Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom Net Worth 2026: $5M-$15M and the $4.2M Loss

Viktor Blom’s net worth is estimated between $5 million and $15 million, built on $7.7 million in live earnings and an online career that moved by millions inside a single week. Playing as Isildur1, he reached a reported peak of $5.98 million at Full Tilt Poker in November 2009.

The range above is our estimate, not a disclosed figure. What is verifiable is the tournament record: 81 recorded cashes on The Hendon Mob and zero WSOP bracelets from 50 cashes. His cash game results were never tracked in full, so no lifetime online total appears here.

He held the largest online balance of his era for four weeks and finished the same winter two million dollars down. Every number below carries its source and its date, and the ones nobody can source are named rather than guessed at.

Viktor Blom’s net worth is not publicly confirmed. No total has ever come from him, and none of the published estimates show their working. Nobody outside his circle knows the real number.

Blom is a harder case than most players of his standing. The Isildur1 fame came from cash games that were never officially tracked, and the public figures that do exist describe swings rather than a balance.

Every number below is either sourced and dated, or labelled as our estimate. Nothing on this page sits in a third category.

What is Viktor Blom’s net worth?

Blom’s net worth sits somewhere between $5 million and $15 million as of August 2026. The floor comes from what he currently funds himself: $100,000 live buy-ins and the high-stakes mixed games he still plays online. The ceiling reflects the absence of any verified business, filing or holding.

Both ends are inferred from behaviour and record, not from disclosure. Treat the range as a bracket rather than a valuation.

How the range was set

The floor is a bankroll argument. A player self-funding $100,000 live buy-ins and high-stakes online mixed games needs liquid capital in the mid-seven figures simply to survive normal variance.

His tournament record supports it. Close to ten million dollars in gross payouts across live and online events, plus four sponsorship arrangements over fifteen years, none of which paid nothing.

The ceiling is the absence of evidence:

A player with that history does not carry a quiet nine-figure balance.

Fifteen million is the point beyond which we would need evidence we do not have.

Three things would move the range: a disclosed business interest, a verified crypto position, or a sustained losing stretch at his current stakes. None of the three is visible from outside today.

Why do Viktor Blom’s net worth estimates vary so much?

Published estimates for Blom disagree more widely than for a player with this much recorded history. The figures in circulation run from $3 million to $10 million, and several rest on tracker data that contradicts itself. Here is what the landscape looks like:

One of those pages still lists his live earnings at $2,897,797 and his all-time position as 503rd. Both were accurate years ago. Today it is $7.7 million, 62% higher, and the ranking sits inside the top 300 rather than outside the top 500.

What can we actually verify about Blom’s earnings?

His live tournament earnings total $7,724,811, per The Hendon Mob. That total is publicly auditable and updates after every event he cashes. It places him inside the top three on Sweden’s all-time money list.

A second verified block sits outside it. His 2020 online series run added $1,833,250, and those results are logged separately rather than folded into the live total.

Counted together and labelled as such, his recorded tournament gross across live and online reaches roughly $9.56 million. That is the largest verifiable number attached to him. It is also gross, meaning before every buy-in that produced it.

The missing pieces: swings, staking and sponsorship

Blom is the game’s clearest case study in why bankroll rules exist for a reason, having held and lost seven-figure balances over a handful of sessions. Five factors keep the number unknowable from outside:

Anyone reading his results as income should also understand how staking splits change a player’s real profit. A player who finishes 3rd in a $100,000 event for a seven-figure prize does not necessarily keep it.

Carl Viktor Blom was born in Gothenburg on 26 September 1990 and is 35. His older brother introduced him to poker at 14, and the game moved from the family home to online tables as soon as he was old enough to sit at them.

He spent his teens playing online as blom90. What happened in those years is told almost entirely by Blom himself and has never been independently verified, so the numbers that circulate from that period are not repeated here.

The years that followed ran quickly:

It began on 16 September 2009, when the account registered at Full Tilt Poker. It went largely unnoticed for two months, and its first serious opponent was Haseeb Qureshi at $100/$200.

By November he was in the biggest games on the site, playing anyone who would take a seat. The anonymity was half the story: established professionals studied each other through years of recorded hand histories, and this account arrived without any.

How the poker world found out who Isildur1 was

For more than a year nobody could confirm the player behind the screen name. Speculation ran through forums, radio segments and training videos while the results kept posting at stakes almost nobody could sustain.

The guessing was not idle. Knowing who he was meant knowing whether hand histories existed under another name, and that information had a price attached to it by December 2009.

PokerStars signed him in December 2010 and revealed his identity on 8 January 2011 at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Viktor Blom was 20 years old.

By November 2009 the account was seated at $500/$1,000 against the best players online, and nobody could attach a face to the name. What followed is the run that still defines him.

The pattern rarely changed: enormous wins, then enormous losses, often inside the same fortnight. The figures below are the ones with sources attached to them.

The 2009 Full Tilt run, session by session

Two of those numbers carry hedges. Wikipedia records both the peak and the Dwan week as reported rather than independently verified, and flags them as such at source.

The run that made his name was the week Blom ran over Tom Dwan, played across six heads-up tables at $500/$1,000 with more than a million dollars in play at once.

Measured from the 15 November peak to where he stood a month later, close to eight million dollars moved through that account in both directions.

The money went straight back out. Blom challenged Phil Ivey to three heads-up tables at the same stakes, and the week Phil Ivey took three million ended the streak.

How much did Isildur1 win and lose online?

Nobody can say. The swings are documented in fragments: a reported peak of $5.98 million in November 2009, a loss of roughly $4.2 million in one December session, and a net loss of $2,630,230 on Full Tilt between September 2009 and October 2010.

No complete lifetime online profit and loss exists for him, and the two trackers that claim one disagree by more than $6 million. This section reports swings, not a total.

What was the biggest pot in online poker history?

At the time it was $1,356,946.50, played on 21 November 2009 at $500/$1,000 pot-limit Omaha, with Patrik Antonius on the other side. Blom lost it.

Days earlier the same pairing had set the previous record at $878,958.50. Both pots came in the pot limit Omaha format Blom made famous at nosebleed stakes.

He was sitting on roughly $2 million in profit when Brian Hastings took a seat on 8 December. Five hours later he was $2 million down overall.

The PokerStars years and the SuperStar Showdown

He stayed off Full Tilt almost entirely until February 2010. Ten months after that, PokerStars signed him and built a format around him.

The SuperStar Showdown put him heads-up against a named professional for a fixed number of hands, on camera, at stakes the site advertised in advance. It was the first time anyone could watch him play knowing who he was.

One result from that series is eligibly sourced: he beat Isaac Haxton in a $1 million challenge at $200/$400 in March 2012 and finished $500,000 ahead.

A series record of eleven wins and three losses circulates widely. It appears only in outlets we do not cite, so it is not published here and neither are the per-match figures attached to it.

The row that followed the December session is the next section.

Six days after the session, an interview appeared in which Brian Hastings credited his teammate Brian Townsend with the preparation behind it. Townsend, he said, had analysed a database of Isildur1 hands and built ranges from it.

Full Tilt’s terms of service barred using hand histories from hands a player had not personally played. Accusations of collusion followed within hours, and the site opened an investigation.

What Townsend admitted was a purchase, not a leak. He had bought 30,000 hand histories to add to the 20,000 he already held, accepted that buying them broke the rules, and denied passing the databases to anyone.

The distinction matters because the rule Full Tilt enforced was narrow. It barred using histories from hands you were not dealt into, and said nothing about players discussing an opponent between themselves.

His account was that the three had discussed strategy, which the site accepted. It was not his first sanction: Full Tilt had removed the same status for six months in 2008 over multi-accounting.

What happened between Isildur1 and Brian Hastings?

They played heads-up pot-limit Omaha for five hours on 8 December 2009, and Hastings took the largest single-day sum in online poker to that point. The controversy came afterwards, out of an interview rather than off the table.

Full Tilt investigated, sanctioned Townsend alone and cleared the other two. Blom said he intended to file a formal complaint and that he felt he deserved something back.

He did not play a serious session there again for months.

Blom’s tournament record splits cleanly in two. There is a scattered live career that produced two tournament titles between 2010 and 2018, and there is everything since 2023.

Seven of his ten largest live cashes came in 2024 and 2025. The player most pages still treat as a 2009 story has done the bulk of his best tournament work in the last three years.

Top 10 live tournament cashes

Live results only. His online tournament results are listed separately further down and are not part of the live earnings figure. The MILLIONS Germany prize appears in euros because published dollar conversions for it disagree by several thousand.

Three of his four biggest live results are $50,000 or $100,000 buy-in high rollers and the fourth is a main event he won. The record is top-heavy because he enters few events and the ones he enters are expensive.

Those ten results alone account for roughly three quarters of his tracked live earnings.

Early Live Results and the 2012 PCA

His first notable live cash was 16th at the 2010 WSOP Europe Main Event for £33,582, months before the poker world learned that Isildur1 and Viktor Blom were the same person.

In January 2012 he won the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller for $1,254,400, beating Dan Shak heads-up. The win was his first live title, and it stayed his biggest live score for twelve years.

What followed was not a career so much as an absence. Between 2012 and 2018 his only notable live result was second in the 2014 EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final Turbo 6-Max for $179,847.

He recorded no live cashes at all in 2016, and none again in 2021 or 2022. The record has real holes in it and they are worth seeing before the recent run gets read as a straight line.

The 2018 MILLIONS Germany Title

Six years later he took the partypoker MILLIONS Germany Main Event at King’s Casino Rozvadov, a €5,300 buy-in that drew 1,022 entries.

The headline number was €850,000, and it needs a footnote. Blom and Pavel Plesuv locked up €750,000 each in a heads-up deal, then played on for the trophy and the remaining €100,000.

He won it from a nine-to-one chip deficit, closing with a hero call holding second pair and no kicker.

The 2020 Super High Roller Bowl Online

These are online results. They sit outside the live earnings total and are never added to it. Ten days on partypoker in May and June 2020 produced the best tournament run of his career to that point.

Three titles, two runner-up finishes and $1,527,000 across six cashes, and he led the series leaderboard. Add the Poker Masters Online pot-limit Omaha cashes from the following month and the 2020 online run reaches $1,833,250.

The last of the three titles came from beating Isaac Haxton for the SHRB title heads-up in a 55-entrant field.

The 2023 Pivot to Live Tournaments

The common line is that he started playing the World Series in 2023. He played it in 2012, finishing 14th in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship for $105,235.

The 2023 arrival is a return after an eleven-year absence, and 2024 paid for it immediately. He finished 3rd in the $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller for $1,311,091 and 3rd in the $50,000 for $951,727.

Those two results carried him to 9th in the 2024 WSOP Player of the Year race, the only year he has finished inside the top ten.

Both came in the largest fields he had entered in a decade, and both were high rollers rather than the mixed events he would gravitate to afterwards.

2025 brought four final tables and no bracelet, in a summer whose Player of the Year award went to Shaun Deeb who took the 2025 POY award.

2026 changed the shape of his schedule rather than his luck. Nine cashes across Las Vegas and Europe, with his best results in mixed games: Big O, 2-7 Triple Draw, T.O.R.S.E. and 8-Game.

His four deepest runs of the summer, all of them in mixed games:

He also cashed the WSOP Europe leg in the spring, taking €17,500 from the €8,400 GGMillion$ High Roller in April.

One pattern runs through all 81 results, and it is the one that explains the missing bracelet. Six outright wins against ten runner-up finishes, and in live events alone three titles against seven seconds, the third of those a Unibet invitational in 2020.

Getting there has never been his problem. If you want the wider picture, here is how the 2026 Series finished up.

What is Viktor Blom’s biggest live cash?

$1,311,091, for third place in the 2024 WSOP $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller. It is the largest of his recorded cashes and it came fourteen years after his first.

Has Viktor Blom won a WSOP bracelet?

No. He has zero bracelets from 50 cashes and nine final tables at the series, per WSOP.com.

The closest he came was second in the 2025 $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship, 118 entries from 91 unique players for a $1,097,400 pool. He started the final day as chip leader and Ian Johns won it for $282,455.

He was not the only name to come up short: Daniel Negreanu at that same final table busted before the heads-up. It was his first runner-up finish for a bracelet, and it came in a discipline he arrived at late.

Patience beats aggression in the fixed limit format Blom nearly won gold in.

Blom has been attached to four rooms in fifteen years and not one set of terms has ever been made public. The pattern repeats: he signs, the deal runs its course, and neither side says what it was worth.

That fits the kind of player he is. His value was always a reputation built in cash games rather than a face at televised final tables.

Phenom is the outlier of the four. It is a crypto-first room rather than a legacy operator, and the signing only reads as logical against the crypto rooms now hosting nosebleed action.

He announced it himself on X rather than through a company release, which is how the date is pinned to 27 April 2025.

The four deals track the industry’s own shifts more than his career. A dot-com giant in 2010, its rebuilt rival in 2012, a European operator in 2017 and a crypto room in 2025.

That silence on terms is why the net worth range above is as wide as it is. Fifteen years of sponsorship income at this level is a real number, and not one line of it is public.

Who sponsors Viktor Blom?

Phenom Poker. He has been a Team Pro there since 27 April 2025, his fourth room in fifteen years after PokerStars, Full Tilt and a Unibet ambassador spell.

No terms have been disclosed for any of the four, so no figure for his sponsorship income appears anywhere on this page.

The wider shift matters more than any single deal. Our own traffic data sets out why crypto rooms are pulling the traffic that the legacy sites used to own.

Blom’s style is legible from his results without anyone having to describe it. He played every format, every opponent and every stake on offer, and he did it without waiting for a favourable seat.

That is the opposite of how high-stakes poker is played now. Game selection is the modern edge, and his edge was that he ignored it.

None of it is a method anyone would teach. It produced the two largest pots online poker had recorded at that point and a net loss across the same stretch, which is the whole point of him.

Reputation among the players he beat

The professionals on the other side treated the account as a problem to be solved rather than an opponent to be waited out. That is why a database of Isildur1 hands was worth buying in December 2009.

Nobody had a read on him because nobody had history on him, and by the time the history existed the account had already moved the money it was going to move.

The mixed-game turn

The most interesting thing about his recent record is that the style changed. The player who built a reputation on pot-limit Omaha and no-limit hold’em now enters events most no-limit specialists avoid.

Limit Hold’em, Limit Omaha Hi-Lo, 2-7 Triple Draw, T.O.R.S.E., 8-Game and Big O all appear in his 2025 and 2026 results, and his deepest runs came in them rather than in hold’em.

Those are slower, more technical formats where aggression is punished and edges are small. It is close to the opposite of what he was known for in 2009.

Whether that reflects where the soft games are or where his interest went, the record is unambiguous about the shift.

It also explains the bracelet drought differently. Nine World Series final tables without a win reads as bad luck until you see how many of the recent ones came in fields of specialists playing their own game.

Where Blom sits in the online era

He belongs in any list of the online era’s defining names ranked by influence rather than by profit, because the profit is the part nobody can verify.

Sweden produced two players who changed online poker from opposite directions. Blom owned the nosebleed cash games, while the tournament records belong to Niklas Astedt and the online money record.

The games Blom built that reputation in no longer run where they did, which is the first thing worth knowing about where he is now.

As of August 2026, Blom is active in both formats that made him, which is not something you could say about most players from the 2009 nosebleed era.

His summer ran to nine cashes across Las Vegas and Europe, the most recent on 15 July. The deepest runs came in mixed games rather than hold’em, and none of them turned into a first bracelet.

He remains a Phenom Poker Team Pro, sixteen months into a deal he announced himself. The online work now happens at a room that did not exist when he started, and the live work runs on a series calendar rather than a screen.

April brought a widely reported online run on Phenom. The figures circulating for it are not independently sourced, so none appear here, though the run sits inside a bigger year for online results we track in the biggest online scores of this year.

That combination is rare for his generation. Plenty of the 2009 nosebleed names are no longer visible at the top stakes in either format, and the $500/$1,000 Full Tilt games they all played are gone.

Nothing on a legacy site replaced them at that level. The cash action followed the liquidity, and the liquidity left the legacy operators, which is the practical reason a player of his profile ended up at a crypto room.

It is worth knowing where the nosebleed games run now before reading any older story about him as current.

Is Viktor Blom still playing poker?

Yes. He recorded nine cashes at the 2026 World Series, the most recent on 15 July 2026, and he remains a Phenom Poker Team Pro.

He is 35 and has been playing the highest stakes available since 2009. Nothing in the record suggests he is finished.

For results as they land, follow the latest from the felt.

This profile separates verifiable facts from estimates and public claims. We cannot calculate any player’s net worth and do not pretend otherwise.

How we handle ‘net worth’

No net worth figure here is a fact. Blom’s range is our own, built from the components set out earlier and date-stamped August 2026.

Published estimates elsewhere run from $3 million to $10 million and none shows its working. Where a claim cannot be sourced at all, we name the gap instead of repeating the claim.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings come from The Hendon Mob, which tracks live results only. His 2020 online results are reported separately and never folded into that total, and bracelet data comes from WSOP.com.

All figures are gross payouts before buy-ins, staking splits, taxes and expenses. Totals and rankings move whenever a tracked event finishes, so every number carries a source and a snapshot date.

How we cover controversies

We report what was alleged, what was said in response and where the matter ended. The Hastings section states Full Tilt’s actual ruling rather than the version that circulates.

The same standard applies across every profile in our player database.

The sources below were used in researching this profile. Any claim resting on reporting we do not cite is flagged as such in the section carrying it.