Juha Helppi

Juha Helppi, born on 4 March 1977, is a Finnish professional poker player from Helsinki. He was originally a croupier who worked as a dealer for RAY in Finland but never dealt poker. He made a name for himself in the first World Poker Tour event in Aruba, where he eliminated Kathy Liebert on the way to defeating Phil Gordon in a heads-up challenge match, and has since made two other WPT final tables, a fourth place in the Season 1 Battle of Champions and a second place to Roland De Wolfe in the 2005 Grand Prix de Paris. At the 2019 World Series of Poker he won his first bracelet in Event 72, the 10,000 dollar Limit Hold'em Championship, defeating Mike Lancaster heads-up for 306,622 dollars in a field of 118, after three earlier WSOP runner-up finishes, and he won his second bracelet in the 2020 WSOP Online. He has finished in the money in 29 WSOP events.