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Blom Drops $1 Million to Galfond
Posted by: James Carter. - Tue, 2013-01-15 07:11
About a week ago, we featured a piece about Viktor Blom’s sick $4 million run at Full Tilt Poker’s tables, quite possibly one of the most impressive such performances in a long time. To put things into perspective, we should note that Blom’s $4 million topped the total profits of 2012’s biggest winner, Ben Sulsky, in just 8 days.
Well, the fire has apparently been doused over the weekend, as the Swede dropped a staggering $1.7 million, firmly returning to his notoriously swingy ways. Most of that money ended up in Phil Galfond’s possession, who fleeced Blom of some $1 million. The time of the crime was Sunday afternoon and its scene: the $200/$400 PLO tables at Full Tilt Poker. It only took Galfond about 200 hands to jump out to a $400k lead. Seeing how the tide was turning against him, Blom then asked Galfond to move the action to the $300/$600 tables and enable the “run it twice” feature, which they did. The tweaks made little difference though and after another 200 hands logged, Blom found himself a further 415k shorter. A break followed, after which Blom returned and dropped $370k more.
Other players who got a piece of the Viktor Blom meltdown were Scott Seiver, Ben Sulsky and SallyWoo.
Despite his meltdown, Blom has retained his biggest
online poker winner of the year title, even as Galfond crept closer to him.
In other news: Full Tilt Poker’s MiniFTOPS XXI saw quite a bit of action over the weekend too. A total of 7 events of the 35 scheduled ones went into the books this past weekend. The biggest prize was a $73k one, awarded to its winner by event #18, the $33
NL Holdem Multi-Entry tournament. The winner was a player known as Canadiense.
