As of 7pm Beijing time today, Finland has just two medals at the Olympics. Thirty-seven year old mother of two, Satu Makela-Nummela, won the gold in the women’s trap shooting on Monday (and her country’s 100th gold medal in the history of the games) whilst Henri Hakkinen owns a bronze after the men’s 10m air rifle battle.
However, looking at the recent no-limit shootout in Estonia, should poker ever be made an Olympic event, we can expect Finland to reach their second century of medals in less than hundred years.
In a vision of things to come, Finnish players filled the top three places of Friday’s main event of the Olympic Summer Festival in Tallinn.
So imposing was their presence at the Olympic Casino that there was only one other nation represented at the final table and those players were just a smattering of local pros who had presumably been kicked out of the local boozer.
Forty-one players dodged the pleasures of the Olympic opening ceremony and paid €750 for some poker fireworks. Many hours later, Kimmo Kurko was the man to ascend to the torch and scoop in the cash.
Olympic Summer Festival 2008 €750 NL Freezeout, Tallinn, Estonia
1. Kimmo Kurko - Fin - €8,914
2. Hannu Korva - Fin - €5,821
3. Jukka Juvonen - Fin - €4,302
4. Rain Elmik - Est - €3,037
5. Vallo Maidla - Est -€2,025
6. Jarmo Harma - Fin - €1,631
7. Mart Pork - Est - €1,294
8. David Jakobson - Fin - €1,097
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