{"id":1830,"date":"2016-09-06T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:31:29","slug":"away-erik-sagstrom-wins-wsop-planet-hollywood-high-roller-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/away-erik-sagstrom-wins-wsop-planet-hollywood-high-roller-event\/","title":{"rendered":"After Being Away for a While Erik Sagstrom Wins WSOP Planet Hollywood High Roller Event"},"content":{"rendered":"
On Monday night, Erik Sagstrom won the WSOP Planet Hollywood No Limit Hold\u2019em High Roller event in Las Vegas. The Swedish pro left the $5,300 buy-in event $65,000 richer, after beating a field of 26 players.<\/p>\n
The 33-year-old player, joined the event after a night playing cash games, without sleeping. Impressively, he beated Joe Kuether and won the first place.<\/p>\n
With this win, Sagtrom is back from the shadows, after being the subject of many \u201cWhere are they now?\u201d articles. The Swede was one of the most successful and feared high stake players of his time. Between 2004 and 2007, Sagstrom intimidated the high stakes tables, the same time when Johny \u201cbad_ip\u201d Lodden and Prahlad \u201cSpirit Rock \u201c Friedman were on the top.<\/p>\n
In 2007, the Swede launched Erik123.com, his own internet poker room. Before that Sagstrom had been a part-owner of the PokerChamps website, together with Gus Hansen and Tony G. In 2005, the site was sold for \u20ac18 million to Betfair.<\/p>\n
Then the player disappeared for a while. Back in 2009, he became third in the $50k HORSE event at WSOP and in 2011 the player made a reappearance at the HORSE event. But after 2011, we heard nothing from Erik again.<\/p>\n
Rumors were that the players had become bored with poker and was engaging mainly in sports betting.<\/p>\n
In an interview to WSOP.com, Sagstrom revealed:<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t really playing poker for a long time. I was in Sweden and I was doing some different things. I was betting sports and not really playing much poker over the last four years\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been doing a little of this and a little of that and then I came to Vegas. I wasn\u2019t planning on playing much, but once you\u2019re here, you get sucked in. Life is crazy and the degenerate that I am, I play all the time now\u201d<\/p>\n
About his win, Sagstrom said: \u201cIt feels good. I\u2019ve been up for the better part of 36 hours, so I\u2019m a bit tired. But it\u2019s a good finish to the day. Or maybe two days.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Ssgstrom promised he will be around and play \u201ca lot of poker tournaments\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Monday night, Erik Sagstrom won the WSOP Planet Hollywood No Limit Hold\u2019em High Roller event in Las Vegas. The Swedish pro left the $5,300 buy-in event $65,000 richer, after beating a field of 26 players. The 33-year-old player, joined the event after a night playing cash games, without sleeping. Impressively, he beated Joe Kuether […]","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headline"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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