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 life.” So it seems SPURT isn’t going to be able to cover what I want it to, and we’re back to square one.
However, as I write this article, I am buoyed by the sound of Phil Lynott, and seventies rockers Thin Lizzy, with these lyrics going round my head:
“Guess who just got back today?
Them wild-eyed boys that had been away
Haven’t changed, haven’t much to say
But man, I still think them cats are crazy…
… The boys are back in town”
Why am I listening to these 70’s Irish rock gods? Well, yesterday saw such great high stakes action, this was the only song that came to mind. We saw Isildur1, durrrr, Phil Galfond and Patrik Antonius, to name a few, battling it out at the highest stakes on Full Tilt, it was only missing Phil Ivey, who was flying back to Vegas after winning a WSOP APAC bracelet in Australia.
Viktor’s day started at the 2-7TD tables, and that where he got most of his action over the day, playing 983 hands at the nosebleed stakes of $1.5k/$3k. We saw a lot of action against Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius, but Viktor did spread the love around. 2-7TD has been Viktor’s best game recently, but yesterday, that run came to an end. He lost $250,306 over the day, with most of the losses being early in the day. Not that unusual with such a swingy game as 2-7TD, but still wasn’t the beginning to the day Blom would have been hoping for. We have some of the action below:
Viktor then turned his attention to PLO, and a rematch with fellow Full Tilt Professional, Tom “durrrr” Dwan. The two had faced off a few days ago, and the returning Dwan had been the one to come out on top. The roles were reversed yesterday though, and Viktor soundly crushed his fellow Pro, and took $417,737 from durrrr at the heads up tables. We have some of the action between these major league poker players in the video below, and it includes some massive hands:
Viktor still wasn’t finished, and kept going with PLO, playing against the cream of the crop, including durrrr, Galfond and Antonius. He ended the day with his PLO account being in profit to the tune of $440,045.
But Viktor Blom wouldn’t be Viktor Blom if he left the day without trying his luck at another game. FLO8 was his choice today, and he’s probably rather glad he did. Perpetual Isildur1 Watch regular, Kyle “KPR16” Ray, was the victim over about 200 hands of heads up action. $483,942 left his account, and sailed over the virtual felt into Viktor’s online account. We caught some of the action, and have it in the video below.
Viktor’s day ended with the Full Tilt Servers being scheduled for a restart. He logged off $586,731 richer, taking his yearly profit line back up to $3,751,480.
I’m not a guy who likes to say “I told you so!” (who am I kidding, I love it!) but in the Watch article from the 14th, I did say something along the lines of Blom needing to re-engage himself with Dwan’s game, and adapt the changes in the American’s style since they last played. Looks like that may have happened, and Blom profited by nearly half a million dollars, and he has kept up his heads up FLO8 momentum against “KPR16” as well. The only dampener on the day was the losses at 2-7TD, but in such a swingy game, bad days happen, and Viktor dragged the numbers back late in the day by winning more than $165k in his last two 2-7TD sessions.
It’s a day that reminds me why I’m so impressed with this young player, and shows all of his good points, without having any of his negatives show up and spoil the party. We’ll have to see if they turn up later in the week, and spoil the upward trend of Viktor’s profit graph.
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