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Poker News and Tips :PokerStars Signs isildur1

admin — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:05:29 +0000

Until informed otherwise, we'll just assume that isildur1 is Candace Swanepoel in a bikini and leave it at that.

PokerStars today made official something that’s been in the rumor mill for a little while by signing isildur1 to a sponsorship contract.

More or less confirmed at this point to be Viktor Blom, PokerStars is still dragging out his big “reveal” for awhile (a move we endorse, by the way). A little copy & paste from their release:

Unless you’ve had your head buried in the sand (what are you, an ostrich?*), you’ll know Isildur1 lit up the poker world by coming from nowhere to compete in the highest stakes online cash games. When I say high stakes, I mean games that generated the biggest pots in history – one coming in at a whopping .3million. And the swings! One week the poker world saw Isildur1 spin up several million dollars, then watched aghast as he lost it soon after. If heart-stopping action is what you’re after, Isildur1 is the one to follow.

But what makes Isildur1 even more of an enigma is that no-one knows his or her true identity. Is this player really a young starlet with the guts to take on the world’s best? Or is it a seasoned professional who, under a new guise, has been taking everyone to the cleaners?

Expect Stars to milk the identity thing for a month and then do the big isildur1 reveal at the PCA in January.

It’ll be interesting to see how isildur1 spurs nosebleed action on PokerStars and if he can move the needle and create the kind of excitement that Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan does over at Tilt. Our best guess: Scandis love the move, no real change for U.S. high-stakes players, which is probably just fine with Stars.

Read more about the signing here.

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Poker News and Tips :OMGClayAiken Wins $title.6M Off Isildur1

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:02:23 +0000

When we were railing isildur1 yesterday, we noticed OMGClayAiken was sitting and waiting at a few tables. So we figured he’d eventually step up and take-on the Swedish phenom.
Too bad we didn’t stick around to watch. OMGClayAiken apparently put on a clinic, winning over

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Until Megan Fox denies that she’s isildur1, we’ll keep posting pics.
When we were railing isildur1 yesterday, we noticed OMGClayAiken was sitting and waiting at a few tables. So we figured he’d eventually step up and take-on the Swedish phenom.
Too bad we didn’t stick around to watch. OMGClayAiken apparently put on a clinic, winning over .6M from isildur1.
In all, despite his huge wins over Cole South and Brian Hastings, isildur1 lost over .5M on Wednesday, which included a 0k drop to Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan.
Read more about it here.
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Online Poker News :Isildur1 Is Back at the Nosebleeds (UPDATE)

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:48:08 +0000

Watch Who Is ISILDUR1? on RawVegas.tvisildur1 has made his long-awaited return to high-stakes action on Full Tilt.
In around a 30-hour session, isildur1 logged 2,753 in earnings.
And again, a good chunk of those winnings came from durrrr. In fact, the only pro that made a dent

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Watch Who Is ISILDUR1? on RawVegas.tvisildur1 has made his long-awaited return to high-stakes action on Full Tilt.
In around a 30-hour session, isildur1 logged 2,753 in earnings.
And again, a good chunk of those winnings came from durrrr. In fact, the only pro that made a dent in isildur1’s bankroll during the session was Isaac Haxton, who posted a profit of around ,000 in NLH heads-up action. From there, isildur1 decimated Justin Bonomo’s bankroll for 7,515, and then took the aforementioned durrrr for around 2,000.
After getting in the positive against durrrr, isildur1 tried to switch games from PLO to NLH. This set off durrrr, who typed in the chat box:
ur too annoying to deal with / play for hours then the second u get up u want new game
Good stuff. Expect another flood of nosebleed action the next week until the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
Read the full durrrr/isildur1 chat transcript and recap of isildur1’s session here.
UPDATE: Interestingly, the guy many think is isildur1, Viktor Blom, is playing the EPT Copenhagen event on Wednesday. While we’re not exactly detectives, we have watched enough Batman movies to know that if isildur1 logs a few hours of high-stakes action while Viktor Blom is playing the EPT Copenhagen event, that would probably put some rumors to rest. Follow Blom at the EPT Copenhagen event here.
UPDATE II: Looks like Blom has been eliminated (here).
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Poker Tips:More Isildur1 Full Tilt High Stakes Drama

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:01:14 +0000

Isildur1 (artist rendition above) probably wants to light himself on fire after his session with Brian Hastings.

We usually don’t care/follow too much what’s going on in high stakes online poker drama. At the end of the day there’s a couple of guys that consistently win all of the money and everybody else just pushes it around, being anywhere from broke to rich on a daily basis.

But this Isildur1 character and the nosebleed action going on at Full Tilt right now is fascinating.

After busting off M of Tom durrrr Dwan’s bankroll, Isuldur1 went bust himself. Then Isuldur1 built his stack back up, then yesterday lost .2M in one session to Brian Hastings, who we didn’t even know played mega-high stakes, and should pretty much cash out and move to some island without Internet access riiiiiight…now.

Just sick. Now Hastings is the big winner overall against Isildur, with Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, and Brian Townsend all up over a milli.

Read all about the latest bloodbath here.

UPDATE: Phil Gordon discusses isildur1 with Patrik Antonius here.

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