
Ilari Sahamies aka. Ziigmund is well known for his behaviour - last time we showed you the Players Tequila by him. Lately he also told during The Game-show that he “drinks alcohol more than a regular person”… and that leads to some interesting situations.
After a few drinks he made a crazy bet with another crazy [...]

So rumors are that the player behind the nickname “seda1″ would be a wealthy businessman called Shaw Sedaghat. He is already known for playing in some really high-stakes poker games. He is known for winning millions from Ron Meyer (the long time head of Universal Studios).
Sedaghat has been seen also at the live tournament circuit, [...]

If you have been railing the games at Full Tilt Poker lately you surely have seen durrrr (Tom Dwan) sitting at almost every table possible. He is known for his skills to multitable pretty well…
Yesterday he was spotted playing simultaniously:
FOUR Omaha tables with $200/400 blinds
+TWO heads-up Omaha tables against Ziigmund (Ilari Sahamies) with $200/400 blinds
+THREE [...]

Jonas “Nebuchad” Danielsson received a prize at the Scandinavian Poker Awards for the best online-player title. The ceremony was hosted by PokerStars Daniel Negreanu.
Negreanu asks him to explain a bit the history behind the nickname “Nebuchad” and things start to go wrong, check out the video here:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDBXbbUd0cw&rel=1]
Obviously Jonas messes up a bit with his words [...]

Phil Ivey has been doing really well lately. During the last couple of days he has beaten Phil Galfond aka. OMGClayAiken for more then $200.000 and Di Dang (Urindanger) also. But the best matches for Ivey have been against the screenname seda1 - he already had won more than $500.000 from seda1.
Yesterday we saw on [...]

Who is your favourite poker player? Many would say Daniel Negreanu without a doubt. Negreanu is one of the most liked poker players not only by railbirds but also by fellow poker players. He is also one of the most successful players ever in both tournament and cash-games. PokerStars did a nice job by recruiting [...]

Very popular poker person Thomas Wahlroos who has also signed with Full Tilt Poker showed his playing skills at the FTOPS (Full Tilt Online Poker Series) Main Event. The tournament had a $500+35 buy-in and the winner “Reverse” earned $456,401.66 while Wahlroos had to settle for $276,454.75.
Wahlroos is known also from the big pot-limit Omaha [...]

Ilari Sahamies shows you how to drink Tequila like a true player - you need to change the normal order a bit. Normally you would first lick the salt then drink the tequila and make it a bit easier for your mouth with the lime in the end.
But this is the way Ziigmund does [...]

Ok guys… it’s weekend and we have had a huge amount of requests about Jennifer Tilly. So we will bring you now some nice pics and a very nice video of her playing.. and showing off!
Enjoy!
Jennifer and his boyfriend professional poker player Phil “the Unabomber” Laak (that lucky bastard!):
Jennifer playing at Poker Superstars:
Very… very nice [...]

Lately we have seen Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies beating Phil Ivey every time they play - but this time was different. Phil Ivey accepted Ilaris challenge to play some pot-limit Omaha at Full Tilt Poker.
Ilari won the first big pot worth $220.000 but then everything went wrong for him. Ivey first doubling up and then [...]

Ok, this has been confirmed by many reliable sources - Hac Dang used to play before with the screenname jinsokkp but now he is the man behind trex313. So Dang brothers are rolling pretty strong at Full Tilt’s big games.
Di Dang aka. Urindanger:
Di Dang aka. Urindanger and Hac Dang aka. trex313 have been winning a [...]

PokerStars has been known best for its tournaments - the best structures, biggest prizepools and more players than anywhere else! PokerStars Sunday Million has become the most respected and precious tournament every week.
But nowadays you can find also huge cashgames going on at the No-limit tables - for example games with $100/200 blinds have been [...]

Erick “E-Dog” Lindgren showed again why is such a great tournament player - winning Full Tilt Pokers FTOPS No-Limit event #9. The buy-in for the tournament was $300+22 and there were 5.637 players competing for the prizepool of $1,7 million!
Here is the hand that turned the heads-up battle around:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2082690
And the hand that finished it all:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2082695
Final [...]

Bluff magazine revealed in the latest issue the personalities under the names Urindanger and jinsokkp. Two brothers have been playing with these accounts Di Dang and Hac Dang.
“For those not already aware, Hac and Z are nosebleed-stakes cash game players on Full Tilt Poker who have won millions of dollars beating up on some of [...]

Phil Ivey faced first Chris Lee “Genius28″ at the heads-up no-limit Texas Hold’em table with $300/600 blinds. Lee seemed to be tilting - having just lost big amounts playing at PokerStars. Ivey ended up winning $200.000 from the tilted Lee.
The biggest hand of the session: http://www.pokerhand.org/?2077491
The hand that ended the games: http://www.pokerhand.org/?2077500
Genius28: gg not my [...]

Nickname “trex313″ has been lately running very hot at Full Tilt Poker. In the last sessions he crushed Phil Ivey at Ivey Deathmatch table - winning $260.000. Phil was even running low on money on his account and had to borrow $200.000 from trex313! He has been running pretty well in the big pot-limit Omaha [...]
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- Filed under: FinddaGrind, High Stakes News, Ilari Sahamies, Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, Poker, Ziigmund, di dang, hac dang, trex313
- Date: Feb 7,2008

The huge heads-up tables have been pretty popular lately. There were action in all three of them.
Ivey Thunderdome
Pot-limit Omaha with $500/1000 blinds was played again against Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies… and guess what? Sahamies winning again - now they ended with Sahamies booking winnings worth $180.000.
Ivey Deathmatch
No-limit Texas Hold’em with $500/1000 blinds was the game when [...]
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- Filed under: Chris Lee, FinddaGrind, Genius28, High Stakes News, LarsLuzak, LrsLzk, OMGClayAiken, Patrik Antonius, Phil Galfond, Phil Ivey, Poker, Sami Kelopuro, Urindanger, di dang, hac dang, trex313
- Date: Feb 5,2008

We haven’t seen LarsLuzak playing at Full Tilt Poker for a long time… what happened?
Sami told that he had a bad downswing and lost all the money he had on the account. And that he can’t find a reason to make a new deposit. Why?
Basically the main reason is that nobody wants to play him [...]

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies took some serious beatings in the $1000/2000 limit Texas Hold’em game. He faced the limit heads-up specialist Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko in a series of sessions.
The first one ending when Matt hit nicely on his last three hands: flopping trips, rivering a set and making a runner-runner flush to win huge pots.
After a [...]

Mike Matusow has been known to lose lot in the bigger games at Full Tilt Poker. He is also famous for burning thru his WSOP winnings pretty quickly - mainly by having fun and having girls, girls, girls
Now we have seen him playing a lot at the smaller tables. We witnessed a session where [...]

Ilari Sahamies (Ziigmund) can enjoy his drink happily again while looking at the sunset. This time Tom Dwan (durrr) had to pay his drinks.
Sahamies won $300.000 from Dwan before he had to quit becouse of a bad internet connection - he was playing while being at Dortmund (EPT). Here are few hand from the session:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2030175
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2030186
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2030194
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2030197
Ilari [...]