Isildur1 vs. durrrr: Isildur1 reaches $3 million

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1. nicky

   2010-04-21
   My favourite comment:
   
   
   
   
   
   Cards are also sometimes marked with a special solution that can only be seen if you wear special contact lenses and the stuff evaporates in about 30 minutes so it leaves no evidence.

2. dan

   2010-02-21
   FYI, crazy but the IRS does have rules stating income from illegal activity does require taxes to be paid, regardless of the source. It's how they got al capone. Most criminals (or even regular guys) don't report it or get caught, btu it is an effective way for district attorney's and US Attorney's to pile on when someone is caught.
   
   
   Reference: IRS
   http://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch12.html
   
   Illegal activities. Income from illegal activities, such as money from dealing illegal drugs, must be included in your income on Form 1040, line 21, or on Schedule C or Schedule C-EZ (Form 1040) if from your self-employment activity.
   

3. Matt

   2010-02-17
   Isildur1..this is not a real person. its a fulltilt's bot to get attention over the other sites. yes it seems like he had lost. but believe me sooner or later you will hear that he cleaned up more than few millions out of everyone.

4. sonata

   2010-02-14
   awesome, that's really PRO poker player

5. Shaun

   2010-01-14
   Totally agree with Allan Kay, the tv programs don't show 90% of the really boring hands.
   
   And with regard to cheating there was a major crackdown on this years ago... so you could say it is regulated by a 3rd party
   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn66ACZkKXA
   

6. Kabelis

   2009-12-12
   allan kay summed it up pretty damn nicely.My hat goes off to you, sir

7. allan kay

   2009-12-01
   whisteblower!!!! are you serious? No industry or business thats not regulated by a 3rd party are thieves? LOL! Please. You have so many errors in your last comment starting with that stupid remark. As far as winning players who aren't pro's or bot's like you say. I know many. I have a friend his who has made a little over 1 million on stars and over $400 K on Full Tilt and he is no "pro" he just happened to quit his office job last year because he was doing so good at poker. I know of at least 20-25 guys who win regularly and are not endorsed by either site. I know about 8 players personnely that have made money, some as little as a few thousand 2 others over $100K and they all still have thier regular jobs. So your are wrong about the only players who win are connected to the site. As far as needing to show ID to cash out, That's 100% B.S. I won a $5 tourny a few years back for $2300. Right after the tourny ended I cashed out $1800. 2 days later FedEx was at my door with a letter with my check in it. I've also cashed out using 2 other methods and never showed pokerstars any ID. As far as your badbeat stories every poker player has them. Let me try and explain why people like you think badbeats always happen online. First of all it's a proven fact when a person doesn't physically have to touch there cash when buying chips and also when betting/raising/calling that the tend to be much more "loose" It has the feel that it isn't really money or that it is much easier to click a mouse button to call a $100 all-in with bottom pair then to put those 20 red $5 chips into the pot. Second the amount of hands that you play online can't even compare to live. At best you will see around 35-40 hands an hour live. I've been online where at my table I've seen over 120 in 1 hour. And if multi-tabling even more so with more hands that you see or play comes the chance of seeing more badbeats, and also playing live you play with a much smaller player pool. Online there are 100,000's of players and most of them are bad players who make horrible mistakes and sometimes suck out. The single biggest reason for more badbeats and outdraws online are the bad players in a hand that they never should of been.(ex. you have QQ and raise 4X BB. 1 guy calls, flop rags and rainbow, you bet pot, guy calls,turn rag, you pot bet again and get called, river is an A or K, you bet again and get called and guy has AK and wins on river) Now that donk should have folded his AK on a flop of rags but no so many bad players will continue to call with AK or AQ when the miss the flop completly. And then you see the player with the QQ type in "jokerstars" what the joke was is not the site but the donk who kept calling with absolute nothing until he rivered a hand. Like I said earlier I've seen to much bad play online to blame the site, it's not the site stealing but the horrible player who happened to get very lucky. Check some stats on players who suck out on you they usually have horrible stats. Cuz they are bad players who over time lose many more times then win. Also usually bad players who go on tilt and continue to play worse and keep losing is not the sites fault, it's the donks fault. Too many people watch a poker TV show and see guys playing suited connectors and bluffing with bad hands and they think thats how poker is played. It's only 1 part of poker. I can tell you most of those guys at TV tables at tournaments did not play that way the whole tourny or they wouldnt of gotten to the final table. And a 2 hour poker TV show is so edited down it's sick. They see a player bluff with 7 2 off and then next hand re-raise a J 10 5 flop with pocket 4's. Those hands might of been 2 hours apart from each other. I read somewhere one time they took 10 hours of playing to make a 2 hour show. And as far as live play, I've seen brutal badbeats live as well as online. These sites make way to much money to allow cheating or to steal themselves. Does cheating happen amongst some players, probably, but the sites don't allow it thats for sure. Good Luck at the tables, sounds like you need it

8. whistleblower

   2009-11-21
   Yes and nobody cheats in baseball, olympics and in stock trading or in poker lol
   
   You are pretty naive to think a industry that is not regulated or verified by a true 3rd party is not stealing.
   
   There is really a sucker born every minute, no wonder these sites continue to thrive.
   
   The only people that win are house players/endorsed players, the house and the occasional new player or flagged rake contributing players.
   
   The servers are hosted in Costa Rica and they are connected to the same tribe in Canada that was connected to the Ultimate Bet/AP cheating scandal with the super user account, nobody was ever arrested or identified.
   
   Folks it is the perfect crime, they operate outside US Laws and have convinced the poker community that it is safe game as they recruit “pro players” like Phil Ivey to endorse it.
   
   Where there is smoke, there is fire, and where there is fame and fortune to be made, there is cheating.
   
   Also if you need to cash out, you need to provide identification. Do you know they maybe stealing your identify or using the information you provide for illegal purposes? My advice, don’t play online, you will feel good here and there, but it is designed and programmed to fleece you by delivering bad beat after bad beat or monsters vs monsters. It will put you on tilt and try to extract you for everything you got.
   
   Stick to the casinos and the local tournaments/vegas, you will get real poker games there.
   
   Remember you are playing against players online who may be a bot, the deck maybe rigged, players sharing information over the phone/msn/side by side through different isp providers, insiders and when you lose and complain, the cheaters will ridicule you as being bad at poker and do not have good money management skills or is a losing player.

9. yeeluvspizza

   2009-11-20
   allan kay is 100% right...
   
   whistleblower, you have to admit that the UB cheating scandal was probably the best thing to happen to online poker, just like the Wallstreet scandals...it raised the awareness of everyone. I would be more worried today if there had never been an online poker scandal. Thanks UB!
   
   I don't think Pokerstars or FTP want to end up with UB's current daily average of 10 or 12 thousand players(ouch!) playing on their site and allow cheating. That would just be bad business...and when you are arguably the top two poker sites around you want to stay on top and keep on building your empires!
   
   I am sure all the winning players out there continue to love when losing players make outrageous claims like this...so to the rest of the losing players out there, please keep saying and doing everything you say and do!

10. allan kay

    2009-11-19
    ATTENTION Whistleblower,
    
    Why are you such an idiot? You say all poker sites are cheating. No Way. Full Tilt on Pokerstars make way to much money and have such a lot at stake they wouldn't allow it. There image is at risk if they allowed cheating. I'm not saying it might not happen but the sites sure don't allow it. Why would poker sites want to allow cheating? They don't care who wins or losses, the get paid regardless. And Pokerstars has a 3rd party audit system set-up already. Not sure about Full Tilt but I'm sure they do to. These sites make millions of dollars every single day running a legitamite business. Why would they risk their image to allow cheating? And about the "teams" of live players using elaborate signals thats bull. With all the cameras pointed on them someone would of picked up on it. And there is no reason to use elaborate signals in a tournament anyway. You can't dig in your pocket and buy back in once you "helped" your teamate out and lost all your chips. As far as the US Government is concerned they can't touch the sites because they are out of this country, but what they will do and have doen is go after the banks which allow deposits and cash outs to occur. Back earlier this summer the US Government seized 30 million of Pokerstars money in a US bank. And you say tax the sites. The damn US and state Governments can't even get there sales tax of legal transactions online how the hell will they get illegal ones. Only reason the US is mad about this is because they aren't recieving any money from the billions that are being gambled every year. I love my freedoms. On a different note: Do you know it's still against the law in many states for me and my wife to have certain types of forplay? Our government needs to STAY OUT of peoples homes, don't worry about one person is doing in the own home as long as it doesn't hurt anyone. LONG LIVE OUR FREEDOMS

11. jane

    2009-11-14
    Jane you are either naive or will pay one day if you are connected to the online scam.
    
    The Feds are coming!
    
    Cheers!

12. whistleblower

    2009-11-14
    Interesting Read;
    
    http://rounding.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/full-tilt-leans-towards-big-hands/#comment-1226
    
    also found this post at another site...
    As a semi-professional poker player for the last 5 years, I have one thing to say about the subject:
    
    OF COURSE on-line poker is rigged. FullTilt.com is well known as one of the worst sites out there. There is no regulation… no independent verification of deal results and.. EVERY single site on the web uses “bots” (robotic automated players). Just who do you think is going to have an advantage in that situation? At the very least, “bots” are inserted on particular tables to push the rake and increase hand action. At the worst, they are inserted into on-line tournaments to push action and eliminate players in a quick fashion to free up tables (ie computer server resources). Anyone who says this doesn’t exist is just plain WRONG or just naive.
    
    I alway laugh when people say “Why would the poker sites cheat? They make enough from the rake.” That is just a COMPLETELY ridiculous comment. If the last year on WallStreet has taught anyone anything it’s that people who are making money ALWAYS want more money. And they don’t care how they get it. It’s human nature. The on-line sites operate under the same business structure (if you can call it that).
    
    I recommended a book called “American Roulette”, written by casino cheat Richard Marcus. A couple of years ago I ran into him in Atlantic City and had the chance to ask him about poker cheating. His answer stunned me. He said ABSOLUTELY online poker cheating goes on, he knows guys who do it. And “bots” are used all over the place. He said the larger poker sites are somewhat safer and usually the lower limits are kind of safe but he said he would never wager a single penny online because so much cheating is going on. He also said it goes on in live poker and even in tournaments such as the World Series of Poker and WPT events. He said a lot of it is teams of 2, 3, 4 at a table that use elaborate signals to tell each other what they have and they all play accordingly. Cards are also sometimes marked with a special solution that can only be seen if you wear special contact lenses and the stuff evaporates in about 30 minutes so it leaves no evidence. He told me that there are a number of top poker pros that used to be casino cheats like him and he’s known them for years. He wouldn’t give me any names though.
    
    FYI - He wrote another book called “Dirty Poker” that details poker cheating. It’s available on Amazon if you are interested. It’s a pretty interesting read.
    
    Save your money. On-line poker will never be safe until it is regulated (and taxed) by the federal government. Even then I’m not completely sure.

13. jane

    2009-11-14
    "Whisleblower you are a complete donk !!!"An immagination like yours is wasted here,you should be writing fairytales lol..

14. whistleblower

    2009-11-14
    I am sure the US Govt will find a way to Tax poker wins. The game sucks in x amount of US money from US citizens every day, just because the servers are hosted in offshore places does not make it immune to taxes.
    
    The US Govt is just waiting for the right moment to take these clowns down. They think they are immune to laws and regulations because they believe it's a game of skill lol who are you kidding, the luckiest person can beat the most skilled person any day.
    
    Lots of "skilled players" have gone broke on these crooked sites, not because they ran into bad luck or played bad, it's because they were fleeced by a crooked RNG that is not auditied and backed by more crooked people in Canada.
    
    Where fame and fortune is involved, there always is cheating. Baseball, Olympics, you name it. Either get regulated or gtfo out of country and leave our citizens and our US dollar alone.
    
    All cheaters will get caught in the end and pay the price of justice.

15. sparky

    2009-11-14
    jrt... online poker is illegal in the US
    all the poker sties are in other countries
    the US government has no right to do anything regarding online poker play. The guys dont even have to pay tax on it, since its income from illegal activity. Its like a drug dealers income... they dont pay tax.
    in any case, why should the government steal their money? how does a second wrong equate to a right?
    and in any case these two were working together to take money from a 3rd opponent... if they were 'colluding' to win and lose money to each other, who is getting hurt?

16. Mr.Jingles

    2009-11-14
    like your imagination^^
    lol @ ppl taking u serious

17. Gor

    2009-11-14
    Jrt it's complete rubbish. I don't know Isildur's real name - if my story was true I would know it, clearly I was just talking crap,
    obviously ignore my previous late night post.

18. Jane

    2009-11-13
    Gor:You need t get your facts straight son,that is one huge accusation and complete BS !!!

19. Crane

    2009-11-13
    Gor: Did someone already told you that smoking ganja has an influence for brain? Please do not tell crap like this...its nonsense

20. anon

    2009-11-13
    OK, then did your friend tell you Isildur1's real name? Is it Blom?

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