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Online Poker Action – Sahamies Back in the Winners’ Circle
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Sun, 2012-10-28 14:00
Although
PokerStars’ high stakes cash game tables are soon to be replaced with Full Tilt’s as the world’s most popular
online poker showdown scene, this week saw a massive flare-up in action, as if the world best tournament destination put in a bid to wave good-bye to its nosebleed stakes regulars.
The two biggest winners of the surge were Ilari Sahamies, the Finn who has long struggled to get his name back on the biggest winners of the week list – where it pretty much rightfully belongs – and Ben Sulsky, whose latest exploits lent him a $1 million lead over Ben Tollerene in the biggest online poker cash game winner of the year race.
Sahamies won over $803 million. The Finn was extremely efficient too: he only logged 5,267 hands for that profit, although he played 67 different sessions. Sulsky played 5,054 hands for his haul, spread over 54 sessions.
Sam Trickett finished the week in the “+” column as well: he won $433.5k, while a player known as “The Liar” and Andreas Torbergsen made the winners’ list as well, each of them taking home more than $200k.
Wherever there are big winners, there have to be big losers too, and last week, none of them came any bigger than “Fake Love888”, who finished a massive $562.7k under the red line. Jens Kyllonen, usually a protagonist of the winners’ list, finished the week with a loss of $425.2k. Terje Augdal lost big too: he dropped $392k. Ben Tollerene, Sulsky’s most dangerous opponent in the year-to-date profits race, lost $302k too, a development most likely viewed as a favorable one by Sulsky.
Patpatman was another loser: he shed $284k. Zypherin remained the biggest loser of the year, with more than $3.2 million sent down the drain.
