Meet The Current Chip Leader Ville Sissonen
Apr 19, '14
Finland’s Ville Sissonen is currently chipleader in the 2014 Irish Open main event with 347,700.
Sissonen won a huge pot earlier today to cripple defending champion Ian Simpson, who was elimianted shortly after.
The Finn’s best prior score came when he won a €1,050 no-limit hold’em event in Talinn in 2008 for €15,536.
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Antoine Smits Eliminates Ville Sissonen In 12th Place ( €9,300)
Apr 20, '14
Antoine Smits moved all-in with K
K
and action folded around to Ville Sissonen, who called. Sissonen showed A7
.
Sissonen, who began the day as the chipleader, saw his tournament come to an end when the board ran out Q43
92.
Sissonen was eliminated as the 12th place finisher for €9,300.
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Robert Murphy Doubles Through Ville Sissonen
Apr 20, '14
Action folds to Robert Murphy in the small blind who raised to 60,000 and Ville Sissonen three-bet all in for Murphy’s last 486,000. Murphy snap-called and tabled AK and was in great shape against Sissonen’s A5.
There wasn’t much of a sweat as the board ran out 1094J6 and Sissonen ships chips across the table while Murphy doubles up to just over a million in chips.
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Ville Sissonen and Liam Chavalier Reach One Million
Apr 20, '14
Ville Sissonen and Liam Chavalier are the first players to surpass the one million in chips. Sissonen is currently leading with 1.313 million and Chavalier is close behind with 1.170 million.
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Ville Sissonen Eliminates Shaun Hegarty
Apr 20, '14
Ville Sissonen raised from the cutoff and called a shove from Shaun Hegarty out of the small blind for roughly 140,000.
Sissonen tables AJ and is in the lead against Hegarty’s A8. The board runs out K6456 and Sissonen sends Hegarty home in 34th place while increasing his chip lead and sitting with 1,235,000
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