Full Tilt Poker is home to some of the biggest online poker action in the world on its nosebleed-stakes tables.  The players who join these games include millionaire pros Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, and Tom “durrrr” Dwan, who have dominated the biggest games for years, with many top pros refusing to play any of them for fear of losing their bankrolls.  However, what happens when the hunter becomes the hunted?

A few months ago, a player from Sweden by the name of Isildur1 came onto the scene at the nosebleed-stakes tables and has rampaged through opponents.  This player, whose true identity remains anonymous to add to the intrigue, has played about 85,000 hands against top pros and showed a profit of over $3.6 million.  Of that, approximately $3.1 million has come directly from who we all thought was the best online player in Dwan.  Overall, according to Poker Table Ratings, Isildur1 is up $4.2 million over 90,600 hands with a best day of $1.44 million.

The consensus is that Isildur1 is a pretty decent player, but at the same time has enjoyed a string of good fortune.  Almost $700,000 was exchanged in one of the biggest pots in the history of online poker between these two.  In the hand, all the money got in after a series of raises, with Durrrr holding A-K suited to clubs against Ilidur1’s pocket aces.  The board missed Durrrr, shoving the massive pot to Isildur.  Dwan is now one of the very few people in the world to know what it’s like to lose $350,000 in a single hand of Texas Hold’em online.

Just in this month, Isildur1 has been playing mainly $200-$400 to $500-$1,000 games of Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha.  His best session was on November 10th and lasted a little over 12 hours playing $500-$1,000 Hold’em against Dwan.

One hand from this session started with Isildur1 holding A-K offsuit in the big blind.  Dwan put in a raise and Isildur1 made a 3bet, which was called.  The flop came K-3-Q with two clubs and Isildur1 led out for $14,000 into the $22,000 pot, which was called.  The ace of spades came on the turn and Isildur1 cbet for $29,400 into a $50,000 pot, which was flatted again.  With a pot of $108,800 at the river and the nine of spades falling (giving three spades on the board), Isildur1 shoved all-in.  With $44,600 behind, durrrr made the call and saw that he couldn’t beat top two pair.  The hand cost Dwan $100,000.

Isildur1 isn’t just picking on Durrrr at the tables.  In a session against Antonius, he played $500-$1,000 heads-up No Limit Hold’em.  In one hand, Isildur1 was in the big blind with A-Q suited to clubs.  Antonius made a raise on the button, which was 3betted by Isildur1 to $12,000.  Antonius made a 4bet to $28,000, which was flatted.  The flop came K-6-8 with two clubs and Isildur1 checked to Antonius, who bet $26,000 into a $56,000 pot.  Isildur1 then came over the top to the tune of $134,000, which was met by an instant-shove from Antonius for $30,000 more.  Isildur1 made the call and Antonius flipped over K-6 of diamonds for two pair.  When the money went in, Antonius was a 64% to 36% favorite and Isildur1 managed to miss his flush draw.  However, in what had to floor Antonius, Isildur1 won the hand by hitting a runner-runner Q-A for a better two pair.  A $400,000 pot slid over to the game’s hottest player.

Dwan, a newly deputized member of the Full Tilt stable of sponsored players, has a new blog set up to publicly discuss his thoughts.  In the first few paragraphs, he discussed activities such as the beaches in Spain and his love for skydiving.  After nine paragraphs of reading how awesome it is to be Durrrr, he stated that he’s been playing Isildur1 a lot lately.  A quick note about how he’s an aggressive player was followed by a promise that he’ll be addressing the games in a more detailed entry in a month.

The various online poker forums are ablaze with posts related to Isildur1 and guesses at the identity behind the person crushing the players that normally crush them all.  As Dwan indicated, his grudge match against this newcomer is far from over.

2 Comments

  1. Ken Smackarooni says:

    I think durrrr has finally met his match and that everyone has someone out there that can beat them. we finally found out who that is for durrrr!!

  2. Dear Sean:

    Isildur1 is Mikey Stotz

    Reference: 2+2 forum “News, Views & Gossip” “Durrrr’s Blog” (Talking about his new one for Full Tilt)
    Page 3 or 4 Post #48 Post #50 is from Tom
    This whole thread is very interesting

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