Isildur1 Concludes January with $2.8 Million in Profits

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2013. February 02.
Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom was the biggest online high stakes winner of January. A total of four players won seven figure amounts in the first month of 2013.
Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom showed off some spectacular high stakes action in January. The Swede kicked off the year with an astonishing run, totalling at $5,159,380 in winnings on 12 January. While he later started to drop back, Blom concluded a profitable month nevertheless, topping the monthly money list confidently with $2,819,384.

The majority of his winnings came from 2-7 Triple Draw games, besting the field of the game type with $1,500,772, while also owning the NLHE pool with $851,359. In PLO, he won $307,617 while in FLO8, his profit is $159,636.

Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom

The biggest pot of the month also went to the Swede: he won $428,485 from ‘Sauce1234’ on a $400/$800 PLO tables on 9 January:

‘Isildur1’ opened to $2,700 from the Button, ‘Sauce1234’ 3-bet to $8,400 and ‘Isildur1’ called. The flop came {#}8 {#}A {#}T , ‘Sauce1234’ checked, Blom bet $8,800, ‘Sauce1234’ called. On the {#}2 turn, ‘Sauce1234’ checked again, ‘Isildur1’ bet $26,400 and got called by ‘Sauce1234’ once more. The river was {#}6 , ‘Sauce1234’ bet $68,500, ‘Isildur1’ shoved his remaining $293,000 and ‘Sauce1234’ all-in called with $170,642. The Swede showed {#}8 {#}A {#}7 {#}7 for a flush and ‘Sauce1234’ mucked his hand.

Blom took another seven out of the ten biggest pots of the month.

His stats for January are as seen below:

Isildur1 Graph - January 2013

Runner-up on the monthly profit list is ‘SallyWoo’ with $1,615,584: the limit specialist won the entire sum in FLO8 games.

The 3rd finisher is Alex ‘PostflopAction’ Kostritsyn with $1,485,771 in profits. The Russian owned the 8-game tables (for $1,637,655) and won $461,630 in PLO, while losing $439,028 in 2-7 Triple Draw and $174,486 in FLO8.

Another seven figure profit went to Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond in the month: $1,358,345.

A loss in the similar region was also recorded in January: 2012 online high stakes money list leader Ben ‘Sauce1234’ Sulsky lost a total of $1,759,588 on FTP, next to a minor profit of $235,446 on PS.

Alex ‘IReadYrSoul’ Millar (aka ‘Kanu7’) also lost a large amount ($977,617) on FTP, compensated to a small degree by a $85,024 profit on PS.

The biggest winners of January, 2013 were the following:

Isildur1: $2,819,384 (32,410 hands)
SallyWoo: $1,615,584 (7,900)
PostflopAction: $1,485,771 (25,524)
OMGClayAiken: $1,358,345 (7,335)
Bttech86: $861,324 (11,961)
ronnyr37617: $757,109 (15,467)
1Il|1Il|1il|: $661,072 (5,804)
KPR16: $554,899 (9,960)
kipu: $488,476 (10,410)
andrewkirk: $458,964 (40,356)


And the biggest losers are:

Sauce1234: $-1,759,588 (16,401 hands)
IReadYrSoul: $-977,617 (971)
Gus Hansen: $-720,681 (30,983)
patpatpanda: $-654,909 (31,190)
durrrr: $-531,348 (6,519)
Schoitl: $-525,289 (4,966)
CRAIN85: $-513,648 (8,490)
Poker_KaMI: $-506,852 (12,759)
Johnbest: $-506,056 (6,242)
kagome kagome: $-480,733 (2,931)


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