Seat 2: Ilari Sahamies (7,885,000)
Ilari Sahamies is most commonly known as "Ziigmund," a high-stakes Finnish professional poker player known for frequenting the highest games in the world, especially online. Sahamies' specialty is both Pot-Limit Omaha and trash talking - often to be found in the chat boxes of an online poker room. Sahamies first got into poker at age 15 when he reportedly hopped in to the home game of another famous Finnish player, Patrik Antonius. From there, Sahamies began playing more and more live poker before transitioning into becoming an online phenom.
Online Ziigmund mainly plays cash games and is a fixture in the largest games running, regularly winning or losing six- or seven-figure sums. He also has $816,687 in live tournament earnings. In 2009, he recorded two big scores — the two largest of his live career at the time. The first was in January when he took second in the Helsinki Freezeout Main Event for €125,126. The other was a sixth-place finish in the ￡20,000 EPT London High Roller for ￡74,000. Thanks to a fourth-place finish just a few days ago in the EPT Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller for €291,900, this year is already Sahamies' best to date.
*Bio courtesy of PokerStars.