Poker news tagged with 'viktor blom'

Fernando Habegger, or otherwise known as JNandez87 (his username when playing online poker), has created a video documentary featuring the Swedish sensation of the poker world Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom.

Habegger has won more than a million dollars playing Pot Limit Omaha cash games with consistent wins since 2011, and he's one of the most sought out poker coaches in the game.

Read more » Video Documentary: The Making of Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom

Two Swedish poker pros, Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom and Niklas ‘Lena900' Astedt, have each earned a SCOOP title just this weekend. This makes the 4th win overall for Blom, and the 2nd one in less than a week for Astedt.

Read more » Swedish pros Isildur1 & Lena900 win Big in PokerStars SCOOP Tournaments

On March 21, 2018 Wednesday, player AmSoGood made a quick but sweet $117,000 off of Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom after defeating him at a heads-up PLO match in the wee hours that day.

The two sat down just after midnight struck at a $200/$400 PLO table, and they then had a second go at it a quarter of an hour after that. Their total session lasted for only 37 minutes, had 80 hands total on the first table and 41 on the second.

Read more » AmSoGood Makes a Quick $117k from Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom at PokerStars online PLO tables

On March 17, 2018 Saturday, at a PokerStars high stakes online poker action, it was Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom who managed to grab the top spot on the leaderboard with a whopping $159,576 win after emerging victorious at the 2-7 Triple Draw tables.

Read more » Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom tops Biggest Winner list with $159,576 at Saturday's PokerStars Online High Stakes Tables

A sweet 2017 year-end victory has landed on the lap of Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom, as he won yet another tournament for $63K on PokerStars on Thursday, December 28.

Read more » Viktor Blom Wins another PokerStars Tournament on the Final Week of 2017

November 26, 2017 definitely was a beautiful day at PokerStars for the famous Swedish online poker player Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom, when he claimed the top spot on the $2,100 Sunday High Roller $200K GTD event for $63,842.

Read more » PokerStars $2,100 Sunday High Roller $200K GTD won by Viktor ‘Isildur1' Blom

Doug "WCG|Rider" Polk has recently uploaded to his Youtube channel a remarkable video in which he reviews the top 5 largest pots that high-stakes poker pro Isildur1 ever played, and describes each one in detail.

Read more » Check out the video of Isildur1’s 5 Biggest Pots

Swedish high-stakes poker pro Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 has successfully managed to win almost $287K from the first seven days of August 2016. It was three times that Isildur1's name topped the daily leaderboard charts with five-figure wins, and he was among the top 7 players daily this August to end the week with a total of $286,704 in winnings.

August 1 (Monday) - $57,200
August 5 (Friday) - $87,700
August 7 (Sunday) - $35,000

Read more » Isildur1 Starts First Week Of August With $287K In Winnings

After years of complaining about the politics surrounding Poker Hall of Fame, twoplustwo podcast host Adam Schwartz decided in august last year to create his very own Internet Poker's Wall of Fame.

Read more » Blom, Laliberte & Caby Join Internet Poker's Wall of Fame

Things can change quickly in the game of poker. A great example on that is Viktor "isildur1" Blom's incredible winning streak in the past 2 weeks or so. In the beginning of August the 24-year-old Swede's overall result on PokerStars was about -$1 million ---  today it is almost +$1.8 million! In total, he's up 2.7 million dollars playing on the world's largest poker site in the month of August!

Read more » Viktor Blom Wins $2.7 Million In August

Viktor "isildur1" Blom has been doing great in the past few days on PokerStars nosebleed tables. According to HighStakesDB, the 24-year-old Swede's winning streak began on Friday and he's currently up $2.3 million in the past 7 days.

Read more » Blom Wins Big

From 14:00 to 00:00 CET today (Wednesday May 27, 2015) you can play against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom at Unibet's cash game tables! The Swedish high-stakes legend will be making a unique appearance that gives Unibet players, with large enough bankrolls, the chance to put their poker skills to the test.

Blom will sit down at four cash game tables (NL50-NL400 and PL50-PL400) and will move tables every hour or so. All action will be streamed on www.twitch.tv/unibetpoker and he will also be answering questions during play. 

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The 2015 edition of PokerStars' Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) ended on Sunday with three Main Events in Low, Medium and High buy-ins. Despite the latter having a buy-in of $10,300, 694 entries were made and generated a prize pool of $6,940,000 (the orginal guarantee was $4 million)!

Read more » 2015 SCOOP: Mustapha Kanit Captures Main Event Title; Viktor Blom Out In 12th Place

On Wednesday 27th May 11:00 - 23:00 BST, you have the chance to play against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom at Unibet's cash game tables! The Swedish high-stakes legend will be making a unique appearance that gives Unibet players, with large enough bankrolls, the chance to put their poker skills to the test.

Blom will sit down at four cash game tables (NL50-NL400 and PL50-PL400) and will move tables every hour or so. All action will be streamed on www.twitch.tv/unibetpoker and Blom will also be answering questions during play. 

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Viktor "isildur1" Blom kicked some serious ass on PokerStars last week. On Tuesday, he won $208k playing a 2-7 triple draw, 8-game and pot-limit Omaha (most of the winnings came from Kibler-Melby).

Read more » High Stakes: Viktor Blom Won $1 Million Last Week!

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has not created any headlines for quite some time now. The main reasons are that he's not been running that good nor lost any major sums (well, compared to what many of us are used to hear about).

Read more » High Stakes: "Isildur1" Up $700k Last Month

In December 2013, Full Tilt Poker announced that Tom "durrr" Dwan was no longer a part of its The Professionals. A few days ago, many poker fans over the globe noticed that Viktor Blom and Gus Hansen's pictures had been removed from Full Tilt Poker's website and poker client - which started some speculations on whether they also had been removed from the The Professionals.

Read more » Full Tilt Parts Ways With Gus Hansen & Viktor Blom

Last Sunday, as a part of the Sit & Go Trio promotion, 18 Full Tilt qualifiers got to play heads-up against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom for $5,000. The "lucky" players only needed to enter three Sit & Go's to earn a ticket to a special freeroll where the first prize was to play against the feared Swede.

Read more » 6 Players Defeated "Isildur1" For $5,000 Each

As a part of the promotion HEADS UP SHOWDOWN, Full Tilt Poker pros Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and Gus Hansen were supposed to play against each other on Sunday, September 14. Many had looked forward to the battle ever since Full Tilt Poker announced the challenge last month, but, unfortunately, many were left disappointed as Gus Hansen never showed up.

Read more » Gus Hansen Didn't Show Up For Heads-Up Showdown Against Viktor Blom

Day 1 of the 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final High Roller attracted 158 players (37 more than last year) and 47 of them used their option to reenter the tournament, which brought the total to 205 entries so far (registration is open until the start of Day 2). However, no matter how many more players enter today, this High Roller is already the largest one to date on European ground. 

According to PokerStars Blog, 104 players survived the first day with Germany's Benny Spindler bagging up the largest stack (384,300). Spindler will be joined today by the likes of Viktor Blom (26k), Steve O'Dwyer (47k), Jason Mercier (47k), Daniel Negreanu (110k) and a whole bunch of other superstars in the poker world.

We will be back with another update tomorrow morning! Stay tuned!

Another day is in the books at the 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final Main Event. After six 75-minute levels of play in Day 2, Russia's Vladimir Troyanovskiy bagged up the largest stack (450,500) amongst the 123 remaining players. Troyanovskiy is a regular in the Super High Roller and High Roller tournaments on the European Poker Tour and, believe it or not, he played final tables in both of them at the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

Read more » EPT Grand Final: Russian High Roller Leads Final 123

Everyone's favourite Swede Viktor "Isildur1" Blom has had a massive upswing in the last couple of weeks. According to online-tracking site highstakesdb, over a $1 from his winnings come from heads-up matches (between January 14-17) against PokstflopAction. Blom is the biggest winner online this year with a total profit of $2,154,113 (48,517 hands)!

In 2013, he was up over 5 million dollars during 3 incredible winning streaks. It will be interesting to see if he can beat that "record" this year - without losing most of it (he "only" bagged up a $542k profit in 2013 after a massive downswing that started in October).

The Swedish Full Tilt Poker Professional Viktor "Isildur1" Blom is on an incredible winning streak at the moment! After a pretty bad start to the new year, suffering approximately $600k in losses during the first 2 weeks, Blom has turned things around and is now up an incredible $1.7 million (43,879 hands)!

Read more » High Stakes: Good start to 2014 for Isildur1

In connection with Blom 100, a recent promotion at Full Tilt Poker where 100 lucky players got to play heads-up against Viktor "Isildur1" Blom (Blom ended up winning 62 mathes [38 players received $1,000 each]), the Swedish Full Tilt Pro answered questions from Full Tilt's followers on Twitter. One of the most interesting questions was what NLH and PLO players online he considered to be the best right now. Find out what he answered to that question and many other questions below:

@FunkDrDoobz75: what's blom's current bank roll at & what does he spend all his money on besides poker?
Viktor Blom: Nice dinners and going out with my friends.

@shipit13: would you flip a coin for 1 million dollars if I gave you 2/1?
VB: Maybe I'd consider it for a gamble. :)

@pretty7king: Does Viktor Blom use any poker software?
VB: No software. Tried it once but didn't like it.

Read more » Blom Answers Questions From Fans

The second and final day of WPT Alpha8 (£100,000 buy-in) saw 11 players returning to their seats, and the number of participants increased to 12 after the late arrival of American businessman Bill Perkins who flew in from the U.S. to United Kingdom mainly for this event.

Read more » WPT Alpha8: Philipp Gruissem Wins The £100,000 Buy-In Event in London!

It's not only in Paris that poker stars are battling it out for some serious cash. On Monday, the 2013 World Poker Tour Alpha8 kicked off in London at the luxurious Palm Beach on Mayfair venue. The £100,000 buy-in tournament attracted 10 players spread across two tables at the beginning of Day 1 and ended with 19 entries.

Read more » WPT Alpha8: Tobias Reinkeimer Leads Star-Filled £100k Event in London

It took four levels of play for 106 players to become 45 players at the third day of the EPT London Main Event. None of the survivors were former main event winners or Team PokerStars Pros, but there are quite a few interesting names left in the mix - including Day 2 chip leader Tudor Purice (825k), EPT London Super High Roller finalist Timothy Adams (271k), poker legend David "Devilfish" Ulliot (250k) and Viktor Blom's big brother Sebastian Blom (216k).

The remaining 45 players are guaranteed a minimum payday of £11,425 with the chance of going all the way to the title and laying hands on the first prize of £560,980! The current chip leader is Martin Kozlov with 1,351,000. Besides Kozlov, only another two players (Ludovic Geilich and David Yan) will bring over a million chips into Day 4. 

We will be back tomorrow morning with another brief update!

It's been reported that Viktor "Isildur" Blom was the player that profited most of the cashgame highstake players last week. Blom made a profit of close to $2 million after a pretty long down swing. On the other side of the spectrum, Phil Ivey is topping the minus league of last week.

Viktor "isildur1" Blom has been on a terrible downswing in the past few days at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables. The fact is that the young Swede has lost over 1.5 million dollars over the past five days and he's now ranked 8th with a $1.5 million profit on the list of 2013's biggest winners online.

According to highstakesdb, "Sanlker" and Ike "luvtheWNBA" Haxton are two players who have enjoyed Blom's adversity. Sanlker, who's identity is unknown, defeated Blom in an 8-hour-long session on Saturday for $239.3k and Haxton took Blom for $287k in a two-hour session on Sunday. The latter consisted of several coin-flips (most won by Haxton) and some terrible bad beats for Blom.

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom is doing extremely well at the moment. According to highstakesdb, the young Swede has won $1,5 million in the past three days against SallyWoo, Kyle "PKR16" Ray, OMGClayAiker, Isaak Haxton, and other regulars at Full Tilt's nosebleed tables! The biggest chunk of the profit comes from SallWoo, who lost $716k to Blom in a few sessions of $500/$1000 CAP PLO yesterday.

The winnings will come in handy for Blom who had lost over 2 million dollars in just one week before his incredible winning streak started. He's now up $3,095,932 (289,208) this year - about 200k less than the biggest winner online, "cottonseed1".

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According to highstakesdb, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was up a six figure amount yesterday before he took on Alex "IreadYrSoul" Millar at Full Tilt Poker's $400/$800 NLH tables. The two played two tables for just about 45 minutes (approx. 200 hands) and Blom ended up losing $425k to Millar.

Read more » "IreadYrSoul" Wins $425k Against Viktor Blom

After a couple of not-so-successful sessions in the past 1,5 week or so, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was back on track yesterday and booked a massive profit at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables. He started the day by taking $150k from Isaac Haxton at the $500/$1000 CAP NLHE tables, then he won about $500,000 (in about 4 hours) playing Triple Draw and FLO8 against Kyle "KPR16" Ray, Phil "Polarazing" Ivey, Gus Hansen and Patrik Antonius.

Read more » High Stakes: "Isildur1" Wins $1.4m!

After a few days break from poker, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom was back at Full Tilt Poker's tables on Tuesday. Blom, who had won over $2 million dollars in the first one and a half week of July and was the biggest winner of 2013, must have been full of confidence and energy when he took on Bttech86, Doug "WCGRider" Polk, Alex "IreadYrSoul" Millar and other regulars at the nosebleed tables.

Read more » Viktor Blom's Not-So-Successful "Comeback" at Full Tilt Poker

It's been quiet from Viktor "Isildur1" Blom since he took down the SCOOP 2013 Main Event in the end of May. The main reason for that is that he hasn't won nor lost any significant amounts at Full Tilt's nosebleed tables. Well, that was until yesterday when he took on Gus Hansen at the 2-7 Triple Draw and the FLO8 tables. They started the session at the 2-7 Triple Draw tables and "The Great Dane" took the young Swede for about $100k until things took a big turn...

Read more » High Stakes: Blom Wins Half a Million Dollars!

An incredible $75,585,305.05 has been won in the 132 tournaments of the 2013 Spring Championship Of Online Poker (PokerStars) in the past couple of weeks, making it the richest poker tournament series in history! A big chunk of the prize pool was awarded to Viktor "Isildur1" Blom who won $1,096,200 in the Main Event!

Read more » SCOOP 2013: Viktor Blom Wins The Main Event For $1 million!

While most poker players think €100,000 is an awful lot of money, there are some who have the bankroll to use it for a single tournament. On Monday, the 2013 EPT Monaco Super High Roller (€100k buy-in) kicked off and saw, believe it or not, 48 entries. Phil Ivey was in for two bullets, but still he wasn't among the 29 players who survived the day.

Jason Mercier had better "luck" than Mr. Ivey. He bagged up 1,183,000 chips and has about 1 million more than his closest opponent - Sorel Mizzi. Here are few other big names who made it through Day 1: Viktor Blom, Sam Trickett, Erik Seidel, Faraz Jaka and Scott Seiver.

There's €4,900,000 in the prize pool at the moment, but most probably it will pass the 5 million mark today as registration close at noon. It will be interesting to see if Phil Ivey makes another attempt!

It has been an action-packed, thrilling and simply amazing weekend at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables, and, as many times before, we can thank Viktor "Isildur1" Blom for that! Blom had won $700k in the early hours of Saturday when he and Ben "Bttech86" Tollerene played some heads up at the $500/$1000 CAP PLO tables! The two pros were later joined by Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

Read more » Viktor Blom Wins $1.5 Million In 24 Hours

It has been an action-packed, thrilling and simply amazing weekend at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables, and, as many times before, we can thank Viktor "Isildur1" Blom for that! Blom had won $700k in the early hours of Saturday when he and Ben "Bttech86" Tollerene played some heads up at the $500/$1000 CAP PLO tables! The two pros were later joined by Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

Read more » Viktor Blom Wins $1.5 Million In 24 Hours

The second flight of EPT Monaco attracted a much greater field of players than Day 1A. In total, 423 players came to start and boosted the total number of entries to 531. There were many familiar faces at the poker tables including Viktor Blom, Patrik Antonius, Sam Trickett, Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier and Gus Hansen.

After eight levels of play, the tournament director called it a day and approximately 200 players remained. Only Mercier (48,200) from the players mentioned above survived the day. Victor Sbrissa, who won LAPT Brazil in Sao Paolo a week ago, was in the lead with 224,800 chips, which is a quite impressive results from a single day. Another two notables who made it through the day with about 200k chips were Noah Schwartz and Calvin Anderson.