians in Sweden, and the Ingrian Finns in Russia. Finnish language, Finnish, the language spoken by Finns, is closely related to other Balto-Finnic languages such as Estonian language, Estonian and Karelian language, Karelian. The Finnic languages are a subgroup of the larger Uralic languages, Uralic family of languages, which also includes Hungarian language, Hungarian. These languages are markedly different from most other languages spoken in Europe, which belong to the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family of languages. Native Finns c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrik Antonius
} Patrik Antonius (born 13 December 1980) is a Finnish professional poker player. He is also a former tennis player and coach, and model. He has resided in Monte Carlo since 2008. Antonius was mentored by poker pro Marcel Lüske as a member of Luske's "Circle of Outlaws" and later advised by Jennifer Harman. In 2024, Antonius was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. , his total live tournament winnings exceed $29,300,000. Poker career Antonius began, as a 25-year old, making a name for himself on the poker tournament circuit with two finishes near the final table of a European Poker Tour (EPT) event and a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, 12th at the EPT PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, then 15th at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars event two months later, in early 2005. He went on to finish in the money in three events of the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP). In September 2005 he made the European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event final table, finishing 3rd in Barcelona. The next month, Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PokerStars
PokerStars is an online poker cardroom. It is the largest real money online poker site in the world, controlling over two-thirds of the total online poker market, and can be accessed through downloadable poker clients for Windows, macOS, Android (operating system), Android and iOS. A PokerStars.com Poker tournament, online satellite tournament produced the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion, Chris Moneymaker. As the first person to become a world champion by qualifying at an online poker site, Moneymaker's 2003 win was an important factor in catalyzing the poker boom of the mid-2000s. The press has called this the "Moneymaker effect." PokerStars was part of The Stars Group until it was sold to Flutter Entertainment, owner of the Irish gambling company Paddy Power, on May 5, 2020. History PokerStars launched its beta play-money-only site on September 11, 2001. The company began offering real money wagering on December 12, 2001. PokerStars was originally a Costa Rican co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Full Tilt Poker
Full Tilt Poker is an Irish online poker card room and online casino that opened in June 2004. Formerly privately owned by Tiltware, LLC and later by the Rational Entertainment Group, the site was acquired by The Stars Group (then known as Amaya Gaming Group) in a deal where Amaya acquired all of Rational's assets, including PokerStars. A statement by Amaya said the takeover would not affect the activities of Full Tilt Poker. The deal was closed on August 1, 2014. Just prior to the close of the purchase, Full Tilt Poker redirected and rebranded its domains from FullTiltPoker.com and FullTiltPoker.eu to FullTilt.com and FullTilt.eu. A company spokesperson stated the change reflected the fact Full Tilt had "expanded to offer a range of single and multi-player variations of casino games". Full Tilt has gaming licenses in Malta and the Isle of Man. Games offered Full Tilt offers both play and real money cash games and tournaments. Freeroll, satellite, sit-n-go, and multi-table ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bluff (magazine)
''Bluff'' was an American magazine specializing in the game of poker. Separate editions were also published for Europe, Latin America, South Africa and Australasia. The American edition began as a bimonthly in October 2004 and went monthly in August 2005. Production of the magazine was ceased in February 2015. In December 2006, Bluff Magazine purchased thepokerdb.com, an online tournament database. Churchill Downs Incorporated, Churchill Downs purchased Bluff Media in February 2012. The magazine annually named the "Poker Power 20," the 20 most important people in the poker industry. Bluff Europe magazine ''Bluff Europe'' magazine is a monthly European sister title to ''Bluff Magazine'' first published in March 2006. Printed in the United Kingdom and focusing more on the European poker circuit, regular contributors include professional players including Neil Channing, Liv Boeree, Tom Sambrook, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, and Mike Caro. Bluff Magazine South Africa ''Bluff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Galfond
Phil Galfond (born January 16, 1985) is an American professional poker player. Galfond won three World Series of Poker bracelets, in the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event in 2008, the $10,000 no-limit 2-7 single draw championship in 2015 and the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship in 2018. Due to his success as a high-stakes online player, he appeared on multiple seasons of GSN's ''High Stakes Poker''. He is currently the owner of real money poker site ''Run It Once Poker'' and poker training site ''Run It Once Training'' where he also is a coach. Personal life Galfond is originally from North Potomac, Maryland and attended Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He formerly resided in New York City, where he installed a slide as his access between the two penthouse apartments he purchased. Galfond married actress Farah Fath on May 15, 2015. Their son, Spencer, was born in December 2018. Poker Live pok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hendon Mob Poker Database
The Hendon Mob are a group of four professional poker players from London, England: Joe Beevers, Barny Boatman, Ross Boatman, and Ram Vaswani. The name of the group was first publicised by the ''Evening Standard'' newspaper in September 2000. Joe Beevers is the only member of the group who actually comes from Hendon, but the others played in Hendon. The Mob first became recognised for their appearances on the televised poker programme '' Late Night Poker'' (1999–2002). The Hendon Mob also regularly attends the annual World Series of Poker and other major tournaments. They have dozens of in the money results between them. The Mob were used in series one of the British con-art documentary series ' The Real Hustle'. Presenters R. Paul Wilson and Alexis Conran, posing as poker novices filming a documentary, beat the Mob by smuggling in decks stacked to their advantage. Sponsorship In 2004 and 2005, the Mob was sponsored by Prima Poker to the tune of $2 million worth of world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 World Series Of Poker
The 2016 World Series of Poker was the 47th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP). Most of the events occurred May 31 – July 18 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. There were 69 bracelet events, including the $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event which began on July 9. The Main Event final table was reached on July 18, with the November Nine returning to play from October 30-November 1. New events *''Event #2: $565 Colossus II No Limit Hold'em'' - Returning to the schedule after setting a record for largest live tournament in 2015, changes to the event will include a $7 million guaranteed prize pool (an increase of $2 million), a guaranteed first prize of $1 million, and two additional starting flights. The money was reached during each starting flight and gave a player an opportunity to cash multiple times in the event. *''Event #4: $1,000 Top Up Turbo No Limit Hold'em'' - Players cashing in $55 single table satellites, held both at the Rio and online on WSOP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pot Limit Omaha
Omaha hold 'em (also known as Omaha holdem or simply Omaha) is a community card poker game similar to Texas hold 'em, where each player is dealt four cards and must make their best hand using exactly two of them, plus exactly three of the five community cards. The exact origin of the game is unknown, but casino executive Robert Turner (poker player), Robert Turner first brought Omaha into a casino setting when he introduced the game to Bill Boyd (poker player), Bill Boyd, who offered it as a game at the Las Vegas, Nevada, Las Vegas Golden Nugget Las Vegas, Golden Nugget Casino (calling it "Nugget Hold'em"). Omaha uses a 52-card playing card#French, French deck. Omaha hold 'em 8-or-better is the "O" game featured in HORSE (poker), H.O.R.S.E. History Omaha hold 'em derives its name from two types of games. "Hold'em" refers to a game using community cards that are shared by all players. This is opposed to draw poker, draw games, where each player's hand is composed only of concea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finnish Poker Players
Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also * Finish (other) * Finland (other) * Suomi (other) Suomi means ''Finland'' in Finnish. Suomi may also refer to: *Finnish language Finnish (endonym: or ) is a Finnic languages, Finnic language of the Uralic languages, Uralic language family, spoken by the majority of the population in Finla ... * {{disambiguation Language and nationality disambiguation pages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 Births
1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin Wall in November, the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia and the overthrow of the communist dictatorship in Romania in December; the movement ended in December 1991 with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Revolutions against communist governments in Eastern Europe mainly succeeded, but the year also saw the suppression by the Chinese government of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing. It was the year of the first 1989 Brazilian presidential election, Brazilian direct presidential election in 29 years, since the end of the Military dictatorship in Brazil, military government in 1985 that ruled the country for more than twenty years, and marked the redemocratization process's final poin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
