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 going slowly, and hasn’t been helped by my main research subject overloading me with data. Viktor Blom (Research Subject “Isildur1”) put in a big day yesterday, and my desk is covered in screen shots and notes taken throughout the day.

Isildur’s day started out early, and continued for about 18 poker filled hours. The first game on his dance card was PLO and was actually only a small part of his action for the day. It included action against fellow high stakes legend Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, but he only broke even over 116 hands of PLO at both $50/$100 and $100/$200 for the day, before moving on to the less played games of 2-7TD, FLO8 and even Limit Hold’em.

The next “belle of the ball” was 2-7 TD, and we actually saw some pretty intense action at the 6-Max tables. With Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius all making appearances, it was a star studded session at the nose bleeds.

With 1534 hands at these tables, you’d hope Viktor could turn a profit, and your hopes would be rewarded. Viktor’s profit from 2-7TD for the day was $107,907, which considering who he was playing, isn’t a bad result at all.

We have some of the action here:

 


 
With Viktor Winning at 2-7TD, he threw in some FLO8 action and was running at a $300k+ profit at one point, but then he decided to face off against “SallyWoo” in some heads up FLO8 $2k/$4k sessions. FLO8 is a swingy game at the best of times, and if you’re not fresh and playing well, seizing small edges can be very difficult. With the first of these sessions starting 12 hours into Viktor’s day, this may have been the reason he ended up dropping $145,511 at FLO8 for the day, most of which went to Sally. We have some of the action in the video below:

 

 

The only games we haven’t told you about yet involve Viktor’s foray into Fixed Limit Hold’Em. He was playing “jama-dharma,” an irregular player on Full Tilt’s high stakes circuit, and an overall loser for his time there.  The session lasted for a mere 52 hands at a single $2k/$k table, and ended up with Viktor losing $63,998. A considerable amount when stood on it’s own, but it’s only 16 big bets, and in FLHE that really isn’t an unusual run if the cards aren’t going your way.

All this action left Viktor poorer to the tune of $102,544, which could be considered a disappointing end to a day that had him richer by $300k at points. His yearly figures still have him with a healthy yearly profit of $2,672,788, so it’s not time to contact the European Central bank for a bail out fund just yet.

The day isn’t going to go down in his diary as one of Viktor Blom’s best, but it certainly isn’t going to go down as a bad day. Viktor out played many of the best online players in the world at full 6-Max 2-7TD tables, and his losses at FLO8 and FLHE may have outweighed his winnings, but both are well within the margins for variance in these very swingy games.

The only concern that may have been raised by yesterday is the fact all Viktor’s big losses came after many hours play, and might indicate that his work ethic is overriding his rather weak ability to stop playing.

As I type this, he’s already back at the tables, probably for another big day. I, on the other hand, am off to fill in more forms to try and get the funding to try and prove the relevance of “Pseudo-Psycho Interactive Pokernomics.”

 

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