After the Black Friday Finnish players have been dominating the online high-stakes cash games on Full Tilt Poker, and Patrik Antonius, Jens "Ingenious89" Kyllönen and Jani Vilmunen have netted almost $3M combined profit.
In addition to Finns, players like Rui Cao (+$210K), NoPasaran (+$200K) and "DrugsOrMe" (+$155K) have been making good profit after the Black Friday.
Players who have not done so good are instead Andreas "skjervoy" Torbergsen (-$1,11M), "FinnishNightmre" (-$235K) and Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies (-$250K).
Sahamies, however, is playing a wild session against Gus Hansen as I am writing this at Full Tilt and he is up a little over $250K already against The Great Dane.
Ziigmund: are you coming back?
Gus Hansen: Ziigmund please dont go broke – you are such a talented player – at least in your own mind
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Gus Hansen: funny that I play Ziigmund – and I am in Helsinki
Ziigmund: what u r doing here
Ziigmund: holiday?
Gus Hansen: European championship in squash
Ziigmund: ok
Gus Hansen: in Espoo
Ziigmund: cool
If we look year-to-date winners list, Gus Hansen (+$3,616,000), *Daniel “jungleman12” Cates (+$1,952,000), Gavin “gavz101” Cochrane (+$1,875,000), *Matt Hawrilenko (+$1,440,000), *bixiu (+$1,406,000), *Phil Ivey (+$1,336,000) are leading the list.
Year-to-date biggest losers are instead *Tom “durrrr” Dwan (-$2,474,000), kagome kagome/IHateJuice (-$1,417,000), *fishosaurusREX (-$1,399,000), *cadillac1944 (-$1,336,000), UarePileous (-$940,000) and *David Benefield (-$742,000). (* = U.S players).
See all 2011 highstakes results from here!