Online Poker: Viktor Blom Has $2.5M WeekHigh-Stakes Grinder Having One Of Best Years Online |
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Over the past four weeks on PokerStars, online poker pro Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has turned in one of his best upswings in his career. The Swede is up more than $2.2 million, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB.
Blom was actually a slight loser over the past month up until Aug. 20, when his tear began. Just over 19,000 hands in a week have added $2.5 million to his pockets.
The next biggest winner after Blom on PokerStars during the stretch was “Yoghii” with roughly $380,000 in profits. So, Blom is really cleaning up at the pot-limit Omaha tables at the moment.
The biggest pot he has ever played on PokerStars went down on Tuesday at $200-$400 PLO. On a flop reading 8
7
3, Blom held the J 9 8 8
against opponent “WithColor,” who held the K 8
7 7. All the money went into the center of the virtual table.
According to Card Player’s Omaha Odds Calculator, Blom wins a whopping 91 percent of the time thanks to pretty much coolering his opponent at heads-up PLO. The two elected to run it twice, and Blom’s hand held both times. He raked in the $365,895 pot.
The wins have put his profits on PokerStars in 2015 to roughly $3 million, though he is down more than $1.3 million this year on the company’s sister site Full Tilt.
According to HighstakesDB, this is how Blom has performed on the two sites over the years.
2015: $1,637,318 (Jan. 1-Aug. 28)
2014: -$1,794,273
2013: $542,796
2012: -$2,260,355
2011: $1,472,695
2010: -$414,053
2009: -$2,216,177
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