I was browsing through some poker clips the other day, and found a few of high stakes pro Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies on a Finnish version of Fear Factor. Some of the stuff they made him do on this show was just plain sick – especially in the first video. And I don’t mean sick as in some cookie-cutter poker player who says the word constantly because he heard Phil Ivey say it on Poker After Dark.
Instead, I mean sick as in I wanted to throw up after watching him eat….whatever it is he was eating. Even Ziigmund himself sounds like he is doing everything possible to avoid throwing up. In another clip, you see a Patrik Antonius wannabe host in an old school Anfernee Hardaway jersey explaining something to Sahamies, right before he is forced to unlock his handcuffs while spinning underwater. Fortunately, it looks like the Finn made it through all of this and into the finals, where his reward is walking across 30-story-high pipes with gaps in between.
