In a recent interview with BLUFF Europe Magazine, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom talked about his rise to online poker prominence, as well as his downfall in late 2009 that included a $4.2 million losing session to Brian Hastings –a session that Blom still seems to think was not entirelyRead Full Article

There hasn’t been a single online poker player in the 10+ year history of the industry that can compare to the ups and downs that Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has gone through over the past three years. Blom started his online poker career by decimating the Euro poker sitesRead Full Article

All it took for one of the most prodigious online poker players of all-time to be able to return to the virtual felt after Black Friday was a change of residence –a change of residence that requires a passport that is! Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond is now officially livingRead Full Article

Depending on how you keep score, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom is either 8-1 or 8-3 in the PokerStars Superstar Showdown matches he has played. The discrepancy comes from two matches being spread across two weeks of play –some people count them as individual battles, while others (myself included) viewRead Full Article

After nearly two months of inactivity the Superstar Showdown will return to PokerStars tonight as Viktor “Isildur1” Blom takes on Rui “pepperoniF” Cao across four $50/$100 poker tables, two of which will be NLHE and two of which will be PLO –similar to the structure Blom and TonyRead Full Article

With the US nosebleed crowd MIA since Black Friday hit, a number of foreign-based high-stakes online poker pros have now been getting the attention they deserve, and without some of the stiffest competition at the tables they have also been cleaning up quite nicely. This week we alsoRead Full Article

After one of the sickiest high stakes heads up games in history on Full Tilt poker, the question everyone is asking. Who is Isildur1? Tom Dwan, or his more common name – Durrrr, has just finished a monster high stakes heads up session with Isildur1. In the sessionRead Full Article