Jani "KObyTAPOUT" Vilmunen recently won the PokerStars WCOOP $2,100 PLO 6-max, and most notably, just 8 days later he took down his first WSOP bracelet at the WSOPE £5,000 PLO event. In an interview with Coinflip.com, Jani talks about his poker background and the games at Bobby's Room this summer.

Jani says he got hooked on the game when he wandered to the poker room by chance 11 years ago at the Grand Casino Helsinki in Finland. Nowadays he plays mainly 25/50 or 50/100 online, sometimes also 200/400 or 300/600. His best game is PLO with some NL Hold'em on the side.

Jani says he plays best when he's got two tables running at the same time. If he plays three tables, he will sometimes make a mistake that tilts him and ruins the session. "My style is different from most players'. I try to win lots of pots so I need to concentrate very hard on every hand," he explains to Coinflip.com. "If I lose focus with three tables running, it's a recipe for disaster."

"Playing lower (at 25/50 or 500/100) has done good for my game cause I've had to learn to control myself more. I've learned to play against shortstackers and found out that I don't have to be so aggressive all the time."

"The games are a bit softer at mid stakes and the downswings are easier to take, especially if you're used to the swings at high stakes. I have the skills to beat the high stakes games, but I'm not so good at other things, like maintaining my focus. Take Patrik (Antonius) for example, he's miles ahead of me in that sense. He's perfectly balanced mentally and he takes care of his body, too, not just his mind. I have a lot of work to do before I'm at the same level."

Going on to the high stakes games at Bobby's Room this summer, Jani says that his results sucked but it was still his best ever trip to Las Vegas.

"I learned so much there," he says to Coinflip.com. "I had a chance to watch Patrik, Phil Ivey, Rafi Amit who's a brilliant player. Those guys do everything right, and I don't mean just their game. Patrik is so totally focused during a hand that he doesn't even hear you if you try to speak to him."

"I think I played good there but I just got one beat after another," Jani says. (For the record, Patrik Antonius also told us that Jani played very well but got cold decked.)

"I played about twenty 700k+ pots and won maybe one of them. It's pretty hard to make money when you're running that bad. Still it was a fantastic trip, and it felt great to play live games again. It put the spark back in my game even though I lost."

"Doyle said that the Finns hurt the poker economy in Las Vegas, but that's not exactly true," Jani says. "There were me, Patrik, Ilari and Sami, and Patrik was the only one of us who actually won. But what we did was liven up the games," Jani states, and mentions just one example of a sure way to liven up any game: put a drunken Ilari into it.

"Limit games are so nitty," Jani concludes. "It was always much more fun when we were playing PLO, NL Hold'em or NL Deuce to Seven."