Finnish Poker Players Dominating

With the absence of American high stakes players in the wake of Black Friday, it is the Finns who are dominating the highest stakes games on Full Tilt Poker. Patrik Antonius, Jens "Ingenious89" Kyllönen and Jani Vilmunen are up nearly $3 million in combined profit in the last two days.

Jens “Ingenious89″ Kyllönen had a fantastic single day and sits up $1.36 million. Antonius has won $1.4 million. Jani Vilmunen is up around $150k.

One notable Finn who has returned to action on Full Tilt lately but who has been swinging a lot is Ilari ‘Ziigmund’ Sahamies who pushed himself into positive territory today after a $275k win at the hands of Gus Hansen.

They had an interesting chat exchange at the table...

Ziigmund: are you coming back?
Gus Hansen: Ziigmund please dont go broke – you are such a talented player – at least in your own mind
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

One other presumed Finn FinnishNightmare hasn't fared as well in the last couple weeks and is down around $225k.

Players who have been on the negative side since Black Friday include Andreas "skjervoy" Tobergsen (-$1.13 million) and Gavin “gavz101” Cochrane (-248k).