Today’s Watch is a tail of 2 sessions, the first being a hard day’s night following on from yesterday’s article. I have never accused of Viktor of not having a work ethic, but this Kid seems to be unstoppable, He put in a big volume over the day, and I hope he’s not going back to his old ways of playing his way out of an unsettled streak.
As we left our hero he was playing Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene at the $500/$100 $40 Cap PLO tables, and this action continued. Over the last hour of Wednesday, and the first eight hours of Thursday, Viktor played Tollerene over 3935 hands. We’ve been able to break these down into our usual “Mini-Sessions,” and we have six of those today.
The first saw Viktor and Tollerene butt heads over 855 hands, with two of the three tables in play going to Blom. Unfortunately, the third table was the big one, and it swung the whole “Mini-Session” to Tollerene, and he came out of it with at $186,603 profit.
It seemed that the first session set a pattern, as the second session followed along the same lines, and Ben won $156,826 over 450 hands, again only seeing a profit at one table, while Viktor saw smaller positive numbers at the other two.
The third session saw Viktor hitting back, and making his two table profit machine turn him a $210,256 profit over 456 hands, bringing him back towards parity with the American.
The forth session again followed the same pattern. Viktor saw a profit over 2 of the three tables, while Tollerene only profited at one. Viktor however didn’t repeat the results of the last session, and posted a “Mini-Session” loss of $76,175 over 639 hands.
Session five again repeated the pattern of the day, with Viktor seeing a profit at two of the tables, and Tollerene taking the other, this tome however, Blom managed to eke out a profit of $22,704 over 827 hands.
The final session followed the same pattern, and this time Viktor was really able to make his two table profit advantage tell, as he won $368,152 from his opponent. I’m guessing this result caused Tollerene to pull the plug, as it closed the action between these two.
This gave Blom a $181,508 profit to start the day, and he went off to have a much deserved rest. We have some of the highlights from the Tollerene/Blom shootout of the day, and have bundled them all nicely for you in the video below:
We need to fast forward just over eleven hours to the next action Viktor partook in. This was a trip to the 2-7TD nosebleed 6-Max tables. With the tables ranging from heads up to full, the action was pretty disjointed. Viktor saw hands against players including fellow Full Tilt Professional, Tom “durrrr” Dwan, and Isildur1 Watch regulars Sebastien “Seb86” Sabic and “Kagome Kagome.”
The 375 hands Viktor played earned him a profit of $88,423, and just to continue the pattern of the day, over the three tables he played, he won at two of them! We have a few hands from the action to titillate those of you with a lo-ball fetish:
The unexpected return of Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky to the watch is uup next, when he and Viktor decided to play each other across a pair of $200/$400 PLO tables. The 209 hands these guys played at this level gave Viktor a profit of $29,978, and they decided to step up a level, and were soon playing $250/$500, but this only lasted 97 hands, as Viktor burned through $368,499, giving Sauce’s return a serious profit of $338,521. Wer caught a few of the hands, and have them for you in the highlights package below:
Thursday the second of May started well for Viktor, but ended up as a slightly negative stalemate, as Viktor ended the day with a loss of $68,590. This barely impacts his yearly profit line, and he is still $2,979,913 to the good since January 1st.
Yet again, Viktor dropped a bundle at the end of a big volume day. It’s really starting to become a habit. He was able to beat Tollerene for nearly $200k over a decent sample, so much so that Ben’s improved mental game seems to have given him the skill to pull the plug before he lost a bundle to Viktor.
For the first 3 hours or so after his break, Viktor seemed to be in the Zone, and was able to win at both the 2-7TD and PLO tables. I’m not sure what happened when Blom and Sauce went to the bigger stakes, but Viktor burning through seven buy ins in under a hundred hands is either him losing focus, or a truly horrible run of cards. Given Viktor walked away, I’m guessing the former. I’m hoping Viktor is improving his Mental game, as I’ve not seen him spiral out of control recently, and if I’ve had anything to do with this, I’d be both surprised, and more than a little smug (Viktor, feel free to contact me and stroke my ego).
What’s more likely is Viktor has joined a large number of professional players who have started to take their mental game very seriously, and joined the growing number of people who have realised this is a major leak for so many of us.
I’m off to join this growing club, and try to work out how to stop tilting when I get AQ in against Jacks, flop the nut straight, only to see my opponent river a boat. I’m running out of keyboards…
