Linus Loeliger Poker
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2018-05-08 LLinusLLove is the 51st biggest poker winner on HighstakesDB. The poker player LLinusLLove was first discovered by HighstakesDB on the high stakes tables of PokerStars on Monday, May 9. Linus Loeliger is a player who has reached the top of the online ranks and today is considered to be one of the best NL Holdem cash players in the world.
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It has been a long time since we had an unveiling of one of poker’s mystery online crushers –January of 2011 seeing the biggest story of the new year when Viktor Blom was finally revealed as the online beast ‘Isildur1’ – but this week has seen a new star making his first public appearance in his ‘real identity’, Linus Loeliger, aka ‘LLinusLLove’.
It was the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure all those years ago that saw Blom come out of the closet so to speak, and this week it was another PokerStars event, the Barcelona Championship €50,000 Super High Roller, at which Loeliger emerged as a real person - having been spoken about for months as a new big name in the online nosebleeds.
So who is the mysterious LLinusLlove/Loeliger character and why has he kept himself in obscurity until now?
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Linus Loeliger is a 22-year old Swiss pro with a few Hendon Mob results recorded, but no sign that he would be the same person who has worked his way up through the ranks of the online grinders, HSDB.com featuring his 2+2 post which saw him ‘attempting to run his $150 bankroll from NL10 up to NL100 by the end of the year.’
And it was the very same HSDB.com which eventually outed Loeliger, his online ‘challenge’ having been more than completed, although he quickly stopped updating his thread with results and hand histories after a heavy losing session ($200!) back in 2013.
According to Pokernews.com, ‘the mechanics of the transfer system (on 2+2 between high-stakes regs) require the use of his full name, and eventually, he said, someone leaked the info to HighstakesDB.com.’
'I mean, it has to happen at some point,' said Linus of his real identity’s revelation to the wider poker world. 'There's nothing I can do about it.'
In April of this year he gave an anonymous interview to Brad Willis for the PokerStars blog, Willis writing: ‘We know that he is now 22 years old, has moved from Malta to Vienna, and plays the occasional live event. Other than that, he doesn't have much to say about his personal life.’
'I prefer to stay out of the spotlight, because usually there's nothing good coming from it, especially in the poker scene,' said LlinusLLove, who we now know to be Loeliger. No longer able to hide himself from the perils of the public poker world, Loeliger decided that the $50K Super High Roller in Barcelona would be as good a time as any to make an appearance, despite his mainly cash game background.
'I've actually done quite a lot of work in MTTs as well,' he told Mo Nuwarrah of PokerNews, adding: 'I used to play the occasional Sunday. My roommate plays tournaments for a living. I'm feeling very, very comfortable in my tournaments. It's not a big transition.”
Despite being well within his comfort zone, he missed out on the money in Barcelona, but we can certainly expect some big scores in the future now that his virtual existence has a human dimension, although his live appearances may well mirror his online play – big buy-ins and big name opposition.
Despite his amazing run to the top of the poker pile, it may not change people’s opinion of what he does for a living though, as a recent tweet reveals…
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Linus 'LLinusLLove' Loeliger is considered to be one of the most successful online poker players in Sweden. It is unknown how much exactly he has won in his entire career. Just last year, he has won more than $1 million online and still going strong. Even though he's mainly not a frequent player on the live felt, he couldn't possibly miss this year's juicy action at the Triton Poker series. On May 2019, LLinusLLove joined the HK$250,000 NLHE Turbo event. He may not have won the event but he still got to finish 3rd place which awarded him HK$1,720,000 ($219,262). On July 2019, he topped the £25,000 NLHE - 6 Handed Turbo (Event #1) of the Triton Poker SHR London, taking home £690,000 ($840,039), considered to be the biggest cash of his career to date. On August 2019, still at the Triton Poker SHR London, he finished 3rd place at the £50,000 NLHE - 8 Handed (Event #3) for £594,000 ($720,288). Thanks to his most recent achievements in the world of live poker, his name sits at the No. 1 spot in the Switzerland All-Time Money List. During a break in between game sessions, the 25-year-old talked to one of the poker reporters. Check out the video interview below about Loeliger's poker career and how he began from micro-stakes and eventually made his way up to the high-stakes games. Watch the interview below: |
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14 comments on 'Interview on Linus 'LLinusLLove' Loeliger's Transition to Live Poker'
| dule-vu | 23/08/2019 10:43:36 GMT | |
| cant say that I know something about this player and that I heard about him,but as I see he play very good and have lot of winnings!when you are part of triton poker and you play there,then you must be good player!they dont accept just any player!probably we will hear about him a lot in future! | ||
| CALICUL | 23/08/2019 15:42:22 GMT | |
| I don't know nothing about this player and i don't remember if i've ever read about him. There is a chance if his nickname from a certain poker room it's revealed but otherwise not. It is not like Isildur1 but if he plays in big stakes and won money, then is a good player. | ||
| pajalnick | 24/08/2019 16:26:58 GMT | |
| It’s certainly interesting that Who is Sweden’s most famous player is completely unknown to me, but now I will know this player unless of course I forget him a sufficiently memorable nickname, so most likely the next time I see him somewhere I will remember information about him Of course this player has very cool results. | ||
| bowie1984 | 26/08/2019 17:10:10 GMT | |
| It just feels like there are a couple dozen no-name swedish players who are playing on high stakes and could 'break out' any time to gain some fame - or at least it reads like this every time a new one out there declare his game to the live circuit. | ||
| CALICUL | 27/08/2019 08:19:03 GMT | |
| There are a lot of no name players who play big stakes and we haven't heard from them but that does not mean that they are not reputable players and that they can't make a lot of money. It is a wrong way of thinking, because they are very talented, if they play and win impressive amounts. | ||
| Mober | 27/08/2019 12:39:25 GMT | |
| I havent heard of this player before, but the sure thing is he is doing really good in the poker world. Not only online, but from what we can see in live gaming also. And he is only 25 years old, so he is still young and can move even further. At least considering from his results so far. | ||
| bowie1984 | 27/08/2019 18:39:33 GMT | |
He is not starving that's for sure. No swedish poker player does | ||
| damosk | 29/08/2019 09:21:48 GMT | |
| Well done Linus. You have made it from being a very unknown online poker player from Sweden to a very well known live poker player from playing at the very lucrative Triton Poker series. It will be interesting to see how Linus gets on at the live tables, as it is very different from line. For me I hope he does extremely well and continues his winning streak and becomes a very well known Swedish poker player. | ||
| dule-vu | 29/08/2019 11:09:37 GMT | |
| When we look number of news about poker player,especially younger players,people will how easy is to win lot of money on poker!thats why they take so many ambassadors and team pro members to attract people!but I never heard for this player! | ||
| Mober | 29/08/2019 13:08:43 GMT | |
| They can win big money in poker, but it is not an easy job, to be that successful. If it was everyone would play poker to make a fortune But the fact it can be done has drawn so many players so far, and more young people are trying their luck with it. Some are doing good, some others may have already quit the game | ||
| CALICUL | 31/08/2019 11:50:01 GMT | |
| It is very difficult to succeed in this industry and that's why young players learn poker strategy, since they are minors. I have come to the conclusion that it is very difficult to win big money, if you do not know how to play poker very well. This chance to make a lot of money is there for everyone if they learn too good. | ||
| bowie1984 | 14/09/2019 15:26:41 GMT | |
Conclusion? What? Why this was up to debate in the first place? It's silly, this statement was never in doubt. | ||
| CALICUL | 15/09/2019 10:38:18 GMT | |
| Conclusion is that: You can't make much money from poker if you don't know the strategy. I saw players in live tournaments who participated for the first time and won. This does not mean that they did not know about poker. Or you're talking about something else? | ||
| Nightkid | 12/10/2019 16:01:18 GMT | |
| I don't really know him and I didn't hear much from him like others who are a little better known in the poker circuit ... but hey, many start like this without being known and then suddenly they get to know each other, well I don't think so that others think about it because maybe you don't know much about the subject but I always want to leave my opinion | ||
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