The dust has cleared after one of the most epic poker battles of all time

December 4th, 2009

The first battle is over, and the dust has cleared in one of the most epic poker matches of all time. This was not a single session of poker, and the war is not over.

What started as a multi-table match between Tom Dwan aka durrrr and Viktor Blom aka Isildur1, ended up with Viktor Blom taking on the top echelon of Full Tilt Poker pros, and Ilariu Sahamies aka Ziigmund. Tom Dwan would end up losing $5 million dollars to Viktor Blom. Viktor would end up using that $5 million to take on Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius. Viktor would lose just under 3 million to Phil Ivey, and lose the biggest pot in online poker history to Patrik Antonius. Then Viktor would regain some losses Vs Patrik and take some off Ziigmund. After this Brian Townsend would come in like a white knight and take a million off of Viktor. Then after that, Ziigmund would take a chunk out of him. This truly was like watching great white sharks turn on an injured killer whale. Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 was unable to cope with them sitting out out on him after winning large sums of money and would go on perma tilt. Not only would he lose $5million that he won off of Tom Dwan, but he would lose $1.6 million of his own or staked money.

Highlights:

The mother of all online poker pots:

Now that the dust has cleared, both durrrr and Isildur1 are back in $500/1000 pot limit Omaha games and licking their wounds, and trying to re-build a monster bankroll. I see a second battle coming to the nosebleed high stakes games at Full Tilt Poker very soon.