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 cut down like warriors in their prime.
In yesterday’s Watch, we left Viktor battling it out with Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky at the $400/$800 PLO tables. When the date changed, Viktor had already lost nearly $900k to Sulsky, and the game continued through another three “Mini-Sessions.”
The first of these “Mini-Sessions” saw Viktor eat into his losses from the day before, and he won a profit of $204,873 over 358 hands, with two of the tables making Viktor a significant profit. Only the third table pinned him back from halving his deficit against Sulsky.
Session Two saw Ben take control back from Viktor, and take another $318,828 bite out of Blom’s bankroll, crushing the play on two of the 3 tables over 182 hands.
The last 236 hand long session saw all three tables go to the American, along with $361,334 of Viktor’s money.
Sulsky finished the battle across both days with a $1,369,089 profit from Blom, which is one hell of a chunk of change to lose in less that 24 hours.
We have a video highlights package to follow on from the video we showed you yesterday.
After this long session over the date line, Viktor took the next 13 hours off, probably to grab some much needed sleep. He came back, and played some FLO8 at the nosbleed 6-Max tables, against some of the biggest names in poker. With players including Phil “Polarizing” Ivey, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, and Gus Hansen, these tables were not for the faint of heart.
Over 2 tables and 408 hands, Viktor was able to beat this amazingly high quality line up, and left the 6-Max tables with a $200,396 profit. Blom also played some heads up action against Isildur1 Watch regular, Kyle “KPR16” Ray.
Over a small sample of 93 hands, Viktor was able to continue the winning ways he had developed since his break, and took $91,961 from his long time opponent.
We have some of the best FLO8 hands from this session in the video package below:
With only a brief losing run at the 2-7TD games against “Kagome Kagome,” Viktor was back at the PLO tables against his recent nemesis, Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene.
Sat at their usual $500/$1000 $40k Cap tables, they jumped around tables meaning we can’t break the matchup down into smaller sessions.
The two players fought over 772 hands of this high stakes action, with Viktor seemingly jumping out to a decent start. Tollerene dragged it back though, and ended the session by taking a massive $504,195 from Viktor’s account.
We caught some of the action in this battle, and have brought you some of the capped pots in the embedded YouTube video below
Viktor ended the day down $700,647 in addition to losing $834,067 yesterday. This takes Blom’s profit line down to $2,915,972 for the year, and it has been going in the wrong direction for the past few days.
As I said yesterday, I think Viktor needed to close the session against Sulsky a lot earlier, and his continuing losses there were testament to this. Sulsky has to be considered on of the top 3 or 4 PLO players in the world, and it seemed he had Viktor’s number in this last matchup. I’m not sure if Viktor was just not playing well, or Sauce was running godlike, hitting card after card. What I am pretty sure of is that Viktor could have saved some serious money by deciding to quit earlier.
When Viktor returned to playing after his break, he started off brightly, and when he sat against Tollerene he was on an upswing, and was only down about $200k for the day.
The matchup against Tollerene seemed to have a good start, but it went downhill, and then down mountain. I really think Viktor could have pulled the ripcord earlier, and again saved himself from losing a serious amount of his bankroll.
I have been extolling the improvements in Viktor’s mental game recently, but the last 48 hours have seen a return to the old Viktor, the one who spirals out of control and keeps other high stakes players with a roof over their heads and Foie Gras in their bellies.
I’m back to making the same assertions I’ve been making for months; Viktor needs to start to control his tilt better, and may want to consider taking Jared Tendler up on his offer of mental game coaching. It’s certainly helped Tollerene.
We’ll have to see what happens in the future, but I really think Viktor is going to continue to be on a rollercoaster until he gets this part of his brain under control. I’m off to watch the EPT Live stream, and I’m hoping Stapes and Hartigan are able to entertain me as I continue to work on your behalf.
