Ziigmund to Abandon High-Stakes Games for a While

Although Ilari [3]‘Ziigmund’ [3] Sahamies [3] 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.

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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 [5], 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 [6]'OMGClayAiken' [6] Galfond [6]. Ziigmund commented on his blog [7] 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.”