Y'know, it's a bit interesting that Blom is known for a whole bunch of things that he may not have actually done. A lot of people claim that he never turned 2k into over a million dollars, and there's still a slight chance that he's not Isildur. It's almost like being a fan of a fictional character or a folk hero like Robin Hood.

thanks for the compliment mate.

basically he was opening 50% of hands and 3 and 4 betting a lot. A few hands before i had 4 bet him with complete air and shown him. so then this hand comes up. blinds 600-1200 with 75 ante. he opens UTG to 2700. Nam Le behind him calls. I repop it to 9900(my stack was roughly 68k). Folds back to him, he makes it 19200. Nam folds and I tank reship. he calls the extra 48k and the rest is history. I didnt really know what to put him on, he was just insanely aggro and tbh i didnt really care because i thought he would call my allin anyway given his over 300k+ chip stack at the time. and his overall willingness to gamble it up.


won a satelite online to ept. so figured id play this one if i managed to sell enough of myself which i did. the experience alone was well worth the trip. happy to talk bout it more to you in person( i see you're from london). ill be here for the next 2 weeks. feel free to send me a pm.

[X] Sky is blue
[X] Grass is green
[X] Blom is very aggro

fyp

^lol'd @ avatar
Straight from tha muthaf***in slums dats busted, Hello Kitty ain't nuthin ta f*** wit.

Huge fail.

tyvm. Sick unlucky for you, I assumed you are a hiroller and bought in on your own since the field is soo sick and you seem to be taking the beat so well.

wsop.com didnt list viktors city name..until now: Stockholm!
wtf? no Göteborg?

If Viktor makes the Final Table, then that will be epic. If he makes it to Heads up then it goes down on history. If he wins, then is legendary. But if it goes to Ivey v. Blom on the Final Table, That will just make it incredible.

Bah, i was trying to translate "the story of blom" but the thread were closed while i was writing so i decided to write it here, since its a good way to improve my english and if people want to read the story.

Först vill jag tacka blom90 som har lagt ner mycket tid på att skriva den här sanna berättelsen. Jag vet att det har varit många rykten angånde vem han är och hur mycket han har tjänat ihop. Jag hoppas att ni kommer få några frågor besvarade. Nästa del kommer komma inom några dagar. Detta är allså första gången nånsin Blom90 ger intervju överhuvudtaget. Vi har inte ändrat nåt på hans berättelse då vi anser att ni ska läsa det precis på det sätt som han skrev det.

= First of all i wanna thank blom90 who spend alot of time writing this true story. I know there has been many story's about who he is and how much money he made.
I hope that you will get some questions answered. The next chapter will be released in a few days.
This is the first time ever blom90 has made an interview.
We have not changed anything in his history because we think you should read it the way he wrote it.


Blom90 del 1

Starten

Jag kom i kontakt med poker i högstadiet, då min brorsa lärde mig texas nl. Vi brukade spela heads up en del mot varann. Det var då pokermiljonen slog igenom och var kul och följa. Sen eftersom lärde jag några kompisar spelet, vi var tre st som brukade sitta uppe många nätter och spela om småsummor, ett sånt game kunde vara 1 krona startinsats. Vi brukade oftast växla in och spela med mynt, men man respekterade pengar då så mkt så om man gick typ 80 kr + en kväll så var man fett nöjd. Eftersom lärde sig fler polare spelet och när skolan drog igång brukade vi spela på raster också, var väldigt mkt småskulder hit och dit då, då alla ville vara med och spela. När fler började spela brukade vi ha en del turneringar med 20 -50 krs insatser. Vi hade t ex en 50 krs turnering där det kom hela 25 pers, lyckades vinna denna så de va väldigt skönt.

= Blom part 1

The beginning

The first time i got in contact with poker was in high school, when my brother teached me texas nl.
We used to play HU against eachother.
That was after "Pokermiljonen" (Swedish televised tournament on channel tv4 from 2004-2007) got big and were fun to follow.
After that i learned a few friends the game.
We were 3 guys who spend many nights playing for low amounts of money, an example of those games could be start BI 1 SEK ( $1 =6,8 SEK)
We used to exchange to coins, but at that time you respected money and if you went + 80 SEK (~12 usd) for the night, you were very pleased with yourself.

After a while more friends were learning the game and we used to play on the brakes in our school, there were many small debts here and there because everyone wanted to join and play.

When more people wanted to join us, we used to have tournaments with 20-50 SEK BI.

For example, we had a tournament where as many as 25 people joined, and i won this wich felt very nice.

More comming, splitting this in 2 posts. (Hope it makes sence to somone atleast)

fyp

I don't think Dan Shak could have played that hand worse vs. Antonio.

Looking forward to Ivey and Blom on the final table.

There we go..thanks for fixing it

Wow, thanks for doing this man. You must think it could actually be written by Blom? (dialect etc.) I had my doubts but the Swedish comments in the link (also possibly false?) don't suggest a fake.

I did originally translate the page using Chrome but Kevmath would not allow this and when questioned, Gregorio locked the thread without reason.

So, keep up the good work, your translation is much better than Chromes and your local insight is valued.

Go Go Viktor.

The high stakes PLO community must be licking their chops at he thought of this.

Thanks, keep it coming.

(why was the original thread locked btw?)

This is part 1 after he goes broke and he tells his parents and all that, then I believe he tries to quit poker but he dosnt, he has like 2k left and he goes on iPoker..but the iPoker part is part 2, which I have not read, can you please please please translate that.

Viktor's looking very distinguished on pokernews.

Onlinestarten
Sedan satte jag och min bror in 100 $ tillsammans på en pokersida, det första vi gjorde var att gå med i en 11$ regular med ca 700 spelare, vi kom 5:a och vann nåt på 300 $ vilket var stort för oss. Hade en del flyt där, var t ex all-in p-f med KJ s mot AK ganska tidigt i turneringen och floppat nötflushen (välkomstriggen?!). Vi höll oss till låga turneringar och spelade även en del 6 och 11 $ sng shorthanded. Det gick väl okej för oss men inga stora vinster alls. Min bror började spela själv efter ett tag, då började jag spela med en kompis ist och vi körde allt 50-50. Efter ett tag började jag spela själv på nicket Blom90, hade en bra rush och var inte så långt uppe på 530 $ 10 spelare speed, det var då jänkarna fick spela på alla siter, och det var väldigt fiskigt spel, förstod tidigt att de gällde att vara väldigt aggro på dem höga blindsen då det var färre spelare än idag. Spelade även en del cashgames men kändes som mitt spel passade in mer på sng:s och turneringar.

= The beginning of online

Me and my brother deposited $100 together on a pokersite, and the first thing we did was to register to a $11 regular tournament with ~700 players.
We ended up in 5th place and won something like $300 which was big for us at the time.
We had some luck, for example we were all in PF with KJ against AK pretty early in the tournament and flopped the nutflush ( the welcome rig!?)
We kept us to low BI tournaments and also played a step 6 and $11 SNG sh.
It went okay but no big wins.

I also played some cashgames but it felt like my style were more fitted for sng's and tournaments.

Betting på flera fronter

När vi var runt 15 började vi även betta på mer, som tennisturneringar och inlägg, ett fotbollsspel där en slår inlägg, en avslutar och en är målvakt och man går hela tiden runt. Tills ngn nåt gränsen av ex 20 poäng. Så fick man 2 p för mål, 1 p för inlägg till mål och 1 - p för insläppt mål. Det blev ganska heta diskussioner där när mål dömdes bort osv för målvakten och avslutaren fick inte gå innanför vissa gränser, men det var jävligt kul iaf och värt allt. Då gällde det småsummor som kunde va att förloraren betalar vinnaren en tjuga eller en femtiolapp. Sen året efter kom tyngre bets in, hade t ex ngn tennismatch på 3500 kr. Men.. det blev mkt värre.. vi hittade på en del pokerspel, vissa endast tur, men detta kunde flippa ur helt.. T ex en polare som blev skyldig en annan 50 000 kr! Han hade nog med att lägga pengarna på hyran och krogen oså liksom, men det löste sig med det, vi som spelade sånt kände varann så bra så brukade allt göra schyssta dealar eller oftast beta bort skulderna. Just nu är det lugnt med såna betar för min del, men kommer väl till sommaren antar jag. Är också väldigt sugen att komma igång med lite sportsbettning i nuläget.

= Betting in other ways

When i was around 15 we started to bet more, on tennis-games (don't know how to translate this), a football game (dont know how to translate this either)
There was some pretty heavy discussions when a goal was judged as not a goal by the judges, but it was lots of fun and definitely worth it.

At that time it was about small amounts of money, like the loser paid 20 or 50 SEK.
The year after larger bets were made, for example a tennis-game for 3500 SEK.

But... It got worse... For example we found a few poker games, some just of luck.
These could flip out and my friend had a debt of 50 000 SEK!
He had enough money for paying bills and party'ing, but it worked out in the end.
We who use to bet on everything knew eachother so good that we could make good deals with each other or most of the time bet off our debts.
For now i don't do so much sportsbetting, but i guess it will come back to the summer.
For now, I can't wait to start the sportbetting again.

Nere på marken

Efter att haft några smårusher innan till som mest på 1,8 milj kr för fyra månader sen, var jag nu helt tom, va nere på 0 och den ångesten e nåt av det värsta jag känt, alltså och vakna av att klockan ringer en kall Decembermorgon, när man suttit uppe i stort sett hela natten och spelat och tömt kontot, för att sedan gå till till skolan där jag ligger efter i princip allt. Jag brukar ofta drömma om poker när de blivit mkt av det, ofta när jag e i tunga perioder har jag drömt att jag vunnit upp och så, den känslan var så vanlig att de kändes nästan i drömmen att det inte var sant och det hände att jag blev väckt av det tänket i drömmen, so jobbigt.. men det är oftast bara när det gått som sämst. Sista natten när jag förlorat allt tänkte jag innan jag la mig, Snälla låt mig inte drömma om poker nu iaf, pallade inte tänka på skiten mer, så iskallt, bara det ordet hade fått mig och spy.., Kommer fortfarande ihåg den känslan..Måste vara definitionen varför man inte ska gambla med alla sina pengar. Sista natten innan jag tömde kontot var det inte mitt konto heller, en nära kompis.. Han var hemma hos mig på kvällen innan lite, hade ca 2000 $ på kontot, var redan pressad efter att förlorat så mycket tidigare.. Brukar sätta gränser också som jag inte får gå under, jag sa till han det e lugnt de går bra nu, lita på mig.. Han ah de e bra glgl.. Det hade åtminstone gått lite bättre, hade spelat upp det kontot ca 1000 $, vilket var ovanligt för mig.. Anyway började lira 109, 210 $ sng på party, de flöt på bra.. Hade fått upp kontot till 3 000 $, då gick jag med i en 310 $ i brist på games, de gick okej, kom in games på 210 med $ det rullade.. Så träffade jag en på 310 $, han var ganska bra men kände att han lätt var sårbar.. Då hände det.. Spelade mot han, fler bord, varje all-in på flopp, han vann varje coinflip, sjuka utdragnigar, t ex då jag hade toppar och f-d all-in och all-in på flopp, han sitter med toppar 2 kicker.. Turn blank, river 2 !#!1+!!! Det var summeringen av vilket flyt jag var inne i, tror han vann varenda coinflip också.. Till slut kollade jag kontot efter att ha bara spelat, knappt tänkt på hur mkt jag förlorat.. Det var på 1000 $, panik!!! Vafan händer :S !..

= Back on the ground

After a few rushes and the most at 1.8 million SEK(?) 4 months ago, i was now broke.
I was down on 0 and it was one of the worst feelings i've ever felt.
Waking up a cold december morning, when you in a big way played all night long and emptied your account.
And after that go to school where im almost behind in every class.

I oftenly dream about poker, and when ive lost much i dream that i won it back.
But that feeling felt like it wasnt true and i woke up, which was a pain in the ass.
But that mostly happends when its gone bad.

The last night when i lost it all i kept thinking please dont make me dream about poker, i cant stand it, the word poker would make me puke.
I can still remember that feeling.
Must be the definition that you should not gamle with all your money.

The night where i lost all my money, i didnt just lost my money, also i good friends money.
He was at my place earlier that night and had around $2000 on his account, i was already pressued because my earlier losses.
I oftenly set limits im not alowed to pass, but i told him " its okay, im doing good now, you can trust me".
He said "ah its okay, glgl"
I atleast did a little better, i was up around $1000 which was not common for me.

Anyway, i started to play 109 and 210$ sng on partypoker, and i had made the account up to $3000 when i joined a 310$ because there were no action in the lower ones.
Then i met someone on the 310$, and he was pretty good but i felt like he was vulnerable.
Then it all happend, i was playing more and more tables against him, and he won every all in on the flop, every coinflip and sick suckouts.

When i had top-pair and a flushdraw, he had the top-pair with a 2 kicker and got the 2 on the river.
I think he won every coinflip, and in the end i checked the account after just playing, without thinking how much ive lost.

It had $1000 left, PANIC Wtf is going on?!?! :S

edit: not done yet, will translate the part 2 to

not this

PTR POKER REPORT CARD PREPARED FOR: Isildur1 This report card is based on 29,655 hands tracked at $200/$400 PL OMAHA (2 max) on Full Tilt Poker by PokerTableRatings.com
PRE-FLOP TIGHTNESS: You are 8% tighter than optimal. Good Work! A
PRE-FLOP AGGRESSION: You are 7% more aggressive than optimal. Good Work! A
FLOP AGGRESSION: You are 2% less aggressive than optimal. Good Work! A+
TURN AGGRESSION: You are 11% more aggressive than optimal. Be a little less aggressive. B+
RIVER AGGRESSION: You are 3% more aggressive than optimal. Good Work! A+
SHOWDOWN FREQUENCY: You showdown 2% more often than optimal. Good Work! A+
OVERALL GRADE: A
They still haven't responded to my questioning the lock. When they cut my original translation I said "it's like N**i Germany up in here" in jest.
I then received the most hilariously titled PM warning in 2+2 history
"NVG is not N**i Germany"
and they locked it (=

Why am I even censoring N**i, is that a cuss in the states or some chit? I never called anyone a N**i.
The yanks asked me in customs "did I ever have any affiliation with the Nazi Party" when I flew to Vegas last year alright.
I nearly wet myself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0

story of blom90 already translated here by Loctus
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...postcount=1105

omg sick, please keep them coming

edit: just saw above post, thanks loctus!

when was this written. or when takes it place ? 200x ? 2010 ? ( 4 months ago.. )

Ah saw the loctus post now!

This was uploaded february 4th 2009

edit: i saw some old sng training vid (cant remember the site but i can try to google it), and guess who were at the table? blom90..

i went O_O

edit2: not sure if this is the one but blom90 is at two of the tables here http://www.pokerstrategy.com/video/554/

Yeah but Loctus did not translate part 2 after Blom tells his parents and he gets his hands on 2k. Thats the part I want to read.