After Viktor turned 17, he deposited $2,500 on PartyPoker. After just two weeks of play, he went from playing 1/2 SEK to 50/100 SEK. He deposited 10,000 SEK and decided to stick to heads-up no-limit Hold'em.
He played high buy-in sit n gos and started to win more and more money.Īfter taking a small break from poker, Viktor came back strong. He then built up a bankroll and deposited $3,000 onto the same site. This resulted in him losing all the money. He then collected all the money onto one site and took on the higher buy-in cash games and sit n gos. After a few more months of play, the 15-year-old Viktor Blom had made over $275,000 total at various sites. After a few weeks, Viktor's brother decided to set up his own account elsewhere and let Viktor play by himself.Īfter a few weeks of play, Blom90 was regularly playing at $530 sit n gos. The first game they entered was an MTT in which they finished in fifth place for $300, which was huge for them at the time. After turning 15, Viktor and his brother decided to deposit some money onto an online poker site. Viktor himself ended up winning out of the 25.
They played at breaks during school with buy-ins ranging from $3–$7, during one lunch Viktor recalls that 25 people turned up to play. After a while, more and more of the people Viktor knew at school started to play the game. Viktor and these friends used to play micro stakes, in which he won a bit from his friends. He played no-limit Texas hold'em heads-up for a few days with his brother before teaching a few of his friends. Viktor Blom was first introduced to poker by his older brother at 14 years old. Blom parted ways with PokerStars in August 2012 and was quickly signed-up by Full Tilt Poker on 15 October 2012, along with rival high-stakes player Tom Dwan. Blom's identity was revealed by PokerStars on 8 January 2011, at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. In December 2010, it was announced that then-anonymous Isildur1 had joined Team PokerStars Pro. His rise to fame drew considerable attention around the poker world in late 2009, when he took part in all ten of the largest pots in online poker history. Viktor Blom (born 26 September 1990) is a Swedish high-stakes online poker player, best known by the online poker name Isildur1. Viktor "Isildur1" Blom playing in a Poker tournament (2015)