Champion of Poker

Isildur1 is back and players like Brian Hastings, Durrrr, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey are battling head to head for millions of dollars. Just another week in the High Stakes Poker tables online. Most of us can never aspire to play against these amazing players for massive pots, but we can allow ourselves the pleasure of watching them fight it out from our home, thanks to railbirding the biggest games. Watching these games is a great place to get the latest online poker strategy from the players willing to duke it out at the highest stakes.

The games played by these professionals are Texas Hold’em poker and Pot Limit Omaha in a variety of short-handed, full ring and heads up matches.

Tom “Durrrr” Dwan

After taking a massive battering in the now infamous “Durrrr v Isildur1″ matches in November 2009 there was questions raised as to whether Tom Dwan was spent as a poker force. How wrong they were! Since the beginning of January he is up around $4 million and is yet again the man to beat. He managed to win $1.5 million back from Isildur1 recently to go some way towards avenging his large defeat from last year. 2010 looks like being a great year for Tom, certainly if he can keep anything like his current win rate intact it will be.

Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom

His identity is now being publicly referred to as Viktor Blom, so we will do likewise. After his $4 million loss to Brian Hastings, he returned in February and has been attempting to get back into profit. Isildur1 beat Di Dang for $531,000 then lost another $1.5 million to Brian Hastings. He is loved by the public for his degenerate refusal to accept he is not the PLO expert he thinks. At the $500/$1000 PLO Heads up tables he has a massive deficit of $4.2 million yet he continues to swing massively in the game. Little wonder his opponents usually say in the chat they “feel like playing PLO” when Isildur1 challenges them to a match. Blom is down a total of $2.2 million according to the high stakes tracking website poker table ratings.

Patrik Antonius

Patrik Antonius is no stranger to big swings. He had a winning day of $2 million on November 20th 2009 then a $1.6 million loss only five days later. He has so far endured a torrid 2010 losing around $3 million since the start of the year. Patrik shows no sign of reducing his stakes or playing time and continues to battle with the likes of Di Dang, Durrrr and Blom to regain his bankroll. He has posted a win of $133,000 in the last couple of days and hopes this will be the start of a long overdue upswing for him. In the Durrrr challenge, recent play sees him facing another $500,000 loss if he cannot overturn the current deficit to Durrrr of $1,986,418.00 with only 16697 hands remaining in the challenge. It is not a good time for Patrik at the poker tables at the moment.

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Look out for more updates on the high stakes games in the near future.

By Malcolm Clarke