One of Pokerati\’s media eavesdroppers got the real skinny on what went wrong with the Finnish national anthem yesterday. Indeed, Jeffrey Pollack and Seth Palansky acknowledged to each other that the anthem played to honor $10k Mixed World Champion Ville Wahlbeck was not that of his native Finland — it was Sweden\’s.
(Oops.)
During the ceremony Wahlbeck leaned over to Pollack and said, \”This is a nice song, but it\’s not the Finnish National Anthem.\”
\”Roll with it,\” Pollack replied.
Palansky said that he got the song off the internet, and it was labeled as \”Track #37: Finnish National Anthem.\”
LOL, when are WSOP officials going to learn not to trust what they find on the internet?
And now that he\’s won a bracelet, have a listen to the youngster Scandi pro talk about how he\’s ready to retire from poker … save for the World Series, WSOP-Europe, the EPT, and maybe some other tournaments.
