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Ilari "Ilari FIN" Sahamies Becomes PokerStars' Biggest Winner of 2011
While 2011 was perhaps the worst year for online poker, there were still a couple of notable online stories. One story was the resettlement of high-stakes cash games to PokerStars; another was the subsequent race by Ilari "Ilari FIN" Sahamies and Rafi "refaelamit" Amit to become the year’s biggest winner. Things were hotly contested in December, with Viktor “Isildur1” Blom making a push for the title, but in the end, Sahamies won $2.18 million to become PokerStars' biggest winner of 2011.
According to HighStakesDB, Sahamies won $2,183,832 in 2011, only $78,235 more than...
Why should Gus Hansen be taken off the list of top winners? With all due respect to Illari, Gus Hansen won more money, period. The fact that FullTiltPoker went under is not Gus Hansen's fault any more that Illari would be penalized if he invested his winnings in a real estate deal that went sour.
So Ok, this is the "PokerStars online winner" but PokerStars, with all due respect, is only one site. PokerNews should be reporting the global winner, not one site's top winner, albeit that PokerStars is a major site.
flintsword
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01-03-2012 18:45 / 01-03-2012 18:53
flintswordMaybe PokerNews should declare who the top Online winner in a news article.
flintsword
"The lucky player is usually the player that knows how much to leave to chance."
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01-03-2012 18:47 / 01-03-2012 18:49
With respect the title says pokerstars top earners not fulltilt , anyway all i wanted to say was so now i know who toweliestar is, its benny spindler his a proper sicko who i see winning ept ukipt london agro sicko but world class
01-04-2012 02:43
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