It was October 2009 when out of nowhere the account "Isildur1" appeared on Full Tilt Poker. He began to play the top stakes and took at the biggest names in poker. It was going to be the largest upswing the poker world had ever seen. Playing against the likes of Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, and Tom Dwan, sometimes all at once, a brand new sensation was born and railbirds were pulling all-nighters to witness the action.
What followed was probably the most important downswing in online poker history, as his opponents began to figure him out and the "Isildur1" account began to lose big. It wasn't the primary time someone had run up a bankroll and it certainly wasn't the primary time someone crashed and burned. But where others were never to be seen again after this type of rollercoaster, it was "Isildur1" battling back to get within the black again. He lost some and he won some but remained a fixture on the highest stakes for the months to come.
By the time PokerStars signed him nearing the tip of 2010, the general public had already found out it was the relatively unknown Swede Viktor Blom behind the account. The reveal on the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure that year wasn't a complete shocker, but still, the arena had finally a face to compliment their idolized nickname. The truth he wasn't into doing interviews only grew his status as a legend of the web world.
What followed have been well documented. We've written various articles on Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and the entire crazy swings he endured during his poker career. To this day, though, we never combined his play on both PokerStars and entire Tilt Poker and completely grasped how big the swings have actually been. Time to switch that! We plotted the graph for all of his play at the highest stakes at PokerStars and entire Tilt, with the information courtesy of HighStakesDB. Data on his swings at the untracked sites as amongst others "blom90", were unfortunately not available.
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After a very good 2015, things have gone mostly downhill in 2016 up to now. Blom has lost thousands and thousands of bucks and is currently ranked because the biggest losing player with a deficit of $636,951. The last two weeks has been good, though, and a small upswing will also be seen within the above graph. Let's examine if he can delay this streak and switch things around for the year, as "Isildur1" on the highest stakes continues to be the top for all online railbirds!
Last Week's Biggest Pots Online
The biggest pot this week came from a $100/$200-table where "fjutekk" and Van "Sirens" Marcus squared off in pot-limit Omaha. Big blind wise the most important pot came from a $50/$100 PLO game between "TILTMENOT" and Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, where the 2 got 300 "bigs" each in. Check out the 3 biggest pots online this week.
1) "fjutekk" Wins a $62,865 Pot (314 big blinds) versus Van "Sirens" Marcus($100/$200 PLO Heads Up)
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It was "fjutekk" first to behave and he made it $500 to head from the button. His opponent, Aussie Van "Sirens" Marcus three-bet to $1,580.
"fjutekk" four-bet to $4,820 and Sirens had $14,540 within the middle soon enough.
The shove by "fjutekk" followed and Marcus called for $31,352.50 total.
Things weren't looking too good for Marcus. The 
flop hit both players, the 
gave each of them a flush draw, and the 
at the river was a blank. No luck for "Sirens" who was forced to reload to continue.
2) "TILTMENOT" Wins a $60,844 Pot (608 big blinds) versus Viktor "Isildur1" Blom($50/$100 PLO Heads Up)
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Viktor "Isildur1" Blom started the hand with a stack of 1,212 big blinds, just like the good old days. At present it wasn't a $500/$1,000 Ivey Thunderdome table, but a $50/$100 match against regular "TILTMENOT" who was sitting on $30,000.
"TILTMENOT" opened for $300 and Blom three-bet to $900. "TILTMENOT" four-bet to $2,700 and Blom called to grow the pot to $5,400.
The flop came 
and Blom check-called of venture of $2,914.30. With now $11,228.60 within the middle, the 
hit the turn. Blom checked again and "TILTMENOT" bet pot, leaving himself $13,582 behind. Blom shoved all in and "TILTMENOT" called.
With his two pair, Blom held a healthy lead over "TILTMENOT". They ran the river twice, and both times "TILTMENOT" would hit a king to win all the pot; 
, 
.
3) Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and "JayP-AA" Win in $59,729 Pot (597 big blinds) versus Van "Sirens" Marcus($50/$100 PLO 5-handed)
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From first position, "fjutekk" folded and "JayP-AA" raised his cutoff to $450. Van "Sirens" Marcus at the button, who started the hand with a stack of $25,440, three-bet to $1,600.
Small blind Viktor "Isildur1" Blom started the hand with a stack of $8,550 and made the decision. David "Bullitos" van der Weele folded his big blind and action was back on "JayP-AA", who four-bet to $6,600. Marcus committed himself with a raise to $21,600 (leaving himself just $3,839 behind) and Blom called all in. "JayP-AA" pushed and Marcus called all in in addition for $25,439 total.
While Marcus had the aces, it was "JayP-AA" in front along with his double suited broadway cards. That each one changed because the flop came 
, giving Blom a whole house. The 
at the turn made "JayP-AA" a straight, and the 
at the river didn't change something. Blom won the primary pot and "JayP-AA" was slid the side pot.
| Winning Players | |||||
| 1 | Timofey "Trueteller" Kuznetsov | 8,995 | +$94,441 | - | - |
| 2 | Sergey "St1ckman" Vasiliev | 3,147 | +$88,503 | - | - |
| 3 | Ravenswood13 | 4,725 | +$88,266 | - | - |
| 4 | Zhou Chun "samrostan" Lei | 9,234 | +$87,147 | - | - |
| 5 | fjutekk | 1,280 | +$74,283 | - | - |
| 6 | RaúlGonzalez | 1,138 | +$67,404 | - | - |
| 7 | Mikael "ChaoRen160" Thuritz | 800 | +$61,410 | +$64,079 | +$924,627 |
| 8 | Dan "w00ki3z." Cates | 5,996 | +$60,118 | -$123,110 | +$1,141,044 |
| 9 | Mike "gordo16" Gorodinsky | 5,552 | +$44,373 | +$8,435 | -$327,647 |
| 10 | Viktor "Isildur1" Blom | 11,824 | +$37,503 | -$636,951 | +$1,364,010 |
| Losing Players | |||||
| 1 | bodamos | 1,165 | -$155,921 | -$350,078 | -$1,677,200 |
| 2 | Sami "Lrslzk" Kelopuro | 7,136 | -$124,784 | - | - |
| 3 | Van "Sirens" Marcus | 919 | -$70,223 | -$73,190 | +$100,502 |
| 4 | Katya 18 | 1,386 | -$67,605 | - | - |
| 5 | CooL1992 | 506 | -$60,876 | - | - |
| 6 | 1nvoker | 1,110 | -$57,770 | - | - |
| 7 | brights88 | 8,329 | -$55,798 | -$129,877 | -$139,128 |
| 8 | Crisper | 2,836 | -$54,357 | -$60,146 | -$59,153 |
| 9 | TILTMENOT | 1,557 | -$46,744 | -$268,854 | -$13,047 |
| 10 | Jens "Fresh oO D" Lakemeier | 10,654 | -$45,896 | -$73,988 | -$288,239 |
The 2016 Leaderboard
From the highest 3 biggest winners, Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky was the one one to play this week. He raked 724 hands, netting himself $30,117 within the process to reinforce his lead over both Andres "Educa-p0ker" Artinano and Dani "supernova9" Stern as biggest winner of 2016.
Viktor "Isildur1" Blom played thousands of hands this week, and made some decent profit to slim down his loss for the year to $636,951. Alex "Kanu7" Millar didn't show his face on the $25/$50 or higher tables in step with HighStakesDB. "candela2005" lost just a little this week and remains in third position.
| Winning players | |||||||
| 1 | Ben "Sauce123" Sulsky | 54,862 | +$854,238 | +$15.57 | +$4,891,441 | ↑ | 8-game |
| 2 | Andres "Educa-p0ker" Artinano | 27,159 | +$729,389 | +$26.87 | +$1,150,807 | - | NLHM |
| 3 | Dani "supernova9" Stern | 22,672 | +$373,620 | +$16.47 | -$60,841 | - | PLO |
| Losing players | |||||||
| 1 | Viktor "Isildur1" Blom | 115,275 | -$636,951 | -$5.52 | +$1,364,010 | ↑ | 8-game |
| 2 | Alex "Kanu7" Millar | 24,885 | -$607,654 | -$24.41 | +$2,652,937 | - | NLHM |
| 3 | "candela2005" | 5,089 | -$455,918 | -$89.58 | -$1,360,117 | ↓ | NLHM |
The above top three of biggest winners and losers in online poker for 2016 and the highest 10 biggest winners and losers online for the last two weeks only include PokerStars accounts that haven't opted out with HighStakesDB.com.
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