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  It isn't every day you find a fellow whose nickname is "Hellraiser" at a place like the Aviation Club in Paris, but such was the case at the Grand Prix de Paris, part of the sixth season of the ultra popular World Poker Tour. The man in question was a young internet pro poker player named Jani Sointula, who hailed from Finland. The long haired player certainly didn't look like a Hellraiser, but he did show very great poker perception, as is seen in this hand.



  Henrik Witt, a tough player from Denmark that won the first two pots of the final table event with pure aggression, opened up this hand with a nice pocket pair. Henrik raised to 38,000 Euros in tourney chips with:






... He looked up and twitched his eyebrows, but by now the other players were used to his facial tics and likely did not think of them as tells.



  The youngest player at the table, 20 year old Swede Philip Yeh, called with:






... Then it was Hellraiser's turn. Jani "Hellraiser" Sointula, fellow Scandinavian that he was, was not intimidated by the other two players. In fact, he had been watching them quite closely, and examined their betting patterns for weakness. The raise was a fairly small one, and a simple call from Philip also showed weakness. Jani thought for a bit, going "into the tank" as they say, and then made a decision. With:






... Jani re-raised to 138,000 Euros. As he had not played a single hand before this, he was given the maximum respect. Henrik took a look at his pair and - although it probably pained him to do so - threw it into the muck. Yeh, who one might argue shouldn't have been in the hand in the first place, followed suit, and Hellraiser took down the pot.