Phil Ivey has been loosing horribly to Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies in pot-limit Omaha, but now he can smile when he has found a new opponent to play some no-limit Texas Hold’em. His new opponent plays under the nickname seda1 and in their latest heads-up battle Ivey won app. $300.000.
Ivey looking good with this nice stack:
Here [...]
Ok, some more proof that someone else is playing under the account FinddaGrind from time to time. Patrik Antonius is known to own this account but there has been rumors that for example Tony G had played with his account.
On monday when FinddaGrind was playing at Full Tilt we saw also -ANTONIUS- sitting at b2b-tables [...]
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Ilari Sahamies (Ziigmund) has been lately playing a lot against Phil Ivey heads-up… and winning nicely.
Phil starting to get tired? Again today Ivey started with a nice lead - Ilari reloading a couple of times. Before they hit a huge pot - the 3rd largest online pot ever.. and Ilari winning it again:
Phil Ivey [...]
Daniel Negreanu (KidPoker) doesn’t like Josh Field (JJProdigy) too much.
Josh was interviewed by Poker Road a while ago conserning his cheating/multiple account issues. Negreanu got really frustrated becouse Josh was handled really easily. He was not confronted with real questions about his cheatings and they let him get away easily from saying “I can’t promise [...]
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We saw a short session where FinddaGrind (Patrik Antonius) and Ziigmund (Ilari Sahamies) faced eachother heads-up. FinddaGrind won about $80.000 in a short session. After they quit Sahamies wrote on the chat:
Ziigmund: wp tony
Ziigmund: gg
FinddaGrind: gg
Another interesting piece of information was earlier when Tony G was playing in the Crown Casino but sitting at [...]
This month seems again pretty nice for these two players from Finland. They are currently the biggest winners at Full Tilt Pokers Omaha tables - Ziigmund (Ilari Sahamies) booking winnings worth $750.000 and FinddaGrind close to $650.000. Ziigmund is up also over $200.000 from NL Texas Hold’em.
The biggest losers so far have been “idontgiveashi”, Phil [...]
Some sick sessions with Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies again at Full Tilt Poker. Two days ago he met Phil Ivey again at Ivey Thunderdome and winning the 5th largest online-pot ever - worth $359.999,50:
Phil Ivey raises to $3,000
Ziigmund calls $2,000
*** FLOP *** T♥5♦8♥
Ziigmund checks
Phil Ivey bets $5,000
Ziigmund calls $5,000
*** TURN *** T♥5♦8♥5♠
Ziigmund checks
Phil Ivey bets $14,000
Ziigmund [...]
After the Aussie Millions there were some really nice cashgames going on. The largest ones were $500/1000 and $1000/2000 no-limit Texas hold’em and pot-limit Omaha. Some rumours have spread out:
-Patrik Antonius won over $500.000 in one session.
-Niki Jedlicka lost over $500.000 to Jeffrey Lissandro and Tony G
-Niki thinks that Lissandro sucks big time at Omaha [...]
Ilari Sahamies aka. Ziigmund has been making a lot of noise on the chat lately. Here are some of his best shots:
Gus Hansen: you cant get lucky every time
Ziigmund: fcuk u r retard
Ziigmund: how u can say so?
Ziigmund: u had again 6 out
Ziigmund: f tilt retard
Ziigmund: u r f retard
Ziigmund: i wanna u [...]
Bertrand Grospellier “ElkY” is very well known player from PokerStars. He also won PokerStars own Caribbean Adventure 2008 - taking home $2.000.000.
He was spotted yesterday playing at the $0.25/0.50 limit Holdem table with a nice bankroll:
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies has started this year with some huge swings
15.1. +380k
17.1. -494k <–Ziggy blow-up?
18.1. -304k <–Ziggy blow-up part2?
19.1. +368k
But after these two horrible days his is still up +280k this month!
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Highstakes pro Tom Dwan (durrr) told that his AIM-instant messenger account has been hacked. The hacker has used Dwans account to send messages and links to his contacts. Hacker has tried to get huge amounts of money from Dwan and his friends.
This has happened now twice, during both times Dwan has been playing in a [...]
Check out this stylish dude! Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies showing his playah clothes!
Patrik “FindDaGrind / I_Knockout_U” Antonius shared his feelings in a short interview during The Game.
Antonius told that about 90% of the poker community wishes he would go broke. He also countinued to tell that there are lots of backstabber in the community… and that many player “love to talk lots of shit”.
When asked about his [...]
PokerStars winner takes it all $5000+200 tournament gathered 20 players to battle for the $100.000 first price. There were lots of familiar names in the mix including Daniel Negreanu (KidPoker) and Barry Greenstein (barryg1).
Barry made his way to the finals playing Peter Jetten (Apathy) for the win. Peter suggested a deal but Barry declined… better [...]
Gus Hansen told that internet-poker at Full Tilt Pokers high-limit tables can be very addictive for him. Winning and losing enormous amount in short sessions can make you wanna play even more…
Thats why Gus has played for example:
-while lying in the bed
-while watching a movie on a couch
-with wireless connection while sitting in a car!!! [...]
Ok here are the top3 most interesting things happening lately.
3. DaFool this months biggest Omaha winner
-DaFool has booked already impressive winnings worth $487.000.
2. ElkY wins EPT Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure
-PokerStars own player Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier has proven to be the top player not only online but in live tournaments also. Winning EPT made him $2.000.000 [...]
Patrik Antonius aka. FindDaGrind has put up a list of best online players in each format and best live tournament players.
So here are his picks, what are yours?
Fixed Limit HoldEm:
- Matt “Hoss TBF” Hawrilenko
- Bryce “Freedom25″ Paradis
- Phil Ivey
- David Benyamine
No Limit HoldEm:
- Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro
- Brian “sbrugby” Townsend
- Phil “OmgClayAiken” Galfond
- Chris “Genius28″ Lee
- [...]
We have witnessed Ilari Sahamies aka. Ziigmund playing a lot lately and challenging Phil Ivey at the Ivey Thunderdome table pot-limit Omaha with $500/1000 blinds.
One fast session ended with Sahamies winning $100.000 in two hands… and Phil was gone. Ilari seemed a bit drunk, going wild in the chat:
Ziigmund: Hellmuth or MAtusow???????
both so retard
Ziigmund: [...]
How are the railbirds doing? We have been having some time off and seems like the high stakes games are running wild again! So lets get back in business…
