“durrrr” vs Ziigmund for $1million!
“durrrr” Walks Away with one of the Biggest Pots in Online Poker History
Last night Tom “Durrrr” Dwan had a insane heads-up battle with Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies on Full Tilt. In a really wild $500/$1,000 mixed heads up match today durrrr managed to win $1 million from Ziigmund.
Preflop, Durrrr raised to $3,000 and Ziigmund re-raised to $9,000. Durrrr elected to just call and see a flop.
The flop was Jd-Qd-As giving Durrrr top set of Aces to go along with the nut flush draw. Ziigmund bet out $18,000 and was immediately raised by Durrrr to $51,600. Ziigmund smooth-called.
The turn was the 7 of clubs, Ziigmund again led out, betting over $121,000 into the pot. This time however, Durrrr, out of character, smooth called the gigantic bet.
The river was the Jack of spades completing Durrrr’s full house. Ziigmund shoved his remaining $200k+ chips into the pot and Durrrr couldn’t call fast enough as he took down the historic pot of $593,935. As it turned out, holding a King and a 10 in his hand, Ziigmund had flopped the nut straight and fell victim to some bad luck.
In the 2nd hand, Durrrr was in the big blind holding Kd-9s-10s-4d. Preflop, Ziigmund raised to $3,000, Durrrr re-raised to $9,000 and Ziigmund came back for $27,000 total. Durrrr made the call.
The flop was 9h-5h-10h giving Durrrr top two pair. All the money went in on the flop after a series of bets and raises. Ziigmund showed Qh-Ah-9d-6d for the flopped nut flush.
The turn was the 3 of clubs which did not help out Durrrr. However, the river card brought the 9 of clubs Durrrr had again filled up on the river, taking down the pot worth $430,595.
Ziigmund has been described by Barry Greenstein as “one of the best Pot-Limit Omaha players I’ve ever seen.” But Durrrr managed to make a historic play against the renowned player…stay tuned!
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies launches his poker blog
It’s interesting news for railbirds and all poker enthusiasts who have been following Ilari Sahamies’ career over the past few years. The feared “Ziigmund” has started blogging in English for his new poker community at Coinflip.com where every poker player can read his blog and learn from the regular videos he uploads – free of charge.
Says Ilari “After several requests I wanted to start my blog on a brand new site that is not filled with flashing banners but is a simple, slick and cool poker community. My blog and videos will be updated as frequently as possible, and I hope that poker players everywhere will often visit my blog with their comments and questions.”
There are going to be videos going up every week and people now have the opportunity to visit Coinflip.com for regular updates of Ziigmund’s hilarious blog and his latest videos of online duels against the likes of Phil Ivey and other high stakes regulars. Says Ilari in his blog “Nowadays I’m able to control my tilting better than before – and many of you know that I used to tilt a lot – and generally I take poker much more seriously now. But fear not, when the next tilt session comes, you’ll see the video here. Tilt or not, there will be many videos, and we will try to upload them on a regular basis – whatever the content may be”.
Keep your eyes glued to Coinflip.com for all the blogs, videos, advice and answers to all your poker questions!
About Coinflip.com
Coinflip is an online poker community where players can learn from well known poker professionals such as the legendary high stakes cash game player Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies. Poker enthusiasts will be able to view EXCLUSIVE strategy videos, read Ilari’s blog as well as get advice and answers from him on their poker questions. Players will also be able to get involved in the poker community and enjoy a comprehensive archive of poker videos from around the world.
