Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 6669
"With the PLO nosebleed action hotting up over the past few days, a notable absentee was the normally ever present Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, leading to the usual speculation over the fortunes of the opinion dividing Swede. Any speculation over his solvency seem to have been at least temporarily answered as he put on a tour de force performance in three short sessions in the past 24 hours. The young phenom took on and beat tough opposition in Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky, Rui "PepperoniF" Cao and Ilari "Ilari FIN" Sahamies out of a combined $382k in around 2000 hands of play.
Interestingly, Blom chose to ply his trade at the lower stakes of $25/$50 and $50/$100, shunning the $100/$200 and $200/$400 tables which have been running of late. Probably a sensible move knowing Bloms tendency to lose control when his back is against the wall. However, on this occasion he need not have worried as he relieved his opponents of a combined 27 buy ins at $25/$50 and a further 25 buy ins at $50/$100, no mean feat in under five hours of play.
Isildur1 started his session yesterday afternoon multi-tabling $25/$50 PLO against his regular foe Sauce123 winning $137k in around 1100 hands played over 2.5 hours of intense action - Sauce was certainly left licking his wounds as he had not long previously taking a $230k battering from Rui "PepperoniF" Cao. After taking a five hour break from play Blom returned to the tables and set about eroding some of PepperoniF's days profit, winning $115k from him in a little under 800 hands of play in 80 minutes of $50/$100 PLO action.
Blom was back again this morning and in under 200 hands of $50/$100 PLO he took the wind out of Ilari "Ilari FIN"'s sails taking over $130k from him during their brief encounter."
Joined: Apr '11
Location: Romania
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 6669
At that limit you need to have some sort of disrespect when it comes to money but i'm sure that now when he is sponsored by pokerstars he has a pretty good safety net
I mean it has been said that the contract with pokerstars per year is 500k or more, so he will always have bullets to play
I observed he is betting too much on incomplete hands but sometimes it pays of...
Joined: May '11
Location: Canada
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 979
nonshowdown value is extremely high for him, ive been watchin him for the past hour on 100/200 and he plays omaha how u should imo, i play the same and i have like a 30bb/100 return
You gotta agree: he's very exiting to watch, it seems like money
