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Online Poker Action – Sahamies Back on Top
Posted by: James Carter. - Sat, 2012-05-26 15:51
With the
WSOP drawing ever closer, the high stakes
online poker action doesn’t seem to lose any momentum these days. It’s as if the nosebleed stakes protagonists are keen on getting in some more action before they head out to Las Vegas for the big one. For two players, these last few days of undisturbed online action at PokerStars reaped huge dividends. Ilari Sahamies and Ben Sulsky finished as the biggest winners of these last few days. Sahamies won a mind-boggling $424k over just 30 sessions and 2.5k hands. Sulsky finished $294.7k above the red line, having logged 5.1k hands over 46 different sessions.
Last week churned out an unusually high number of big winners. The above said two players were joined in the winners’ circle by Terje Augdal (who finished the week with a profit of $243.1k) and Alexey Makarov, who took home $227k. Another big winner was Chris Lee, who won more than $200k himself.
Wherever there are big winners hogging the spotlight, there are equally big losers lurking in the shadows too. Last week, it was Zypherin’s turn again to lose big: he dropped over $554k. Daniel Cates didn’t do much better either: he finished the week a massive $376k under the red line.
Cates took on Sulsky and patpatman at the $200/$400 NL Holdem tables, and he actually managed to finish the session as a winner. He was about $46k above the red line, but he had dropped some dough earlier, so he eventually finished the day with a $15k loss.
Patpatman finished that NLH session with the biggest profit, while Sulsky provided the spoils for the others.
Catastrophe befell Cates on Monday, when he ended up dropping $295k to Viktor Blom. The scene of the crime was a $50/$100 PLO table, where Isildur1 pretty much bled his opponent to death. Cates had lost some more that day, so in the end he finished with a $372k loss.
