The ongoing clash between Isildur1 and the game’s most vaunted high-stakes cash game players reached new levels over the weekend, as the cagey Swede played record-setting sessions with Full Tilt Pros Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, and Tom “durrrr” Dwan. The online poker world watched in awe as Isildur1 got involved in multiple $1 million pots at the $500/$1,000 Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) tables.
The biggest pot ever played on the internet came on Saturday between Isildur1 and Antonius, who has taken any opportunity to play against the Swede at the $500/$1,000 PLO tables. With Antonius sitting on a stack of $1.26 million and Isildur1 with $678,000, Isildur1 raised the button to $3,000. Antonius re-raised to $9,000, Isildur1 put in another raise to $27,000, and Antonius came back over the top for a total of $81,000. Isildur1 decided to call and the two players saw a flop of 5c-4s-2h. Antonius led out for $91,000 and Isildur1 raised to $435,000, leaving $162,473 in his stack. Antonius moved all-in and the Swede quickly called with 9s-8h-7d-6d. Antonius revealed Ah-3s-Ks-Kh for the wheel and, with the 5h turn and 9c river, Antonius dodged a higher straight to collect a pot worth $1,356,947, the largest pot in the history of online poker. The previous record, an $878,958.50 pot, was set a few days earlier by the same two players.
The onslaught continued into the night, as Antonius was able to take more than $2 million from Isildur1 over a 24-hour span. In total, Isildur1 has lost more than $3.5 million over 12,604 hands to Antonius since the Swede burst on to the scene this month, according to PokerTableRatings.com.
Isildur1 was able to recoup some of those losses on Sunday evening when he and Phil Ivey played a lengthy match at the $500/$1,000 PLO tables. Another $1 million-plus pot went down, but the Swede came out on the winning end of this one. With Ivey holding $563,500 and Isildur1 holding $638,500, Ivey raised his button to $3,000 and Isildur1 re-raised to $9,000. Ivey put in a four-bet to $27,000 and Isildur1 called out of position. The flop brought Ks-Js-Jd and both players checked. On the 10d turn, Isildur1 checked again and Ivey bet $41,000. Isildur1 check-raised to $177,000 and Ivey called, boosting the pot to $408,000. The river brought the 5d and the Swede moved all-in, putting Ivey to a decision for his entire $360,000 stack. Ivey called and mucked his hand when Isildur1 flipped over Kd-Kc-5h-4d for a flopped full house.
The $1,127,955 pot, while massive, was just a hiccup in what has been an Ivey-dominated match thus far. PokerTableRatings.com has tracked 6,174 hands between the two players, with Ivey up by nearly $3 million. We expect much more heads-up action from the two players in the near future.
Tom Dwan made his way back to the nosebleed games on Full Tilt Sunday evening. Fresh off his victory at the live “Durrrr” Challenge against Marcello “luckexpress” Marigliano, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, and Sammy George, Dwan sat down with Isildur1 again to try to regain some of the $4 million he’d lost to the Swede in November. After nearly 1,500 hands, Dwan found himself down another $645,000 after a series of coolers and bad beats. Dwan’s total losses to Isildur1 reached $4,548,473 after Sunday’s session.
The fearless Swede, who lost around $3.3 million to Antonius and Ivey during the past 48 hours, is still up more than $500,000 since he first showed his face on Full Tilt Poker. He has logged major victories over Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Full Tilt Red Pros Cole South, David Benyamine, and Haseeb Qureshi. Most of his losses were to the aforementioned Antonius and Ivey, but Isildur1 has also given away more than $100,000 each to Hac “trex13” Dang and Brian Hastings.
Rumors continue to circle about the identity of Isildur1, with likely candidates being Robert “gulkines” Flink, Stefan “el_matador” Matsson, and Viktor “blom90” Blom. Regardless, Poker News Daily will continue to follow the progress of the Swedish sensation. Stay tuned.
