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Ziigmund loses $500,000 to "Isildur1" in hefty PLO session
Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom last night faced off in what could be the last big session of the year. Blom came out on top with a $500,000 profit, sending him into a $1.5 million plus for the year.
The high stakes PLO games on PokerStars last night witnessed a true heavyweight run-in between two of the game's biggest stars.

Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom have been among the most active players of all this year, and last night the two superstars turned their attention to each other in a lengthy game of $50/$100 heads-up PLO.

According to Highstakesdb.com, the two played a little more than 1,000 hands across roughly two hours, resulting in a massive $492,571 win for Blom.

The session among other things saw Blom rake in a $107,770 pot, in a hand where both players made two pair on a flop.

Sahamies, playing as "Ilari FIN", was keen on getting the money to the middle with his , but unfortunately for the Finn, Blom had made two better pair with his .

The turn and the river didn't improve neither hand, and "Isildur1" could scoop in the biggest pot of the night.

With his latest win, Blom is now closing in on a profit for 2011 worth $1.5 million. Not a bad result for the young Swede's first year as a Team PokerStars pro, and even more impressing when considering that $1 million has been won within the past three weeks alone.

Sahamies, in turn, dropped to profits of around $2.1 million for the year, which is nonetheless still enough for a second place spot on the all-year winners list, trailing only Gus Hansen at $3.9 million.
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By David Michael Barnwell
Poker.org News Editor
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178
5 months ago
Bolom you are a beast, just hope you dont go on Monkey Tilt and loose big, nice to see he winning big, Ziggy a gr8 player and was unlicky on one of the last hands i saw when Blom rivered a Queen. GL to all highstakes pros, keep us railbirds happy in 2012
772
5 months ago
Ouch thats got to hurt a little
heck thats some peoples life savings in 1 session
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5 months ago
I was watching him 3 days ago playing with Sahamies,and ok isildur plays good but sahamis is over him at pl omaha but,isildur have a lot of luck...the river is with him 60% of the hands and this is why he made milions..he is born for this...his talent...i wish i can disover mine some day:))
Edited by h1span1k 5 months ago
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5 months ago
Omg,,,this is unreal!!!!!!!!!!
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4 months ago
Dam must be nice to have 500,000 to lose
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