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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Illari "Ziigmund" / "Ilari FIN" Sahamies is currently $594k in the black this year from playing cash games on PokerStars. Apart from poker, some of you might know that he's a big fan of hip-hop music and a rather talented rapper in his native language (Finnish).
