by FTR Poker Admin | Nov 16, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Online Poker News, Poker News
For those of us lucky enough to witness Isildur1’s meteoric rise to the top of the poker world between October and December 2009, it is something we will never forget. The team that brought you the online poker documentary Bet Raise Fold returns with The Legend...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 17, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
Since we last checked in with Viktor Blom, he’s played two days of action, and has seen action across Fixed Limit Omaha, Fixed Limit 2-7 Triple Draw and No Limit Hold’em. He’s played 2853 hands across these games, at both heads up and 6-Max tables,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Aug 14, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
Today sees the return of The Isildur1 Watch. We’ve had a little time off, and while I’ve been off enjoying the British Summer, Viktor Blom has been working pretty hard. Since the last Isildur1 Watch on the 18th of July, he has played 23,125 hands at 231...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 18, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
The UK is currently undergoing a heat wave. It may not be on the scale of some heat waves around the world, but we’re seeing temperatures in excess of 30C, which for the British is the equivalent of sitting on the surface of the sun. I’m currently in an...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 15, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
Viktor Blom has had a good go at splitting the attention of the Poker Media over the past 7 weeks or so, as we have all had at least one eye on the events in Las Vegas, but have had to leave at least part of our attention focussed on the enigmatic Swedish Poker Hero....
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 12, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
Thursday was another day that saw Viktor Blom taking advantage of a reduced number of high stakes regs on Full Tilt. I have seen an increasing number of the well known names returning after their Nevada trips, with Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene making a return...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 11, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
Viktor Blom has probably got only a couple of day to make hay while the sun shines. You see, the WSOP in Las Vegas is coming to an end, and as the field in Main Event thins out towards the final nine, more and more high stakes online pros are going to return home, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 9, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
It seems that Viktor Blom has decided not to partake in the gluttony of poker that is the World Series Of Poker this year, as the final day to start playing the Main Event was yesterday, and Viktor Blom was amongst the runners. Where was he instead? He was online...
by Mike1013 | Jul 8, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
Viktor Blom has never been one to shy away from a small downswing. Indeed, he is known well for his habit of putting in the hands online, even when the cards aren’t falling his way. After a basically breakeven Saturday, Viktor fired up a few tables of FLO8 and...
by Mike1013 | Jul 7, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
Our regular Isildur1 Watch correspondent has taken a well-deserved break from covering Viktor’s high-stakes action. Evidently, Rob had been heard exclaiming, “Noooo, Viktor! Bottom pair is not a monster!” and “Sit-out! Sit-out, damn you!” at random times...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 2, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
It’s time for another Isildur1 Watch, which means that Viktor Blom still isn’t in Las Vegas for some reason. He is still working on taking apart the competition left on Full Tilt Poker, as the majority of the high stakes community enjoys the summer in Las...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jul 1, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
Sunday is traditionally the biggest day in the online poker week. With all the high guarantee Sunday Major tournaments, and the cash games that can spin off those, many fortunes have been won and lost online on a Sunday. But with so many of the usual high stakes...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 27, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
It is starting to seem that Viktor Blom is not going to Las Vegas this year. I’m as surprised as anyone, I was sure Viktor would have left his comfy London home, and headed over to the US to partake in the worlds biggest poker festival. He’s even missed...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 26, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
Yesterday, Viktor Blom logged into Full Tilt Poker. “What’s unusual about that?” I hear you ask. Well, nearly everyone who plays the high stakes games is in Las Vegas, a place that doesn’t allow people to play on the site. So, Viktor seems to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 25, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
With the WSOP happening in Las Vegas, I was expecting to be covering high stakes games from the floors of the strip casinos involving the enigmatic Viktor Blom. Thing is, he hasn’t left yet, and is still playing online. I don’t get why he hasn’t gone...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 20, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
Viktor Blom is a complicated man, and over the past few months has been making my life very interesting. I have been “stalking” one of poker’s elite around Full Tilt poker, and it has given a fairly decent insight into the world of a high stakes...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 19, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch
We’ve not been expecting to see much of Viktor Blom in recent days, due to a certain small poker festival happening in the Nevada involving large amounts of American currency. I’m starting to think Viktor isn’t going to head off the WSOP this year,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 14, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I’m not sure if I’m alone, but it seems strange that Viktor Blom isn’t sitting in Las Vegas playing in high stakes cash games or making some recreational player’s dreams come true by sitting down next to him at a WSOP Bracelet event. In an...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 13, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
So, Wednesday the 12th of June has given us a few interesting things to talk about in regards to our friend Viktor Blom. He played across about 11 hours of the day, and got in over 1200 hands of action, so playing volume is not an issue. Viktor has always been a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 12, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom is still not in the US. I only know this because he was playing poker on Full Tilt yesterday. That an I have a GPS tracker embedded into his brain. Viktor does seem to be concentrating on playing online while a lot of his top class opponents have taken a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 10, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I was thinking that Viktor Blom had head off to Las Vegas to join in the yearly “shooting fish in a barrel” convention that has been taking place in the Amazon Room in the Rio Casino, Las Vegas. It seems that he hasn’t, as he logged into his Full...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 7, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
We haven’t published an Isildur1 Watch recently, and this is basically due to Viktor Blom not putting serious volumes in, and not have any really significant results. The fact we haven’t been able to keep up with him and grab video might also be a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 4, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
It seems Viktor Blom is a man on a mission, and that mission is to try and win every single dollar on Full Tilt Poker. If effort alone is going to do it, Viktor seems to being going in the right direction. He’s been playing bigger than usual sessions over the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 3, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Amazingly, Viktor Blom hasn’t head off to Las Vegas yet, maybe he’s going to be playing the Guangdong Asia Millions starting on the 5th of June (By the way, FTR is going to be hosting the live stream for this) before he heads out to Nevada? Whatever the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 2, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom is one in a million, and that’s a conservative estimate. There are few of us who can play poker at a high level, and play the volumes to male a profit while keeping our sanity. Viktor Blom showed he can do that once again with the massive session he...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jun 1, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Yesterday, we had left Viktor playing over the change in date, working hard after winning $431,013 on Thursday. Viktor seemed to be playing well, and putting good volumes. History wasn’t on Viktor’s side though, he has crashed and burned playing long...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 31, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
The end of May says one thing to me. It says “Damn, you’re gonna be busy!” With a combination of SCOOP, closely followed by the WSOP, I tend to be running around like a headless chicken. I was doing it so much today, I nearly forgot to look at what...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 30, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Yesterday saw Viktor Blom but in more volume that we’ve seen recently. Yes, he won a major online title, but we want to see him crushing the cash tables on Full Tilt, not getting lucky in a donkament. Viktor started off his Wednesday at work by playing some...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 29, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
We’ve not been seeing much of Viktor Blom recently, as the sessions he’s been putting in have been small, and pretty inconsequential in the win/loss stakes. Viktor’s yearly cash game profit line was standing at $2,907,700 before the action yesterday....
by FTR Poker Admin | May 24, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom has been working hard over the past few days, with each day consisting of at least 1500 hands. He seems to have been grinding his way through the day, doing his best to improve his profit line for the year. In the end, does it even matter? He’s keeps...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 22, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Yesterday saw Viktor take his foot of the gas a little, and relax a little, only playing 991 hands over a 10+ hour day. So maybe not a totally relaxing day. More like a lazy summer day in the fields, doing the bare minimum to get by without overly exerting yourself....
by FTR Poker Admin | May 21, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Monday is usually a grind for most of us. I’m usually recovering from playing poker late into the early hours as I tend to play some of the big multi table tournaments that Sunday tends to bring. For Viktor, Grinding means just that, and for someone who only...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 20, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Today, I think Viktor may be feeling a little Dizzy, as the spirals in his mind appear to have come back out to play. In fact I may have seen less spirals in strands of DNA, as yesterday seemed to see Viktor prepare for replication via Mitosis, and split into pieces....
by FTR Poker Admin | May 19, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom is on a bit of a rollercoaster. He won about $1.5Million last weekend, and he’s been up and down ever since. he has been rushing into his opponent’s headlong, and seems to have been doing it while keeping his cool. We’ve not really seen...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 17, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Mr Blom is back home, surrounded by his creature comforts, and still playing the biggest games online. He’s a machine. In fact, has anyone ever checked Viktor Blom is actually human? Could he in fact be a machine, made of metal, and have a cybernetic brain able...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 16, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Since Monday, when we think Viktor returned to the shores of sunny ol’ England, he has been playing poker late into the night, making my job of keeping an eye on his action rather difficult. I’ve been burning the candle at both ends to bring you guys the...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 15, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Monday seemed to be a day off for Viktor. He may have taken the chance to jump on a plane back to his home in London, and get away from the ridiculous prices for pretty much everything in Monte Carlo. His trip to the Principality of Monaco was not the most profitable...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 13, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Our article yesterday highlighted a great day for Viktor Blom, with him winning over $1.4million on the Full Tilt tables. He seemed to take some time off to recover, and was back at the tables today before the Super High Roller in Monaco today. I hope Viktor is taking...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 12, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
With Viktor Blom currently in Monte Carlo, where buying a sandwich can involve you calling your mortgage advisor for a second or third mortgage, I’m guessing he’s packing enough stacks of Euro’s not to have an issue buying dinner. Given the decisions...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 11, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
After the past few days, we wouldn’t have begrudged Viktor Blom time off. He has lost seriously large amounts of money, some to Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky and some to Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene, and a little more scattered around. If it was me,...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 10, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Yesterday, we watched Viktor Blom have an day that ended with him still fighting over chips on the table. Viktor was not enjoying himself, and probably felt mauled, and concerned about the crows picking over the remains of his bankroll. We had seen cards massacred and...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 9, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom is currently in Monte Carlo, but rather than enjoying the sun, the ridiculously over priced beverages, or the scantily clad gorgeous women, Viktor has been playing poker online. The man must be Stone Cold Crazy. Viktor’s day started off at the NLHE...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 8, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Yesterday saw Viktor Blom improve his upturn in profits after several days of seeing his yearly profits declining. It seems that Viktor has worked it out, and returned to winning ways, We’ll have to see what happened yesterday. Viktor was playing The EPT Grand...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 7, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Yesterday, Filik brought you the action from Viktor’s Sunday at work, and we saw Blom in spank Ben Tollerene for over $800k, and I missed the action while drinking beer and enjoying a BBQ for the first warm UK Bank Holiday of the year, and it was an absolutely...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 6, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Coming into Sunday Viktor “Isildur1” Blom had suffered a few bad days before and it seemed that a day off would be a good idea, but Blom had other plans. Isildur1 decided to skip most of the action this time, including the 2-7, FLO8 and Holdem games and went straight...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 5, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Lately, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has been on a downward trend, and has been leaking money away, which is a shame, as from what I’ve been seeing, he’s been playing pretty well, and knowing when to pull the plug. He must be running on faith that...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 3, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Today’s Watch is a tail of 2 sessions, the first being a hard day’s night following on from yesterday’s article. I have never accused of Viktor of not having a work ethic, but this Kid seems to be unstoppable, He put in a big volume over the day, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | May 2, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Today is going to be a first, we’re going to cram two days worth of Viktor Blom into one article. Certainly a reason to Party if there was ever was one, and we’ll do our best to make it as crammed full of action as we can. Viktor started off on Tuesday...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 30, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor’s Monday certainly couldn’t be argued to have been strenuous. It must have almost seemed like a holiday with less than 3 hours at the tables. Viktor has certainly been playing less over the past few days, and this may be down to him coming to terms...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 29, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom’s Sunday was a “Mano-a-Mano” affair, with him going to war against three different opponents, and the “prizefights,” were all between heavyweights. Viktor seems to be taking his foot off the pedal a little as he’s backed...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 28, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom had a nice relaxing Saturday, and only played 897 hands, with most of that being part of the daily head butting session over the PLO tables, but it seemed to all be sliding away from Viktor, and yesterday marked the end of his winning streak. The watch is...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 27, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I woke up this morning, all excited about watching the live final table from EPT Berlin, and seeing what Viktor Blom had managed to do today, and if he’d managed to continue marching over his opponents, or if they’d turned the tables on him again. It was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 26, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
With Isildur putting the volume, he has been driving himself to make some serious money. I personally think he’s trying to force the poker community to give him the respect he feels he has already earned, and will play himself into the ground until he has it. He...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 25, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
When we left Viktor Blom yesterday, he was playing through the change of date, after a pretty disappointing day. This left me thinking about what Viktor wants to get from playing poker (apart from money of course!) and it came to me in a dream last night: RESPECT....
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 24, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Yesterday was another hard day at work for Viktor Blom, with over three thousand hands of high stakes action, and in honour of his work ethic, today’s musical accompaniment is brought to you Nashville’s finest; Dolly Parton. Again, the lyrics are relevant:...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 23, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom is back at it, and yesterday saw him playing in the park. Sorry, I misread that, I meant Viktor was on swings and roundabout all day. Honest mistake. Today’s sound track to Isildur1 Watch is brought to you by the lyrics of Plant and Page: “In...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 22, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I’m starting to despair about my mate, Viktor Blom. He goes on some amazing heaters, wins lots of money, and then tilts it all away again by playing games he should know he’s likely to lose in. It just feels that he’s going crazy. I’ve spent...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 21, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Friday was a bit of a disappointment for Viktor Blom, losing a huge profit to a barely break – even day, but today Isildur1 definitely came prepared to play hard! During the course of the day Viktor played 4 game variants and by the end of the day ended up profiting...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 20, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
My eclectic music tastes show themselves this week, as I’ve moved from Thin Lizzy, to the Magic Roundabout, to the funk of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers to the desert rock of Queens of the Stone Age. Now we descend into the murky depths of my metal back catalogue,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 19, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Wow, and that pretty much sums up what i felt when i saw the results from yesterday’s high stakes action involving, that and the lyrics from Queens of the Stone Age’s track “First it Giveth”: “Time goes by, Tables turn. Now I know. First...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 18, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
This week seems to have me with a much varied playlist of music. Yesterday was the theme from the Magic Roundabout, the day before was “The Boys are Back in Town” by Thin Lizzy. Today’s little musical gem is brought to us by the Swedish Degen...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 17, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
The only music going round in my head today is from The Magic Roundabout, and it’s starting to send me crazy(ier). I had seem the action between Blom and Tom Dwan (more of which later) and all I could think of was that theme song. Ever since then, no matter what...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 16, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
It seems that the world is going to have to live without “Pseudo-Psycho Interactive Pokernomics.” I have been told by several by several serious scientific organisations, and I quote, to “…get bl**dy serious, and find something better to do with your...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 14, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
The Scientific Pokernomic Unversity Reliant Taskforce (SPURT) is looking for funding to research “Pseudo-Psycho Interactive Pokernomics” to it’s logical conclusion, unfortunately, we still haven’t received our first dollar in funding. We really need to get...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 13, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
It seems that established science isn’t ready for the wonder that is “Pseudo-Psycho Interactive Pokernomics.” None of the institutions I have spoke to have offered me the millions of dollars I need to research this phenomenon in the detail it needs. How else am...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 11, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I’ve been hard at work filling in grant applications to as many Science Departments of Universities as I can find in order to progress the game changing science of “Pseudo-Psycho Interactive Pokernomics,” but I’ve not had any response yet. The work is...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 10, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
The fledgling science of “Pseudo-Psycho Interactive Pokernomics” finally has some data for us to work with. Yesterday, Viktor Blom’s day was certainly decisive, and we’ll cover that in more depth a little later. This data will allow the new Scientific...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 9, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Yesterday, I refrained from offering any advice to Viktor Blom. the results are as yet inconclusive. So it looks like I may need to do it again, all in the name of science of course. I shall have to persevere in the new field of “Pseudo-Psycho Interactive...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 8, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Today, I’m going to do my best not to offer advice to a world class player. No, really, I’m not going to mention stop loss strategy, playing only an “A” game against world class opponents and how a player should know when they are at a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 7, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I really don’t know what to do about Viktor Blom. It’s not like I actually know the man, but as a big part of my life now seems to be following him around the internet, I feel partially responsible for him playing high stakes poker in front of us,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 6, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I’m seriously considering not offering any more advice to poker players. It seems that every time I offer some advice, the world ends. Well, not balls of sulphur falling from the skies, the Four Horsemen riding through the streets, and Justin Beiber being...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 5, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Amazingly, today’s Islidur1 Watch doesn’t come from inside either the local police cells, or a heavily guarded mental institution, and there isn’t a hammer in sight today. Yes, my computer is behaving itself, and that allows me to bring you a rather...
by FTR Poker Admin | Apr 4, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
After a few days off, Viktor Blom is back. Given the WSOP APAC started today, I’m guessing we’ll be hearing a lot more about Viktor’s shenanigans down under. I however may soon be gracing the front page of my local paper as “Local Man Beats...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 31, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
We interrupt your Easter Sunday munching of chocolate eggs top bring you news about the Swedish poker legend known around the world as Isildur1. While we have all been stuffing our faces with chocolate of dubious quality, Viktor Blom has been working, and in the past...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 29, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Today is a special Good Friday edition for the Isildur1 Watch, and I’m pretty sure Viktor Blom thinks it’s a better day than yesterday. After the mercifully short session yesterday, Viktor put in a much bigger session. In 2514 hands over a session that was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 28, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Not for the 1st time, I have to wonder if Viktor Blom reads my articles. On Tuesday, I finished off my article by suggesting that he should look at working on his game selection, and knowing when to quit a session when he wasn’t playing his “A” game....
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 26, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I’m sat at my computer, huddled up in a blanket, trying to rid myself of the last of this flu, and I see Viktor Bom has played another impressively big session on Full Tilt. 2585 hands, over 12 hours. I grabbed a big mug of coffee, opened my word processor, and...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 25, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I have to apologise for not being around much over the past week, I have been laid low by a tiny microscopic organism, whose relatives infected around 500 Million people in 1918. Suffice to say, I’ve not been a well man. Viktor Blom, on the other hand, has been...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 19, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Today is a good day. Not only am I not hungover anymore (thank what ever deity you worship), but if you are an Isildur1 fan, there are some really encouraging signs, but more of those later on. Victor Blom put in another big session yesterday with 2696 hands played,...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 18, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Today, I look as green as the beer drunk by pseudo Irish all over the world last night during St Patrick’s Day, so apologies if this isn’t the best “Watch” of all time. I may have indulged a little too much last night. Someone who obviously...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 17, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Today is St. Paddy Day, and I have an Irish Girlfriend, so I’m going to make this “Watch” as short and sweet as I can get away with. Viktor may have also been trying to finish his weekend early, as yesterday, he put in another decent volume day. With...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 16, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
With Viktor apparently made the break through with his FLO8 and 2-7TD games, he put in a massive session yesterday. Over a massive 16 hour session and 3958 hands, over 3 separate games. Based on this, I’m guessing he’s not been taking my suggestions to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 15, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
In yesterday’s “watch,” I talked about Viktor’s A game, and when he’s not playing it, to turn the poker client off. I don’t know if Viktor reads this series, but yesterday he found his A game, and then some. Since starting this...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 14, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I was expecting a nice calm day ahead of me, with nothing too much to report from Viktor Blom’s online exploits. Then he busted out of PokerStars EPT London, when his open ended straight draw didn’t get there against a set of tens. Within 2 minutes I was...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 13, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I’m back! After a trip to the very cold capital of the UK, I’m back, and I have to start by thanking Filik for the great job he did cover the “Watch” while I was away. I can now say I have been in the presence of the great Viktor Blom, and he...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 11, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Yesterday was the big day, as Blom faced Elky in a three table HU match for 50 grand and the prestige of being the best pro’s out there along with teammates Tom Dwan and Gus Hansen. Unfortunately for the Full Tilt Pro’s, Team PokerStars came out on top in stunning...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 10, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
With a big match ahead of him tomorrow, Vikto “Isildur1” Blom hit a few tables, apparently to warm up before battling Elky, one of the greatest tournament players of all time. Luck was on Bloms side as his final numbers for the day showed a $161k profit playing 2-7 TD...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 7, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I had to open my big mouth didn’t I? After 2 spectacular days on the tables, Viktor Blom it seems has slipped back into losing ways. With my, admittedly very cheap, lawyer on speed dial, I’m going to risk the wrath of the Swedish God of Degenerate Poker...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 6, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I almost didn’t want to write today’s article. Given previous history after I have written articles about Viktor Blom, I don’t want to jinx the man. I may not believe in luck, or jinxes per se, but the evidence has been mounting up. I’m pretty...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 5, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Ok everyone, keep calm. Viktor Blom has had. A. Good. Day. I don’t want to jinx our Swedish hero, and based on what has happened every other time I’ve harped on after this has happened, his lawyers may have a case for a real world impact from my writing....
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 4, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
All may not be well in Middle Earth. Isildur is not playing the nosebleed games, he’s not playing massive sessions, and he’s losing. Ok, the third one has been going on for well over a month now, but this is the 1st time Viktor Blom hasn’t been...
by FTR Poker Admin | Mar 2, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Isildur has been quiet for the last few days, too quiet if you ask me. He must be up to something. He’s barely been online, and when he has been, he’s been playing $25/$50 PLO tables, not his usual much higher fare. What has probably happened is he has...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 26, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
After a weekend of Viktor Blom riding the rollercoaster of variance, and putting in some serious volume, yesterday saw him take a more sedate pace, but we don’t think that was all his choice. With his highest limit game being a $1k/$2k FLO8 game lasting only 12...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 25, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
It seems I picked the wrong weekend to take some time off. It seems that Viktor Blom has been doing his impersonation of a rollercoaster, and has plummeted from a massive $570k profit on the 22nd, with an equally impressive $687k loss on the 23rd, followed by a...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 22, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
It seems that either Isildur1 loves coffee, or his love for the game is magically giving him stamina that would amaze even a Greek God. After his mammoth session over the past few days, he was back at it again, but this time, he only went 14 hours. A walk in the park...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 21, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I’m sat here, seriously contemplating commissioning a study into high stakes online poker players, and sleep loss. The reason? Viktor Blom. After I finished the last in this series yesterday, he didn’t stop playing. At least, not for another 8 hours. As I...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 20, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Today’s Isildur1 Watch is a little later than usual, as we had to wait for Viktor to stop playing! As I write this, he has just finished a 19 hour session, and I hope for his sake, he’s headed to bed. After recent disappointments, Viktor seemed to start...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 19, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Yesterday was a very interesting day. I discovered that bouncing a cheque to a bodyguard who is licensed to carry a gun is not a good idea, and Viktor Blom played a lot of poker, over a lot of tables, against a lot of people. Viktor is probably trying to play his way...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 18, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom, after a great start to the year, has been on a bit of a downswing. This downswing has coincided with the writing of this series, but we’ll quickly move on from that, as I hope Viktor has (I stopped paying the bodyguards this weekend). After peaking...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 16, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
So, yesterday, I was AWOL, and I know I promised you all some exciting action from our Swedish Hero. Sorry it’s a little late, I wasn’t hauled off by hit men hired by Mr Blom, and I wasn’t abducted by aliens. More I can’t tell you, but I do...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 14, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Today is our Valentine’s special edition of Isildur1 Watch, and with Viktor Blom dropping money like he did last night, his girlfriend is either going to get a great Valentine’s Day, or he’s not going to be able to afford to buy her a card....
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 7, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
It seems that yesterday was another day on the roller-coaster that is the poker life of Viktor Blom. With some massive swings within 24 hours, we have lots to cover, so much so, I’m not sure we can cram it all in. Blom started the day off at a $1.5k/$3k 2-7TD...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 5, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom, it appears, has rediscovered his love of playing long sessions, across multiple games, and multiple different opponents. 1995 hands, across just over 8 hours with no real breaks. The real shame for Viktor is that he didn’t rediscover his ability to...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 4, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Last night, most gamblers were concentrating on a little event in New Orleans, where someone appeared to forget to pay the power bill, or something like that. I was intently multi screening, watching the action from the Superdome on one, while keeping an eye out for...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 3, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
On Friday, I left my comfy, well decorated Isildur proof bunker. Today, I’m seriously considering going back in. Friday’s results appear to have been a blip on Viktor’s ever deepening downswing, because he’s doing it again, and feeding the...
by FTR Poker Admin | Feb 1, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
In the words of the late, great Martin Luther King, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” What I mean by this is, Viktor Blom has broken my jinx, and by booking a winning day, I get to leave my now very tastefully decorated...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 31, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
So, my bunker is now re-decorated in a lovely floral print wallpaper, and Blom still can’t book a winning day. I appear to be a jinx to this man, and while I am a man of science, the evidence is mounting up. No winning days online since I started this series, he...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 30, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
He’s back! After his trip to Vegas, and his ignominious defeat by Mike “The Mouth” Matusow in the NBC Heads Up Event. While Matusow eventually went on to win the event, I’m sure Blom would have considered his game a step ahead Mikes. I had...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 18, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
As I sit in my Isildur1 proof bunker, surrounded by a white winter wasteland, I consider my life, and how much of it I may have left. My reasons for this? Viktor Blom dropped money again last night. I’m starting to think I’m a jinx to the man. He’s...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 16, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
I am writing this article from an undisclosed location, surrounded by armed security guards. There has been a rumour circulated that Isildur may have hired hitmen to come and get me, because as I highlighted in the last Isildur Watch, he can’t help but lose...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 15, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom may have cause to dislike me. Ever since I suggested this series of articles to my editors, he has been haemorrhaging money like a stuck pig. I take no responsibility, but it certainly makes you think. After an amazing start to his year, Viktor has dropped...
by FTR Poker Admin | Jan 14, 2013 | Isildur1 Watch, Poker News
Viktor Blom, known to most of us as Isildur1, has been having an amazing 2013 on Full tilt Poker, and has been on one of the hottest streaks online poker has ever seen. Viktor has been up over $5 million already this year, taking money from Phil Glafond...
