Yesterday was a very interesting day. I discovered that bouncing a cheque to a bodyguard who is licensed to carry a gun is not a good idea, and Viktor Blom played a lot of poker, over a lot of tables, against a lot of people. Viktor is probably trying to play his way out of the down swing he’s been on for the last month, and he has been playing lower games than we’re used to seeing him at, while still playing those nosebleed games we love him for.
Because he was all over the place last night, I didn’t manage to grab every hand he played (I was also playing my own poker games), but we do have a pretty decent amount of coverage for you today.
Blom’s day started out at a combination of a $1k/$2k 2-7TD table against “Seb86” and a $25/$50 6-Max table that he kept visiting all night.
The 2-7TD didn’t work out in Viktor’s favour, and over 13 minutes, and 33 hands, he managed to drop $37,393 to Seb. Over on the PLO table, Viktor booked a small win of $3,125.
Then in a totally new move, Viktor moved to a £300/$600 2-7TD table. We’ve never seen Viktor play 2-7TD at limits this low, but in an effort not to confuse the watching rail, Viktor kept the same opponent, “Seb86.” Viktor managed to squeeze out a small $12,286 win, and we caught some interesting hands, including the hand below:
The two 2-7TD players then jumped to a $1k/$2k table to continue the match, and Isildur seemed to be either riding a great run of cards, or has been improving his 2-7TD game, as he came out with a $52,486 profit over the 49 hands. They then jumped levels again to $1.5k/$3k table, and Blom dropped $69,204.
I don’t know if Seb was toying with Viktor, or if maybe Mr Blom has engaged him in a weird playing/training combo deal, but this jumping in levels just doesn’t feel normal for Viktor. Well, not like this anyway.
The next time we caught Vikor on the tables was against “Seb86’s” housemate “Alexonmoon.” They were playing 2-7TD, and it was again at a lower level than we expect from our Swedish protagonist. Over the 22 hands at the $200/$400 table, Viktor lost $4,504 to Alex.
While we caught the hands, nothing really interesting happened, so we won’t bore you with any of the details.
After an hour not playing, Viktor went back to a more familiar game, Pot limit Omaha, this time over 4 tables at $25/$50. The battle was against “NhAndFu,” and while these tables were 6-Max tables, the battle seemed to stay heads up against these two. Over the 244 hand session, Blom came out with a $40,256 profit.
We caught this big hand during this session:
With Blom making enough profit here to consider the day so far about breakeven, and with 3 hands of 2-7TD at $500/$1000 earning a $2,750 profit and 4 hands at $300/$600 earning him $1,799, his day wasn’t looking that bad. I warn you, we’re barely scratching the surface yet.
Viktor returned to the PLO tables, and was playing across several limits, and some “Cap” tables. With Viktor playing PLO on and off for the rest of the day, we have made up a nice video of some of the bigger hands across these PLO tables:
With the combined result of all these PLO tables and about 8 hours making Viktor a loss of $71,025, he probably was thinking again about playing against such well know PLO masters as Phil Ivey and Phil Galfond.
Blom did also add in some FLO8 action against “cottonseed1,” winning $68,208 from the Canadian former “Stox Poker” coach. Unfortunately for Viktor, he also played Phil “Polarizing” Ivey at another FLO8 table, and managed to drop $150,666 to the living legend that is Ivey.
With Blom’s last session of the day a $1.5k/$3k 2-7TD session against his good friend Phil Galfond costing him $30k, I can’t imagine Viktor being happy with his 13 and a half hour working day ending like it did:
Viktor Blom finished his long swingy day down $96,132. He’s still up an impressive $1.07 Million for the year, but has been on a steady down swing following his early wins.
Viktor has also been fulfilling the promise of the Challenge tables on Full Tilt, and has been seen playing there over the past few days. If you want to try and add your own wins to Viktor’s downswing, you can join him on Full Tilt Poker by downloading here. Make sure you also take advantage of the exclusive FTR Welcome Bonus.
I’m off to hide under the bed, as the man who I (didn’t) pay to protect me from Blom’s hired guns is now in a rather bad mood with me. I’ll be back for the next Isildur1 Watch.