Poker news tagged with 'illari ziigmund sahamies'

There are quite few successful people from the music industry that have made an attempt to start a poker career (mixed results usually), however, it's not that common the other war around - poker players getting into the music industry. Probably there is a reason for this. Well, there are 1 or 2 that have been quite successful. One of them is the finnish poker pro Illari "Ziigmund" Sahamies. His new song, 'Pojat On Poikki' - means something like 'Boys are always boys', has been running hot on youtube and myspace lately. Maybe Ziigmund should quit poker and become a full-time musician instead? Judge for yourselves.

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3 months have now passed on the new year. One must admit that the action at the high stakes tables has been over the expectations so far. This, even though Isildur1 hasn't been playing as crazy as last year. Anyhow, here are 2010's TOP 5 Winners.

1. Tom "durrrr" Dwan

Dwan was running quite good last year until he ran into Isildur1. 2010 has started in the best possible way for the american poker pro as he has won $3,970,484 in just about 130k hands.

2. Illari "Ziigmund" Sahamies

The Finnish PLO expert Ziigmund has been running extremely good this year. He was up $3.2 million not long ago, but then had a cold session against Dwan and is now up $2,059.061 after 41k hands.

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This month's most successful players on the highstakes tables online are Patrik Antonius and Illari "Ziigmund" Sahamies from Finland. Patrik has won over $1.5 million so far this month and Illari close to $1 million.

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