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Online Poker Action – Kyllonen and Makarov Soaring
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2012-02-26 12:16
Following a week of relatively slow high stakes action, last week exploded into 3 $500k+ winners and plenty of commotion at a wide range of games at
PokerStars. Players who logged more than half a million dollars in profits were MaiseE, who scored $684.4k in 136 sessions totaling 13,346 hands, Alexey Makarov, who took down $584k in 132 sessions totaling 8,053 hands, and Jens Kyllonen, who pocketed $542.3k in 154 sessions and 11.8k hands. The winners’ chips had to come from somewhere and Ville Wahlbeck, a player who’s usually well within the winners’ circle, was responsible for most. He dropped $375k+ over 8.2k hands. Several other notables finished the week as ‘contributors’. Patpatman dropped quite a bit of money too, $337.8k to be exact, as Zypherin and Benny Spindler finished among the losers as well.
Ilari Sahamies didn’t do well either: he dropped around $500k on Thursday, to a selection of players which included Bernard-bb, Rafi Amit and Viktor Blom. Things just didn’t want to click for the Finn and it wasn’t for lack of trying either: he logged around 1,5k hands of PLO, at the end of which he still emerged as a massive loser.
One of the biggest pots of the said battle saw Sahamies and Amit go all-in on a flop of 4,9,5 rainbow. At the time of the all-in, Sahamies had 5,5,7,3 for the set
and Amit had A,A,5,3. There weren’t many outs for Amit that could crack Sahamies’ set, but one of them was the 2s which fell on the river, thus the $96.2k pot ended up in Amit’s possession.
A tad later, Sahamies relinquished another massive pot when he gave up on the turn, letting go of the $97k whooper in patpatman’s favor.
By the time the session wound down, Sahamies was under the red line by a massive $493k.
On Friday, a player known as RaiseOnce, and suspected by many to be none other than Phil Ivey, finished as the biggest winner. Jens Kyllonen won about $77k on Friday too.
Makarov hit the spotlight on Monday, when he finished with a $144k profit.
