Wednesday, April 2, 2008

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Ziigmund's wild ride continues

A Ziigmund chat box staple: "hope u die."

By Christopher Hunt

If you're into railing high-stakes online poker, there are plenty of super-skilled, technically sound pros worth watching as they toss their bankrolls around.

But seriously: there's only one Ziigmund.

Quite possibly pound-for-railbird-pound the most entertaining player on the Internet, the one and only Finnish flashpoint Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies has been up to his usual tricks again over the last couple of days.

What tricks exactly?

1) Wild bankroll swings: up $200k one minute, down $400k a half-hour later.

2) "Non-traditional" poker moves, to say the least, leaving everyone on the rail wondering if he mis-clicked or is completely tilted.

3) And, of course, last but not least, belligerent, xenophobic chat box banter with his opponents - including the popular "u r f horrible" and "hope u die" - which always sends the railbirds into delirious re-posting fits of joy.

Add the tricks up and it's easy to see why Ziigmund draws a massive crowd whenever he sits down for a session.

It's also easy to see, because of the stakes and maniacal play, why Ziigmund dominates the Top 10 list of the biggest Hold'em pots online whenever he blesses the online tables with his presence.

In typical Ziigmund fashion, up around $600k for the last few days, he seemed to be fairly intent on giving most of his recent profits back in his latest session.

After a couple of massive pots went against him in his beloved PLO, he jumped into a quick $300/$600 No-Limit Hold'em session with a couple of respected high-stakes regulars - Brian "tsarrast" Rast and Di "Urindanger" Dang - and paid the price for it.

That price? Somewhere around $200k, with Ziigmund on the losing end of four $100k+ pots within the space of an hour and a half - the top two of which, totaling a crazy $400,000, both now sit comfortably in the bankroll of Mr. Rast.

The biggest, for $217,235.50, went down as follows:

Full Tilt Poker Game #5879663418 TABLE : Journey (heads-up) $300/$600 - No-Limit Hold'em - Wed Apr 2 2008 - 11:35am (ET)

Table Setup

Seat 1: tsarrast ($140,781)
Seat 2: Ziigmund ($108,618)
tsarrast posts the small blind of $300
Ziigmund posts the big blind of $600
The button is in seat #1

Pre-flop

tsarrast raises to $1,800
Ziigmund raises to $6,200
tsarrast calls $4,400

Flop

4 6 7

Ziigmund has 15 seconds left to act
Ziigmund bets $12,400
tsarrast raises to $134,581, and is all-in
Ziigmund calls $90,018, and is all-in
tsarrast shows [5 7]
Ziigmund shows [J J]
Uncalled bet of $32,163 returned to tsarrast

Turn

4 6 7 T

River

4 6 7 T 8

tsarrast shows a straight, eight-high
Ziigmund shows a pair of jacks
tsarrast wins the pot ($217,235.50) with a straight, eight-high
Ziigmund is sitting out

Summary

Total pot $217,236 | Rake $0.50
Board: 4 6 7 T 8
Seat 1: tsarrast (small blind) showed [5 7] and won ($217,235.50) with a straight, eight-high
Seat 2: Ziigmund (big blind) showed [J J] and lost with a pair of jacks

Ziigmund's reaction: "u r f horrible."

To see more big pots from Ziigmund's latest sessions and more of the Top 100 biggest Hold'em pots won online over the last day, week and month, jump to the PokerListings.com MarketPulse section.

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