Over the past couple of weeks a player known as Isildur1 has been causing quite the buzz playing huge stakes online at Full Tilt Poker. Not only is he playing huge stakes but is also competing against some of the best poker players in the world.
I have watched Isildur1 play against top notch pros including Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, David Benyamine, Tom Dwan and Ilari Sahamies. No one quite knows exactly who Isildur1 is but I have heard some rumors that it may be Victor Blom, a 20 year old pro player from Sweden.
Some of the biggest pots have occured when Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Isildur1 have faced off to play heads-up at the $500/$1000 No Limit Holdem deepstack tables on Full Tilt Poker. It was reported that Dwan lost over $2.3 million over a few days while playing huge stakes versus Isildur1.
Phil Ivey has been playing heads up versus Isildur1 recently and has been doing much better than Dwan has done recently. I saw Ivey win a $250,000 pot playing heads up No Limit Holdem versus Isildur1. Ivey had over $900,000 at one table the other day and seems to be handling Isildur1 quite well.
But, the largest pot in online poker history took place when Patrik Antonius and Isildur1 played heads up Pot Limit Omaha. Patrick ended up winning a pot worth over $1.35 million.
Here is the details of the hand:
Patrik Antonius (BB): $1259450.25
Isildur1 (BTN/SB): $678473.50
Pre Flop: ($1500.00)
Isildur1 raises to $3000, Patrik Antonius raises to $9000, Isildur1 raises to $27000, Patrik Antonius raises to $81000, Isildur1 requests TIME, Isildur1 calls $54000
Flop: ($162000.00) 4 5 2 (2 players)
Patrik Antonius requests TIME, Patrik Antonius bets $91000, Isildur1 requests TIME, Isildur1 raises to $435000, Patrik Antonius raises to $779000, Isildur1 calls $162473.50 all in
Turn: ($1356947.00) 5 (2 players – 1 is all in)
River: ($1356947.00) 9 (2 players – 1 is all in)
Final Pot: $1356947.00
Patrik Antonius shows A 3 K K (a straight, Five high)
Isildur1 shows 6 9 7 8 (two pair, Nines and Fives)
Patrik Antonius wins $1356946.50
(Rake: $0.50)
