Betsson Estoril LIVE returns

So congratulations to the Finn, Ville Salmi who takes home the first place prize of €100,000 as well as the trophy and title. Salmi played i...

The first hand of heads-up saw the two players immediately get their chips all-in, more than a slight suspicion of a deal having been made i...

Having satellited in to the tournament, a quality finish and a nice payday for Alexander Lang must be encouraging for his poker overall. He...

Ville Salmi -- 2,538,000 Teemu Kangasvieri -- 1,496,000

The final remaining Portuguese player in the tournament has been eliminated in 3rd position after a valiant battle against the two Finns. H...

Teemu Kangasvieri makes it 105,000 from the button and Ville Salmi decides to just flat-call. They check the Q♠ T♠ T♦ J♦ 2♥ board to the riv...

The up-and-down run of Ville Salmi is on the upswing once again. Just now he called a button raise from Teemu Kangasvieri to 105k, seseing ...

Once again Pedro Demeyere has dropped below the 700,000 mark. He'll need to double up soon if he's to prevent an all-Finnish heads-u...

Several trips have been organised for players while they were here for Betsson Estoril Live. One of these was a wine-tasting trip, which can...

And it's the one that says, "All in," when you press the pedal, or any indicator, or turn the defogger on. In spite of paying ...

Ville Salmi - 1,841,000 Teemu Kangasvieri - 1,370,000 Pedro Demeyere - 853,000

Pedro Demeyere raises on the button and Kangasvieri calls from the big blind. Both check the K♣ 9♥ T♦ flop before Kangasvieri fires 135,000 ...

Unfazed by his recent power-poker type bad results, Ville Salmi (who said right from the start he was going to win this one) is showing no f...

Pedro Demeyere makes it 88,000 from the button and Teemu Kangasvieri calls from the big blind. Both check the K♣ K♥ 3♦ flop before the Finn ...

If the tension of the final table is getting to you, like it's getting to us - here's a bit of entertaining competition at the equal...

According to our secret sources (OK Portuguese blogger dinner pals) Pedro Demeyere is an unflappable character who's been a pro for 2 ye...

Pedro 'The Mayor' Demeyer (according to his shirt) is going to be a new force on the table, chipwise, having just received a huge do...

Teemu Kangasvieri raised to 85,000 from the button with Pedro Demeyere calling after much thought. Ville Salmi then reraised to 285,000 and ...

We're now playing 15,000/30,000 with a 3,000 ante. Rough counts: Salmi -- 2,000,000 Kangasvieri -- 1,000,000 Demeyere -- 1,000,000

Ville Salmi raised preflop to 51,000 and Pedro Demeyere reraised all-in for about 400,000. Salmi called and turned over A♥ T♠ wincing as Dem...

With the table still getting used to being four-handed, it quickly went down to three-handed as Alexander Lang moved all in preflop over a V...

With a stack teetering on the short now, Ola Brandborn flat called another Ville Salmi raise to 50k on the button. On the flop of 6♥ 2♦ K♠ ...

Two hands in a row has caused Ola Brandborn to lose more than half his stack in just a few minutes. First, Ville Salmi made it 55,000 from t...

...When he thought he was on the train to Doubletown! Alexander Lang just found a good spot to double, having raised preflop to 65k utg and ...

Ville Salmi has suffered a couple of setbacks, stackwise, in the post dinner period. Maybe it was the lovely rich fish and risotto dinner w...

It was passed to Ville Mattila on the button who moved all-in for his last 150,000 or so. Teemu Kangasvieri called in the small blind, Pedro...

We had a microchat with the finalists before the start of play today - here's their view in brief of the game ahead:

Ville Aleksi -- 1,020,000 Alexander Lang -- 350,000 Ola Brandborn -- 835,000 Ville Mattila -- 150,000 Teemu Kangasvieri -- 981,000 Pedro Dem...

Players are now on a 1 hour dinner break.

Alexander Lang raised to 40,000 on the button. Brandborn and Mattila called in the blinds. The three all checked the K♣ 9♠ 6♣ board, before ...

You'd think so, from the way almost every time Ola Brandborn makes it 40k to go utg this level. He's won more pots from this unorth...

Having been crippled in that previous hand, Daniel Ferreira, who started today as chip leader moved all-in for his last 140,000 from middle ...

Two hands in quick succession have made a dent appear in Daniel Ferreira's stack. The first saw Ola Brandborn raise under the gun (agai...

It's all about the Finns at the moment, Ville Salmi raised preflop to 39,000 but then folded with a heavy heart with Ville Mattila rerai...

New Chip Standings: Seat 1: Ville Salmi - 925,000 Seat 2: Alexander Lang - 342,000 Seat 3: Ola Brandborn - 360,000 Seat 4: Paul Jansen - OUT...

Teemu Kangasvieri raised preflop to 30,000 and Ville Matilla flat-called from the small blind. Both players checked the T♠ 7♥ 6♣ flop before...

Alexander Lang is one of the less experienced live players, and admits this final table is a great result for him - his first major live one...

1st -- €100,000 2nd -- €60,000 3rd -- €40,000 4th -- €31,000 5th -- €24,000 6th -- €18,000 7th -- €14,000 8th -- €11,000 -- Paul Jansen

Paul Jansen raised to 30,000 from the cutoff and it was passed around to Teemu Kangasvieri in the big blind, the Finn thought long and hard ...

Seat 1: Ville Salmi -930,000 Seat 2: Alexander Lang - 280,000 Seat 3: Ola Brandborn - 430,000 Seat 4: Paul Jansen - 330,500 Seat 5: Ville Ma...

Mattila (above) vs. Salmi... Heads up to a 5♦ 7♣ 2♠ flop. There was a bet here, I think from Salmi, on the button, and a call from Mattila ...

With the blinds now 6,000/12,000 with a 1,000 ante, Daniel Ferreira raised to 27,500 from early position. It was passed around to Ola Brandb...

Pedro Demeyere has joined the short list of people getting a couple of Teemu Kangasvieri's chips... Having played not much of a whisper ...

Daniel Ferreira might come across as quite a quiet player, thoughtful and reserved, but although he's not in every hand or a limelight h...

More small-ball poker going on at the moment, the number of 3-bets has considerably decreased overe the last half hour. Ola Brandborn called...

Here are some rough counts after the first 45 mins of the 4k/8k level: Seat 1: Ville Salmi - 850k Seat 2: Alexander Lang - 290k Seat 3: Ola ...

The first half of the first level has seen very few showdowns, but a good shakeup of a couple of the stack sizes. The main increaser is Vil...

Pedro Demeyere is a 32 year-old former sales manager, who went professional about 2 years ago. Demeyere mainly plays online sit 'n' ...

Teemu Kangasvieri is a 25 year-old from Finland, he's mainly an online tournament player having played poker for about four years. Kanga...