Poker Stories is a long series of audio podcasts, interviews with the best players and personalities in the game. Each episode features a famous member of the poker world and delves into their favorite stories, both on and off felt.

Patrik Antonius started playing online poker in 1999 and almost immediately began competing for the highest stakes available. The Finnish professional then started tournaments in 2005, winning EPT main tournament and second place in WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic for 1 $. 04 million. Although he always preferred cash games to tournaments, the former tennis player and model has still managed to rack up $12 million in live tournament earnings over the course of his career, including the $3.1 million he amassed for finishing second in 2018 Super High Roller Bowl China .

Antonius is perhaps best known for his success at nose ring games and holds many records. In 2009, he won the largest recorded pot in online poker history with 1 $. 376 million in Pot Limit Omaha against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom. In fact, Antonius has ever been involved in four of the top 10 deals and also holds the record for TV shows Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker . At the end of 2020, the 40-year-old was nominated for the Poker Hall of Fame.

In an effort to develop the game that has given him so much, Antonius is a co-founder FLOP or First Land of Poker, an app that connects the poker community around the world and allows them to find games and other players. The all-in-one platform offers chat, learning tools, and even session tracking. Download the app for free today from the Android Google Play or Apple iOS store.

Highlights from this interview include growing up in Finland, going from tennis to poker and winning a tournament on your first trip to the casino, building a bankroll with relentless aggression, selling magazines to modellers, military or prison, playing the biggest games, record pots, cash games over tournaments what makes someone worthy of the Poker Hall of Fame, being an ambassador for the game, six-figure sports betting, high-stakes golf with Phil Ivey, being "Poker's Brad Pitt" and an appetite for steak.

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