After writing 2 successive blog posts about Isildur1 and really enjoying the fact that he is so vigilant about his anonymity, to the extent that he’s almost more notorious than any other poker player out there, I thought I’d provide more information about the controversial and mysterious player.

Isildur1 is an anonymous Swedish high stakes online poker player. He started getting noticed in late 2009 when he took part in all ten of the largest pots in online poker history. During this time he played against poker greats such as Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Brian Townsend, Cole South and Patrik Antonius at stakes that went as high as $500/$1000. On 15^th November 2009, he had made a total winning amount of $5 million but by mid December, he was down to $2 million net.

One of his bad losses was featured in yesterday’s blog entry when he lost to Brian Hastings in a game that many say was unfairly won by Hastings.

After this collapse a number of regular opponents commented on his collapse. Ilari Sahamies said: “He’s playing 9 tables at once against Patrik [Antonius], [Phil] Ivey, and durrrr [Tom Dwan] – the guy must be missing a chromosome.”

Isildur1 is such a formidable force in No Limit Hold’em that many players refuse to play him. He did play against Phil Ivey after challenging him but lost to Ivey after a 3 day game, incurring a $3.2 million loss, and stating that Ivey was the toughest opponent he’d ever played.

A rivalry that has been on hold since last year was resumed recently when mystery poker phenomenon Isildur1 and US poker pro Brian Hastings met to play in an $500/$1,000 pot limit Omaha grudge match that was spread across six tables and 2,776 hands.

Brian Hastings won $4 million from Isildur1 late last year but his win was tainted by allegations that he had been using player notes taken by his buddy and Full Tilt Red Pro, Brian Townsend, on the faceless Swede. This recent game was seen as a chance for Isildur1 to restore justice.

Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on whose camp you’re in, there was no scandal this time and Hastings won yet again with Isildur1 paying out a jaw-stopping $1,445,177 to Hastings. This defeat is rumoured to have cleaned Isuldur1 out, again.

Last week I posted about Isildur1 and the record pot of $878,000 breaking a year old record and on this time the record stood for only 48 hours. The new record stands at a staggering $1,356,946!.  These has been an intense week of showdown between Isildur1 and Patrik Atonius with Isildur the young Swede mostly loosing these hands.

In the past couple of weeks it’s quite amazing to see that Isildur1 has been involved in 5 of the 6 largest pots in online gambling history, though mostly of them, they were all in all worth over around $800K

In this most recent tournmanet, the game of choice was Omaha. Isildur1 started with   and and Antonius . The preflop betting was ridiculous! Isildur1 raise to $3000, Antonius to $9,000,  not wanting to be pushed around by the Finish guy, Isildur1 raised to $27,000 and finally, $81,000. The flop came and it seemed everybody was happy with .  All in all this money came in together in the middle of the table at a total value of $1.3 million! The turn and river failed for Isildur1 and the virtual chips moved their way over to the Finn.

But enough speak for now. Check this video one of our players sent me. Quite funny.

                      Anonymous

The name Isildur1 is one that keeps popping up in the online poker community and I find they background to this player highly entertaining. Not much is known about this unknown Swedish online poker player beside the fact that this guy is quickly and surely making a name for himself by having the biggest pair that one can find.  The high stakes guys must really believe that the man has some sort of ring (cue Lord of the Rings music). Firslty, his names come the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and secondly he players like a guy on a mission to Mordor. Usually players go on sort of heater and the railbirds go wild but then variance as it usually does usually grabs them and they disappear, never to be heard or seen from again

Not Isildur1. He never went on a heater. He’s been constantly playing and has probably taking in around $4 million in the past couple of weeks.

This high stakes players generally plays in the $500 to $1000 Texas holdem and as with playing on tables as the such, he wins big and he looses big. What I do like about this player however is this: The other night he played with Phil Ivey and lost $900,00. Next were Cole South and Tom “durrr” Dwan. He won a cumulative pot of $710,000 of the two.Clearly, these games are just not enough for him. He went on to start playing six tables at once against various other poker pros and despite the multi table distraction he still took poker pro Patrick Antonius for around $330,000

For  now – All we can ask is “Who is Isildur1?”

One thing I do want to add her is a chat from the 9th of Novemeber from in which Isildur1 and Dwan have a chat in which the arrange to play again straight after Isildur1 took $1.22 million off his opponent.

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Isildur1: ok im done i can hardly see my cards
durrrr: huh
durrrr: rly?
Isildur1: yes
durrrr: sweet
Isildur1: i play u every day
Isildur1: pls
durrrr: ok
Isildur1: im not running u
durrrr: lets play tomorrow
Isildur1: yupp
durrrr: will u quit
durrrr: if ur playing someone else
durrrr: to play me pls?
durrrr: u won 1.3m today
Isildur1: i will play till u quit
Isildur1: tomorrow
durrrr: ok

So nonchalant.