With Full Tilt Poker shut-down since late June, the nosebleed action at the online poker tables has switched to PokerStars, where many Full Tilt Poker castaways have found a new home playing against familiar foes and some new faces. Amongst the big winners at the PokerStars tables have been Viktor “Isildur1” Blom, Phil “MrSweets28” Galfond, and Ilari “Ilari_Fin” Sahamies.

Sahamies has been on an amazing tear despite a $1.4 million setback a few weeks ago, with part of those losses offset by a recent $421,826 pot the Fin won against “Bernard-bb” and Andreas “skjervoy” Torbergsen; the pot going down as the largest ever won at PokerStars!

Most of the profit from the massive pot came from the stack of “Bernard-bb” who made a massive $90,000 check-raise on the river after Torbergsen moved all-in for a little over $10,000, only to get re-raised by Sahamies and find out the bad news that his Aces up on a K-2-3-9-3 with three hearts were way behind Sahamies Ace-high flush.

A little later on in the proceedings Sahamies would scoop the second largest pot in PokerStars when a $283,102 pot was shipped his way after hitting his wrap-straight draw on the turn and avoiding the larger wrap straight draw and flush draw of “scoutiesf”.

The wins gave Sahamies a weekly profit of over $500k according to highstakesdb.com (which tracks all of the high-stakes tables across a number of online poker sites) and has the Fin firmly in the black for the year once again.

Tags: 500k, Ace High, Aces, Bad News, Bb, Blom, Castaways, Foes, Full tilt Poker, Losses, New Faces, Nosebleed, Online Poker sites, Poker Tables, PokerStars, Pot, Proceedings, Setback, Stack, Three Hearts

This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 at 3:50 am and is filed under Poker News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.