What has happened to Ilari "Ilari FIN" Sahamies' game in the past few days? Up until last Sunday, he was the biggest loser online this year, with over $1 million in losses! Now, 3 days later, he has won back about $750,000 and nearly eliminated all the losses! Very impressive and kind of crazy at the same time.
It all began on Sunday evening when Sahamies played $50/$100 and $100/$200 PLO for 4[...] Read more » High Stakes: Ilari Sahamies won another $270k last night!
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Did his girlfriend wrote him a “Dear John” letter? Can there be any other explanation for such a boost? Three consecutive days full of money entering in his pockets, looks like he is unbeatable. If I were him, I would purpose some HU with some of the big names, like Blom. This seems to be the best time to try to beat him. The question everyone is making now is: How long will it take?
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well those two monster pots of the session showed that sauce was a bit too hot for that night- making big calls and even reraising when having second best hand or drawing not to the nuts- hey it's plo and i'm not a huge advisor, but it looks that sauce lost his head a bit
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This Fin is really crazy... First big losses, then big winning which almost recover loses... He is very crazy guy or one of the best poker player ever What do you think, guys?
Oh well, making you opponents tilt is part of skills. Sahamies is a really good PLO player, has lost his head several times too but I think he doesn't drink as much now. Maybe that helps, maybe not Anyways I think you have to be a lil crazy to play those stakes, especially in PLO!
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Sometimes i wonder why people look up to these guys when you see people like Isildur1 win millions at FTP in a very short time then loose almost all in 1 day.Then he gets a contract with PS and go up and down by the 100dreds of thousands all the time....Is this the kind of poker player we want to be..? Sure its exiting but when you see some of the plays these guys make with that kind of money i think they are no better then most of us...they just have a lot more money
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Posted by aatje: Sometimes i wonder why people look up to these guys when you see people like Isildur1 win millions at FTP in a very short time then loose almost all in 1 day.Then he gets a contract with PS and go up and down by the 100dreds of thousands all the time....Is this the kind of poker player we want to be..? Sure its exiting but when you see some of the plays these guys make with that kind of money i think they are no better then most of us...they just have a lot more money
That may be true aatje, but the truth is it has been given them the option of having a career as professional poker player in one of the biggest poker companies because they showed (if not all, at least some of them) to be able to get huge amounts of money before they had access to all of it. Many of these pros won big tourneys and many good prizes before they reach the sponsored level and that was how they got to this profession. Others, even not winning a big one, won several “less big” events, making them reliable as bets for the poker companies to invest on them to play on their side and win even more, as for them as for the company.
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Posted by Fakiry:
Posted by aatje: Sometimes i wonder why people look up to these guys when you see people like Isildur1 win millions at FTP in a very short time then loose almost all in 1 day.Then he gets a contract with PS and go up and down by the 100dreds of thousands all the time....Is this the kind of poker player we want to be..? Sure its exiting but when you see some of the plays these guys make with that kind of money i think they are no better then most of us...they just have a lot more money
That may be true aatje, but the truth is it has been given them the option of having a career as professional poker player in one of the biggest poker companies because they showed (if not all, at least some of them) to be able to get huge amounts of money before they had access to all of it. Many of these pros won big tourneys and many good prizes before they reach the sponsored level and that was how they got to this profession. Others, even not winning a big one, won several �less big� events, making them reliable as bets for the poker companies to invest on them to play on their side and win even more, as for them as for the company.
I dont say dont look up to ANY player because there are many with great live results and online results and deserve to be the face of for example Pokerstars like Daniel Negreanu has been for years..
What do you think, guys?
