Ivey + Isildur1 leading WSOPE ME (Final Table Stream on ESPN3 27-28th)

Top Chip Counts
1) Phil Ivey 302,000
2) Viktor "Isildur1" Blom 290,000

Would be awesome if they both make the final table.
ESPN3 will be streaming the final table starting the 27th.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/news/story?id=5599412&y

For the first time in the four-year history of the world series of poker Europe, the final two days of the main event will be broadcast on ESPN3.com with hole cards displayed.

Victor Blom ??? As long as I know he denied to be Isildur1 !!!

I assume someone somewhere will record these so I can watch them? Monday+Tuesday from noon-5 is not a good time, lol.

Thanks for posting this!! I don't get regular ESPN but I do get ESPN3 through my ISP.

I will check it out when televised, but has it been established Victor Blom is Islidur?

didnt realize the main event already started, would love to see ivey take it down. gonna try and catch it when it airs on tv, hopefully i will be able to out muscle my kids for some tv time.

PooffyFooffy said:

I will check it out when televised, but has it been established Victor Blom is Islidur?

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Isildur1 finished the day 1st in chips, and Ivey finished 6th.



It's pretty much assumed at this point: (from pokernews)
If the early part of the day was dominated by Ivey, the latter part belonged to Viktor Blom. The emo-haired Swede, who it has long been speculated is the man behind the "Isildur1" avatar, spent most of the day seated at what quickly became dubbed the Table of Death.

Vids from today:
YouTube - Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 bluffs a bluffer on Day 1 of WSOPE 2010

YouTube - Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 bluffing at the WSOPE

YouTube - Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 overbets river for a massive pot at WSOPE 2010

YouTube - Daniel Negreanu, Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 & an Ibiza Angel at the WSOPE London 24rd September 2010

potential for epic final table if they make it thru today.

Thanks, wow this could be an awesome final table, I hope they all make it.

From Matt Perry's Blog:

Ivey, Ivey, Ivey! Blom, Blom, Blom!

Sunday, 26 September 2010

Viktor Blom is just a sick, sick individual. There is no other way to say it. At this juncture it doesn’t even matter if he is Isildur1 or not – he obviously is but he’s still keeping schtum about it – because having watched him tear through the field at the £10,350 WSOPE Main Event I am fully prepared to believe that I am watching one of the best No Limit Hold ‘em players in the world. And he’s 19 years old!
Isildur1 is famed for his overbets, which he will make for value, as a bluff or for razor-thin value with middle pair. I’ve seen five overbets from Blom over the past two days he has been playing and they resulted in three folds and two calls. Two of the three times he got folds; he showed a pure bluff (eight high and one pair on a A-K-9-T board); both times he was called he had the best hand. How you can hand-read so well is beyond me.


Even if he isn’t Isildur1, which he is, then the story of Blom90 – who he definitely is – is amazing as well. He was playing $530 STTs on PartyPoker in 2005 at the age of 15; he ran up a $2,000 deposit to $1,500,000 in five weeks playing heads-up cash before taking out half a million and losing the rest before doing it again. He has a huge stack at the moment and I hope he makes the final table because THAT will be fine TV.


Now, Phil Ivey. Everyone knows I’m an Ivey nuthugger and that’s because I play poker. He is the best, no doubt about it. As I write he has taken the chip lead after knocking out Nick Schulman and Matt Stout in consecutive hands as well as dropping us down to seven tables. I am praying for an Ivey v. Blom heads-up showdown for the bracelet because that would probably be the best thing I’ve ever seen. I could die happy then.
Anyway, no time for blogging – there’s WSOPE reporting to be done.

Ivey 5th in chips, blom 6th in chips. ESPN3 coverage begins today at noon eastern. Europeans can stream it on wsop.com.

That would be one sick final table

I think all the fingers are pointing towards Blom being Isildur1 but really who cares this kid is an awesome player anyways

gonna have to watch this one and see how it turns out

inti

I read somewhere when asked if blom actually was Isildur1 he said "not the man your looking for"

Now he could well be lieing and keeping everyone in suspense as he would be the only one wondering whilst everyone else would always just wonder.

Bart Hanson and David Tuchman (old 'Live at the Bike' crew) doing the commentary with hole cards (delayed) Watching it now!

BTW you dont see the hole cards until the flop.

how much is the delay? As I'm watching this, I can't stop thinking about that guy that cheated on Who Wants to be a Millionaire in Europe

is this live right now?>

Choke Canyon said:

how much is the delay? As I'm watching this, I can't stop thinking about that guy that cheated on Who Wants to be a Millionaire in Europe

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It's like a five hour delay