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Isildur1 Up Well Over $1 Million in 2010 – Beats Sahamies for over $600K

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Isildur1 has been one of the most talked about online players so far this year. After winning about $526,000 over this past weekend, Isildur1 played against Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies.

Sahamies lost over $487,000 against Isildur1 while playing $300/$600 Pot Limit Omaha on Full Tilt. They played PLO for approximately 450 hands. They then decided to face off at the $500/$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha tables and played for about 40 minutes.

After 259 hands Sahamies signed off and was down another $290,000. After Sahamies left, Isildur1 played $200/$400 No Limit Holdem versus Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo. Bonomo wound up taking about $187,000 from Isildur1 after 791 hands.

Next, Isildur1 faced off against both Cole South and Brian Hastings. South lost $334,000 after 825 hands, and Hastings ended up about $330,000 after 224 hands. They were playing $300/$600 Pot Limit Omaha.

Hastings convinced Isildur1 to play $500/$1,000 stakes and they played for 468 hands and Hastings was able to come away from the table up another $219,000.

Isildur1 also played 565 hands of $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha against Cole South where he won $222,000. They then decided to play $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha for 344 hands and South managed to make back about $78,000.

Isildur1 totaled about $573,000 on the day and that put his winnings well over $1 million in 2010 so far.

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Isuldur1 and Patrick Antonius Play for Largest Pot in the History of Online Poker

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

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)

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