Isildur1 Is Viktor Blom, Someone Confirms

It\’s no secret I\’ve been nosing around in Full Tilt\’s business lately. They are the ones who, after all, practically built the poker world as we currently know it — and helped create an industry that so many of us rely on for food. But considering what these good people potentially face and how it could impact us all, I couldn\’t help but start cashing in favors for information from some of the highest ranking, super-reliable people I know.

Alas … still haven\’t gotten the details I\’m seeking about Howard Lederer and Phil Ivey\’s meeting with Barack Obama in February — what did they say? what did he say? — but perhaps as a consolation prize, my source told me he had one piece of info that he/she could confirm with \”100 percent\” certainty.

OK, I\’m listening …

\”Viktor Blom is Isildur.\”

Oh, that\’s it? I mean thanks.

\”Yes. 100 percent.\”

He\’s not under investigation or anything, is he? Got a DWI maybe, or how \’bout an illicit rendezvous with Guy Laliberte and the Swedish women\’s curling team … that would all be good for traffic.

\”Nope. Just playing high-stakes no-limit hold\’em and PLO.\”

Everybody\’s been saying for a couple months that it was a given Viktor Blom and Isildur1 were one in the same. Seemed plausible enough, but I didn\’t really know, and I\’m pretty sure 95 percent of the people saying as much didn\’t really know either — they were just repeating what they heard from someone else who said they heard from someone else who said they knew.

I didn\’t really care, because I actually liked him better as a mystery man. And figuring how easy it is for misinformation and spin to spread through the poker internet, I was willing to bet against Isildur1 being Viktor Blom if you gave me 3:1 odds. But no longer. I personally now believe 98.9 99.8 percent that Isildur\’s alterego could run into trouble with Swedish tax authorities has a listing in the Hendon Mob database.

Sorry it took so long for me to come around … maybe I was just in denial because I really was hoping to see the mystery continue for years to come:

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