Viktor ”Isildur1" Blom successfully returns to the WSOP

Author

Vargoso

Published

6/21/2024

Updated

6/21/2024

Legendary Swedish player Viktor ”Isildur1" Blom returned to the final table of a major tournament after six years. And although Blom failed to win the bracelet of Event #47: $100,000 High Roller of the WSOP 2024, his third position earned him the largest payout of his career - $1,311,091.

Victor Isildur1 Bloom Won 952 K Highroller Wsop 2024

Isildur1 is back

The superstar of the highest online games of the Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars era, Isildur1, was “hidden” since Black Friday and rarely made headlines. We last wrote about him when he won the partypoker MILLIONS Main Event in Rozvadov. Six years later, Bloom's visit to the WSOP proved very successful.

Viktor ”Isildur1" Blom took the third position in Event #47: $100,000 High Roller of the 2024 WSOP, collecting $1,311,091, the largest prize of his career.

This is in addition to the fact that the player finished third in the $50k high roller days earlier, collecting $951,727.

Prior to this ”warm-up," Blom finished fourth in the $1,500 Mixed Games and 14th in the $10,000 PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship.

If we consider that the World Series schedule includes more than 50 tournaments, Isildur will likely cash again.

Top 5 cashes of Viktor Blom

Date	Tournament	Series	Place	Prize
21.06.2024	Event #47: $100,000 High Roller	WSOP	3	$1,311,091
05.01.2012	$ 100,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller Event	PokerStars Caribbean Adventure	1	$ 1,254,400
14.02.2018	€ 5,300 Main Event	partypoker MILLIONS Germany	1	$ 1,048,153
14.06.2024	Event #39 $50,000 High Roller - 8-Handed	WSOP	3	$ 951,727
02.05.2014	€ 10,300 Turbo 6 Max	EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final	2	$ 179,847

Isildur vs Sauron

Chris Hunichen Win 100 K Hiigh Roller Wsop 2024

The $100k high roller received 112 entries, and of course, the best players in the world participated. Even so, Bloom arrived at the third day of play with one of the largest stacks among the six finalists.

Unfortunately for the Swede, the final table did not favor him. Upon reaching the TOP3, Chris Hunichen doubled against Jeremy Ausmus 55 vs. AJ by connecting a 5 on the river and against Bloom on an A6 vs. AK when, again, the river brought him the card he needed.

Chris knocked out Viktor in the third position. The Swede's KJ connected on the board, but the turn gave Hunichen a flush that decreed the end of the hand.

Hunichen was consecrated as the tournament champion an hour later, collecting $2,838,389 and adding his first golden bracelet.

As a curious fact, in the final definition, Hunichen's friends started calling him by the name of the antagonist of “Isildur” in The Lord of the Rings saga: “Sauron.”

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