The end of May says one thing to me. It says “Damn, you’re gonna be busy!” With a combination of SCOOP, closely followed by the WSOP, I tend to be running around like a headless chicken. I was doing it so much today, I nearly forgot to look at what I’d been able to capture from Viktor Blom’s action from the past 24 hours. Boy, do I regret that! Viktor has given me lots to write about for today and tomorrow’s watch, so we’ll start with the action from Thursday, and tomorrow, we’ll cover the action from earlier today.
Viktor started off his day playing PLO, with most of the action against new to the high stakes action “kipu.” Kipu has been crushing the PLO cap games, and he and Viktor faced off at the $200/$400 $16k Cap games. They played two sessions, both with action jumping around and taking place over five different tables. On Wednesday, “kipu” had won over $400k playing these games, so wasn’t going to be a push over for Viktor. The first session saw Viktor take a profit of $124,620 from 316 hands. After a break to play some heads up FLO8 (more on that in a sec) Viktor was back at the PLO tables against “kipu.” the second session saw 216 hands, and another profit for Viktor. This time he earned $146,453, heaven only knows how many FTPs. We caught some of the action, and have a video below of some of the key hands between these two.
The other game of the day was FLO8, and Viktor played a single table against Patrik “FinddaGrind” Antonius. the action was a 6-Max table, but these two were the only players, and they sat for 128 hands of $2k/$4k action. Viktor was the player in the ascendancy, and manage to play out for a $159,940 win against this Finnish poker legend.
We caugh most of the action, and some of the juicier hands are in the video below.
This wasn’t the end of Viktor’s play, but it did cross the date line, so we’re going to cover that action in tomorrow’s Isildur1 Watch. Viktor ended this action with a $431,013 profit, taking his yearly total back up to $3,039,640.
It was good to see Viktor playing good poker, and being able to be rewarded for it. in fact, out of the ten table sessions played on Thursday, Viktor turned a profit in all but two of them. He only played 660 hands for his profit, so at least an element of run good has to be involved with his profit. I don’t want to detract from the fact that Viktor played an in form new player, and totally dominated them. in fact, Viktor didn’t seem to make a bad move all day.
We’ll have to see what happens past the date line, and how it ended in tomorrow’s Watch.
