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"The great dictator speech by Charlie Chaplin"
Samuli "TheJudas" Sipilä
Professional poker player, Beasts of Poker Pro
- Favorite game: PLO heads up
- Favorite poker destination: Aussie Millions in Melbourne
- Favorite drink: Rosé wine
- Biggest win: Party's monthly million ages ago for 200k$
Samuli is a long time mid-stakes cash-game professional with two SCOOP titles, Aussie Million title and partypokers monthly million title on his belt. He is the writer of the nominated Gambler’s Diary and can be often seen on Beasts of Poker’s Twitch, having fun playing poker while enjoying an occasional glass of wine in the process.
Gambler's Diary
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Gambler’s Diary: Jamming
Jamming the story of grandma, losing and having a stick up your ass. Material things won’t give you much after enough time has
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Gambler’s Diary XXVII: Vegas (3/3)
Muling and Heads up for Rollz I wake up and the world is not all right. The anxieties with a massive headache hit me
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Gambler’s Diary XXVI – Vegas (2/3)
Cobb salad I cannot sleep. It has been a week since I arrived in Vegas and my inner clock is bust. Everything else is
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Gambler’s Diary XXV: Vegas (1/3)
Prelude “There’s hurricane season in Cancun and it seems that it’s going to rain every day, I vote that we don’t go there” AkuJ
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2020 + 6 days
Sometime in April Murphy’s law states that everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. My year so far has proved the law to be
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Mild Madness
God damn, there’s no games. I thought and hopped on to a sofa. I already led the plo200 leaderboard but felt like I hadn’t played
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“I’m late”
It’s a scary sentence even in the best of times, luckily, this time, I’m only referring to my writings. But yeah, I, indeed am late.
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Twitch
Something Twitchy this way comes When Beasts of Poker asked me to twitch some of my online action, I was hesitant. Believe it or not – I
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One hand of Chinese
Last day in Cannes. A big group of Finnish poker professionals are sitting at an hotel bar. The weather is pleasant, the night is warm
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Just the Tip(s)
“At some point you are going to run worse than you ever thought possible” – Said someone who I’m too lazy to google right now.
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Return of the Ape
On AirAsian flight from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur. The luggage was dropping from the overhead cabins when I woke up Mr.J and told him that
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The two towers (In Mallacoota)
“FUUUCK” Joni screamed. I was pushed on the other side of my seat as we just missed oncoming traffic. “Hey! Don’t drive like a dick
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The Fellowship of the Ring
I played the 2017 Aussie Millions main event for three long days. On the third day Judas did not rise to heaven – no, he
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Zac
Zac I’m trying to sleep. Sleep rarely comes easy to me. As soon as I shut my eyes my brain starts a program called “the
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The next one
“Why don’t you write something positive? “, she asked. I looked at her. “What do you mean?” “Well, people will really think that you’ve some
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Just another Tuesday
Third day of high-volume grind and I’m starting to feel a bit sleep deprived. Four to five hours of sleep combined with a 12- hour
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“P.S. Plz wire me 100k”
Last week, in Tallinn. I arrive happily to Tallinn’s Hilton Hotel Casino, partly because we have agreed to play some bigger drunken poker, and partly
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Tell no lie, show no tell
We’re playing a 10k tournament at Aviation Club, Paris. “I’m all-in” the Frenchman said. “How much is it?” my friend, the Grand Daddy of Finnish
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Battle of Religions
Sorry for being late. I’ve been really busy with grinding partypokers fast-forward player pools lately (also managed my time like a total moron). I’ll be
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One Yacht, please
At 6pm the next day we’re sitting at the lobby bar of Marriott hotel, Mr.Parkkinen has not called us back and is now four hours
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Welcome to Miami
”Man, we have to go”, Mr.J said. “Really? Do we now? “, I replied. “Yeah! See, first we do the Ultra Music Festival in Miami
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Runner Runner
I’m lying on a sofa. Dead. The year is 2014 and our poker group is in Barcelona for the annual EPT. Some flashes of drinking
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Park bench in Barcelona
Waiter brought the plate with some bread. With very broken English he said: “You dip la pan with dis”, smiled and walked away. “Did he
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Champagne and Caviar
“Please remove your laptop and place it on a separate bin”, security officer stated to me in monotone. There was not one shred of joy
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Mad King
I open my door exhausted. SCOOP’s are finally over. A 16-day poker madness that had nearly cost me my mental health but managed to be
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High stakes phone call
“Could you tell me your mother’s maiden name, your address and your date of birth?”, said the lady on the phone in perfect English. “Su-sure”,
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And the river is…
See, this is what we call a straight draw…” my father said and pointed to the screen. I was not familiar with Texas Hold’em. I
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Fortunate Son
This blog is about my poker journey as far as I recall it (and I can guarantee, that I don’t recall all of it). If