WPT Season 6 - First Hand Is a Charm

  When you are sitting at a table full of poker pros, and two of the six of you have already busted out, and you have yet to play a hand, the other three players are going to show you a healthy amount of respect. That was the case at the final table of the Grand Prix de Paris, the sixth season of the World Poker Tour that took place at the Aviation Club. Two players from Finland and two from Denmark were all that was left, and one of the latter two, Christian Grundtvig, had yet to play a single hand.



  Henrik Witt, also from Demark, started things off by folding:






... pre flop, an interesting move in a four handed game, but one which probably saved him a decent amount of money.



  Finland's Thomas Wahlroos raised the action to 40,000 in tourney Euros with:






... enjoying this hand against two random hands in the blinds. His buddy, though, liked his small blind hand even better. Hopping to steal with it later, the man they called "Hellraiser", Fin Jani Sointula, simply called with:






... And then it was the quiet man's turn to act. Christian, in his first act that didn't involve tossing cards into the muck, raised to 260,000 Euros with the exact same hand Jani had:






... Jani had been making incredible reads all day. He had put opponents on hands and made dicey calls to win time and time again. When Christian raised, however, his respect was too much. He and Thomas foled, and Christian won his first hand of the game.