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Viktor Blom screen name Isildur1 has made huge waves once again with his massive online swings. Today, he took a step in the right direction with his online play. Blom played four heads up tables as well as four full ring Cap Limit Omaha tables. The heads up matches were against Full Tilt Poker Pro David Benefield, while the six max tables saw such online regulars as ‘FakeSky,’ ‘EazyPeazy,’ and ‘SxMxF.’

The first big hand of the day saw Blom take a $32,000 pot from Benefield with a flopped straight.

Two queens were good enough for complete a full boat for Blom in this hand, busting Benefield and winning a $10,000 pot.

Aces were no good for ‘FakeSky’ in this hand. After the flop, the two players capped the pot. ‘EazyPeazy’ had an open ended straight draw, and hit it on both runs to take over $32,000.

Blom capped this pot on the flop after flopping top set. However, a ten on the river gave Benefield this pot.

The high paced heads up game between Benefield andBlom continued with another capped pot here. Blom made a straight here, which was good enough for a pot of $32,000.

Blom continued his big upswing taking another capped pot, this time at a six handed table from ‘SxMxF.’

This pot was capped preflop. While Blom’s kings were far ahead of the queens of Benefield, a queen on the turn sent the pot away from ‘Isildur1′ and to Benefield.

Benefield continued to catch up when his aces took down queens.

However, Blom got it all back in this capped hand, when his top two pair was good enough for this hand.

Blom dropped his unlucky streak of the day when he flopped quad threes the take down Benefield’s queens in this hand.

After both players topped two pair, the pot got capped here. One of their pairs become useless with nines on the turn and river, but Blom was still ahead when it was all said and done, and took down yet another pot.

The final hand saw Blom win yet another capped pot of $32,000 from Benefield after flopping a set of sixes.

On this session, the winner and loser were quite clear. Ever after a miracle queen landed to give Benefield a $32,000 pot, Viktor Blom screen name ‘Isildur1′ was up to the tune of around $250,000 over David Benefield.

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Brian Townsend is well known in poker for many reasons. Many know him as a high stakes pro on Full Tilt Poker. Others know him as an instructor on Cardrunners.com. Even more know him as the man that helped to bring down Viktor Blom screen name Isildur1. Hailing from Santa Barbara, California, this pro has put together quite a resume for himself.

Unlike many current players, Townsend chose to complete his education before moving on to poker. He received a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California – Santa Barbara. Townsend first started playing poker in 2005. He started out playing low limit Limit Holdem and moved up the limits before switching his game to NL Holdem in 2006. Within a year, he was playing at the highest limits online. Townsend officially turned pro in September of 2006. He now regularly plays $200-$400 NL Holdem and PL Omaha on Full Tilt. Townsend is also a member of Cardrunners.com, which is a poker training site ran by several successful online poker players. He also keeps a blog of his exploits on the site.

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High stakes poker player and Greek tycoon, Achilleas Kallakis, was charged with defrauding two European banks on Monday, March 1, 2010 in London. He had to post £140,000 bail and must report to the Chelsea police station once a week until his court appearance on May 4, 2010. The charges brought against Kallakis carry a possible 10 year prison sentence.

Kallakis was one of the most prominent real estate deal-makers on London’s property scene. He invested more than £850m buying some of London’s most valuable properties including the Department of Health building in Vauxhall and the Home Office’s Immigration and nationality Directorate in Croydon. In 2007, he was said to be developing a 20,000 square foot flat in a St. James Square property that would sell for £105 million, making it the most expensive penthouse apartment in the world. At that point in time, he was ranked the 11th richest Greek in the world worth about £250 million.

As with most businessmen, Kallakis used bank loans to fund his property investments. Problem is, he and his colleague, Alexander Williams, are accused of obtaining such loans fraudulently. The alleged fraud is based on Kallakis’ claims that tenant leases were more expensive and longer than they really were. Allied Irish Bank (AIB) was one of the banks affected by the alleged scam. AIB fronted Kallakis a series of loans over a five-year period for the purchase of UK real estate. In 2008, they became aware of some “issues with the loans”. Upon an AIB investigation, the bank found the tenants of “their” properties to be linked directly to Kallakis. As a result, they immediately seized the properties and sold them at a £56 million loss. Kallakis is also accused of defrauding the Bank of Scotland causing that bank to lose £5 million on a 2008 loan given to Kallakis to refurbish a former ferry into a luxury yacht.

The Serious Fraud Office along with the City of London police began their own investigation of the AIB allegations which lead to a raid of three Kallakis’ properties. Kallakis and Williams are currently charged with two counts of conspiracy to defraud, 13 counts of forgery, five counts of fraud by false representation, two counts of money laundering and one count of obtaining a money transfer by deception. Based on the investigation, the SFO said it “believes that further financial institutions have also been deceived by the suspects”.

High stakes and high risks seem to be among Kallakis’ favorite things. An avid poker player, though far from popular, known as “the Don”, Kallakis made regular trips to Vegas, enrolled with several big-time poker websites and has even been featured on some televised poker games. He has won $359,090 in live poker tournaments which places him third on Greece’s all time money list.

If the allegations hold true and Kallakis is convicted, the once well-respected Greek tycoon will have played his last high-stakes, high-risk game.

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Pot Limit Omaha games have often been the highest stakes poker games found online, and today was no different. Some of the highest stakes players came out to play on five different tables of $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha on Full Tilt Poker, with a $16,000 cap. Di Dang screen name ‘Urindanger’ , Cole South, Alexander Kostrisyn screen name ‘PostflopAction’ , Jani Vilmunen, and ‘NEKOTYAN’ all sat for some of the biggest action found online. Out first hand of the session came when Kostritsyn dodged Vilmunen’s straight draw to take this hand worth more than $35,000.

In this hand, aces held up for a big pot for ‘SxMxF.’

‘LokoIsBack’ took the next hand, dodging the straight draw of Cole South.

Another pot got capped in this hand, where Cole South took a pot from Alexander ‘PostflopAction’ Kostritsyn.

Jani Vilmunen lost another capped pot for a large amount of money in this hand, this time to high stakes regular ‘PixKim.’

The quick paced action didn’t stop there, as ‘Icre84U’ took this hand from Kostritsyn for over $30,000.

Cole South turned the nut flush to win this pot from Di Dang, taking a pot worth more than $30,000.

Dang got some revenge on the game, however, winning this big hand from ‘Icre84U.’

It is rare to see these games get a pot capped before the flop. It is even rarer to see that happen between three different players, which is exactly what happened in this hand. Alexander Kostritsyn made a flush to take this massive pot worth nearly $50,000.

Cole South took more from Di Dang in this hand with a straight.

The loser of the days session was Full Tilt Red Pro Jani Vilmunen. Winners saw Di Dang, Cole South, and Alexander Kostritsyn all leave the tables as six figure winners.

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