Despite starting slow, the new face of swings in online poker Ilari “Ilari_FIN” Sahamies has finally minimized his variance and was on a consistent upswing in the month of November.Sahamies, who heading into August was down an astonishing $900,000, has completely eradicated his first-half tendencies and throughout the next 3 months accumulated $3 million in  Read more »

Despite the high-stakes games not being as popular as they once were because of a smaller scope of professionals, the games over on PokerStars are still inhabited by a crafty niche of savvy online experts. Phil Galfond, Ilari Sahamies and Brian Hastings lead this collection of intelligent, young veterans, however over the past week, they’ve  Read more »

We know the swings of high-stakes online poker can be volatile. However, not even the eccentric Ilari Sahamies could have predicted that the past few weeks would end up this wild.Sahamies, who plays under the screen name “Ilari FIN,” has endured one of the most epic roller coaster rides in recent memory. Side-stepping a few  Read more »

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies hasn’t quite been able figure out the recipe for consistent success at the online tables. To say Sahamies has had an up-and-down week would be an understatement.The poker professional and celebrity who hails from Finland has thus far posted sessions of +$137K, and -$275K since the start of the last week in  Read more »

In what seems to be a jinx, the Finnish poker pro Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies dug himself into yet another big hole for the year with a -$275,000 loss over on Full Tilt Poker.Starting to gain traction with a few successful online sessions, Ziigmund has been struggling to return to form since the biggest downswing of  Read more »

NOTE: US players can play against poker professionals at the top US poker room now, Play at Carbon Poker Now!While big online action has been occurring frequently over the early stages of the month, one of of the biggest names in the world of online poker has been relatively absent from all of it. Until  Read more »

Although most poker pros, fans, and railbirds alike would certainly say that Pot-Limit Omaha has been the latest game of choice amongst the high stakes professionals, some might say that No-Limit Hold’Em has made a considerable return in late 2010.With players such as isildur1, and Daniel “jungleman12″ Cates leading the scene, action has been regularly  Read more »

While Tom Dwan is certainly capable of winning hundreds of thousands of dollars at a time during his online poker sessions, very few thought he would come back from what turned out to be a catastrophic week at the virtual felt. The man they call “durrrr” lost over $1 million in the span of seven  Read more »

While the best poker player in the world may be the infamous Phil Ivey, his fellow Team Full Tilt pro Tom “Durrrr” Dwan has overtaken him in online earnings to once again be on top of the leaderboard for online profits in 2010.Ivey, who currently sits with $3.6 million earned, is now in second place  Read more »

Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies absolutely crushed two members of Team Cardrunners last night, as Brian Hastings and Cole South lost over a combined $700,000 at the $500/$1000 Pot-Limit Omaha tables on Full Tilt Poker.Brian Hastings originally started the session with Ziigmund, losing $100K+ over 300 hands with him before he needed to take a short break.  Read more »