Viktor Blom is one in a million, and that’s a conservative estimate. There are few of us who can play poker at a high level, and play the volumes to male a profit while keeping our sanity. Viktor Blom showed he can do that once again with the massive session he put in over Friday and Saturday this week, playing through Friday night, and through most of Saturday. We were there, watching as much as we can, and did our best to bring you the flavour of the action.
As the day ticked over from Friday to Saturday, Viktor Blom was playing at the FLO8 tables against regular opponent Kyle “KPR16” Ray. The two actually spent most of Saturday together, but unlike a lot of people spending time together over the weekend, these two were battling over large sums of cash, and at loggerheads (actually, sounds exactly like couples I know, maybe it is normal?).
They met in six distinct sessions over the day, the first of which lasted 277 hands split over two tables and earned Viktor $72,963.
The next session was the biggest of the day, and saw Viktor continue in control, and bank another $145,924 from the displaced American. At this point, the battle took a back seat to Blom playing 2-7TD, but when he returned to FLO8 eight hours later, it was again against KPR. The next session was over a single table and 188 hands, and reversed some of the fortunes from earlier. Viktor gave up $140,037 of the money he had early gained, and this was continued in the fourth 36 hand session where Blom lost $36,006.
The fifth session saw Viktor gain $42,998 over 8 hands, while the last session saw 53 hands costing Viktor $63,001. We caught some of the action between these two, and have a highlights package below for your enjoyment.
The only other FLO8 action of the day was against “SallyWoo” and had hardly any significant impact on Viktor’s results as over 46 hands, he dropped a mere $1,007 to the enigmatic player.
Viktor also sat and played some PLO against up and coming high stakes player “kipu.” they sat at the $200/$400 $16k Cap tables, and over 368 hands, Viktor dropped just over two Capped pots worth of action, with his final results being a $33,670 loss.
Viktor sat down at the 2-7TD tables, looking for some action, and he found some. He played against “Kagome Kagome” and Gus Hansen amongst others, and over the 368 hands he saw over the day, made a $38,807 profit. We captured some of the action for your perusal, and have the gems below.
The other action of the day was against another player who little is known about. “Trueteller” sat down across the virtual felt against Viktor over a mere 118 hands of $500/$1000 $30k Cap NLHE action, and either he was running hotter than the sun, Viktor was playing less than optimally, or a combination of the two, as Blom lost $160,557. We didn’t catch all the action, but we have some of the capped pots we did grab for you in the video below.
This left Viktor down $133,586 for the day, and dropped his yearly profit total to $2,955,851.
Well, it was looking like a decent break even day until Viktor sat down at two NLHE tables against “Trueteller.” These tables saw $164,557 vanish from Viktor’s control over 115 hands. That was 164.5 big blinds up in smoke, and what ruined Viktor’s day. However, I’m not going to start commenting on Viktor going out of control and setting fire to piles of cash, basically because he didn’t. Cap poker is swingy, and Viktor didn’t lose badly, nor did he spiral out of control and try and regain his losses. What he did do, after losing his last short session to KPR, he packed up for the night, and stopped playing, as he should have done.
A small loss is normal in the life of a good poker player, chasing those losses and spiralling out of control trying to make a profit isn’t. We’re seeing Viktor do more and more of the former, and less and less of the latter. Maybe that means he’s working on his mental game, or maybe it means he’s bottling it all up for one massive degen on the tables. We’ll have to wait and see.
