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The Finnish daredevil Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies took down the biggest pot in the history of PokerStars [3]: the young pro won $421,836 with his nut flush at the online high stakes tables. Ziggy is on a rollercoaster ride recently, he was down more than $800k this year, but it seems his dowswing ended. The PokerStars $200/400 PLO tables are hot this September; the nosebleed action is bigger than ever. Many well-known pros like Andreas 'Skjervoy' Tobergsen, Phil 'MrSweets28' Galfond, Rafi 'refaelamit' Amit, socutiesf, bernard-bb and Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies (Ilari FIN on PokerStars) battle each other in a marathon 10 hour session last night.
[4]Ziigmund
According to the data provided by HighstakesDB, Ziigmund emerged as the biggest winner leading with a $504,657 profit followed by Phil Galfond ($369,000) and Taiwanese 'socutiesf' ($114,000). The biggest loser came to be Torbergsen, who waved goodbye to $652,577. Ziggy's great results mostly come from a huge hand, where he took down the biggest pot in PokerStars' cash game history, $421,826.
You can watch the record-breaking hand below:
Ziigmund already scored a whopping $838,122 profit in September, with which he leads this month's profit list by far. I hope this time around he can keep his momentum and won't lose it as fast as he earned it.
Biggest winners:
Ilari FIN: $504.657 (3.272 hands)
MrSweets28: $368.956 (2.236)
VietRussian: $141.701 (2.113)
socutiesf: $113.760 (2.911)
tjbentham: $103.273 (167)
Biggest losers:
Skjervoy: $-652.577 (3.726 hands)
bernard-bb: $-136.486 (644)
LuckyGump: $-124.234 (1.781)
refaelamit: $-119.110 (1.337)
Axelf82: $-105.203 (682)