Monday is usually a grind for most of us. I’m usually recovering from playing poker late into the early hours as I tend to play some of the big multi table tournaments that Sunday tends to bring. For Viktor, Grinding means just that, and for someone who only plays four tables maximum, and normally a lot less, yesterday’s grind was pretty impressive.

Viktor started off his day with 14 hands of 6-Max FLO8, which only cost him $3. Considering how much of the day was spent at these tables, we’ll gloss over this, and concentrate on the first session that involved some real volume. This was a 84 hand session of $500/$1000 $30k Cap NLHE against “Trueteller”. Little is known about “Trueteller” but what is known is he was able to win $8,332 from Viktor in this session.

Next up was a quick 40 hand session of 6-Max PLO at the $500/$1000 $30k Cap tables, which earned Viktor a $25,594 profit. After this we saw Viktor have a 79 hand heads up session against Kyle “KPR16” Ray at a FLO8 heads up table playing at the $2k/$4k levels.

The result went in Viktor direction, along with $104,975 of Ray’s money, taking his cumulative total for the day do far to $122,234.

At this point, Viktor jumped over to the 2-7TD tables, and over 252 hands racked up a $172,454 win against “Kagome Kagome.” over two 6-Max tables that looked decidedly empty with just these two players seated.

Viktor then got into the meat of his day, and was up against players including Gus Hansen, “SallyWoo,” Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond. These players, who make up some of the cream of the online poker world, were all sat at the FLO8 6-Max tables. Viktor sat for 1442 hands and even though he lost $177,771 at these tables, when he stood up from his last FLO8 action of the day, he was in profit overall to the tune of $116,920. We have some of the action in the video below.

 


 

With Viktor showing a profit for the day, PLO was next game of choice, and it was time for the regular head butting session against Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene. This regular game between these two top class PLO players has seen more swings and roundabouts than a well travelled playground salesman, with both players having won over $1,000,000 from each other over a single day.

Today saw the two play over 931 hands, over three “Mini-Sessions.”

The first of these saw Viktor win out over 427 hands, taking $131,510 against Tollerene, starting the battle off with a big bang.

the next two mini sessions didn’t go as well for Viktor, as he lost them for $162,732 and $166,992 respectively. These two sessions are very similar, especially as they only had 271 and 233 hands respectively. Viktor ended up with a $198,214 loss to Tollerene, and we do have some of the capped hands below for your enjoyment.

 


 

The action against Tollerene brought Viktor’s day to a close, with a loss of $81,294 over a very respectable 2828 hands. This takes his yearly totals to $3,168,480. A total which, while still more than respectable, has been a lot bigger in recent history.

Yesterday was a day that saw Viktor Blom put in a lot of volume, and so nearly turned a profit. He was up before he sat down against Tollerene, and was even up after the first Mini Session. If the cards had fallen a little differently, Viktor may have made a profit. The really good thing about the day was Viktor didn’t spiral out of control, and generated some decent volume.

I’d put it down as being a good day at the tables, even if it did end without a profit, especially after the mess Sunday was for Viktor.

I really hope he is working on his Tilt Control and other parts of his Mental Game, as I’m sure that part of his overall poker game is what is costing him the most money.