Sat, 01/29/2011 – 00:02 – PokerPages Staff

Online poker player ‘Ilvdnfl’ was the big winner on PokerStars in mid week after taking down $173,000 in various high stakes cash games.

‘Ilvdnfl’, who is rumored to nosebleed regular Di Dang, benefitted from several lucrative $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha sessions against ‘MauriceSch’ and ‘Also11′ on the world’s biggest online poker site on Wednesday.

Those figures pushed his profits for the week past the $350,000 mark. The PLO specialist is now on an upswing of $741,000 for the calendar year.

Cash games on rival sites have been quiet this week as the likes of Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius are competing in the Aussie Millions in Melbourne.

David Benefield posted the best figures on Full Tilt Poker. Benefield won $91,000 in lengthy PLO exchanges. Van Marcus (+$45,000) also prospered.

Dang, who plays under the ‘Urindanger’ alias on Full Tilt, failed to generate any heat despite his alleged successes at PokerStars. He ended the evening with losses of $106,000.

However, Dang has been one of the front runners during the early stages of 2011 and if the rumors are to be believed, is now on an upswing of around $1.5 million for both of his online accounts.

There were several big losers on PokerStars as ‘MauriceSch’ (-$104,000) and ‘Sauce123′ (-$104,000) dropped six figure sums. ‘Also11′ (-$77,000) and ‘Looney Gerbil’ (-$73,000) rounded out the top four.

Wed, 12/22/2010 – 23:10 – PokerPages Staff

Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies returned to form on Monday evening after dominating several $300/$600 Pot Limit Omaha sessions on the virtual felt. ‘Ziigmund’ finished the evening $119,000 in the black to arrest his recent run of downswings.

The online sensation downed a pot worth $136,674 after completing a full house on the river against nosebleed regulars Di ‘Urindanger’ Dang and ‘Rumprammer.’

‘Ziigmund’ raised to $3,600 from the big blind and his opponents called. A flop of Ah-Qs-8s prompted Dang to check and Sahamies led out for $13,780. ‘Rumprammer’ then jammed for $26,195 and Dang check raised to $107,085. ‘Ziigmund’ completed.

The trio had each hit a set on the flop but ‘Ziigmund’ had his opponents covered with Aces. The turn and river drew air for ‘Rumprammer’ and Dang and ‘Ziigmund’ snared the pot with his boat.

Patrik Antonius took the crown as the biggest winner of the weekend after seven lucrative sessions. Antonius tabled trip deuces against Dan ‘jungleman12′ Cates to take down a hand worth $226,000 before spiking a rivered set of Aces against long running challenger ‘IHateJuice’ for a $96,000 pot.

Antonius’ profits of $332,663 placed him ahead of ‘luckexpress10′ (+$143,992) and Ziigmund (+$119,0000). The renowned Phil Ivey (+$83,981) rounded out the top four.

Dan Cates (-$249,376) was the biggest loser. The Durrrr Challenger has seen his 2010 profits drop from over $5 million to $4.76 million in recent weeks. However, those figures are still good enough to make him the highest earner for the calendar year.

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