Ilari sahamies biography

Or has Sahamies retired, no longer partying and drinking and spending like there is no tomorrow? Has he embraced another career? Maybe or… maybe not, but one thing is for sure, ladies and gents:. Yes, fellow poker enthusiasts, Father Time has finally caught up with Ilari Sahamies confirming once again an old saying: Nobody can defeat Father Time.

Ilari himself predicted that almost four years ago, in Barcelona, during one of his many interviews at the European Poker Tour. When he was asked about his crazy style of play in , Sahamies responded half-joking half-serious:. How about now though?

Ilari sahamies biography

Well, one fact is for sure: nowadays, Sahamies has other things to consider in life. Some much more important than shoving a big stack with a mediocre poker hand. Last year, Sahamies revealed, via social media, that his girlfriend Elina Alanne is pregnant. Interestingly enough, he bet that the child would actually be a baby girl, trusting his poker instincts more than ever.

Doctor Cacciatore said he saw Willy and testicles. So now we know, the Finn is a proud father of a baby boy and he might be spending at least some of his time babysitting and helping the mother. So yeah, Ziggy fans, the days of partying hard and playing poker drunk are most likely over. Now he has to think about his son and about living to see his boy all grown-up.

It was billiards however that Sahamies truly excelled at, winning the Finnish Junior Championships twice. Sahamies met fellow poker pro Patrik Antonius at a local billiards hall, with the two becoming friends and both became interested in poker, playing home games regularly as teenagers. In Sahamies discovered online poker, and began playing both no limit Hold-em and pot limit Omaha cash games.

Sahamies was aggressive with his bankroll management, moving up in stakes after earning just a few buy-ins, leading him to go broke multiple times, though he always managed to run his bankroll back up. He quickly became a regular in the highest stakes available on the site, playing against players such as Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey. Taken from his blog post on Cardplayer in February , he wrote "so sick.

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Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Use dmy dates from August Webarchive template wayback links. Ziigmund: call to dr phil f moron. Aeron73 Aeron ups Ziigmund: shut up moron Ziigmund: hope u die Aeron thats not very nice Ziigmund: f u. If you have some time to spare, there's some great material from Sahamies online.

You can see him do the tequila Stunt Man snort the salt, lime in the eye , see him leave the Helsinki Freeze Out heads up to take a leak, almost crying when he returns and finds out he was blinded off. The biggest online pot Sahamies won in his career was played against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom. On Nov. Sahamies called. While Sahamies made his return to the winner circle, he wasn't a participant in the three biggest pots of the week.

Here's who was:. The biggest hand of the session went as followed. A pot worth over big blinds to "JayP-AA". On table Delvaux, again on October 23rd, some of the best players in the world played each other in the good ol' game of no limit hold'em. This got rid of big blind Mols, Loeliger called.