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 Tilt Account yesterday, and played some high stakes action. I’m a little surprised he’s not in Vegas already, as not only are the WSOP bracelet events running, but the cash game scene always picks up this time of year. Not only that, Phil Galfond is already there, and you would have though that Viktor would feel more comfortable with some friends in town.
Viktor’s Sunday started off at the $200/$400 $16k Cap PLO tables, which attracted enough players to make it much nearer to 6-Max. We missed this action, as we were sure Viktor was on his way to the Nevada Dessert, but we do know he ended up losing $95,744 over 109 hands at these tables against players including Harry “Schoitl” Casagrande and Hac “trex313” Dang.
The next action of the day for Viktor was heads up FLO8 against “SallyWoo.” The action took place at one of the $2k/$4k tables, and was split into two sessions. The first of these saw Viktor make a $41,988 profit from 49 hands, and the second larger 139 hand session went the other way, with “SallyWoo” making a $115,000 profit, leaving Viktor missing $73,012 from his online bankroll. We caught some of the action from this battle, and have some of the highlights in the video below.
Viktor switched up the action to 2-7TD and played out 148 hands at the highest (what else?) levels of $1.5k/$3k with most of the action against Niki Jedlicka. This Austrian hasn’t appeared in the Watch before, but he has a pedigree of playing the highest stakes on Full Tilt, and plays on PokerStars as “RealAndyBeal.”
Viktor didn’t adapt to this new opponent very well, and ended the day $96,418 down at the 2-7TD tables. We have some of the highlights below.
Viktor ended the day down $265,204 across all of the action, and this takes his yearly profit line to $3,373,097.
There isn’t much analysis to pull out of the numbers from Sunday’s action, purely because Viktor didn’t stay in one place for very long. In fact, that is the only thing we can really say about his Sunday Session, Viktor cut and ran from games very quickly if he wasn’t winning. While I have been a proponent of Blom not “playing through the pain” during his losing sessions, the shortness of these sessions might be a little on the cautious side, but as I’ve seen less than half the hands I won’t try to comment on if this was a valid decision. I will however keep it in mind as I watch more of Viktor’s play over the summer.
