Ilari Sahamies Wins Record Breaking Poker Pot at PokerStars
The recent poker action at PokerStars proved that unlike Full Tilt Poker which has been facing several problems after having been shut down and then losing its license, PokerStars is slowly making a comeback and has been growing since the indictments. Full Tilt Poker was once “the” place to go when it came to cash games at high-stakes, but after Black Friday, the FTP site has not been functional.
Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies got very lucky recently at the PokerStars and won a large sum of money that was record breaking in the history of poker ports at the site. Ilari Sahamies walked away with one of the biggest poker pots worth more than $421K when he played against the likes of “bernard-bb” and Andreas “Skjervøy” Torbergsen.
Other poker players who participated in the event were Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom, Phil Galfond and Niki “RealAndyBeal” Jedlicka. These poker players seem to be having the time of their life once again with online poker games.
PokerStars is determined to break its previous records and has now set a new record for the highest poker pot on this particular site. The record breaking pot had reached $421,826 at a six player Pot Limit Omaha game which had a $200/$400 buy–in.
The poker game at PokerStars became interesting when action folded to Ilari and the cut off was raised to $1,400, while the other two players were closing in fast. Bernard-bb” was checking Ilari with the flop and Torbergsen raised the hand and they both made the call.
In the end Torbergsen had moved all in and there was a 9h played in order to control his action. Ilari had the highest win after a couple of hands following this play and his ace-high flush was a perfect finish to this game. Ilari ended up with a huge $421,826 pot. The highest on record pot played online has been that of Full Tilt Poker at the game of $500/$1000Pot Limit Omaha HU that took place between Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom and Patrik Antonius, but it seems the way PokerStars is heating up with action, it will not be long before they start seeing higher pot sizes and prizes being given away.
The hand played by Ilari Sahamies was great and ended up breaking the record, “bernard-bb” had been holding two aces and Torbergsen’s hand was not disclosed known.
Ilari won this game at a huge $200-$400 deep-stacked, Omaha table with a pot-limit. Apparently, Ilari has been on a winning spree and has won over $800000 over the past week and this win at PokerStars was the cherry on the cake for Ilari’s online poker ventures.
Card Player’s Omaha Odds Calculator, calculates that Sahamies hits what is required of him only 37% of the time and yet the odds went in his favour and he won the largest ever pot at PokerStars!
After all these wins, Ilari Sahamies is on an upswing since July and it has reached $1.5 million and it has easily overcome and erased all his past losses for the year 2011, on all the sites.
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