Patrik Antonius
This great payer was took birth on December 13, 1980 in Helsinki, Finland, Patrik Antonius is a poker player at international level. Apart from poker, he is also a tennis player and a model. He presently stays in Monte Carlo.Patrik Antonius took poker as a profession in the year 2002 after he developed his playing skills with friends and online. Until now, he has nearly won a total of $3 million.
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Patrik Antonius is now among the top professionals of poker with a number of tournaments under his name but this is not the only field of excellence for him since he is also a tennis player and this keeps him busy with the court. His dream was to become professionally involved in tennis, but the plans did not capitalize due to a back injury at the age of fifteen. Antonius has also keen interest towards golf. He started playing poker at Casino Helsinki at the age of eighteen and continued to do so for two years but then he began to play the game more seriously. It was from here he started winning continuously. He started to play online in the year 2003 where he turned his deposit of $200 into $20,000. When he moved to United States for studies, he took a break and began devoting most of his time in poker. He played 12 hours a day and seven days a week and this made him to turn $20,000 into $80,000. Now, he is a consistent online player and it has made him earn millions. Under nicknames like Finddagrind and CryMERiver9, he used to play at Full Tilt Poker. Presently he has adopted his real name and has started playing as “Team Full Tilt” member.
Antonius started flourishing in the game of poker after he finished to the final table of World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour events. It was in September 2005 when he made to the final table in European Poker Tour and there he finished third. This tournament was held in Barcelona. Next he won €288,180 in the EPT, standing first in the event. He also won in Las Vegas, the same year, a cash price of $1,046,470 standing second this time.The year 2006 proved to be the most profitable time for him as he won the largest cash price, which was $205,920. He also took down the Ladbrokes Scandinavian Poker Championship for $66,000.He was placed third in the Pot Limit Omaha event with a cash price of $311,394. With this, his total earning from World Series of Poker was now $569,964. The total WSOP cash for Antonius, until the time he has entered 13 such series, is $774,046.
Patrik Antonius is a sensational player of live cash games. He is an active part of the Big Game, a cash game at Bellagio. The GSN’s High Stakes Poker witnessed its highest pot ever when Patrik along with Sammy Farha totaled it to $998,800. He won three of four runs and the total cash collected by him was $749,100. On another occasion, Patrik played against Jamie Gold. Patrik had an ace of spade and jack of diamond against Jamie’s king of spade and king of diamonds in hand. Antonius rose to pre flop of $4,000 with Gold re raisingthe amount to $14,000. Patrik was given an inside draw with a flop comprising of three of spade, queen of diamond, and ten of hearts. Patrik called the pot of $30,800 for which Jamie had bet $15,000.Patrik was given a straight with the king of hearts opening on the turn. Jamie re raised all in the $45,000 which Patrik had bet into the pot. While Jamie was raising Patrik was commented to be looking “like a lion” by Gabe Kaplan. After this Antonius called and the pot was worth $743,800. Both players agreed for three times to run the river. In spite of being a 77-23 favorite, Antonius won last out of the three times. Jamie has won the first two. Although it was a beat but this was not reflected on Patrik’s face. Antonius has won the biggest pot in online poker history against Isildur that was $1,356,946. The total amount Patrik has earned from live games exceeds $2,800,000.
