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Sahamies fleeces Dwan of $703,000 pot at PLO table
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2009-05-24 19:30
These days are supposed to be the slowest for online poker everywhere. With the start of the WSOP just a few days away, and with people descending over Vegas for the first event, the high stakes tables at various online poker rooms are supposed to be void of action. Some people are so addicted though that they just won’t let any opportunities slip by.
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies is definitely not your everyday online player, and since he likes to swim against the tide anyway, he didn’t really care much about where he was supposed to be these last few days.
As a matter of fact, not only did he play, he scored the largest ever online PLO pot against Tom Dwan, at a $3,000/$9,000 table. The two were playing at a $500/$1,000 table but have agreed to raise and re-raise every single pot till they both had $9,000 committed preflop. The hand which set the record for the biggest ever PLO pot started out this way too. After the two of them had made the compulsory raises and re-raises, the flop came down Js,10h,2s. They both checked and the pot went to the turn unaltered. The 7d which fell on the turn sparked the action. Ziiggy posted a $54,000 bet and Dwan quickly raised that to $216,000. In response, Sahamies went all in for a stack of $324,463.
Dwan made the call, and showed Qs,10d,8s,5d, which gave him a flush draw, a pair of 10s and a gutshot straight draw.
Sahamies had Jd,9d,8c,7s, which gave him two pairs and a J high straight draw. The river spelled doom for durrrr, as it fell a Jc, and it gave Sahamies a boat for the win.
With the high-risk ultra aggressive action that is his trademark, wild bankroll swings are inevitable for Dwan. After dropping around $2 million in cash games in April, he’d made up around $1 million in a few days’ time, before dropping that too and some more on the side.
His latest high stakes antics have left him $1.7 million in the black though, at a time when he could really use that sort of a boost bankroll-wise.
Most of that money came from Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen, who have both dropped considerable amounts of money lately.
