If you normally stick to slot machines or traditional casino table games of the sort that you might find at the Silver Oak Casino, then you may not really be aware of the online poker world and all of the big names which are involved in it. Those who have been following it closely, however, might not be surprised to hear that the Swedish professional player Viktor Blom, known as Isildur1 on the Internet, has seen a great start of the year – while Gus Hansen is still seeing his terrible run of luck continuing as he has miserably lost many games already.
During January, Viktor Blom continue to impress everyone after a very impressive 2013, showing a profit of $1,638,053 which was and over a total number of hands of 47,303. He did not seem as though the year went off to a fantastic start in the beginning, as he managed to sink to a deficit of $640,000, but he then went on a $2.3 million up swing in order to finish as the biggest winner on Full Tilt Poker for two weeks in a row. One of his biggest fights recently was against SallyWoo in a heads up encounter, which took 2 ½ hours and saw him securing to the biggest parts of the night, worth $60,000 and $56,000 each, in order to leave the game as the big winner. This week, the ten biggest winners online so far have been Viktor Blom himself, followed by OtB_RedBaron, Crazy Elior, LewisFriend, Bttech86, Lottenice, HC_68, no_Ola, and Ilari FIN. However, while the biggest win of the last two weeks has come from Viktor Blom playing on Full Tilt Poker, unfortunately that very same online poker site has been the scene of the biggest defeat of the year so far, as Gus Hansen seems to be flying the flag for poker losers everywhere.
Of course, statistics suggest that that makes up around 90% of the players, so it may well be a good tactic – but Hansen’s story seems to serve as a reminder that even poker pros can struggle to get the cash in every now and then. He got off to quite a decent start at the beginning of January and was up by almost $200,000, before getting into one of his famous losing streaks and now sinking down to a deficit of $1,194,032. Many players actually really love hearing about these big losses which Gus Hansen has a regular basis, because it seems to give them a little bit of cheer about their own situations – after all, if somebody as big as Gus Hansen who has won bracelets in major tournaments and has a huge sponsorship deal with one of the biggest online poker sites in the world can win that badly, then it really does not reflect in such dramatic way on other players if they also happen to not win every now and then.