An Orbit with FTP Professional Viktor "Isildur1" Blom
Prior to the break we took the opportunity to spend an orbit with Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, who is taking a break from the high-stakes online games to try his luck here in Galway. Here's what we saw in the nine hands we spent with the Swede.
Hand #1 (Button): Action folded to the cutoff, who raised to 800. Blom folded.
Hand #2 (Cutoff): Action folded to Blom and he opened for 800, which Paul Quinn called from the big blind. When the flop came down 
, Quinn checked and then folded when Blom bet 1,000.
Hand #3 (Hijack): Facing a raise in front of him, Blom sent his cards to the muck.
Hand #4 (Middle Position): Zsolt Vasvenszki moved all in under the gun and Blom folded.
Hand #5 (Middle Position): Bruno Bressan opened for 800 under the gun and another player limped. Blom then called, as did the hijack and small blind, and then Zsolt Vasvenszki shoved all in from the big for 7,350. Bressan isolated with a four-bet to 14,500 and the rest of the players folded.
Bressan: 
Vasvenszki: 
The board ran out 
and that was all she wrote for Vasvenszki.
Hand #6 (UTG +1): Ness Kourdourli, the girlfriend of Timothy Reilly, shoved all in for 4,475 under the gun, Blom folded and then Bruno Bressan called from the big blind. Kourdourli tabled the 
and was racing against Bressan's 
. Unfortunately for Kourdourli, it was a race she wouldn't win as the board ran out 
to give Bressan a winning pair of queens.
Hand #7 (Under the Gun): Blom folded.
Hand #8 (Big Blind): Blom got a walk.
Hand #9 (Small Blind): The hijack raised to 1,300 and Blom folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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25,000
1,000
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1,000 |
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Busted | |