
I played a lot of cards with my family and did some relatively high competitions in chess. I played bridge from the age of seven and chess from four. I have always loved to play cards and any game involving logic. After that I decided to play poker professionally and have done so for two years now. I went on to university but dropped out three times in a row because of a combination of partying, playing poker, and being too lazy. I skipped a grade in primary school and went on to do a bilingual stream in high school, meaning I had half my lessons in English and half in Dutch. My entire family is really smart, myself included. I grew up with two brothers and one sister. I am 21 and grew up in a small city called Lochem in the east of the Netherlands. Berndsen four-bet $51,673, Blom made it $141,200 to go, and Berndsen called off.Ĭan you tell us a little bit about yourself?

The Swede responded with a three-bet to $23,600. Berndsen made the call and then raised to $12,473 after Blom had led out for $3,838 on the flop. Their biggest hand, which happened to be Berndsen’s biggest single-hand win to date, took place on Jan.

Small fortunes changed hands each week early in the year, and Berndsen quickly established himself as a formidable foe. The two played countless hours of $100/$200 pot-limit Omaha and took turns winning pots worth tens of thousands - and occasionally hundreds of thousands. It was at that time that a 21-year-old heads-up sit-and-go specialist from the Netherlands, Sander “Berndsen12” Berndsen, logged into the high-stakes cash games and took on the legendary “Isildur1.” Before, during and after, the Swede was busy mixing it up on his home turf - the virtual felt. Last January, Viktor Blom was busy winning the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller for $1.25 million.
