A web-based poker legend dominates the WSOP Excessive Curler occasion

Viktor Blom, higher recognized by his on-line pseudonym “Isildur1”, is likely one of the most attention-grabbing figures on the planet of poker. The Swedish poker participant gained fame because of his aggressive and unpredictable enjoying type, which shortly made him one of the vital feared opponents on the digital tables.

Isildur1 burst onto the web poker scene immediately and seemingly out of nowhere in 2009. He performed on the highest stakes and challenged one of the best gamers on the planet , that includes poker legends like Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius. His quick and uncompromising type of play, mixed with spectacular endurance, shortly made the poker world sit up and take discover. His classes quickly grew to become legendary.

Isildur1’s most spectacular moments got here within the type of epic head up duels the place he received and misplaced tens of millions in a brief period of time. One in every of his most well-known classes got here in opposition to Tom “durrrr” Dwan, the place Blom received tens of millions of {dollars}. These duels attracted hundreds of spectators who wished to see reside how Blom competed in opposition to one of the best. As is usually the case in poker, Blom’s profession was marked not solely by success, but in addition by nice difficulties. After some main losses, Isildur1 briefly disappeared from the web scene, resulting in a lot hypothesis. However Blom proved his resilience and stored returning to the boards, usually with nice success.

Aside from his on-line successes, the 33-year-old has additionally proven nice performances in reside tournaments. He received a number of glorious competitions and received a giant prize. Most notably, he received the PCA Tremendous Excessive Curler occasion in 2012, the place he received $1,254,400. Nonetheless, he has made only a few reside event appearances lately.

On the present World Sequence of Poker, Blom has purchased into the $50,000 Excessive Curler occasion. 177 entries generated a prize pool of over $8 million. The winner alone will obtain simply over $2 million. On the finish of Day 2, 13 gamers are nonetheless within the operating. Blom goes forward of the Spaniard Aido. From a German perspective, the chances lie with defending champion Leon Sturm, who’s in sixth place.

Capturing star Sam Ju additionally made cash once more. The bubble burst after an unbelievable three and a half hours. Which means with 28 gamers left (27 getting the cash), it took virtually without end to search out the Bubble Boy, the final one to be eradicated with out prize cash. Ju survived the bubble and ended up ending in twenty fourth place ($101,724). Leon Sturm bought his final chips, and his queen pair received in opposition to Ju’s ace/queen.