Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom Up $1.2 Million In 2011
December 14, 2011 2:17 pmViktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom joined PokerStars in December, 2010, and automatically proved a great draw for the online poker room, as fans flocked to watch his series of heads-up challenges against fellow poker superstars, as well as his assault on the site’s high stakes cash games.
However, for the past three months Isildur1 had disappeared off PokerStar’s radar only to then make a reappearance recently in spectacular fashion.
Over the weekend into Monday, Viktor Blom hit the $100/$200 heads-up and six-max PLO tables in a big way. Subsequently, the player noted for his volatile swings wasted no time making up for lost ground and proceeded to win around $1.6 million from an assortment of top pros, which included Brian ‘aba20’ Townsend, Phil ‘MrSweets28’ Galfond, VietRussian, Fake Love888 and Jens ‘Jeans89’ Kyllonen.
One of the biggest pots played occured after Blom was dealt Kc-Qd-Jd-Ad to VietRussian’s 9h-10d-7s-8x, with both players all-in on a 10s-Ac-7h flop. The 2d turn changed nothing but a Qd on the river then filled Blom’s straight to ship the massive $214,000 pot his way.
At the end of his 12 hour winning run, Isildur1 had propelled himself into third place on PokerStars 2011 cash game leaderboard with $1.9 million in profits for the year, just behind Ilari Sahamies and Israeli pro Rafael Amit.
The Swedish swing machine was then in full operation again on Tuesday, with a report from cardplayer suggesting he had taken his entire account balance to the tables. This time, however, his fortunes took a turn for the worse and he dropped around half his previous days’ profits to end the day down a massive $800,000.
Nevertheless, despite his trademark roller-coaster ride, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom has still managed to notch-up nearly $1.2 million in profits at PokerStars throughout 2011.