High-Stakes Online Poker: Poor February Puts Blom Back In The Hole Lifetime On Full Tilt PokerSwede Has Lost Around $300K Since Fall 2009 On FTP |
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Poker pro Viktor Blom dropped nearly $800,000 during the month of February, according to HighstakesDB. That figure was as of Friday morning in the United States.
This recent downswing has the Swede back in the hole lifetime on the software. Over 887,000 hands, Blom is a $312,882 loser, says the tracking data, which is considered the best in the business. Over at PokerStars, his account is $1.2 million in the red.
If those numbers are correct, once you combine them with his earnings in tournaments (around $1.9 million pre-taxes) it’s possible to question whether Blom has actually made much money from playing the game of poker. In other words, if you grind $1-$2 no-limit hold’em at your local casino you might in some sense be as successful a poker player as Blom.
Though, of course, he has made profited from endorsements. Before representing Full Tilt Poker he was a sponsored player for PokerStars. Those two firms are under the same roof.
Despite the vicious swings that have marked his poker life so far, Bloom is still considered one of the game’s most talented. He just apparently doesn’t know what is going on always.
“These days the softest spot is Isildur1,” Dan Cates said in a recent interview. “He’s the only person who plays high and doesn’t know exactly what he is doing and will actually post for the most part. There’s a reason why all the high-stakes players are playing him at no-limit.”
It has always seemed that the young Swede has been able to find action. He once lost more than $4 million to Brian Hastings in a single session, and the top 12 largest pots in the history of online poker all involved Blom. He lost the largest of them all, a $1.35 million monster against Patrik Antonius in the fall of 2009. He was even more reckless back then.
Blom’s graph on HighstakesDB shows how when Blom is running hot he can go on massive upswings, and of course when he isn’t he gives it all back, and sometimes more.
Despite the losses in February, Blom is still up $1.3 million on 2014, trailing only Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene ($1.5 million) on the unofficial leader board.
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