Tony Bloom, from football to poker

Posted 11 Feb 2011 by Nick Stuart in General bonuspoker

Tony Bloom appeared in television poker tournaments Late Night Poker and got to the final table in theWorld Poker Tour (WPT). He also got to the final tables of the Poker Millions first events.

His biggest victory was on January of 2004 when he won the Australasian Poker Championship at Melbourne, taking home the first prize of 320.000 dollars. He also got fourth at the World Series of PokerTournament of Champions on 2005, where he was eliminated by Phil Hellmuth who said he felt a great respect for Bloom's game.

Bloom was member of the British team winner of the Poker Nations Cup. He is considered one of the most popular poker players in the professional poker circuits and considers Mike Sexton as his favorite player.



By the year 2008, his winnings in live poker tournaments were over 1.5 million dollars. Tony Bloom was about to win the prize of 1 million dollars in the IX Poker Million event which took place in London on December 10th of 2010. He got second after Gus Hansen.

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