Poker Stories is a long series of audio podcasts, interviews with the best players and personalities in the game. Each episode introduces a famous member of the poker world and delves into his favorite stories, both on felt and beyond.
Patrik Antonius started playing online poker in 1999 and almost immediately began competing for the highest stakes available. The Finnish professional then started the tournaments in 2005, winning EPT main tournament and second place in WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic for 1 $. 04 million While he always preferred cash games to tournaments, the former tennis player and model still managed to raise $ 12 million in live tournament earnings over the course of his career, including the $ 3.1 million he raised for finishing second in 2018 Super High Roller Bowl China .
Antonius is perhaps best known for his successes at ring games with his nose and holds many records. In 2009, he won the largest recorded pot in online poker history, taking down 1 $. 376 million in Pot Limit Omaha against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom. In fact, Antonius has ever been involved in four of the top 10 hands 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 to the Poker Hall of Fame.
Trying to develop the game that gave him so much, Antonius is the 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 in the first casino trip, building a bankroll with relentless aggression, selling magazines to modellers, the military or a prison, playing the biggest games, record jackpots, table games over tournaments which makes someone worthy of the Poker Hall of Fame, being a gaming ambassador, six-figure sports betting, high-stakes golf with Phil Ivey, being "Brad Pitt of Poker" and an appetite for steaks.
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