Yesterday saw Viktor Blom but in more volume that we’ve seen recently. Yes, he won a major online title, but we want to see him crushing the cash tables on Full Tilt, not getting lucky in a donkament.
Viktor started off his Wednesday at work by playing some $300/$600 NLHE action against Alex “IReadYrSoul” Millar. These two aren’t strangers to each others game, as Millar was one of the players taking part in the Isildur1 Showdown on Pokerstars, which happened when Viktor was playing over on the site full time.
Viktor won this encounter, and took $17,090 from the Englishman.
Viktor then headed over to the FLO8 tables, and started off playing at a 6-Max table, quickly dropping $61,720. Then Viktor started the first session of a heads up match that continued for the rest of the day against Kyle KPR16″ Ray.
The first session was over 215 hands, and went in Viktor’s favour, seeing $81,947 going into his online piggybank. This was wiped out however by the next session, which over a meagre 11 hands saw Viktor lose $84,278. Ray had saved the best for last, as the last 260 hand session cost Viktor a massive $229,052. We caught some of the action, and have it for you in the video below.
Blom wasn’t finished with FLO8 though, and just after the first session against KPR, he played long time opponent Kyle “Cottonseed1” Hendon. 135 hands saw Viktor hand over $40,005 to the Canadian.
Next up saw Viktor heading over to the $200/$400 $26k Cap PLO tables, where sitting in a 6-Max situation, he played out 357 hands against a variety of opponents including Hac “Trex313” Dang, “kipu” and Austrian Harry “Schoiti” Casagrande.
Over four of these tables, Viktor dropped another $49,922, before packing up and heading off to play 2-7TD.
Viktor sat down at the two tables running 6-Max $1.5k/$3k 2-7Td, and found himself sitting against Sebastien “Seb86” Sabic, “Kagome Kagome” and fellow Full Tilt professional Gus Hansen. Viktor played 126 hands, and was able to turn these into his only profitable game for the day, and he came away with a $60,096 profit. We have some the hands from the action in the video below:
All of this left Viktor dropping $341,931 for the day, which has taken his yearly profit line down to $2,608,627. This takes him down to the 4th biggest winner for the year, behind Ben “Btech86” Tollerene who has jumped into third spot. Kyle “Cottonseed1” Hendon is still in first place, with “PostflopAction is in second.
Viktor’s day would probably be considered a very bad one by most player’s standards, but looking at the numbers, it’s a pretty standard for one for one of the members of poker’s elite. Viktor lost pretty consistently through the day, but not at a rate that causes any real concern, up until the final table he played against Kyle ray, where he lost nearly $230k. This was by far his biggest losing session of the day, and ended his play for the day.
Before this, Viktor didn’t really have a reason to quit, he may have been losing, but it wasn’t really anything significant. In about 950 hands he was only down about $110k, which at the levels he plays isn’t actually that much.
I’m expecting a big day for Viktor before he heads out to Vegas this year for the WSOP. He’s not playing badly, and hasn’t been spiralling out of control in his usual manner, so he hasn’t been losing as much while he’s not been crushing. In my opinion, we’ll be seeing a Million Dollar day for Viktor soon.
