Keimo Suominen wins MPN Poker Tour Tallinn Main Event for €45,200

Finland’s Keimo Suominen performed an effective cross-border raid to seize the MPN Poker Tour Tallinn Main Event title and a first prize of €45,200 which just edges out his previous biggest win from back in 2011 in his homeland.

The Microgaming Poker Network (MPN) had stuck a €150,000 guarantee on their flagship Estonian event, but the huge entry of 534 smashed that – eventually seeing €258,990 up for grabs, a mass of re-buys temporarily emptying the on-site cash machines at the Hilton Park Tallinn on day 2!

Suominen had qualified through Paf Poker – an unusual skin for MPN in that it is ‘a not-for-profit organisation’ (based in the Åland Islands between Finland and Sweden) where all profits go toward charitable causes. He took advantage of his satellite entry in great style, overcoming a slew of MPN Poker tour regulars including Ireland’s Dara O’Keaney and England’s Julie Whitworth as well as a host of Baltic and Scandinavian hopefuls.

Afterwards he told reporters: “I’m very happy!” adding thanks for the support from his ‘vocal Finnish rail’ as the blog describes them.

“A few of my friends have been on the rail all day. I love them!” said the flying Finn.

It proved to be a final table of big hands, Suominen himself disposing of three opponents with the same pocket kings hand, while his eventual heads-up adversary – Latvia’s Davis Modans – found aces to dismiss the early chip leader Antti Halme.

A ‘fun and frantic’ heads-up finale is how it was described by Dana Immanuel in MPN’s own blog, the live stream backing that up as Suominen mixed great play with some ‘winner’s luck’ at the right time.

 “He was a very good player and I had some luck to beat him,” the Finn readily admitted – the player having agreed to a deal which saw each man pick up €41,000 and playing for the title and the €4,200

The final hand when it arrived ‘was a simple coinflip’ after a ‘barrage of dramatic bluffs and outrageous outdraws’…

Modans: J♣-Q♣

Suominen: 6♥-6♣

The board running out:

 8♣-T♦-3♦-7♠-5♦

…leaving Keimo Suominen to lift the trophy aloft and celebrate his MPN Tallinn Main Event victory.

The next stop on the MPN poker tour will be Morocco, running from January 11th to the 14th and qualifiers are already now.

Final Table results