Isildur1 takes on Team Full Tilt
The unknown Swede who is quickly becoming the center of the high-stakes world spent Tuesday night trading pots with four of Full Tilt's biggest pros.
Isildur1 started the night at $200/$400 Pot-Limit Omaha where he lost $373k to Cole South in just 884 hands. The two players then upped the limits to $300/$600 where Isildur1 laid the boot to South to the tune of $888k.
South left the tables down $505k, leaving Isildur1 free to find his next opponents.
First, he found Tom Dwan. After an hour and a half of a virtual deadlock, Isildur1 decided to add more players into the mix.
Exclusively at $500/$1,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em, Isildur1 chose to play Dwan, Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius, all at the same time.
Dwan played the most hands against Isildur1 out of the three Team Full Tilt players, but in the end finished down $14k.
Ivey, the second player to be added into the mix, stuck around for almost one thousand hands, more than enough time to take $800k from the unknown Swede.
Antonius, who joined the action almost immediately after Ivey, lasted just 433 hands, losing over $253k.
When the Hold'em action dried up, Dwan and Isildur1 moved to $500/$1,000 PLO for a lengthy 2,338 hand session. Isildur1 got the best of Dwan once again, this time for $230k.
If it wasn't for a $562k win through Brian Townsend earlier in the night, Dwan would have booked yet another losing session at the hands of Isildur1. With the Townsend profit added to his totals, Dwan left the night having won $319k.
With Ivey's beating offsetting the profit he made from the rest of the Full Tilt pros, Isildur1 finished his session $80k up.
Below are replays of yesterday's three largest pots, head to MarketPulse to see more.
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Comments
5pok
2009-11-22Just to say it is
Blom90
PokerMind
2009-11-22Isildur1 play's a very similar style to an infamous ipoker player who recently came onto the scene.
Is he one of the same?
I think so.
martin
2009-11-20If Isildur continues to play 3 top players at the same time on 8 tables he will go broke quickly
kman
2009-11-19i railed phil and isildur's match. phil is a master at adjusting to his oppoent's style and exploiting weaknesses. for the entire match, he let isildur do the betting and just kept looking him up. i dont think isildur did as well at adjusting to phil's style. he slowed down a little bit, but not enough, and also ivey was pairing on the flop at lot, so that also helps lol
all in all, i really look forward to ivey and isildur's hu matches. like ivey said before in an interview when he talks about his style of play, "My style of play, the thing is I don’t have a certain style, but really all I do is adjust to what my opponent is doing. I try to make proper adjustments."
i really think that's his biggest strength as a poker player. even phil galfond said, after playing hu with phil, that he was amazed at how fast ivey adjusts.
skills that kill
2009-11-19wtf is going on in that last one? if durrrr could avoid giving gifts like that he might actually start beating isildur occasionally...
bout time phil got stuck in too.. had been waiting for that matchup