Viktor "Isildur1" Blom overcame a $5,425 deficit from the first half of the SuperStar Showdown to defeat Scott "URnotINdangr" Palmer in the latest SuperStar Showdown.Palmer seemed befuddled on Twitter claiming that he felt he played better than the first match but with much worse results in the second 2,500 hands.
Blom got off to a quick start and consistently held the lead ending with a $66,607 winning margin to bring his overall victories to 6 wins and one loss.
Blom just defeated Palmer and Daniel Negreanu before that. He beat the last online qualifier by the slimmest possible margin ($10), after all the previous matches had much larger margins of victory or loss. Blom defeated Eugene Katchalov, Daniel “jungleman12” Cates, and Tony G while losing his first match to Isaac "philivey2694" Haxton.
Blom is up over $300k in profits in his first seven matches. It is interesting that while Blom has consistently won and profited in the SuperStar Showdowns, he is losing in regular cash game play since he became a PokerStars Team Pro.
The next opponent for Isildur1 will be online qualifier match Mastermixus, who qualified much as the previous online qualifier DodgyFish72 did previously. The players will play 2,500 No Limit Hold’em hands at $5/$10 with a starting bankroll of $15,000 with Mastermixus keeping all funds in his match bankroll when play ends.
