Thursday, 10 January 2013
Viktor “Isildur1” Blom suffered the first chink in his armour yesterday after dropping over $500,000 at the virtual felt.
Having scooped $1.3 million on Tuesday to take his 2013 total to over $4 million, it seems that negative variance finally caught up with him in the last 24 hours. The loss will no doubt come as a blow to the Swede, but with so much momentum behind him recently the loss is more of a slip rather than a disastrous fall. Ben “Sauce123” Sulsky was the player responsible for a large part of Blom’s loss, banking almost $400,000 in under 1,000 hands. Indeed, while he’s still in negative figures for the year, yesterday’s win has helped him move back to even. The early high stakes action in 2013 has certainly been exciting thanks to Blom’s incredible run. Many of the game’s top players will now be looking to reclaim some of the money they’ve dropped over the past few days, which could mean that $500,000 swings become the norm over the next few weeks. New players can join Isildur1 at the Full Tilt Poker tables with a 100% first deposit bonus of up to $600. Sign up here.Keep up to date with all the news from the poker world by following us on Twitter and Facebook.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off a second three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes are each about to kick off three-stage online satellite tournament series promising to award winners with prize packages into the upcoming Velden stop of the European Poker Championship.
Fans of the Oh Hell trick-taking game will soon be able to enjoy real-money competitions online after Hell Club announced that it will be launching its new Oh Hell Stackpot innovation from Sunday.
Tuesday is the deadline for all working Americans to have submitted their income tax returns to the federal government and Juicy Stakes and Intertops Poker are set to mark this annual occasion by holding a special freeroll competition featuring a $1,000 top prize.
Intertops Poker and Juicy Stakes cASINO are giving online poker players another chance to win their way to the Caribbean.
Win your way to the Caribbean in online satellites at Intertops and Juicy Stakes.
“We run a lot of higher stakes tournaments for our more hard-core players,” said Intertops’ poker manager. “But since our network is generally pretty soft, we created this series to give less competitive players a shot at winning.”
$200 GTD ‘East of Eden’ Poker Tournament Monday night at Intertops Poker will be a freezeout tournament with no re-buys or add-ons.
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