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7-game tables overflowing with action at Full Tilt Poker
Posted by: James Carter. - Fri, 2009-10-30 08:14
Full Tilt Poker’s 7-game tables are where most of the high stakes action goes down these days. Apparently, the special format featured by these tables facilitates huge wins as well as huge losses. The best example in this sense would be Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies’ recent winning explosion in which the Finnish pro known for his action crazy ways, took down more than $1 million, more than doubling his overall 2009 profits. Whenever someone wins big though on
Full Tilt Poker, someone else loses big, and this time around it was French pro David Benyamine’s turn to cough up the chips that Ziiggy ended up pocketing.
The session which saw Sahamies round his 2009 profits from $800k to $1.8 million also saw Brian Hastings drop about $419k, eventually combining with Benyamine to lose about $1.1 million. Benyamine’s “share” of the losses was a massive $681k, which put the French pro nearly on par with the biggest 7-game loser of the year, David Oppenheim.
Following this latest failure, Benyamine’s losses are somewhere around $1.9 million at the 7-game tables for the year, which means he’s only around 60k behind Oppenheim’s “performance”.
The biggest 7-game winner so far is Ashton Griffin who has been dominating the nosebleed tables for quite a while now. He is followed by Phil Ivey on the winners’ list. Ivey has a $50k advantage over 3rd place Tom Dwan.
While Ziigy was fleecing Benyamine and Hastings, Dwan was busy too. He scored a $278k profit at the 7-game tables, and a $100k one at the PLO ones. In addition to that, the New Jersey wonderkid has been quite dominant lately in his Challenge series against Patrik Antonius too, over whom he’s currently holding a pretty healthy lead.
Ivey too proved successful at the 7-game tables that night, booking a $136k profit. He dropped all that plus an additional $64k at the PLO tables though, so he ended up below the red line for the day.
Di Uridanger won $93k that day. Chau Giang, Matt Hawrilenko and Ashton Griffin were also among the winners with smaller sums. David Openheim’s southward slide continued as he dropped $33k, but the biggest loser of the night was Daniel Alaei with $188k.
