Patrik Antonius is famous for being the man who won the biggest pot in the history of online poker. It happened back in 2009 when he got the better of Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom, earning north of $1.3M. In addition to winning millions playing poker over the internet, the Finnish player has won a real fortune in live poker tournaments. Patrik Antonius Learn more about him at PokerTube. Forced to abandon his promising tennis career at the age of 15 due to a recurring back injury, Antonius turned his attention to poker, and after initially losing his first few buy-ins at the local casino, Antonius began to take the game more seriously, and started to steadily win, focusing on.
Patrik Antonius (born 1980) is a Finnish poker player and model.
Short facts about Patrik Antonius
Nicknames: Black Lotus, The Finn, PA
Born: 13 December 1980 in Helsinki metropolitan area, Finland
Current residence: Monte Carlo
- Patrik Antonius is a Finnish professional poker player, former tennis player and model. He was born on 13th December 1980 in Helsinki, Finland, but grew up in a city called Vantaa. He is one of the most famous poker players around.
- Patrik Antonius is here at EPT Prague playing in the Main Event as well as some high stakes cash games. He's also recently launched FLOP - First Land Of Poke.
- 68k Followers, 405 Following, 169 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Patrik Antonius Official (@patrikantoniusofficial).
Family: Wife Maya Geller, two children
Background
Before becoming a professional poker player, Antonius was a tennis player and tennis coach.
Early in his poker career, he was mentored by the Dutch poker pro Marcel Lüske (“The Flying Dutchman”) as a part of Lüske’s “Circle of Outlaws”. Antonius has also been coached by Jennifer Harman.
Aliases
Examples of poker aliases used by Antonius:
- Luigi66369 (on Full Tilt Poker)
- Finddagrind (on Full Tilt Poker)
- CryMeRiver9 (on Full Tilt Poker)
- try_hrdr_fish
- I_knockout_U
- -ANTONIUS-
Affiliations
Early on, he was associated with Martinspoker.com, before becoming a sponsored Full Tilt Poker pro. After becoming a member of Team Full Tilt, he started playing under his real name at FTP.
Cash games
Patrik Antonius is high-stakes heads-up cash game specialist. In November 2009, he won one of the largest and most famous pots in the history of online poker: $1,356,946 against Viktor “Isildur1” Blom at Full Tilt Poker.
Antonius plays cash games both online and offline, and is for instance a regular at the Big Game at Bellagio in Las Vegas.
Tournament poker
Although chiefly known for his heads-up cash games, Antonius also plays tournament poker, both online and live.
He began to garner attention in the world of live tournament poker in the mid-2000s. Among other things, he finnished 12th at an EPT PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event, in September 2005 he finnished 3rd at EPT Barcelona, and just a month later he won the EPT Baden bei Wien. Before the year was over, Antonius also made it to second place in the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas, bringing home a runner-up prize of $1,046,470.
Other examples of Antonius achievements in poker tournaments:
- 9th place in 2006 WSOP $50k 8-handed H.O.R.S.E, a place worth $205,920.
- 3rd place in a Pot Limit Omaha event at the 2007 WSOP, winning $311,394.
- 2nd place in the Full Tilt Poker $25k Heads-Up Pot Limit Omaha Championship, winning $320,000.
- 9th place in the 2011 WSOP Europe Main Event, winning €90,000.
- 3rd place in the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event, winning $600,000.
As of 2016, Antonius had brought in more than $6,775,000 in prize money from live tournaments, including 14 WSOP cashes worth $900,000+.
TV-show appearances
High Stakes Poker
Antonius appeared on the third, fourth, fifth and sixth season of GSN’s TV-show High Stakes Poker. Along with Sammy Farha, he was involved in the largest pot in the history of the show: $998,800. Due to a deal between Farha and Antonius, the Finn got $749,100 of the pot and Farha the rest.
Poker After Dark
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Antonius has appeared in NBC’s TV-show Poker After Dark. One of his more notable pots there was one containing almost $600,000 and which he lost to Tom Dwan. This was the largest pot in the history of the TV-show.
At his very first appearance at the show, Antonius finished as runner-up, with Jennifer Harman winning. At his next appearance, he won, with Brad Booth as runner-up. For his third appearance, he became runner-up again, this time against Johnny Chan.
Patrik Antonius is a highly successful high stakes poker player who is a member of Team Full Tilt.
Full Tilt Poker is a unique online poker room as it was started in 2004 and is still managed by some of the best poker players in the world, such as Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Andy Bloch and Mike Matusow. This is Team Full Tilt and only 14 players are included. Patrik Antonius was included in 2006.
In 2005 Patrik Antonius started to be recognized as a great poker player, as he made a number of final tables at large buy-in live tournament events. Among them he won the EPT event at Baden bei Wien and earned around $400k.
Patrik Antonius Net Worth
Since that time, Patrik has become a famous poker player recognized by everyone interested in poker, as he is both active and successful in online poker and at poker shows on TV.
Patrik appeared regularly at “High Stakes Poker” on GSN. There he played his aggressive and confronted some of the great players like Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson. He played in the show’s largest pot of almost one million dollars against Sammy Farma.
Patrik is also noted online and hundred of railbirds follow his games at Full Tilt Poker. He plays the highest stakes games there and has been reported to have won many millions of dollars.
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Note that like Boris BeckerPatrik Antonius was initially a pro tennis player before he became the poker pro superstar we all know today.