- He is currently sitting on a handsome $250k profit in just under 75,000 cash game hands this year—but these numbers conceal the big swings the Swede has had to stomach to bank that $3.33/hand winrate.
- Blom was on the wrong end of the biggest pot recorded in No Limit Holdem so far in 2014. The pot was contested between Blom and Ike Haxton back in late January.
- There is still plenty of time left in the year for the figures to change.
Known to the online poker community as Isildur1, Viktor Blom has a reputation for his hyper-aggressive high stakes cash game style—a style that has seen the Full Tilt Pro remain profitable in 2014 in an attempt to build on his 2013 finish of $542,796 in the black.
He is currently sitting on a handsome $250k profit in just under 75,000 cash game hands this year—but these numbers conceal the big swings the Swede has had to stomach to bank that $3.33/hand winrate.
For starters, Blom was on the wrong end of the biggest pot recorded in No Limit Holdem so far in 2014. The pot was contested between Blom and Ike Haxton back in late January: The players got $322k into the middle on the river after Haxton had already flopped a diamond Queen high flush.
Blom’s NLH fortunes have yet to improve and he currently sits $200k in the red for the year—perhaps not surprising, given his 2013 results: Blom lost a total of -$3.6m last year, making him the biggest loser at the NLH tables.
Blom’s also been the biggest loser on the triple draw tables in 2014, down over $1m to his opponents, almost all in the last two weeks on the nosebleed tables against some of the world’s best. Based on 2013 results, triple draw should be his most lucrative poker style—he won $3.7m at the tables last year, handily wiping out his NLH losses.
There is a different story for the Swede on the Omaha Hi/Lo tables, from which last year Blom lost over $700k; 2014 is off to a much better start, with him banking about $870k profit. But his biggest winner is at the 8-game tables—already he is up a massive $1.2m, doubling 2013’s total profit.
PLO is a dangerous game when playing Blom, but the Swede has already lost $486k in 2014. Nevertheless, PLO is a high action game with incredible swings, plus this was Blom’s second most lucrative game of 2013, winning $2.3m. There is still plenty of time left in the year for the figures to change.
