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Isildur 1 chases €1million at EPT Deauville

Isildur 1, aka Viktor Blom, closes in on lead in first European Poker Tour event of 2011 in Deauville

by The Suited Connector PokerJolt January, 27th 2011
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Online poker ace Isildur1 is flying at the EPT Deauville

Above: Online poker ace Isildur1 is flying at the EPT Deauville

Isildur1 is in with a real shot of challenging for the EPT Deauville 2011 title

Isildur1, aka Swedish pro Viktor Blom, is chasing down the leaders at the EPT Deauville - the first European Poker Tour event of 2011.

The 20-year-old, who had kept his identity secret until earlier this month, heads into Day 2 in 12th spot with an impressive 144,700 chips after dominating his opponents on Day 1B.

The overall chip lead is still held by Day 1A leader Guillaume De La Gorce, but Isildur1's charge up the leaderboard is an ominous sign for the locals.

Playing only his second live event since 'coming out' at the PCA, the young Swede came back from the brink of an early exit at the Deauville International Centre to amass a huge chip stack and bully countless opponents into constant folding and simply handing him their chips.

Not so lucky were Blom's fellow pros Dario Minieri, Arnaud Mattern, Daniel Negreanu, Jude Ainsworth, Liv Boeree and World Champion Jonathan Duhamel - all of whom busted early here.

The pros that have survived into Day 2 include Juan Manuel Pastor (68,300), Jose Nacho Barbero (65,000), Salvatore Bonavena (63,300), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (62,500), Joep van den Bijgaart (55,000) and Pieter de Korver (33,000).

The €5,300 EPT Deauville Main Event is well on target to smash last season's 768-strong record. A first prize of close to €1million is expected.


EPT Deauville 2011
Main Event
Chip Count: Start of Day 2
Level 8, 400-800 (75 ante)
Entries 471, 251 remain

Guillaume De La Gorce  France  196800
Bruno Launais  France  185900
Julien Muel  France  183100
Philippe Massias  France  175600
Gerome Guitteau  France  168600
Pedro Mendes Muller  Brazilia  166300
Nicolas Babel  France  164100
Pierre Calamusa     France  154300
Patrick Bruel  France  153100
Chamoun Lioui  France  147600
Mikael Oestreicher  France  146400
Viktor Blom  Sweden  144700
Jose Furtado  France  143600
Rafal Arendt  Poland  142900
Petr Targa  Czech Republic  142800
Mathew Ernest Frankland  UK  141800
Sacha Ordeheide  France  135900
Benjamin Carpenter  UK  129800
Ancil Faiwel Dickstein   France  128300

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