Poker High Stakes

January was FINALLY a good month for Gus Hansen on Full Tilt Poker. The Great Dane finished 1.7 million in the black.
Top 6 winners and losers
Gus Hansen +1.743m
Cole South +1.506m
Urindanger (Di Dang) +1.238m
Ziigmund (Ilari Sahamies) +1.103m
PostflopAction (Aleksander Kostritsin) +1.010m
David Oppenheim +932k
Patrik Antonius -1.750m
Richard Ashby -803k
PixKim -631k
howisitfeellike (Rafi Amit) -622k
bixiu -537k
Browndog19 -454k

…
durrrr (Tom Dwan) -299k
Phil [...]

For the next two weeks Full Tilt poker’s biggest boppers will duke it out on NBC’s “Poker After Dark” Watch Tom “durrrr” Dwan,  Patrik Antonius,  Howard Lederer, Eli Elezra, Ilari “Ziggmund” Sahamies, and some guy named Phil Ivey battle it out with the blinds being set at 200/400 with 100 dollar antes.

August was a hot month for the high stakes ballers on Full Tilt poker. A record 5 players all hit the 1 million dollar mark in profit. Leading the way was Ashton “theASHMAN103″ Griffin with a cool 2.4 million dollars.
TOP 5
Ashton “theASHMAN103″ Griffin +2.4 million
Cole South + 1.5 million
Brian Hastings +1.2 million
David “POKERBLUFFS” Eldar +1.1 [...]

Yesterday was one of the sickest days of all time on Full Tilt poker. Tom “durrrr” Dwan battled it out with Martonas for over 5,000 hands at the 500/1000 NL tables.  Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies asked Dwan for a transfer but Dwan couldn’t help him out because he has his entire bankroll of 3.5 million spread [...]

A recent chat between DIN_FRU and Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies went down on Full Tilt poker a few days ago.
“DIN_FRU: yo I been tryinh to find you
Ziigmund: y0
DIN_FRU: where you a
DIN_FRU: at
Ziigmund: vegas still
DIN_FRU: eheheh
DIN_FRU: good or bad?
DIN_FRU: I need money here
Ziigmund: i ll call u later
Ziigmund: dont have now battery
DIN_FRU: ok but its late
DIN_FRU: if [...]

The month of June for Tom “durrrr” Dwan was just plain SICK.. Dwan raked in just over 2.1 MILLION DOLLARS!!! After being down for the most of 2009 Dwan now finds himself  UP 1.5 MILLION DOLLARS!!

Where is Dr. Evil when you need him??

2009’s Top 5 WINNERS

1. Patrik Antonius + 4.7 million
2. Hac Dang (trex313) [...]

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Niki Jedlicka played some $300/$600 PLO  action with a $100 ante on Full Tilt Poker last night.  Sahamies would go on to win four of the five biggest hands during the 30 minute match.

Full Tilt Poker Game #12965815290: Table Crazy Action (6 max, ante, deep)
$300/$600 Ante $100 — Pot Limit Omaha [...]

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro played a heads-up game of $500/$1000 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Omaha.  Action saw a HUGE suckout by Ziigmund costing Kelopuro a 256k pot. Both players got it all in on the turn with Kelopuro’s pocket Aces dominating Sahamies’s pair of Jacks.

The World Series of Poker is here… That means the world of high stakes online poker  will be dead for a month or so.. Hang in there guys..

In some morning heads-up action, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Tom “durrrr” Dwan played a two-table match of $500/$1000 Pot-Limit Omaha over on Full Tilt Poker tables durrrr and durrrr #2. The battle went on for 70 minutes as Sahamies raked in seven of the 11 largest pot played. He was actually up over $486K at [...]