Viktor Blom is back at it, and yesterday saw him playing in the park. Sorry, I misread that, I meant Viktor was on swings and roundabout all day. Honest mistake. Today’s sound track to Isildur1 Watch is brought to you by the lyrics of Plant and Page:

“In the days of my youth, I was told what it means to be a man,
Now I’ve reached that age, I’ve tried to do all those things the best I can.
No matter how I try, I find my way into the same old jam.”

We’ll see just how apt those lyrics are later.

Mr Blom started off the day With a nice PLO session, playing players including UK high stakes specialist Sam Tricket, playing as “S3 TRX.” After just over an hour at the $200/$400 $16k Cap table, Viktor had worked for a $56,196 profit. PLO was the big game for Blom yesterday, but more on that later.

Viktor’s next stop was the FLHE nosebleeds, and unfortunately we missed the action, but 167 hands of action here brought Viktor a nice profit of $256,946, giving him the ideal start to the day. The next stop on the runaway train that was the Isildur Express was the 2-7TD 6-Max $1.5k/$3k tables, where the great run continued, with another $223,460 going into the online piggy bank of Mr Blom. We caught some of the action, and have a nice highlights package in the video below:

 

 

The only bump in the track for the day so far turned up in the form of the FLO8 games Viktor played, with only $6,966 profit from the 136 hands played. It was more of a levelling out than a bump really.

Viktor then returned to the PLO tables he’d left earlier and started to beat “Watch” regular Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene like a government mule. At one point, Viktor was up to a daily profit over $1,000,000!

They started at the $200/$400 $16k Cap tables, but soon moved up to the new $500/$1000 $40k Cap tables, and while these tables were kind to Viktor to start off with, the Isildur1 Express soon was out of control, and heading towards a cliff, as over the 2432 hands these two played yesterdays, Viktor ended up losing $288,117 to the American. We caught most of the action, and a lot of the hands made it to the $80k pot cap, and we tried to pick out the most interesting for the video below:

 

 

Viktor ended the day with a profit of $255,451, significantly down from the million dollar plus profit he had made earlier in the day. This gives Viktor a yearly profit of $2,878,554, but this could have been much better if Viktor had stopped earlier.

Yesterday was another example of Viktor fading at the end of a session, and if he had only know when to quit, his profit could have been a lot closer to a million dollars than the quarter of that he ended up banking.

Viktor showed the two extremes of his poker game yesterday. He played very well against some tough opposition to build his profit up to the heights it reached, but then for the last 1080 hands he played, he showed the other side. He continually lost significant posts and amounts of money over this last part of his day, wiping out most of the great work he had done earlier in the day.

It looks like we have identified 2 leaks in Viktor’s game (well, 1 really, but they are separate). He needs to learn when to quit earlier, and he doesn’t play well at the end of his sessions, and tends to lose a lot at the end of his day.

These are both to do with the mental aspect of the game of poker, and we do have the world’s foremost expert of the field doing an AMA for us on the 1st of May. That would be Jared Tendler, and I invite Viktor to come along, and hopefully plug this big leak in his game. I’m sure Jared would be able to offer him a celebrity discount on coaching, and maybe he wouldn’t keep on getting into “…the same old jam?”