Viktor Blom Continues Wild Ride20-Year-Old Swede Goes on Nearly $2 Million Swing This Past Week |
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On Monday Viktor “Isildur1” Blom was having his best week yet since joining PokerStars, but by Wednesday morning he had given nearly everything back.
The young Swede started the past week off with a win of $350,000 against Dan “w00ki3z” Cates in a Friday session consisting of 2,000 hands of $25-$50 pot-limit Omaha. The duo were playing super deepstacked in the match, and that came to benefit Blom in this 3,400-big-blind cooler:
The action started when Cates raised to $150 with the A
J
2 3
. Blom three-bet to $450 holding the 10 9
7 3, and Cates called. The flop came 9 3 3, giving Blom the second nuts, and he led out with $900. Cates raised to $2,000, Blom made it $4,450, Cates five-bet to $8,900, and Blom wasn’t satisfied, six-betting to $18,800. Cates ended things by calling.
The turn brought the 2, giving Cates a coolered full house. Blom bet $16,670, and Cates made the call. The 5 fell on the river, and Blom put his opponent all in for about $50,000. Cates called and mucked when Blom exposed his superior full house. Blom raked in the massive $170,000 pot.
After crushing Cates for 68 buy ins at $25-$50, Blom faced off againt Scott “urnotindangr” Palmer on Monday. The pair battled across four tables of $50-$100 pot-limit Omaha, and the action was aggressive as they elected to do a mandatory three-bet every hand. Even though Blom didn’t win any pots worth more than six figures, he ended the session up more than $600,000 in less than 800 hands.
Despite winning more than $1 million from Friday to Monday over the past week, Blom managed to dump more than $700,000 on Tuesday night in a session of $100-$200 pot-limit Omaha against unknown “gavz101”. The loss erases all of Blom’s profits on the year, and also halts his biggest upswing since reemerging onto the scene in December.
Other nosebleed regulars who have been in action this past week include Phil “MrSweets28” Galfond, who won nearly $500,000 playing $100-$200 six-max pot-limit Omaha, and Ashton “theASHMAN103” Griffin (+100,000).
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