The high of beating Daniel Negreanu for $150k this weekend didn’t last long for Viktor “Isildur1” Blom as he lost $423k last night.
from pokerlistings.com
It certainly wasn’t due to a lack of effort as Blom played 4,011 hands of $50/$100 PLO and No-Limit Hold’em.
Unfortunately for Blom, he was absolutely crushed by Rui “PepperoniF” Cao. In a little over 2,000 hands Blom lost $467k.
The Scandinavian phenom would go on to record a small victory against Dan “jungleman12” Cates in No-Limit Hold’em but it was only enough to bring his overall losses down to $423k.
It’s been an up-and-down year for Blom on pokerstars but he’s certainly down now. Including last night’s loss, Blom has lost over $500k on the site this year

This guy hasn't ever had a winning year since he's been playing high stakes, yet it seems al I hear about is how awesome this guy is. He goes broke every time. He' too aggressive, over plays so many hands pre flop and basically just donks out on his opponets. I would be willing to say there are thousands of better players than Viktor out there.

Thought for sure this was going to be a hellmuth thread.

I'm confused...so he's not good cuz he lost to that session, but he beat DN and won a bit of Cates (altho not a lot, im sure only a handful of people are capable of accomplshing this over that many hands), so does that mean that DN and Cates are even worse cuz he managed to beat them? I'm very far from a blom nutswinger, but you really can't be serious to think there are 1000s of better high stakes cash game players than him.

I bet you couldn't find 1000 people who could win or lose upwards of a million dollars in any given day, go to sleep, wakeup the next day and bring their A game back to the table.

 

Originally Posted by owl52

at the levels (and volume) he is playing, losing 500k on the year is basically breaking even.

uh no, it means hes 500k down on the year...

'Always calling, never folding = win at poker'

-Viktor

 

Originally Posted by pikappraider78

He crushes nlhe, he just needs to stop playing Omaha, if u take out all his Omaha stats dudes up multi millions

The crushing Islidur1 gave him was NLHE.

 

Originally Posted by apestyles

I don't know if he's that bad as a player, I'd assume he's pretty good. But, his game plan of playing all of the best players in the world is probably not a winning strategy.

This pretty much. He is one of the best for sure but doesn't seem to care about money at all.

And he has made millions tax free on euro sites so he's def winning.

 

Originally Posted by iamthedeck ftw

I think the way he plays is super spew and that there are many heads up players wayyy better than him... but I am not that good HU and am prob not the best judge.

 

Originally Posted by iamthedeck ftw

meh... not saying I haven't watched enough HSHU to see what's spew compared to the norm... and generally when the play seems to be way off the norm it is not a good thing... but maybe he knows something we don't. Anyway, doubt you're in any position to say he's one the best. We can play heads up if you'd like for a couple thousand hands or so but no higher than 1/2...

lol the good old hu4peanuts

 

Originally Posted by Iplaythabored

do it u pussy!!!!

^

 

Originally Posted by MakeMeMaster

lol the good old hu4peanuts

baller response, not really peanuts if you can put together a descent winrate... but if you would rather 2000 hands of 100bb play chips overall winner 1k (sorry not peanuts for me)... if not then gl but gtfo with your useless posts

Isildur is way better than you guys think, but not the best in the world as many used to think. I have had dinner with him before (brag?) where it was mostly just poker talk. He knows way more about this game than almost anyone, and most of my friends are hsnl players who have played him. I'd say I'm way more in the know on this matter than the guy offering to play HU for $4 or w/e. To say he's never had a winning year at hsnl is just lol. He has made more than you can imagine on euro sites at hsnl, how do you think he can afford the variance he has seen? Also many seem to be unaware of the fact that he has crushed $5k hu sngs this year (netting him like 600k vpp as well).

 

Originally Posted by MakeMeMaster

We can play 2/4 no stop loss 5k hands after scoop if you really want to.

LOL in two months? It's ok prob not comfortable with those parameters anyways will let you know if that changes before then glgl

are we really talking about vpps when he is having 100s of thousands in swings per session?

i know guys that do well in big stakes plo on stars and the read on isildur is that the guy tilts hard

edit: this doesnt mean this guy isnt extremely good, because he is and thinking you could work him at 1-2 or w/e small stakes is lol

 

Originally Posted by MarkFSU1

are we really talking about vpps when he is having 100s of thousands in swings per session?

i know guys that do well in big stakes plo on stars and the read on isildur is that the guy tilts hard

edit: this doesnt mean this guy isnt extremely good, because he is and thinking you could work him at 1-2 or w/e small stakes is lol

600k vpps = ~100k? plus I said he was crushing 5k hu sngs = more 6 figures? So yes it does mean something...