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The Poker Grapevine – Blom Won’t Play in PCA Super High Roller
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sun, 2013-01-06 12:23
The PCA’s 2013 edition kicks off today and crème of the
poker world is already on Paradise Island. The 10-day poker festival is expected to beat all attendance records. The events to keep an eye on are the obvious ones: the $10k Main Event, the $25k High Roller and the $100k Super High Roller. Several of the top poker professionals have already confirmed that they would take part in the Super High Roller. Last year’s champion though, Full Tilt Poker’s Viktor Blom, will apparently not be back to mount a title defense.
Blom himself has not yet made it official, but a Full Tilt representative said he would not attend as he planned to grind away online instead, at least until the NBC National Heads-up Poker Championship. Blom bested a starting field of 32 players last year, taking home a $1.25 million prize and a Shamballa bracelet.
The fact that Blom won’t play isn’t likely to affect the quality of the field much though. Scores of other high profile pros will be there:
PokerStars’ Daniel Negreanu will play, together with Jason Mercier, Scott Seiver, Isaac Haxton, Jonathan Duhamel, Mike McDonald, and Phil Hellmuth, who will make his PCA debut this year.
In other news: poker pro Joe Sebok has drawn his fair share of community heat for his hand in the Ultimate Bet disaster and since June 2011, he has pretty much disappeared off the poker map. It looks like he’s finally decided to put the past behind him for good: he moved to the Bay Area and got engaged with a winery operation in Santa Rosa.
Sebok said that while poker had indeed been good to him over the years, the time has come to look towards different things.
