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Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom Wins $1.6 Million at High-Stakes Poker Tables, Quickly Drops Half Back

Swedish Poker Pro Returns to Action After Long Break

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Viktor BlomViktor “Isildur1” Blom put in yet another violent three-day period at the high-stakes tables on PokerStars. After returning to the game late last week after a three-month absence, Blom shot up about $1.6 million by Monday, but then lost about $800,000 by Tuesday.

Blom has slightly more than $1 million in profits for 2011. He trails Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies and Rafi “refaelamit” Amit — each up about $2 million — for overall profits on PokerStars in 2011.

During the upswing at the $100-$200 heads-up pot-limit Omaha tables, Blom beat the likes of Brian “aba20” Townsend, Phil “MrSweets28” Galfond, VietRussian, Fake Love888 and Jens “Jeans89” Kyllonen.

As of around 10 a.m. PST on Tuesday, Blom was engaged once again. He was playing against his usual foes at six-handed $100-$200 pot-limit Omaha.

Stay tuned to see if Blom will shoot back up, stop the bleeding or continue to erase all of his profits from the weekend.

There is some indication that his entire account balance is on the tables.

Update 4:30 PST: Blom lost about $100,000 on Tuesday, in addition to the roughly $800,000 his lost shortly after his $1.6 million upswing.