Isildur1 Dominating Massive Online Cash Game Action

Since signing as a Team Pro for Full Tilt Poker Tom Dwan has been battling a poker player called Isildur1 and has suffered large losses to the new high stakes player, losing a reported $3 million over a period of days. Things got so bad for Durrrr that he asked Ziigmund (Illari Sahamies) to send him $1 million on Full Tilt so he could continue playing him. Isildur1 has managed to secure winning sessions against not only Durrrr, but also against players such as Brian Townsend, Patrik Antonius and Phil Ivey in a massive winning week for him. A rough estimate of Isildur1’s profit so far in the highest stakes games is in the region of $5 million, and $2.4 million of that profit has been earned since Monday of this week! The games he plays are Pot Limit Omaha and No Limit Texas Holdem.

Most of Isildur1’s profit has come from thrashing Durrrr. The Internet forum have been following this match closely and although people estimate that Durrrr’s bankroll is in the region of $15 million cash this sort of loss has got to be affecting the young poker player. He has suffered big swings in his online poker sessions over the last two months. Railbirds and commentators are wondering if the excellent deal he has signed with Full Tilt has made the player too comfortable and instantly affected his game. The real speculation, however, is focused solely on the highly profitable Isildur1.

This is reminiscent of the impact Martonas had during August and September. Both Isildur1 and Martonas have their location marked as Sweden. There is no reason for disbelieving this as many young online poker pros willing to mix it at the highest level of poker are resident in Scandinavia. Many EPT live poker tournaments have final tables littered with young Scandinavian players from Norway, Denmark and Sweden that were previously unknown but freakishly talented. Because of the excellent play involved, it is rumoured that Isildur1 is a collection of players pooling their bankrolls in an attempt to beat the top bankrolled players, but nobody knows for sure. Whatever their poker strategy, it is working at the moment.

The largest pot contested this week was a $694,954 pot between Isiur1 and Durrrr with Durrrr’s AK trailing to the AA of Isildur1. There was no help on the flop, turn or river for Dwan and Isildur1 took another monster pot to pad out their rapidly inflating poker bankroll. A look on pokertableratings.com suggests that six of the eight biggest pots have been played and won by Isildur1 this week. This player is happy to live and die by the sword in regards to their poker success it appears.

Martonas enjoyed a similar run only for variance to show its familiar face and see the pros get all of their money back and a little more. Isildur1 is certainly being taken seriously now having raked around 85,000 poker hands, more than enough for a bad player to be held to account. Even the great Phil Ivey has not tangled too much with this anonymous Swedish poker player, but surely it is only a matter of time before he wades into the action. He will be biding his time after his WSOP final table disappointment and if there is one player that Isildur1 cannot bust it is Phil Ivey!

The poker railbirds have been treated to monumental high stakes poker action in the last week. Durrrr has publicly invited Isildur1 to London for his live Durrrr Challenge but has received no confirmation that Isildur1 will appear. The intrigue of such players is their anonymity and he may not want to give that up so easily. Durrrr is a fantastic poker player and meeting him may hand him the advantage that Isildur1 retains by being elusive. This suggests we may not get a live version of the Durrrr versus Isildur1 challenge but it looks very likely the amazing cash game action will continue. If Isildur1 does start to lose a few sessions, watch all of the sharks reappear to try and capture all of the money he has won so far.

By Malcolm Clarke

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