- Chapters four and five of a biographical series on Swedish phenomenon Isildur1, have been removed from High Stakes DB’s site.
- The remainder of the series has been cancelled.
- The deleted chapters indicated Blom went bust after he lost $800k to Swedish poker player.
- Claims have surfaced indicating that Blom was reimbursed as a result of his opponent multi-accounting.
Chapters four and five of High Stakes DB’s “The Making of Viktor Blom,” a biographical series on Swedish phenomenon Isildur1, have been removed from the site and the remainder of the series cancelled.
High Stakes DB removed the articles claiming that “much of what has been written in [chapters four and five] is not wholly accurate and as such could be damaging to Viktor’s reputation.”
Further justification indicated a desire for privacy by Blom. “There are certain events/times and people mentioned within the articles that once again, Viktor feels do not need to be discussed.”
The series originated at Swedish poker forum svenskaspelare.com and High Stakes DB acquired the rights to publish it on their own site. The first three articles were written by Viktor “Isildur1” Blom himself, and describe his early years in poker. They remain available on the web site.
The deleted chapters contained claims that Blom went bust after he lost $800k to Swedish poker player Robert “Gulkines” Flink who, unbeknownst to Blom, was playing on Peter “Zupp” Jensen’s iPoker account.
In a riposte to the assertion published on the Danish site, PNN.dk, Jepsen admits that Gulkines used his account, but argues that Blom did not go broke as a result because all the money was repaid at the insistence of iPoker skin Bet365.
He also argues that he himself never played Blom, and that at that time in the poker world, such account “borrowing” was not unusual because of the difficulty of moving large sums of money onto and off European sites.
Gulkines had previously played Blom on iPoker and lost his entire iPoker roll to Viktor. Gulkines believed that he could beat Viktor, but wasn’t able to deposit enough money into his own account to be adequately bankrolled to face him. He contacted me to ask if I had any money on iPoker. I had about $150,000 on there at the time, and because I was very confident in Gulkines’ abilities as a player, I gave him access my account without giving it much thought. I had a percentage of Gulkines’ action, but that was the extent of my involvement.
Jepsen goes on to explain that Gulkines lost $300k in further play on his account, and so to repay Blom, he had to find $150k out of his own pocket to add to his original $150k Bet365 balance.
Blom was one of the first Team Pro’s to be signed up by the relaunched Full Tilt after he unexpectedly resigned as a PokerStars team Pro. He then cemented his reputation by beating Tom Dwan for $400k in a promotional reprise of their Heads Up battles before Full Tilt collapsed.
