Ziigmund to Abandon High-Stakes Games for a While

Although Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies stated earlier this year that he is going to take a break in poker and spend the summer partying, he nevertheless played on FTP both in June and July. He only played 6870 hands, though, and earned $289,328 doing that, so it wasn’t a bad decision after all.

Ziigmund doing his thing

However, he became even more active during August, which in turn cost him $885,460, making him second after Gus Hansen, who lost $1,691,207 in August alone. Ziigmund finished his last session with around -$180,000, losing $148,000 to Patrik Antonius and Vaga_Lion in $300/$600 PLO and the rest to Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond. Ziigmund commented on his blog that he was going to abandon the high-stakes tables for a while: “I start to play now more....Just lost 180k but I try to play next few weeks smaller than 200 400....lets see.”