High-Stakes Online Poker: Viktor Blom Pads Profits To $2.2 Million In 2014Poker Pro Hasn't Yet Hit Real Downswing In 2014 |
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Despite the Aussie Millions taking away from some of the online action over the past week or so, poker pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom managed to add another $400,000 to his earnings on the year. He is now up around $2.2 million, according to HighstakesDB.
The 23-year-old Swede won around $500,000 last year, through some vicious swings.
This year has been a bit more consistent for him. He hasn’t really had any downswings, yet, which for him is quite the feat. Thus far, the largest pot he won at least a part of came against his frequent nemesis at the high-stakes tables on Full Tilt Poker. The following hand occurred at $400-$800 pot-limit Omaha. Though at a six-max table, it was heads-up.
Blom had the button and raised to $2,700. Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene three-bet to $8,400.
Content with keeping the pot somewhat small preflop, Blom made the call.
The flop fell Q
9
7.
Tollerene fired $11,286, and Blom made it $50,958. Tollerene elected to put him all-in for around $72,000 more. Blom made the call, and the cards were exposed.
Blom: K K
8 5
Tollerene: K
K 10 8
According to Card Player’s Omaha odds calculator, Blom wins around 36 percent of the time, Tollerene wins around 22 percent of the time, and they split around 41 percent of the time.
The players elected to run it twice, however, and the first run-out was the 7 J, and the second was the 3 A, giving each player half of the massive pot.
For comparison, the largest pot this year was a $322,000 hand won by Haxton versus Blom.
While just 23 years of age, Blom has matured immensely over his poker career. It was just a handful of years ago when he was gambling it up with $1 million online poker pots. It took him a long time to finally get out of the hole lifetime on the software.
Nearly 900,000 hands have netted him $536,000 — excluding endorsement money, of course.
Tollerene is the second largest winner on 2014 with $1.3 million in profits. On the flip side, Gus Hansen is the largest loser with $1.3 million in losses.
A lot of the top players these days have opted out of having their results tracked by HighstakesDB. One of them is Niklas Heinecker, who was last year’s top earner. He won more than $6 million and it unfortunately remains a mystery how much he’s up or down this year.
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