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Online Poker Action – Blom Loses Big
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2012-12-23 13:24
In the wake of the FTOPS XXI, the high stakes
online poker action has pretty much died off. Apparently, players took Full Tilt Poker’s freshly revived tournament series as a last hurrah before turning in for the holidays.
Despite the uncharacteristically slow high stakes action, some players did in fact experience some rather hair-raising swings. The trend of Full Tilt Poker taking over the burden of the high stakes cash game action continued. The biggest winner of the week was a player known only by his online moniker “Schoitl”. Schoitl finished the week $394.6k richer than he had begun it.
He logged 32 sessions for that haul, totaling 4.4k hands. The next 4 players on the winners’ list came from Full Tilt Poker as well. All the top winners were relatively unknown: Sebastien Sabic finished second with a 222k profit, followed by “Sanlker” in 3rd place, who took home $208.6k. Davin Georgi was the highest finishing notable, with a $172.8k profit. Sam Trickett made the winners’ circle too, finishing $171.3k above the red line.
While the winners’ list was largely populated with unknown players, the losers’ list was rife with “name” pros at the top. Viktor Blom managed to lose $224.4k in just 1,737 hands, to take second place, behind patpatpanda, who lost $321.3k. Phil Ivey returned to action as well and he kicked things off on the wrong foot, dropping $207.2k.
With so many relative unknowns hitting the largest stakes lately, it didn’t come as a surprise for Viktor Blom to have to tackle “Sanlker” and “Trueteller” at the $300/$600
NL Holdem tables. Blom’s efforts proved to be quite futile in this session: he won about $110k from Trueteller, while dropping $143k to “Sanlker”. By the end of the day, he found himself $153k down.
