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Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies hits the wall, drops almost $500k
Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies this morning experienced somewhat of a nightmare session, following a return to the high stakes PLO tables on PokerStars.
The Finnish high roller has been absent from the biggest ring games for while, but seemingly decided that Thursday morning was the right time for him to give the nosebleed action another shot.
However, following a nightmarish session of 1,574 hands, the Sahamies registered one of his biggest single losing days in several months, eventually logging off with a massive $493,864 loss.
According to Highstakesdb.com, Sahamies was facing a number of regulars during his run, including "bernard-bb", Ben "toweliestar" Spindler, and Rafael "refaelamit" Amit, who all registered big profits from the encounter.
The biggest winner was "bernard-bb", who managed to take home more than $150,000 from 1,927 hands.
Sahamies, who played under his "Ilari FIN" PokerStars moniker, was later seen asking Viktor "Isildur1" Blom for action, telling the Swedish Team PokerStars pro that he was "tilted" from the bad run earlier on the day.
The losing streak is by far the biggest of all high stakes players this year, and will leave "Ziigmund" among the very biggest losers of the year.
Only a handful of players have so far lost more than $500,000 in 2012, among them Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond, who now top the overall yearly losers list.
In the other end of the rankings, Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen continues as the biggest winner of the year with profits of $1,009,480, followed by "patpatman", who is up $973,130 so far.
The Finnish high roller has been absent from the biggest ring games for while, but seemingly decided that Thursday morning was the right time for him to give the nosebleed action another shot.
However, following a nightmarish session of 1,574 hands, the Sahamies registered one of his biggest single losing days in several months, eventually logging off with a massive $493,864 loss.
According to Highstakesdb.com, Sahamies was facing a number of regulars during his run, including "bernard-bb", Ben "toweliestar" Spindler, and Rafael "refaelamit" Amit, who all registered big profits from the encounter.
The biggest winner was "bernard-bb", who managed to take home more than $150,000 from 1,927 hands.
Sahamies, who played under his "Ilari FIN" PokerStars moniker, was later seen asking Viktor "Isildur1" Blom for action, telling the Swedish Team PokerStars pro that he was "tilted" from the bad run earlier on the day.
The losing streak is by far the biggest of all high stakes players this year, and will leave "Ziigmund" among the very biggest losers of the year.
Only a handful of players have so far lost more than $500,000 in 2012, among them Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and Phil "MrSweets28" Galfond, who now top the overall yearly losers list.
In the other end of the rankings, Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen continues as the biggest winner of the year with profits of $1,009,480, followed by "patpatman", who is up $973,130 so far.
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277
3 months ago
Ouch but Isildur is a big rollercoaster, going up and down up after.
I don't know if Powerpoker still exists but he do play good Poker.
I don't know if Powerpoker still exists but he do play good Poker.
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3 months ago
Sorry to read about Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies. It seems he picked the wrong day to come back to poker and donate $500,000 only into pokerstars high stakes games. Its a small donation from strange people who are up and down millions of dollars, but i wish them well. Ive been fortunate enough to be born into a reasonably rich family, but i will never gamble at the highest stakes of online or real life poker because of the swings and risk of negative variance.
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3 months ago
He plays the way you lose massive amounts, because he will probably recoup his loses in no time. never can know what he is playing, will get paid off massively if he actually hits his hands.
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3 months ago
Pot limit Omaha is a deadly game if you are even a fraction off on your reads. With his aggressive style it can, and did ,lead to this downturn. The game has so many draw shots that early aggression...even WITH a PLO monster is bad news.
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