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The Making of Viktor "Isildur1" Blom - Part 1

A nine part series of articles chronicling the rise of online poker's biggest star

April 04, 2013

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April 04, 2013

WSOP Asia/Pacific 2013 starts today in Melbourne

5 bracelets to be awarded in Australia

April 04, 2013

SallyWoo Starts April On Top With a $231.8k Win

March is most likely a month SallyWoo would like to forget as the FLO8 specialist ended up as a $1m loser, thanks largely to his multiple defeats at the hands of Isildur1 so he'll be glad to...

April 02, 2013

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April 02, 2013

Sami "LarsLuzak" Kelopuro final tables FTOPS XXII Event #34 and Sunday Million

Sami Kelopuro aka. "LarsLuzak" or "LrsLzk" has made a great comeback lately on Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars by playing online tournaments. He has final tabled two FTOPS XXII events and als...

April 01, 2013

KPR16 Wins $450k In a Big Day Of Action at Full Tilt

Yesterday saw plenty of action over at the nosebleed tables of Full Tilt Poker, with plenty of big names trading blows across all the major poker variants. The day's biggest winner was FLO8 ...

April 01, 2013

Rocco Palumbo wins WPT Venice 2013

"Mr WPT" Mike Sexton also makes the final table

March 31, 2013

Isildur1 Wins $253k as the Highstakes Action Gets Going Again

Although we've had pockets of action here and there, the past week or so has been relatively dead for decent high stakes action. Yesterday however we started to see more and more games start...

March 30, 2013

A Half Million Dollar Day for Phil "Polarizing" Ivey

After three months of misery for Phil "Polarizing" Ivey at the high stakes tables of Full Tilt the last couple of days have seen the worlds greatest poker player on something of a comeback. ...

March 29, 2013

Phil "Polarizing" Ivey Wins $244k In FLO8 & PLO

After a desperately bad start to 2013 for poker legend Phil "Polarizing" Ivey, he finally put together a decent win yesterday, topping the daily leader board with a $244k win in some heads u...

March 28, 2013

WPT Venice down to final 36 players, $100,000 buy-in PLO tournament on PokerStars?

The €3,300 buy-in World Poker Tour Venice Main Event is now down to final 36 players from ...

March 28, 2013

duubadaaba Wins $99k at PokerStars on a Slow Day at the Tables

The slow week of high stakes action continued yesterday as the nosebleed games seem to have ground to a halt over the past few days. There were barely any hands played over at Full Tilt, wit...

March 27, 2013

Sanlker Wins $270k As Isildur1 Slips Up

As suspected, it took the reappearance of Viktor "Isildur1" Blom to get the high stakes games going again over at Full Tilt, and Blom was heavily involved in almost all of yesterday's action...

March 26, 2013

SCOOP schedule, Hastings Interview and more

PokerStars has released the preliminary schedule for the 2013 SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker).

March 26, 2013

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March 26, 2013

Isildur1 is Back In Action - Wins $178k

After a highly unusual lack of action over at Full Tilt over the past few days, railbirds gave a sigh of relief yesterday as the one man who can also guarantee action, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom...

March 25, 2013

RealAndyBeal Wins $145k In PokerStars Mixed Games

With the sudden dearth of high stakes games over at Full Tilt the biggest winners from the past couple of days have all come from PokerStars, which seems to be experiencing something of a re...

March 24, 2013