Lately, Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has been on a downward trend, and has been leaking money away, which is a shame, as from what I’ve been seeing, he’s been playing pretty well, and knowing when to pull the plug. He must be running on faith that the universe is going to turn in his direction sooner rather than later.
As his action over Friday and Saturday didn’t involve massive volumes, we’ve combined them into a single Watch article.
Friday’s action started with a little messing about on a 2-7TD table, at the ubiquitous nosebleed levels of $1.5k/$3k. 67 hands saw Viktor take out a profit of $58,577, not a bad start to the day. The rest of the action for this article is all about the PLO action.
Viktor sat against Ben “Sauce1234” Sulsky at a pair of $500/$1000 PLO tables, and for 34 hands, Viktor seemed to crush this PLO high stakes legend, and took $54,544 out of his bankroll.
After a two and a half hour break, Viktor was back at the tables again, this time at the much lower levels of $100/$200, playing PLO against fellow Full Tilt Professional, Tom “durrrr” Dwan. Over 356 hands, the two site representatives fought it out, and the results don’t make pretty reading for those of us who are Isildur fans. Dwan left the tables with $415,446 from Viktor’s account. Because we can only cover so many tables, we don’t have any action from this battle to show you.
This closed off the action for Friday, and left Viktor down $302,325.
Saturday’s action solely consisted of a 867 hand headbutting session with Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene. As usual, we’ve been able to break this down in to “Mini-Sessions,” and we have six of these today.
The two players stared off with the biggest session, and Session One saw 351 hands over two tables. Viktor managed to about break even on one table (actually showed a small $40k-ish profit) but was down $258,580 at the other, making this session possibly the worst start he could have hoped for, losing him a total of $214,066.
Session Two was a lot shorter at 76 hands, and went in Viktor’s favour. He was able to show a profit of $67,449, winning one table, and only losing $6k at the other.
The third session of the day between these two was 168 hands, and saw Viktor make a very minor loss. He won nearly $200k on one table, but unfortunately, lost the other two, to leave him down $37,374 for the “Mini Session”.
The 62 hands of Session Four were kind to Viktor, and he took control of the action at 2 of the three tables he was sat at against Tollerene. The numbers worked out at a $101,043 profit for Blom.
The actions from Session Five also went Viktor’s way, and saw him take profits from two of the three tables, but also saw him drop $171,990 at the other table, limiting his profit to only $38,997 over the 98 hands played.
The last session saw Viktor take some serious shots to his bankroll, as over the 112 hands he lost big numbers at two of the four tables played, to end the session, and the day, down a total of $398,940.
We have some of the hands from this battle in the video package below:
With both days taken into consideration, Viktor is down another $701,265, taking his yearly profit line down to $2,341,043. This now puts Viktor into 3rd place on the yearly leader board, behind Tollerene, who is now in second place, and “PostflopAction” who is still in first.
The analysis of the two days is going to be pretty sketchy, as we only caught glimpses of the action, and the raw numbers aren’t going to give us much.
What I can see is that Friday started brightly for Viktor, and his action against Dwan while ended up costing him money, the numbers don’t look that bad regarding when the plug was pulled. The matchup was split over two sessions, and while Viktor was never ahead, it does seem to make sense Viktor playing the second session, even though he was down nearly $150k after the first. We know his game holds up well against Dwan’s, but it seems that Friday was Tom’s day, and he was the one winning the money. Viktor probably pulled the plug a little late, but again, he didn’t spiral out of control, which may be an indication of an improved mental game.
Saturday’s action saw Tollerene take out a lead from the beginning, but Viktor did bring it back close to parity just before the final session, only to see Ben pull away over those final 112 hands. Viktor pulled the plug after this last session, probably to the benefit of his bankroll, again seemingly showing an improvement to his tilt control.
We’ll need to see what happens going forward, but it seems that Viktor has been working on this part of his game, as changes like this don’t happen without work.
I’m not around on Monday, so if there is any action from Viktor, Fillik will be picking it up for you.
