Our regular Isildur1 Watch correspondent has taken a well-deserved break from covering Viktor’s high-stakes action. Evidently, Rob had been heard exclaiming, “Noooo, Viktor! Bottom pair is not a monster!” and “Sit-out! Sit-out, damn you!” at random times throughout the day, and it was felt that he ought to close the Full Tilt Poker software, at least for the weekend. Therefore, I have been drafted volunteered been volunteered to cover Viktor’s Saturday action.
While many of poker’s biggest names are battling it out at the WSOP, Viktor Blom continues his work online. Indeed, it seems almost certain at this point that the Swedish high-stakes pro has decided to forgo the World Series this year, in favor of grinding it out at many different games online.
It was a very swingy day for Viktor. First, he got started playing against a familiar foe, “Trueteller,” at the $500/$1,000 NL Hold’em CAP table Mount Doom. They played 62 hands, during which Isi won $48,727.
Perhaps encouraged by that start to his day, Viktor then joined $1,500/$3,000 8-game table Knick, where he faced fierce action from “samrostan” and “FinddaGrind.” No matter what game they were playing, it seemed that Viktor couldn’t get anything going and frequently came up short at showdown. Viktor lost a whopping $213,042 over 278 hands. We’ve captured some of the action below:
If there is one thing we know about Isildur1 after all this time, it is that he is unfazed by 6-figure losses, so it was no surprise to see him join $2,000/$4000 Limit O8 table Yawn just a few minutes later. Here he battled frequent foe “SallyWoo,” and was able to make back $99,984 of his losses over 56 hands. Check out some of the big hands below:
Blom must have felt his momentum returning, so he closed out the day by playing 122 hands at $300/$600 6-max NLHE table EWR. His largest hand at the table came when “proudlikeagoat” opened from the button, “Tight-Man1” three-bet from the small blind, and Isildur cold-called the three-bet from the big blind. The original raiser folded. The flop was 2
97, and both players checked. “Tight-Man1” led the 8
turn, and Viktor called. The river was the 9, and “Tight-Man1” jammed in the rest of his stack, about twice the size of the pot. Viktor called and showd J
9 for trips. “Tight-Man1” showed A5 for complete air, and Blom scooped the nice $120,000 pot. That hand enabled Viktor to walk away from table EWR with a $60,020 profit.
Adding up all the action for the day, Isildur1 ended up losing $4,311, which for him is nothing more than a rounding error. What started off looking promising instead turned into a nightmare, and then turned into “meh.” Such wild swings are not uncommon for Viktor, and I am sure he will have more and greater swings in the future.