The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure High Roller event featured an incredible $100k buy-in, which explains why there were only 34 total players who registered for the event. Regardless though, 34 players with a huge buy-in like that, makes up quite a nice prize pool in the end. While there were 34 players in the event, you can bet that it included quite a few well-known players, and also players with some deep bankrolls as well, in order to afford this buy-in. When all was said and done though, it was a player who not all poker fans know well, but many online poker players are well aware of, who ended up taking down the championship.
Viktor “Isildur1” Blom is a big time high stakes poker player on the popular poker site PokerStars. He decided to take his poker talents to the live tournament scene over the weekend though, and headed to the Atlantis Resort in Bahamas to compete with big names like Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand “ElkY’ Grospellier, Jason Mercier, Jonathan Duhamel, Dan Shak, Erik Seidel, and many others as well. When all was said and done, Blom outlasted the rest, and beat out Shak for the nice payday of $1,254,000 in the end.
When the final day of action kicked off, Blom found himself right in the middle of the remaining eight players. The issue was, that only the top five were able to make it into the cash, so all remaining players had to be careful with those chip stacks. Blom didn’t do much until they were into the money, as he saw the likes of Mike “Timex” McDonald, Humberto Brenes, and Scott Seiver, all sent home in 8th through 6th place. It was then that he turned up his aggression and started winning big pots, and actually eliminated every player at the final table on his way to the championship. The first to go was Negreanu in 5th, then Duhamel in 4th, Galen Hall in 3rd, and then he eliminated Shak in their heads up match in 2nd place.
This would be Blom’s first live tournament win, and it was an incredibly impressive one at that, as he played with the biggest names, and beat out the biggest names on his way to the victory.