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In a new interview with one of Europe's biggest poker magazines, the youngest living poker legend Viktor Blom, from Sweden, speaks out about the day when he lost $5 million to Cole South and Brian Hastings (the biggest loss in his career) and what crossed his mind when it was reveled that South, Hastings and another 3rd player, Brian Townsend, had collaborated and made joint statistics of how he played hands. When Full Tilt found out about cheating they removed Townsend's pro status for 30 days. However, South and Hastings got away with it.

Read more » Viktor Blom speaks out about the day when he lost $5 million

Only 24 players got knocked out during the first starting day of the EPT Tallinn Main Event. This means that 68 players are through to Day 2 of the tournament. In a big lead is Maksim Kolosov from Russia with a 102,725 stack. Kolosov played fantastic poker during Day 1a and has a 20,000 lead over Robert Romanello, from UK, in second place with 83,175 chips.

Today, the EPT Tallinn crew are expecting a greater field than the first starting day and also more notables. We will return with an update as soon as Day 1b comes to an end. Stay tuned!

The Swedish poker phenomenon Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, 20, is doing extremely well lately. In fact, he has been running good the whole summer and is the second most successful player online this year. In total, Viktor Blom has won $411,837 this year, and July was his best month with a profit of 639,056. The only one who beats him is Andreas "Skjervoy" Torbergsen, from Norway, with $481,436 won this year. Torbergsen, like Blom, won big in July - $610,895 - one of the best months in his entire career!

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne Main Event attracted a field of 260 players. The tournament was dominated by Australians and Kiwis. In fact, 26 of 28 paid places were taken by Australians and Kiwis - only a Russian and a Malaysian reached the money.

Anyhow, it was a local who took home the tournament, Leo Boxell. Boxel has been around the poker scene for quite some time. For example, he won the New Zealand Championship already 10 years ago. However, this win was the biggest cash in his entire career - 330,000 AUD, or 253,303 euro. In total, Leo Boxell now has 1,345,505 USD in tournament winnings.

Read more » APPT Melbourne: Local took down the Main Event (€253,303)

The EMOP (European Masters of Poker) Dublin Main Event has come to an end. It ended up being Soren Larsen, from Denmark, who took down the tournament and the first prize of €71,210. Not less than 4 Irishmen made it to the final table and Dara O'Kearney was the one of them who survived the longest. O'Kearney received €42,720 for the runner-up finish.

The next stop on the EMOP tour will be in Barcelona on September 29th. You can qualify for the EMOP Barcelona events at KickOffPoker. When you sign up through BankrollMob at KickOffPoker you will also get an exclusive 1000% up to €5000 bonus on your first deposit. Click here for more info.

It's not only poker companies that are leaving the U.S. market after Black Friday, also many online pros have decided to leave the country. Brian Hastings, who won $4 million against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom in a single session in December 2009, is one of these players. In Hastings blog, one can read that he's getting more and more into live poker but that he still wants to make a short-term move Canada in order to play some high stakes poker online.

Read more » Black Friday: Brian Hastings leaves U.S. for Canada

Nine days have now passed since the 2011 WSOP Main Event final table was set, and we are really sorry that we haven't been able to put up the news until now. Now, below you will find the 9 finalists and some brief information about each one of them (information taken from the official WSOP website). The final table (televised) will be played in the first week of November.

8 of the 9 finalists are guaranteed at least $1 million each, and the winner will become the World Champion and receive a prize check of almost 9 million dollars! All of the finalists have plenty of chips to work with, so expect it to be one of the most interesting final tables in WSOP history! 

Read more » Incase you missed it: The 2011 WSOP November 9 is set

After a very long, intensive and exciting day of play we're now down to only 22 players. These 22 players will now get some well-needed rest before they have to return to Rio's poker room and play Day 8 of the Main Event. All the remaining players are guaranteed at least $302,0000 each. 

Just like in the past 7 days, a new player will return with the largest stack to Day 8, Anton Makievskyi. Makievskyi played fantastic poker during Day 7 and managed to accumulate a stack of over 21 million chips. His closest opponent, Eoghan O'Dea, has 19 million chips. Even though these 2 players have a nice lead over the rest of the field it's very hard to say what will happen during Day 8. One thing is for sure though - 9 players will make it to the final table in November - 8 of them will become dollar millionaires.

Day 8 table and seat draw:

ESPN Feature Table
Seat Player Chips
1 Gionni Demers 4,655,000
2 Christopher Moore 3,040,000
3 Khoa Nguyen 16,435,000
4 Konstantinos Mamaliadis 8,195,000
5 Kenny Shih 4,530,000
6 Samuel Holden 4,740,000
7 Lars Bonding 4,140,000
8 --empty-- --
9 Anton Makievskyi 21,045,000

Secondary Feature Table
Seat Player Chips
1 Matt Giannetti 8,920,000
2 Aleksandr Mozhnyakov 7,075,000
3 Scott Schwalich 6,920,000
4 Pius Heinz 7,510,000
5 Phil Collins 13,805,000
6 --empty-- --
7 Bounahra Badih 3,385,000
8 --empty-- --
9 Sam Barnhart 4,935,000

Table Seat Player Chips
334 1 Martin Staszko 6,380,000
334 2 John Hewitt 13,265,000
334 3 --empty-- --
334 4 --empty-- --
334 5 Ben Lamb 14,690,000
334 6 Ryan Lenaghan 10,415,000
334 7 Andrey Pateychuk 16,245,000
334 8 Eoghan O'Dea 19,050,000
334 9 Bryan Devonshire 6,190,000

Even though many of the poker world's biggest high stakes stars are in Vegas at the moment, there are still some decent high stakes games running online. Yesterday, for example, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom took on Rui "PepperoniF" Cao in heads-up match of Pot-Limit Omaha at PokerStars. The game was quite even at first, but after about 1000 hands had been played Isildur1 had full control over the game. When the match had been running for about 4 hours, PepperoniF called it a day and Viktor Blom left the table with a $271k profit.

Read more » High Stakes: Swingy day for Viktor "Isildur1" Blom

Day 6 of the 2011 WSOP Main Event came to an end about 1 hour ago. Left are now only 57 players that will return to play Day 7 tomorrow. The current chip leader is Ryan Lenaghan with with almost 13 million in chips. In second place is Ben Lamb with almost 10 million chips, followed by 3 players with about 7-8 million chips (Matt Giannetti, Andrey Pateychuk & Phil Collins).

Notable names to survive play today include David Bach, Lars Bonding, Erick Lindgren, Sam Barhard and Team PokerStars Pros Sebastian Ruthenberg and Tony Hachem.

8 of the remaining players will become millionaires and one will become the World Champion and receive the coveted gold bracelet! We will return with an update as soon as day 7 is over. Stay tuned!

The 5th day of the 2011 WSOP Main Event is in the books. Out of the 6,865 players who signed up for the tournament 8 days ago, 142 players will return tomorrow and play Day 6 of the tournament. Not less than 5 players will return with more than 4 million in chips tomorrow. Chip leader is David Bach, from USA, with 4,7 million, closely followed by Pius Heinz (4,699,000) and Kyle Johnson (4,654,00).

Read more » 2011 WSOP: 142 players left - Ben Lamb in 5th place

Day 3 of the World Series of Poker Main Event came to and end about half an hour ago. Out of the 1,864 players that started the day, "only" 900 players will return to play Day 4 tomorrow. In the lead are two americans - Patrick Poirier with 1,328,000 chips and Daryl Jace with 1,282,500. Sebastian Ruthenberg, from the UK, is the biggest name in the very top of the remaining field of players. Ruthenberg, who has 1 WSOP bracelet and 1 EPT title, played fantastic poker during Day 3 and has accumulated 889,000 chips and is in 6th place at the moment.

Apart from Ruthenberg, there are many big names with plenty of chips left (just to mention a few) - JP Kelly (33rd place - 492k), Ben Lamb (37th place - 450k), Erick Lindgren (64th place 355k), Tony Hachem (65th place - 355k), Allen Cunningham (87th place - 274k), Freddy Deeb (265k), Sorel Mizzi (93rd place - 250k), Jake Cody (95th place - 250k).

Day 2b of the 2011 WSOP Main Event came to and end about 2 hours ago. The day started with 2490 players and ended with 1,080 players remaining. This means that about 1,900 players are through to Day 3 of the tournament, which starts tomorrow. In the lead is no one else than Ben Lamb, who took down the $10k PLO event for $814k, finished 2nd in the $3k PLO event, and has cashed in another 2 events at the 2011 WSOP. Other big names with plenty of chips left are Patrik Antonius (361,000 - 7th place), Tony Hachem (245,100 - 27th) and Jeff Madsen (231,500 - 29th).

We will return with more updates on the 2011 WSOP Main Event as soon as Day 3 comes to an end. Stay tuned!

6 days have now passed since the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event kicked off. In the 42-year history of WSOP, the Main Event this year is the third-largest ever, with 6,865 participants and more than 1.4 billion in prize money. Anyhow, the 4 starting days are in the books and also Day 2a (822 of 2,031 through to Day 3). We are now waiting for the official Day 2b results to be released. It will be interesting to see how many survived from the 2490-player field.

Read more » 2011 WSOP Main Event

What a comeback by Brian Rast! He was down to about 2 million and almost out of the tournament a while ago. Now, about 10-15 minutes later, he's the champion and $1,720,328 richer! This was his second bracelet at the 2011 WSOP! Very impressive!

This is how the last 2 hands were played out.

Hand #216
Brian Rast had the button and raised to 240k. Phil Hellmuth called. The flop fell Q78, and Hellmuth bet 300k. Rast called. The turn was the 4, Hellmuth checked, and Rast checked as well. The river was the 4 and Hellmuth betted 300k. Rast folds, and Hellmuth won the pot.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth eliminated in 2nd place for $1,063,034

There are now only 2 players remaining in the $50,000 Poker Player's Championship. Phil Hellmuth is in the lead with 13,940,000 chips against Brian Rast's 5,260,000 stack. We might be only minutes away from the final hand being played. In fact, Rast was almost out of chips a while ago, but then he doubled up though Hellmuth. Anyhow, Phil Hellmuth has fantastic chance of winning his 12th WSOP bracelet and also take home the biggest win of his entire poker career.

Stay tuned for more updates!

We are just hours away from the biggest and most prestige filled tournament in the poker world, the World Series of Poker Main Event! Most of the big names in poker are going to take part this year and we can expect a huge prize pool since the 2011 WSOP has seen many record fields. The Main Event is a 13-day event with 4 starting days.

Read more » 2011 WSOP: The Main Event starts today

The Event #55: The Poker Player's Championship final table is running at the moment. There are 3 players left: 11-time WSOP gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, 2011 WSOP bracelet winner Brian Rast, and Minh Ly. Brian Rast is in the lead with 9,5 million chips, Phil Hellmuth is in second place with 6,8 million, and Minh Ly has about 2,8 million.

Ladies and gentlemen, it's getting extremely exciting! All players are guaranteed at least $665,763 each. The winner will get $1,720,328 and the coveted gold bracelet, and the runner-up will get $1,063,034. Personally, I hope that Phil Hellmuth will win his 12th bracelet and take home the biggest cash in his career.

We will return with an update as soon as a winner has been crowned! Stay tuned!

What an incredible performance by Phil Hellmuth at this year's World Series of Poker. He has finished second in two events, cashed in another 3 events, and right now he's in 3th place in the $50,000 Poker Player's Championship with only 9 players left. There is no doubt whatsoever that he will miss out on the final table table (8 players) tomorrow and fight for his 12th gold bracelet. Yes, you heard right: Phil Hellmuth has won not less than 11 WSOP gold bracelets in his poker career!

Read more » Phil Hellmuth - a living legend

After the impressing $150k win against Terje "terken89" Augdal last Sunday, Viktor Blom had another big winning session already the night after. This time the young gun took on Finland's very own high stakes star Ilari "Ziigmund"/"Ilari FIN" Sahamies.

They started the match on two Omaha PL $50/$100 tables and ended up about even before they decided to only play 1 table. Isildur1 quickly took the lead and Sahamies kept on adding $25,000 to his stack. After some time both players had quite deep stacks and it was just a matter of time before a big hand would occur.

Read more » High Stakes: Isildur1 wins $223,000 against Ilari Sahamies

Day 4 of Event #55: The Poker Player's Championship is being played at the moment. The tournament is on a 15-min break right now and there are only 13 players left. Chip leader is Brian Rast with 3,3 million chips, and in second place is Owais Ahmed with 2.2 million, closely followed by Minh Ly.

Ben Lamb, Phil Hellmuth and Jeffrey Lisandro (picture) are the biggest names left in the remaining field of players. We will return with an update as soon as the tournament is down to a final table. Stay tuned, folks!

Day 3 of the $50k buy-in tournament has come to an end. There are plenty of big names left in the remaining field of 29 players - Phil Hellmuth (picture), Gus Hansen, Sebastian Ruthenberg, Berry Greenstein - just to mention a few. Chip leader is Josh Arieh with a 1,819,000 stack, and in second place is Brian Rast with 1,633,000.

Read more » The Poker Player's Championship (50k buy-in): 29 players through to Day 4

At the moment there are only 30 player left in Event #55: The Poker Player's Championship. Chip leader is Josh Arieh, from USA, with 1,8 million, and in second place is Brian Rast with 1,43 million. Most notable players in the top of the remaining field are Phil Hellmuth (1 million), Gus Hansen (900k), Shaun Deeb (745k) and Sebastian Ruthenberg (740k).

Ben Lamb, who started the day with the biggest stack, has 450,000 chips left and has dropped to a 16th place. Well, there is still some time before the day comes to an end and, as we all know, anything can happen in the game of poker! We will return with an update as soon as the day is over. Stay tuned!

Last Sunday, another SuperStar Showdown was played at PokerStars. This time Viktor "Isildur1" Blom took on Terje "Terken89" Augdal from Norway, and it ended up being one of the most action-filled SuperStar Shodown matches so far. Already in the first hand both players went all-in - Blom with TT and Augdal with AK. Two aces fell on the board and Augdal took a $10,000 lead. However, about 100 hands later, Blom was suddenly in the lead with about $7,000. And after 250 hands had been played, his lead had increased with another $10,000, and 50 hands later another $5000.

Read more » SuperStar Showdown: Viktor Blom wins action-filled match against "Terken89"

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