Last night, most gamblers were concentrating on a little event in New Orleans, where someone appeared to forget to pay the power bill, or something like that. I was intently multi screening, watching the action from the Superdome on one, while keeping an eye out for my favourite Swede on the other.
Viktor did not have a great day, and as I write this, the past 48 hours have seen him drop sums playing 2-7TD and FLO8. His only foray into PLO brought him a small profit.
His day started at $1.5k/$3k 2-7TD against “Alexonmoon”, who in 2 hands booked a $14,500 profit, and “Seb86” who in a 3 hand session lost $7,500, leaving our Swedish Hero down $7k after 5 hands.
Viktor was also playing some $200/$400 PLO at the same time, and managed to book his only other profit of the day, for a massive $4,376 after 61 hands.
After this, Blom renewed his recent rivalry with Rui Cao, and the both sat at a $1.5k/$3k 2-7TD table. 165 hands and an hour later, the game broke, with Rui $19,524 up. It seems Blom is still finding his feet in this game, but this longer session only costing him 6.3 big bets, he may be starting to get there. Some of these hands still aren’t pretty:
Blom raised in position, and Rui called. Both players discarded 3 cards, and Rui led out, only to see Viktor fire back, and with another barrel from the other side of the table, Viktor ended up calling, taking the £15k pot to the second draw.
This time, Rui stood pat, while Viktor only drew 1 card. After standing pat, Rui was always going to open the action, and promptly did so. Viktor joined in and fired back, and Rui’s call brought the last draw. Again Rui Stood pat, while Blom was still looking for that single elusive card. Rui checked, and Blom followed suit.
Blom turned over A
6
542, obviously out classed by Rui’s made hand of 87
5
43, and the $27k pot slid over to Rui.
I may not be a great 2-7TD player, but I can’t see the wisdom of remaining so aggressive in a pot where Blom was still drawing against an obviously made hand. With this line, Viktor needed to hit a 7, or possibly an 8 to take the pot. Rui was never going to fold after standing pat, and Viktor inflating the pot seems a little over aggressive. Given I hardly ever play 2-7TD, please feel free to post your views in the comments below. I look forward to reading some other opinions.
After a short break, Viktor came back for a short (15 minute) FLO8 session, and over the 43 hands played, lost another $2,011 to “SallyWoo,” maybe again showing that he was improving his game, in only dropping a small bet to one of the best FLO8 players in the world.
But this is the part of the day that Viktor will probably want to forget. He sat down again at ta $2k/$4k FLO8 table, and we think it was with “SallyWoo” again, but we’re getting conflicting data from the big box in the corner. Whomever it was took another $28,998 from our hero.
While he was playing whomever it was, Viktor also fired up a $1.5k/$3k 2-7TD table, again running 2 different games side by side. It was against Rui Cao, who is fast becoming a regular in this column. For the 18 hands and 7 minutes this session lasted, Rui dominated Isildur, and stung him for another $40k. The last 6 hands all went in the direction of the Chinese player for a total run worth 80k.
Viktor then decided to continue splitting his games, and sat 2 tables. A $1.5k/$3k 2-7TD table with “Seb86”, and a $2k/$4k FLO8 table with “KPR16”.
Seb took $27,758 from Viktor’s bankroll, and did it with hands like this:
Seb opened from the button, and Blom re-raised out of position. Seb called and the players went to the 1st draw. Blom took 1 card, while Seb discarded 2. Blom led out, and Seb called in position. Both players took a single card, and Blom led out into Seb, who fired back his own raise. Blom Capped, and Seb called to go to the last draw. Blom drew 1 last card, while Seb stood pat. Blom raised, Seb called, and managed to beat Viktor’s 87652 with his own 86543 to take the $36k pot.
“KPR16” also dipped his hand into Blom’s wallet, and was able to pull out $82,922 in winnings. And his reading skills seemed to be in top form with hands like this:
KPR limped on the button, and then called Viktor’s raise. The flop arrived bringing 655, and a Isildur bet, followed by KPR’s call. The J turn card didn’t bring in any draws, but it did bring a bet from Blom, and a re-raise from KPR. Viktor called, and that brought the 9 to complete the board. With Viktor checking, KPR bet out, and got Blom to call.
KPR turned over Q8K5 for trip 5s, and Viktor mucked his hand.
It seems that Viktor decided to pop off to watch the Superbowl, because the next action we caught him in was 17 hours later back at a $1.5k/$3k 2-7TD table, again against Rui Cao. These two seem to be spending so much time together playing each other, they may both be signed up to the same online dating site. Blom managed to drop $78,754 to Rui in only 36 hands and 13 minutes. The session finished with the biggest hand:
Blom opened on the button with only just under $17k left in his stack pre blinds. Rui called, and then discarded 4, while Blom only took 3. Rui checked, and Blom, probably considering himself ahead bet out. Rui called, and this time only drew 2 new cards while Blom took 1. the Check-Bet-Call action from the last betting round was repeated, and in the last draw, both players took a single card. Rui bet out, Blom raised, Cao 3 bet, and Blom called. With Blom nearly all in, Rui turned over 75432, and Blom mucked his hand, and left the table.
This left our Swedish Protagonist with a wallet $293,350 lighter. Still, he is about $1.9 Million in profit for the year even after this latest loss.
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I’m off to recover after a very late night watching some American running around on fake grass fighting over a small amount of pig skin. Still, Beyoncé was worth it.