Scott "URnot INdangr" Palmer defeated Viktor "Isildur1" Blom in the first 2,500 hands of the latest SuperStar Showdown. Palmer had a $5,425 leads after the first 2,500 hands with another 2,500 hands to be played with the same stacks carried over for next Sunday at 3 pm EST. The match swung in both player's way, with Palmer having a quick $45k lead, Blom having a lead of $50k around the midway of the match and Palmer securing the win at the end.
Palmer and Blom have played quite a bit with each other previously. Palmer tweeted afterwards that he was happy with the win, but would make adjustments to improve the results for the following match.
This runs Blom's record to 4.5-2, having split the two matches with Daniel Negreanu and having won the last contest versus an 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 $245k in profits in his first six 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.
Palmer seemingly used the momentum from the match to play some $300/$600 PLO, later tweeting...
just finished playing 300/600 plo 6m ran rly hot won 490k in allinev should have only been 135k SKILLS
