My eclectic music tastes show themselves this week, as I’ve moved from Thin Lizzy, to the Magic Roundabout, to the funk of the Red Hot Chilli Peppers to the desert rock of Queens of the Stone Age. Now we descend into the murky depths of my metal back catalogue, with Iron Maiden’s “The Trooper.” The lyrics are particularly interesting today, and very poignant for Viktor Blom:
“You’ll take my life but I’ll take yours too.
You’ll fire your musket but I’ll run you through.
So when your waiting for the next attack,
You’d better stand there’s no turning back.
The bugle sounds the charge begins,
But on this battle field no one wins…”
Viktor’s long day started at the PLO tables, and finished 10 hours later at a FLO8 table, and he saw 2637 hands in the mean time. The bulk of the day was at the PLO tables, but due to a PC crash, we don’t have any hands to show you. What we do know is Viktor turned a reasonable profit at the tables, and made $93,920 over 1539 hands of PLO for the day, which is better than the $131,790 he lost in 31 hands the day before.
Viktor’s next adventure was into the arms of his recent game of choice, 2-7TD. “PostflopAction” and Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius were also present, and battled Viktor over the 6-max tables. The result of this was Viktor leaving with a $274,681 profit. We have some of the hands in the video below:
At this point, Viktor was up $352,145, and headed over to the FLO8 tables which have been so kind to him recently.
That trend continued at the first table Viktor sat at, which was a $2k/$4k heads up game against “SallyWoo,” where over 36 hands he won $15,990 from the mysterious player from the US.
Then, it all changed, over the next 492 hands, Viktor dropped $401,047, mainly at 6-Max tables. With Antonius and “PostflopAction” following Viktor around these 6-Max tables, they obviously smelled blood in the water, and when Kyle “KPR16” Ray joined in the action at the end with a small heads up session against Viktor, it turned what had been a good day into a rout. We have some of the highlights in the video below:
The final numbers on the day have Viktor breaking about even with a $16,454 loss for the day, which hardly changed his yearly profit line, which is standing at $2,624,002.
You might be expecting me to start laying into Viktor for throwing away a good profitable day here, but I’m not going to. He has been making a good profit at FLO8 recently, and it wasn’t like he played on through multiple losing tables. Nearly all of his FLO8 losses happened while multi-tabling 4 FLO8 6-Max tables. Viktor’s recent losing streaks have normally been extended multi session losing play over many hours. Here, while Viktor lost consistently over 2 hours at these tables, his recent success made staying a reasonable prospect. He probably should have pulled the plug sooner, and the heads up match against KPR was probably a mistake, but only a small one.
The only negative I’m going to take from this is it seem that Viktor is login at the tail end of his sessions, again. If I have time, I may go back over the Isildur watches, and see if I can spot a pattern here, but from memory, Isildur always seems to play badly at the end of a winning session. In this case it cost him a $350k profit, but I’m sure it’s not the only time this has happened. It may indicate a worrying trend for the Swedish player.
The positives I’m going to take from this are Viktor was having a winning day at both PLO and 2-7TD, two games that hadn’t been great to him for most of this week.
In the end, this was a stalemate, and as the iron Maiden lyrics so eloquently put it, “on this battle field no one wins…” That was true for Viktor yesterday, we’ll just have to see what happens today.
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