Juha Helppi in Seat 9
The biggest poker name in the Main Event was Juha Helppi and the Finn did not disappoint by entering the final table in Seat 9 with a second-place stack of 1,400,000.
Helppi will add to his $7.1 million in lifetime tournament cashes which is second only to the $7.3 million amassed Patrick Antonious for the most from Finnish players.
PokerNews interviewed Helppi during the Main Event and he shared one thing that he still will try hard to achieve is a WSOP bracelet after a handful of amazing runs to only fall short of the title. He takes every poker tournament as seriously as the next despite the buy-in and the prizes involved.
A couple of nights during the festival, Helppi was busy playing €50/€100 pot-limit Omaha with €200 and €400 straddles with Antonius and others. Hundreds of thousands of Euros were won and lost by players at the table which was easily the biggest ever hosted at Olympic Park Casino.