Eelis Parssinen is reminding everybody why he needs to be in any dialog about who’s the very best Pot Restrict Omaha participant on this planet on the PokerGO Tour Pot Restrict sequence that wraps up this weekend on the Aria.
Yesterday, he gained the $15,100 occasion lower than every week after taking down the the $7,600 PLO Bounty contest ($5,000 + $100 + $2,500) for $149,000 — $131,325 for the victory, plus $32,500 in bounties.
Parssinen’s newest win added $348,600 to his haul from the PGT’s Pot Restrict competition that ran at its studios on the Las Vegas Strip March 20-29. His tally earlier than at present’s remaining occasion: Two wins, and two finishes simply outdoors the highest 10 (an eleventh and a twelfth for an extra $35,925 for a sequence whole of $515,850).
He simply crested the $4.5 million mark in lifetime match winnings, with most of his cashes gained enjoying PLO.
The victory put Parssinen’s on prime of the sequence’ leaderboard, simply 19 factors in entrance of Samuli Sipila, who, like Parssinen, is among the handful of unbelievable PLO gamers who additionally occurs to be Finnish. The purpose’s chief of the sequence receives a $10,000 ticket to any PGT occasion.
The Finnish PLO phenomenon was the topic of an episode of “Final Name.” CardChats Daniel Smyth wrote about it in 2022.
Scorching on the PGT Tour
This was Parssinen’s third victory on the PGT since October, when he gained the $7,600 PLO Bounty contest ($5,000 + $100 + $2,500), that means he defended his title this PLO sequence. At PGT occasions in October, he cashed six occasions, and almost gained a second title within the $10,100 Aria Excessive Curler, however stalled in second place for $127,800.
The now 29-year-old has been enjoying poker since he was in highschool after World Poker Tour episodes began airing in Finland. He was hooked instantly, and ultimately spun on-line freerolls as much as nosebleed ranges, and whereas he began enjoying no-limit maintain’em, he shifted his focus to PLO. In 2020, all of it paid off in an enormous approach when he gained $440,000 in a $25,500 occasion on-line within the first Poker Masters Pot-Restrict Omaha Sequence.
That sequence was, in fact, dominated by Finns.
