Viktor Blom is on a bit of a rollercoaster. He won about $1.5Million last weekend, and he’s been up and down ever since. he has been rushing into his opponent’s headlong, and seems to have been doing it while keeping his cool. We’ve not really seen Viktor go out of control, and burn his money like a man freezing to death in a Siberian cabin. We’ll have to see if this trend continues…
Friday saw Viktor start off at the 2-7TD tables, with 109 hands split over two tables costing him $19,512. The big winner at these tables was fellow Full Tilt Professional, Gus Hansen. His profit at these tables was $47,988.
Viktor then headed over to a $300/£600 NLHE table to play Alex “IReadYrSoul” Millar for 119 hands. A $108,610 loss to Millar was forthcoming, and took Viktor’s losses for the day to $128,122.
“SallyWoo” was the next up to the FLO8 plate, and was struck out by Viktor over 77 hands of $2k/$4k, and coughed up $101,980 to the Swede.
While the battle was going on with Sally, Tom “durrrr” Dwan was on deck, waiting for his opportunity to face Viktor. Viktor’s fellow Full Tilt Professional met him at four $100/$200 PLO tables, and the two played out 182 hands, with Dwan taking a $258,381 profit from the matchup.
Apologies for the brief coverage, we lost our hand histories in a computer crash. Worry not, the computer left the building via the window, That’ll teach the bugger.
We did however catch some of the hands from Viktor’s next action, when he say and played FLO8 at the 6-max tables. The next 595 hands saw Viktor playing against other including Gus Hansen, Kyle “KPR16” Ray, and Phil “OMGClayAiken” Glafond. Viktor earned a profit of $23,978 against this quality opposition. Below you’ll find the first Video of the day, which has some of the hands from these tables.
Viktor left Friday with a $260,536 loss, and we continue to Saturday’s coverage.
Saturday saw Viktor in three straight up battles against “SallyWoo,” Kyle “KPR16” Ray, Kyle “cottonseed1” Hendon and Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene.
Viktor started against the enigmatic “SallyWoo,” against who Viktor played 340 hard fought FLO8 hands. Viktor won against his long time opponent, but was only able to walk away with $20,916, which was only just over five Big Bets at $2k/$4k
Next up was Kyle “KPR16” Ray, who was also beaten by Blom. Amazingly, over 283 hands, it was nearly the same gain as he had made over “SallyWoo.” Viktor won $20,933, again just over five Big Bets, so it can’t be considered a big win.
The last FLO8 action of the day was against “cottonseed1.” A mere 24 hands saw Viktor lose more than he had gained against Sally and KPR as Viktor dropped $49,055.
We have some of the hands from these matchups in the video below:
Next up was a return match against Ben Tollerene at the $500/$1000 $40k Cap tables. They played each other over 511 hands. Most of the action was played at two tables, with three more in circulation.
Viktor ended up with a $162,441 loss to Tollerene. We have some of hands below in the highlights reel.
This ended Saturday for Viktor, with a $169,597 loss, which combined with his losses on Friday took his yearly profit line down to $4,254,867.
Viktor is suffering bounce back after his big day earlier in the week, and hasn’t been able to get much going. With 2-7TD and NLHE only get a small part of his attention, their less than wonderful results can pretty much be accounted by variance. 2-7 saw about $20k lost over 109 hands, while NLHE saw a massive $108,610 lost over 119 hands, but the samples are pretty small to be drawing any conclusions from, apart from Viktor lost money in these games.
The PLO results are even more ugly reading. Viktor lost $420,822 over 693 hands, with the lion’s share of it going to durrrr.
FLO8 was the only saving grace for Viktor over these two days, as he was able to show a $118,811 profit over 1319 hands, by far his biggest volume, and his only profitable game.
The only time it can really be argued Viktor spiralled out of control was against Dwan. Here Viktor could have arguably stopped playing earlier, but considering the whole battle was only over 182 hands, it can’t really be noted as a mistake, especially as Viktor probably has an edge over the Macau regular.
We’ll be keeping out regular close eye on Viktor over the next few days, and we’ll be paying close attention to how he handles his matchups.
