Yesterday saw Viktor take his foot of the gas a little, and relax a little, only playing 991 hands over a 10+ hour day. So maybe not a totally relaxing day. More like a lazy summer day in the fields, doing the bare minimum to get by without overly exerting yourself.
Not that I’m calling Viktor a lazy guy, but after the past few days of significantly higher volume, yesterday must have felt like a lighter day.
He started off with a NLHE heads up match up at the usual $500/$1000 $30k Cap table. On this date he was playing “riyyc212” and ended up losing $69,502 over 23 hands to yet another enigmatic unknown player.
Next up was 411 hands of 2-7TD over 5 tables, all against Isildur Watch regular, and still unknown German player “Kagome Kagome.” The confrontation didn’t start out well for Blom, and at the only dedicated heads up table they played at, Viktor dropped $63,002 to the German, but he was able to win out in the long run, and ended up with a daily $200,150 profit from the 2-7TD tables. We caught some of the action, and have a highlights reel for you below:
The next stop for the intrepid Viktor was the table named (we think) in his honour, Gondor (One of the kingdoms from Lord of the Rings for those not in the know). The $500/$1000 $40k Cap table was populated with high qaulity players all day, but when Viktor was sat, the only other really notable name sat was Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius, and he only sat towards the end of Viktor’s session. This left Viktor crushing the table made up of lesser known names. He took full advantage of this, and turned a $189,869 profit from 80 hands. We have some of the bigger hands in the video package below.
The rest of the day was spent at the FLO8 6-Max tables. Most of the action we captured saw Viktor up against two names that won’t be unknown to regular readers. they were fellow Full Tilt Professional Gus Hansen, and Watch regular Kyle “KPR16” Ray.
The first 130 hands increased Viktor’s profit for the day, as he won $51,710, but that was the apex of his day. The action swung the other way, and the next 347 hands saw Viktor lose $435,102 to close out his day. We have some of the hands from this dramatic reversal of fortunes for your viewing in the embedded video below.
Viktor ended the day after this swing, and his final loss was only $62,875. This takes his yearly profit line to $3,105,605.
Given the he was up $372,227 for that day at one point, this can be looked on as a failure. I prefer to think that Viktor started his day well, and he played beyond what should have been the natural end of his day.
One of these FLO8 tables saw Viktor drop $269,254 over 100 hands. He actually took a break at this point, but 45 minutes later, he was back in the same games again. If he had followed through, and made this break the end of his day, he would have actually posted a $63,938 profit for the day, rather than the loss he ended up posting.
I think Viktor is actually learning when he’s playing at less than his best, the break he took seems to back this up. If Viktor had played much more than the 120 hands he played after this break, I’d have thought he was spiralling out of control. As it is, he took a break, tried to level himself, came back to the tables, continued to lose, and quit for the day. It may be the beginnings of a better mental game for Viktor. I’m sure if he asked nicely, a certain mental game coach would be willing to send him a free copy of his books to help him improve his game.
