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The Online Railbird Report: Can Anyone Possibly Catch Viktor "Isildur1" Blom?

While the European Poker Tour attracted some of the world's best players to the Portomaso Casino in Malta, some stayed behind to ply their trade online at PokerStars.

Viktor "Isildru1" Blom is one such player, and after finishing as the week's biggest winner – banking $284,377 in 13,384 hands over 82 sessions – one has to wonder if anyone can catch the Swede, who sits atop the yearly leaderboard with more than $4.8 million on PokerStars. To put that in perspective, the next closest is Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen, who has just over $1.