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SuperStar Showdown – Blom bounces back against Palmer
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2011-04-13 06:40
Viktor Blom took on Scott Palmer in the second round of their SuperStar Showdown bout on Sunday. The first round had gone to Palmer, who scored a $5,425 profit to barely inch ahead of his opponent in the final stages of the challenge. That loss pushed Blom’s overall Showdown record to 4-3, and a loss this past Sunday would’ve meant a 4-4, 50% record for him. Things didn’t turn out that way though. The Swede pulled his act together and finished the session with a massive $66,607 profit, to take his record to 5-3 and to walk away with a $61,182 profit from the Scott Palmer series. It seems like every time Blom splits a Showdown match-up, he ends up winning tons more than he loses, which is not bad at all for his bankroll.
The latest session was pretty much decided early on. Blom built up a $10k+ lead right out of the gates and he never relinquished it. The hand which gave Blom the lead was a classic perfect hand: he flopped a full house (Ks full of As no less) and Palmer made an A-high straight on the turn. They both got all their chips into the middle and Blom took down the pot to deal his opponent a blow the latter would find it impossible to recover from.
Palmer did fight back, but he couldn’t really make any headway: every time he seemed to catch up a little, he got punched in the face and sent back to the floor again. Later on, another perfect hand developed, which once again landed a monster pot in Blom’s pockets: the Swede hit a full house on the turn against Palmer’s middle set. The way things were going, the match was quickly degenerating into a one-sided trouncing. There were about 500 more hands to be played and Blom had a $100k lead at that point. Palmer clawed back though and he managed to exercise some damage-control, eventually only losing by the above said margin.
