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Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies eyes Entraction action
Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies finished 2011 as the biggest winner of all on PokerStars. The Finnish high roller, however, is looking beyond the world's biggest poker site and says he is ready to find action wherever it is.
Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies finished 2011 with profits worth millions of dollars, playing predominantly in PokerStars' high stakes PLO games under his "Ilari FIN" moniker.

Having turned around a nightmare year, the Finnish PowerPoker pro is seemingly back in form, and he now reveals that he is likely to take his action wherever people the biggest games are running, including outside of the PokerStars domain.

More precisely, Sahamies plans to join the high stakes games on the Entraction Network, which has hosted some of the biggest alternatives to the PokerStars games in recent months.

"I have noticed the recent action on Entraction, so you will soon see me there," Sahamies told Pokernyhederne.com.

Sahamies was interviewed from Thailand, where he is on holiday with his girlfriend. As soon as he returns to Europe, he plans to take a shot on the network, which hosts 24hPoker among others.

"I will probably begin playing there in about a months time, once I am back from Thailand," he said.

"Ziigmund" further revealed that he won close to $2 million on PokerStars in 2011, but that he also lost close to $700,000 on Full Tilt Poker before that.

That leaves the Finn with a yearly profit of $1.3 million, which he classifies as "alright, but with room for improvement."

So far, the improvement has still to wait a bit, as "Ziigmund" has started out 2012 with a $120,000 loss.

The loss was inflicted yesterday by eternal rival Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, who is now up $107,000 for the year.

The only player to have won more than that so far is "mTw-DaviN", who is up almost $125,000 since January first.
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By David Michael Barnwell
Poker.org News Editor
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5 months ago
Anyone knows what Dwan is doing now? only The Macau?
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5 months ago
I did not heard much about him since full tilt had closed..I've heard that he plays live more and this is a good thing for him, from my point of view he is a better live player then online one.
perhaps he's girlfriend have more atention now:))
When fulltilt winn reopen i think we will se him at the tables
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5 months ago
My guess is he is playing on Stars under a nick we don't know belong to him. I doubt he is keeping exclusively to live poker. But that's my guess, and little more than that.
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5 months ago
Good luck to him and in the future
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5 months ago
Dwan is rumoured to be "long90110" on Stars, unconfirmed but a lot of talk aboutit also "FakeLove888" is Patrik Antonius. Also unconfirmed. But a few good friends i know in the poker world have said while Dwan is in Macau he is seen multitaleling on Stars and the screen name did apparently be under his Gf's name.
So take what u want from that, that is all i know.
Sure we wil never find out propper allso would love to find out who "iPartyPoker" is.
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5 months ago
"POkerparty?" that was meant to say sorry
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