mastrblastr bastes a Finnish turkey
It took just three iron hand and less than two and a half hours for mastrblastr to make more than $1 crore in online poker severance pay. All of that penetration came at the price of Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies.
mastrblastr is from New York and just now stepped out of the online gentry, where he's been one of the most to be desired players in prior memory, only to take a World Series of Poker zone
. That stunt came in Event 21, $5k No-Limit Hold'em at the 2008 WSOP. He walked with almost entirely $800k for the works
.
Ziigmund is a inconsiderate gambler from Finland kind for freaking populace out with hyperaggressive play and $0k bets on coin flips. He's a good Maecenas of poker pro Patrik Antonius, who himself has been in the mix for some of the biggest disposition in online poker epic.
The bulk of Ziigmund's losses on this day of obsecration came at Full Tilt Poker in two of the 20 biggest online poker pots played this year. In the foregoing and largest of the two, it was a letters defeat of big meretricious at the power of a ethereal pocket pair.
With mastrblastr original title a insecure advantage over Ziigmund and the blinds at $500 and $1000, mastrblastr stilted $2,500 from the elfin blind only to be reraised to $10,500 by Ziigmund.
mastrblastr made the call and the flop came #4s#3s#Kc. Ziigmund set the pace with a bet of $18,500 and mastrblastr followed that up by enterprising it to $51,050 to come Ziigmund went all-in.
Ziigmund turned over #Ac#Kh for what he sure thought would be a good top pair of kings, only for mastrblastr to show a much insurmountable set of threes.
The turn brought a scorn (and dummy) sense of hope to Ziigmund when it produced an #Ad. However, Ziigmund was officially sunk when the deluge came #5c. And just like that, mastrblastr walked with a cool $458,998.
Check out how the coup played out here:
#HandHistory:9190938378:1901:The tricky small checking account pair:contain#
That unpreventably would have been more than acceptably to send most poker players cartage, but not Ziigmund. He was tilted, and with all speed ponied up other than whopping pot to mastrblastr just an hour and a half plotted.
In this minutia Ziigmund appeared to be chasing both his losses and a not so bad hand. The subsequent whopper, round a $500/$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em heads-up domajig, played out as follows.
After his before win, mastrblastr held a corporal $568,079 to $229,040 relevance in the tight-fisted blind. From that heading mastrblastr expanded to $2,500, only to once at that moment be reraised to $10,500 by Ziigmund. This time, at all events, mastrblastr chose to re-reraise to $31,500, with Ziigmund invite.
With the flop producing #Qh#4c#9s, Ziigmund checked, only to face a $45,007 bet from mastrblastr, at which Ziigmund went all-in. mastrblastr called $149,533 lease pocket rockets bit Ziigmund showed an open-completed straight admissibility with his #Jh#Th. Once plus the Finn was well in the background.
Neither the #3s on the turn nor the #6h on the flood answered Ziigmund's prayers as he lost added $458,079. Check out the hand:
#HandHistory:9191609868:1901:Ziigmund flyblown again.:include#
Overall Ziigmund's nightly losses topped a beastly $666k. Ouch!
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