The Mysterious Finnish Poker Pro: ismo<3seppo's Dominance on PokerStars

The PokerStars Tournament Leaderboard (TLB) was a feature where the winner's portrait was displayed on the PokerStars client's homepage. The TLB winner received a $1,000 prize pool addition for heads-up matches against PokerStars professionals.

In 2015, the TLB prize pool for the top 40 players was approximately $450,000. The anonymous Finnish player ismo<3seppo has won the TLB for three consecutive years. ismo<3seppo's statistics are blocked on search engines like Sharkscope or OPR.

ismo<3seppo's score in 2015 was 61,859 points, with 109 tournament wins and 567 top-10 finishes. The second-place finisher, Allen "Sifosis" Bakke, scored 58,990 points. The third-place finisher, Aaron "aguskb" Gustavson, scored 56,823 points. The best Russian finisher, MiracleQ, scored 46,370 points. The 30th place finisher, Ivan "LeBronn2333" Pozhilov, scored 45,972 points. ismo<3seppo's prize for winning the TLB included $35,000 in cash, free entry to all Sunday Million tournaments in 2016, and $5,000 for COOP online series buy-ins. Pavel "Mountain Rose" Veksler commented that ismo<3seppo played 35,000 tournaments in 2015 and earned approximately $1 per tournament plus $50,000 from the leaderboard and $70,000 from rakeback. Artem "Fanjke" Kobylinsky described ismo<3seppo's play style as straightforward and not very high-level.