Monday, Oct. 6, 2008

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ziigmund first million-dollar man

By Daniel Skolovy

The record for biggest online pot of all time was broken last month when patatino took a $609,730 pot off one Hac "trex313" Dang. This time another record goes down in flames: largest stack on a No-Limit Hold'em table.

Now, we've seen million-dollar stacks before. TexasLimitKing showed us his million-dollar roll on the $500/$1,000 limit games.

But that was different - in minbet, you can buy in for whatever you want. In No-Limit there is a max buy-in, meaning if you had a million dollars on the table, you won it there.

In September, on RailHeaven, David Benyamine came oh-so-close twice. Both times, to the dismay of the railbirds, he quit the game shy of the million-dollar mark.

On Saturday night Ilari "ziigmund" Sahamies went on a massive heater at Full Tilt Poker's $500/$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em RailHeaven table, setting a new online poker record and breaking the million-dollar mark. At his peak ziigmund had $1,140,000 on the table.

The record-breaking hand came when it was folded around to ziigmund in the small blind. He raises to $3,000, and Patrik Antonius calls in the big blind.

The hand that put $1 million in Sahamies' stack.

The flop comes 8 8 9 and ziigmund bets $5,000. Patrik raises to $18,000 and ziigmund makes the call.

The turn comes 2 and ziigmund checks and Patrik checks through.

The river is the 7; ziigmund checks again, and Patrik bets $36,000. ziigmund makes the call.

Patrik shows T 9 for two pair, nines and eights, and ziigmund shows J J for two bigger pair. ziigmund ships the $114,000 pot and cracks the million-dollar barrier for the first time in online poker history.

ziigmund, however, did not leave with a million; he dumped back almost $350,000 before quitting the game near the $830,000 mark. The record, of course, still stands, and booking a half-million-dollar win is still an OK day, I guess.

With all of the major records falling in the last month and a half (biggest pot, biggest stack, largest tournament prize pool), what's next? Will we see a $1,000/$2,000 table? Will we see a million-dollar pot? All I know is, it's a good time to be a railbird!

To see more big pots from the latest sessions, or more of the 100 biggest pots won online over the past day, week, month and year, jump over to the MarketPulse section.

To rail any of the action, or try out some six-max poker yourself, hit up Full Tilt Poker here and take advantage of PL.com's exclusive freerolls.

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