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Jens Kyllonen is a Finnish poker pro from Helsinki, Finland, known for his success both online and playing live poker. Kyllonen played online under the alias ‘Jeans89’ racking up over $5 million in online earnings. Kyllonen burst onto the live scene after winning EPT Copenhagen in 2009 for over $1.1 million, and infamously bought into the $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop in 2012 without selling any action. He was eliminated on day 1 and then announced his poker retirement in 2017 turning his focus to finance.
The 2020 World Series of Poker Online continued on GGPoker on Tuesday with Event #35: $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship attracting a 328-entrant field that created a $1,558,000 prize pool. Finish pro Juha Helppi topped the field to collect the $290,286 first-place and his second WSOP bracelet. On the money bubble there would be two separate…
The Poker Masters Online PLO Series on partypoker has been won by Finland’s Eelis Parssinen who edged out Andras Nemeth from Hungary by just one point after fourteen hard-fought events! Parssinen won one event and along with two second and two third-place finishes he cashed for a total of $735,359 which was nearly 10% of…
Finnish poker superstar Jens Kyllonen has done it again! Last night Kyllonen defeated fellow countryman Eelis Parssinen heads up on partypoker to claim his second Poker Masters Online PLO Series win earning him another $200,000. By finishing second, Parssinen now holds the overall championship lead with five events left to be played. The winner of…
The Poker Masters Online PLO Series on partypoker saw its third event wrap up last night when it was Jens Kyllonen who mounted an improbable comeback versus Jonathan Depa. Depa lead for most of the tournament but after a two-hour heads-up battle, he waved the white flag to his Finnish opponent. Marcello Margiliano remains the…
High stakes legend Ben Tollerene has made the lives of online players very difficult for over a decade but recently the man known as “Ben86” has slowed down a lot recently. Based in Vancouver, Canada, Tollerene is looking into a career post-poker but the highest stakes, especially in his favorite format which is Pot Limit…
