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Patrik Antonius

Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:26:00 +0000

Biography

Patrik Antonius is a Finnish professional poker player. With over $13,000,000 in career earnings he made a name for himself as one of the best high-stakes online poker players in the world, competing against Tom Dwan in the infamous 2009 Durrrr Challenge.

He also won the European Poker Tour Baden Main Event in 2005.

In 2023, Antonius made headlines for winning a $1,978,000 cash game pot the largest ever broadcast on a US live stream.

Chris Moorman

Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:25:54 +0000

Biography

Chris Moorman is a British professional poker player residing in Brighton. Moorman was initially famous for his results at the online poker tables playing under the nickname Moorman1 before he proved himself in live tournaments as well with a memorable performance at the 2011 World Series of Poker when he made three final tables, including a second-place finish at the WSOP Europe 10,000 Main Event in Cannes, France.

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Tom Dwan

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 19:26:01 +0000

Biography

Tom Dwan, best known by his online alias durrrr is an American poker pro who emerged into the high-stakes online poker scene in 2007. He first started playing poker online in 2004 at the age of 17 and in three years he climbed up the stakes ladder to the biggest digits available online.

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At that time Full Tilt Poker was the place for all the high-stakes poker action and Dwan became a regular at the heads-up nosebleeds. He was playing against some of the biggest names in online poker including Frederick Halling, Prahlad Friedman, Phil Ivey, Ilari Sahamies, Patrik Antonius, Brian Townsend, Viktor Blom and others.

Niklas Astedt

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 10:26:00 +0000

Biography

Niklas Astedt is a Swedish poker player perhaps best-known by his online nickname ‘Lena900’.

Over the course of his career, Astedt has won numerous online poker accolades and is perhaps one of online poker’s most successful players.

He is a member of GGPoker Team Champions after his victory in the 2021 WSOP Super Circuit Online Series Main Event for $758,443. Earlier that year he had won his first WSOP Circuit ring in WSOPC #13: $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em for $348,250.

Viktor Blom

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 07:25:45 +0000

Biography

Viktor Blom, best known in the poker community by his online alias “Isildur1” is a Swedish professional poker player. He stormed into the online poker scene in late 2009, crashing the high-stakes games at Full Tilt Poker and challenging many of the top-class poker pros.

Intro

Blom was born in Sweden in 1990. He started playing poker around the age of 14 with his friends, and as soon as he turned 18 Blom started playing poker online. Due to the Swedish tax system, which rakes most of their citizens’ online poker winnings, Blom left his home country and moved to London at the age of 21. Despite his success at the online tables, Blom has a couple of dozen live tournament cashes, the biggest of which is the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller title which he won in 2012.

Andras Nemeth

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 19:25:43 +0000

Biography

Andras Nemeth is a Hungarian poker player who has had great success on both the live and online felt. He is best known for playing under his “probirs” alias, where he has won over $17 million.

On the live tournament circuit, he has won over $5 million, with his largest cash of $1,082,000 being recorded in 2022. He took down the $50K buy-in event at Triton Cyprus after he defeated compatriot Laszlo Bujtas in heads-up play.

Joris Ruijs

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:25:56 +0000

Biography

Joris Ruijs is a Dutch professional poker player who specialises in tournament poker. Predominately an online poker grinder, one with almost $10 million in online poker earnings, Riojs is both feared and respected in equal measure.

Ruijs is known as “BillLewinsky” or “KONY2012” in online poker circles, the former being his PokerStars alias. Ruijs is approaching $6 million in PokerStars winnings, an impressive haul helped by capturing a $530 NLHE Sunday Million SE title at the 2019 Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP) for a career-best $217,140, and a World Championship Of Online poker (WCOOP) title in 2019 for $70,158.