Helppi a Millionaire

Martin Jacobson opened to 35,000 from the hijack and his neighbor Juha Helppi in the cutoff made the call. Stephen Chidwick thought about it for a little bit, and all of the sudden Jean-Noel Thorel announced "Reraise!" before pushing 191,000 forward. Chidwick knew enough, laughed a bit, and folded. Thorel's three-bet stood and Jacobson moved out of the way.

Helppi wasn't so quick to give up though and thought for a bit. He eventually pushed all in for 588,000 and Thorel snap called.

"Ahh merde!" said Thorel with a quiet voice as he discovered his was in bad shape against Helppi's .

The flop came about as good as they could come for Thorel though: . Helppi was literally holding his breath as the dealer burned and turned the . The river followed not much later and Helppi now breathe a sigh of relief.