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Online poker action – Sahamies runs Cardrunners out of town
Posted by: Mark Baldwing - Thu, 2010-09-23 06:19
For the second consecutive week, Ilari Sahamies surfaced as the biggest online poker winner, pocketing around $700k from Cardrunners Brian Hastings and Cole South. The Finn had a field-day over both Cardrunners pros, taking around $621k from South and almost $200k from Hastings. Sahamies played the Cardrunners in separate heads-up sessions at
Full Tilt Poker’s $500/$1,000 PLO tables. The South session was a 314 hand one. Against Hastings, the Finn put in 662 hands.
Monster pots were flying left and right and swings were big as all parties pulled out all stops to cut ahead. The largest pot was a $442k monster played for by Hastings and Sahamies.
As the hand began, Hastings had $200k and Sahamies was wielding a $400k stack. After a preflop give and take tussle, which took the size of the pot to respectable heights already, the two saw a flop of Kc,Qd,2c. Sahamies checked the flop and Hasting fired out a bet which the Finn called to see the 7h hit the turn. That card proved to be the catalyst for the all-in. Sahamies kicked off the post-flop hostilities with a pot-size bet, in response to which, Hasting shoved all-in. Sahamies called and then showed top two pair against Hasting’s flush draw. The flush failed to materialize both times the river was run, and thus Sahamies pocketed the $441,986 whooper.
In other
online poker news: Antonius dropped around $300k to Malestra Pam, a Russian Limit Holdem specialist who is now more than $500k in the black for the month thanks largely to the money “donated” by the Finn.
MissNikita1987, a lower stakes NL Holdem specialist, made the move to the nosebleed stakes taking $289k from IHateJuice over a 1,268-hand session.
The biggest pot of that confrontation tipped the scale at $32k.
