Poker Forum

If you’ve been following the high-stakes action over the last three months, you may have noticed that Viktor “Isildur1” Blom has been absent. The Team PokerStars Pro was on an unexplained hiatus, but returned on Friday, Dec. 9 with a $25/$50 pot-limit Omaha match against "VietRussian." While that was exciting news in itself, Blom didn’t stop there. Over the next few days, the Swede went on a tear, then lost some -- an all-too-familiar roller-coaster ride.

Nonetheless, Blom ended up the week’s biggest winner after profiting $586,366 in 21,612 hands across 204 sessions. While that...