Finland’s top tournament player has booked a seat at the PartyPoker.com World Open VI final table.

Juha Helppi, Finland’s all-time leading money winner with over $3 million in career tournament earnings, pushed past a heat that included PartyPoker spokesman Mike Sexton, French legend Bruno Fitoussi and red-hot Canadian Sorel Mizzi inside London’s Palm Beach Casino Thursday.

However, the toughest test came from the two women in the heat, Jennifer Tilly and Sandra Naujoks, who finished second and third.

Helppi will join Yevgeniy Timoshenko, Dale Hoy, Sam Trickett, Andrew Robl and John Duthie in Friday's final.

Plus, the winner of a runner-up heat that includes Tilly, Frank Kassela, Marty Smyth, Brandon Cantu, Toby Lewis and MB Mahmoud.

The $480,000 prize pool will be shared amongst the finalists with $200,000 going to the winner.