Online Poker: Ilari Sahamies Drops $267K

Finnish poker pro Ilari “Ilari Fin” Sahamies had a tough week at the online poker tables, dropping around $267,000, according to tracking from HighstakesDB.

Through nearly 32,000 hands played so far this year, Sahamies, 32 years of age, is up around $628,000—on PokerStars. His “Ziigmund” screen name on Full Tilt has been inactive for quite some time.

Lifetime on Full Tilt, Sahamies is up around $360,000, while he’s up $2.45 million on PokerStars over his poker career. Between early 2013 and the beginning of this year, Sahamies was about break-even on PokerStars, but 2015 has treated him very well so far.

Back in 2010, Sahamies was up $6.7 million on Full Tilt, but then went on a terrible downswing. It’s not that surprising that he’s sticking to PokerStars these days.

Sahamies was on the winning end of the largest pot over the past seven days.

At $200-$400 pot-limit Omaha against pros Ola “Odd_Oddsen” Amundsgaard and Isaac Haxton, Sahamies flopped top pair and a open-ended straight draw on a flop of K 7 5 thanks to holding the K J 6 4. Haxton had put some money in too but had folded, and Amundsgaard was in it and slowly getting committed with 7 7 6 5 for mid-set.

The turn was the 10 and Amundsgaard was all-in for $52,000 after Sahamies had put in roughly $10,000. With his draws, which now included a flush draw, Sahamies elected to call the additional money. The river was the 2, which cracked Amundsgaard’s vulnerable set and gave the $134,000 pot to Sahamies.

Sahamies had to put in about $42,000 more to win a pot that was just over $84,000. According to Card Player’s Omaha odds calculator, Sahamies had a 35-percent chance of hitting one of his outs.

On the flip side over the past week, all of the following players had six-figure (winning) weeks: Alex “joiso” Kostritsyn ($249,000), Amundsgaard ($177,000), Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond ($119,000) and Haxton ($103,000).

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