Since Monday, when we think Viktor returned to the shores of sunny ol’ England, he has been playing poker late into the night, making my job of keeping an eye on his action rather difficult. I’ve been burning the candle at both ends to bring you guys the best report into Viktor Blom’s working day as I can.

Yesterday was a day of heads up battles for our friend Viktor Blom. He started of against Watch regular, Kyle “cottonseed1” Hendon at the FLO8 tables. The matchup was played out in 3 spurts over the day, and saw Viktor get off to a great start. The first set of 205 hands earned him a profit of $288,946, but the later two session saw Viktor’s profit against Hendon pegged back to $121,540. We caught some of the action, and have a nice highlight video for you below:

 


 

The next up on Viktor’s dance card was another high stakes player who keeps their personal lives away from the table, “Trueteller.” This was over at the $500/$1000 $30k Cap NLHE heads up tables. Over 805 hands and three and a half hours, Viktor ended up losing just over to capped pots worth of bankroll to “Trueteller”. The exact number was $64,735, and we have some of the big post between these two in the video below.

 


 

The last matchup of the day for our Swedish protagonist was against yet another Isildur1 Watch regular “SallyWoo.” They sat at the nosebleed FLO8 tables for the second day in a row. The first of their two sessions of the day was not a pleasant time for Viktor. He lost $247,705 over 125 hands before the session ended. The second session was much longer, and went better for Viktor, and he was able to make a $59,898 session profit from the elusive player. We have s few of the more interesting hands for you in a delightfully packed video of the dance.

 


 

Wednesday saw Viktor lose $131,002 over the day, which was the second day in a row he’s lost since his (supposed) return to the UK. This has moved his yearly profit line down to $3,523,676.

Yesterday wasn’t a great day for Viktor, but nor was it a horrible one. He started off well, and was still in profit until after he’d played his first session against “SallyWoo” and his second session against “cottonseed1.” After his last sessions against Sally and “Trueteller” Viktor was actually showing a small profit, and only his last session against “cottonseed1” turned his day into a losing one.

This places me in a little bit of a quandary, you see I don’t really have anything I can analyse. I’m not able to claim I’m a high stakes player, and able to dissect hands in a poker autopsy. I have enough issues doing that for my own hand histories. What I do know is people, some psychology, and when someone loses control. I can’t see that in Viktor’s numbers from yesterday, he appears to be in control of his losses, and pulled the plug after a decently long session. I’m guessing he may have stopped because he was losing, and may have felt off his game. Whatever the reason, I can’t argue with his game selection yesterday, or his decision to play or quit.

Maybe he’s learning?