Finnish Poker Player Wins Big for 1,000,000,000th Hand

Monday, 6 November 2006

Lady Luck was well and truly on the side of 27-year-old Finnish poker enthusiast Petteri S. as he sat playing Texas Hold em’ on IntertopsPoker.com, when his table was handed the honour of receiving the 1,000,000,000th played hand on the network.

Lady Luck was well and truly on the side of 27-year-old Finnish poker enthusiast Petteri S. as he sat playing Texas Hold em’ on IntertopsPoker.com, when his table was handed the honour of receiving the 1,000,000,000th played hand on the network.
Petteri S. instantly won a cash prize and free entries to all guaranteed tournaments for a whole day. Additionally, he also received free entry to a $250,000 guaranteed tournament.
Using his alias 'T-Bone-Pete', Petteri S is a fairly new to online poker. “I have only been playing poker for six months. I never imagined that I could win so big, so quickly,” he said. The Fin had started playing at IntertopsPoker.com just two days previously.
The Billionth Hand promotion the latest in a series of player incentives from IntertopsPoker.com, the site which claims to offer the most satellites to land-based tournaments online.



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