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 grinding away on Full Tilt Poker, doing his best to improve his profit line.
I really would like to be a fly on the wall when Viktor next meets his Full Tilt “Handler” and explains why he wasn’t in Las Vegas attracting attention to the site just by being there. Guess they’ll just have to work it out by playing Viktor Heads Up for Rollz.
Viktor’s Monday at the rick face started with a little dabbling in 2-7 action at the lower than usual limits of $200/$400. After a very small session of 20 hands, and a $103 loss, Viktor left the table and stepped into a battle against “bbvisbadforme,” first at the $300/$600 NLHE tables, then stepping up to the $400/$800 tables to finish the battle.
The war between these two was broken up into 3 separate battles, with the first being at the lower financial level. It lasted 157 hands, and both tables went against Viktor as he had to eat a $73,815 loss as “bbvisbadforme” took the upper hand in the contest.
The remaining action was all at the bigger limits, and the second battle saw only 76 hands, and Viktor start to assume control of the playing dynamic. He took $40,679 from BBV, and that’s when the action dried up.
Dried up that is until a final session was played nearly ten hours later. This lasted 222 hands and Viktor continued his ascension to dominate the matchup as he made a $279,944 profit.
We have some of the bigger hands from this matchup in the video below:
After the second session against “bbvisbadforme,” Viktor started another contest with Kyle “KPR16” Ray. This was at the $2k/$4k FLO8 tables, and started with the first of three sessions, this one lasting 163 hands. Viktor was the one to jump off to an early lead in this contest, and took this single table session for $58,966.
At this point, Viktor stepped away from FLO8, and went to the 2-7TD tables (we’ll come back to this later, I promise), and after playing this for a while, Blom took a well deserved break for about four hours.
The first game when he came back into the action was again against “KPR16,” and the second session went pretty much in the same general direction as the first as Viktor earned $38,974 for the 119 hands played.
After a quick 38 hand jaunt into PLO territory earned Viktor $8,709, Viktor was back at the FLO8 tables, this time against Kyle “cottoneseed1” Hendon. This session lasted 65 hands, and saw Viktor pick up a very useful $30,984. It seems this session was cut short to allow Viktor to jump back into the action against “bbvisbadforme.”
After he had finished getting his NLHE fix, Blom was back at the FLO8 tables, firstly against another returning face in “SallyWoo.” These two talented players sat for 70 hands, over which Viktor saw $173,980 added to his online account. “SallyWoo” only played this session on Monday, so this may have been full of more coolers than we can see from the data we have.
Next up was Hendon, and the “cotttonseed1” account was the beneficiary of 43 hands of FLO8 as they let him take $108,009 from Blom’s account. Viktor did comeback from this pretty strongly when he took the other Kyle (“KPR16”) to the cleaners in the last session of the day. 173 hands allowed Viktor to earn $113,958 to bring his day to an end.
We have some of the FLO8 action from Monday in the video below, to allow you a glimpse into the game of Isildur1.
Before we can look at the final roundup of the day, we need to hit the rewind button, and spool back to the 2-7TD session I glossed over earlier. I promised I’d come back to it, and I’m a man of my word.
The action was against Isildur1 Watch regular “Kagome Kagome” who played Viktor over 197 hands of 2-7TD. Viktor didn’t seem to be braking a sweat here, as he was able to turn a $89,198 profit over the session, and we do have a look into the action in the video below.
This brings us to the end of the day, and while Viktor Blom earned $653,465, taking his yearly profit to $5,123,652, I don’t have that much to talk about. Viktor seems to have had a very good day, ran well, and only lost money to Kyle “cottonseed1” Hendon, and to be honest, anyone who can post a bigger profit than Viktor did playing the same games is probably cheating. FLO8 is not known for it’s low variance, and even with Viktor playing very well (he has just won more than half a million dollars from some rather good online pros) he still ended up dropping about $70k to Hendon. I’m not worried, it’s all part of the swings and roundabouts you get when playing these higher variance games.
Viktor had a stunningly good day, made a lot of money, and did it all while remaining in control. Maybe it’s the dawning of new era in the life of Isildur1?