Mr Blom is back home, surrounded by his creature comforts, and still playing the biggest games online. He’s a machine. In fact, has anyone ever checked Viktor Blom is actually human? Could he in fact be a machine, made of metal, and have a cybernetic brain able to play poker at the highest levels? Can it be true? probably not, but with technology advancing so quickly, maybe it’s just a matter of time…

Viktor’s working Thursday started at the FLO8 tables, and along with some 6-Max action, Viktor also played some heads up matches. The first of these was against Kyle “KPR16” Ray, and was fought over three sessions, and 303 hands.

The first was a $100k loss for Viktor across 388 hands, and the pattern was continued in the second session. here Ray took $52,018 from Viktor’s bankroll over 105 hands. Viktor managed to get his revenge in the third session, and over 187 hands he was able to lever $171,955 out of “KPR16’s” online wallet. This took his overall profit against the American to $19,937. We caught some of the hands, and have them for you in a nice little video package.

 


 

The next stop was a heads up battle against the enigmatic “SallyWoo.” The single 111 hand session saw Viktor take a loss of $73,738 to the unknown player, and, along with some 6-Max action, took his daily totals to a $177,355 profit. We have some of the action against “SallyWoo” and the 6-Max action against players including “KPR16” and Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius.

 



 

The other action of the day was at the PLO tables, specifically the $500/$1000 $40k Cap tables. Viktor saw action against Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and some other players, including Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene, turned up for a little while towards the end of Viktor’s Session.

The action was split over 3 tables, and Viktor played out 2288 hands here, with most of it being heads up against Galfond. Tollerene joined in for 130 hands at one table towards the end of the session to take the action three handed.

Viktor won $814,369 with most of that coming from Galfond, with the table that ended up involving Tollerene and some other players only posting a small $32,412 profit over 754 hands.

If we didn’t have any hands from this massive battle, you’s have to close you eyes, and imagine Phil and Viktor in the final confrontation of “Rounders.” Instead of NLHE they are playing Cap PLO, and the stakes are much bigger, and instead of playing in an underground New York poker club, they are playing online. In fact, it’s nothing like that scene from “Rounders.” Sorry! Good thing we have a video for you:

 


 

After all this action, Viktor was able to post a daily profit of $991,724, which gives his yearly totals a shot in the arm, and takes him up to a $4,515,400 profit for the year.

Viktor crushed Thursday, totally. Yes he started poorly, losing to both “KPR16” and “SallyWoo,” but he came back, and ended up beating “KPR16” over a decently large sample, even if it wasn’t for that much.

Beating Galfond on any day is always a pretty good indication of playing well. Galfond is rightly regarded as one of, if not the, best PLO player online, and Viktor has taken nearly $900k out of his pockets in a few hours.

It wouldn’t surprise me to see Viktor slip back into losing tomorrow, trying to grab hold of the elusive winning streak, but the big thing to note will be if he spirals out of control, or if he knows when to stop.