Patrik Antonius: “I’ve lost close to $10 million in staking”
- Filed under: High Stakes News, Patrik Antonius
- Date: Feb 11,2010
Last year was Patrik Antonius’ year. He won 9 million dollars from Full Tilt Poker’s high stakes games. Now Patrik takes a look at his life as a poker professional and a father.
Life hasn’t been that easy to Patrik either. In a recent Card Player interview he tells that he has lost loads of money into staking other people, sports bets and golf.
“When I bet sports, I bet at least $50,000. And I don’t think I won any bets last year. And I lost millions on the golf course, as well. I’m a big loser in golf now,” Antonius tells.
And on top of that he has lost a lot staking other people. Antonius counts that he has lost nearly 10 million dollars while taking action from other people. That’s a lot of money. It’ll be hard to get it back in my lifetime.”
Patrik’s online games haven’t been running that good either. He has lost about $1,5 million by now. And if things can’t get any worse, his back is giving him problems again. But all this is very familiar to the Finn; “My life always goes like this. Things go bad or good. I hate these moments when everything just goes bad. When I get better, everything usually gets better, too. It’s normal. Welcome to the poker world,” Antonius concludes the first part of the interview.
About the current games, “Isildur1″ and Hastings
Patrik likes to play without any poker trackers or other software, but doesn’t mind if his opponents use them, instead he doesn’t approve that his opponents share the hand histories.
“For me, I don’t mind if they’re using (tracking software). But you should not share the hand histories, obviously, with other players … that’s completely out of line. That I don’t accept.”
Patrik would have liked to play more hands against “Isildur1″ but Brian Hastings managed to crush him before Antonius got the opportunity to play against him again. “I was ready to play him more. But then Brian Hastings ran $3 million over expectation.”
Hastings doesn’t get much love from his “thanks everybody” blog: “He should just be happy to take the money. If I were him, I would’ve just taken the money, I wouldn’t have said anything publicly.” Better way to tell about the session would have been something along the lines of: “I was very lucky. I ran over $3 million above expectation. It could happen to anybody,” says Antonius, with a laugh.
When looking to the future, Patrik waits for some new players to emerge into the high stakes games: “I think there are going to be more young players coming in to dominate the biggest games. Older players have problems competing, because they don’t work on their games as much as the younger guys.”
What comes to Patrik’s normal life, he tells that his wife, Maya, is on her third month waiting for their second child. Everything seems to be good at this point of Antonius’ life: “Babies are good, babies are good. I’m happy to be a young dad.”
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