During his run, Isildur1 contributed to the fall of several other records as well. Isildur1’s spectacular run came to an end at the hands of CardRunners professional Brian Hastings, to whom the Swede dropped $4.2 million over a single session, thus breaking all records for single-session swings. Very few would give him action at NLHE and those who did didn't fare so well: he took half of Dan “Jungleman12” Cates' bankroll from him and he crushed the likes of Tom Dwan, Scott “urnotindangr” Palmer and Justin 'ZeeJustin' Bonomo. He jumped straight into the nosebleed PLO scene without having played any smaller stakes on the Euro sites which he crushed in HUNL prior to playing on Full Tilt. This is one of Isildur1's weaknesses - he caters too much for his opponent allowing them to decide the type of game they wished to play. He managed to take some dough off Ivey too, but he didn’t fare so well against Patrik Antonius, who kept using him as an ATM, refusing to play him at NLHE. He took on Tom Dwan in an epic heads-up encounter which included some marathon sessions and by the end of it, the mystery Swede was up more than $5 million on the New Jersey Wonder Kid.

He has said that he thought most of the players who played that high were playing too scared and that it was easy to bluff them knowing they were afraid of the money at risk. He jumped into the nosebleed stakes scene in November and caught the majority of Full Tilt’s high stakes regulars off-guard. Isildur1 was a breath of fresh air to the poker world in 2009. Most people in the poker community, however, still believed it was Blom. There were various rumours on his real identity that ranged from fellow Swedish pro Robert 'Gulkines' Flink to 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth. He was in fact only known as Isildur1 from 2009 to the beginning of 2011 which gave Blom the allure of having a secret identity.

Viktor “Isildur1” Blom is a Swedish high stakes player who captivated the poker world long before his true identity was revealed. Isildur1 also plays as Isildur1 on PokerStars

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