Big poker tournament prize for Finnish player in Estonia.
Finland's Johanna Pyysing has won the first leg of the European Masters of Poker Series in Tallinn.The Scandinavian poker ace outlasted a field of 248 players and beat Bjorn-Erik Glenne of Norway in heads-up play to claim the €69,400 (£61,740) first prize in the Estonian capital.
Glenne, a former European Poker Tour (EPT) event winner, took home €44,640 for second place and former chess prodigy Jeff Sarwar of Canada pocketed €29,760 for finishing third.
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The next European Masters of Poker event will take place in Varna, Bulgaria from April 15th to 18th.
Pyysing is not the first Finn to win a major poker prize this month, with Helsinki teenager Jens Kyllonen taking down the EPT Copenhagen event last week.
The 19-year-old beat Sweden's Peter Hedlund in a heads-up battle in Denmark to win €878,057 and secure a place at the EPT grand final in Monte Carlo later this year.
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