2011 Retrospective – Part 9

December 29, 2011
In the ninth part of our end-of-the-year retrospective, we revise what happened in September, 2011.
September

Jake Cody was the biggest winner of this year's British Poker Awards, taking down the Best Tournament Player and the Player of the Year awards as well. The Best International Player title went to Jason Mercier. The ceremony was held as the highlight of the 2011 Poker in the Park festival in London.

Want to read more on the British Poker Awards? Click here.

The Finn daredevil Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies took down the biggest pot in the history of PokerStars: the young pro won $421,836 with his nut flush at the online high stakes tables.

Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies
Ilari 'Ziigmund' Sahamies

Want to read more on Ziggy’s monster pot? Click here.

Dane Thomas ’Kallllle’ Pedersen won the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) 2011 Main Event, taking home $1.2 million.

Want to read more on Pedersen’s victory? Click here.

Despite Ziigmund’s huge pot, the biggest online high stakes winner of September became to be ‘refaelamit,’ while August money list leaders ‘Isildur1’ and ‘Skjervoy’ ended up in the deepest minus.

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