Juha Helppi Wins Premier League

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March 7, 2007 - Juha Helppi overcomes odds and wins Premier League

Juha Helppi has overcome steep odds and just defeated 19 of the World's top poker tournament professionals to claim the inaugural Premier League title.

Juha is a well respected professional who has a WPT Title and 2 million dollars in winnings under his belts. Despite his many accomplishments he was disrespected by odds makers who gave him just an 8% chance to win this tournament. Those who bet him when he was trading a 12.0 cashed in big time and perhaps he will not be such a big underdog next time around.

Helppi had a 4-1 chip leads over Eddy Scharf when they were heads up and he locked up the Title and $500,000 prize in just 8 minutes from the time they were heads up.

This event had $260,000 added to the prize pool by Party Poker who became the official Premier League sponsor after the event had been arranged by Matchroom Sports.

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