ANTONIUS HIT AGAIN BY ISILDUR1 (Update)
4 December 2009
Mystery Swede is on an upswing it appears
In days rather than weeks, the mystery Swedish high
stakes online poker player Isildur1 has gone from a
downswing that saw him lose $5 million to a recovery of
$2.2 million, and he's done it at the expense of some of
Internet poker's best exponents.
Thursday saw
Isildur1 back on Full Tilt, playing across several
tables and attracting a throng of online railbirds
curious to see who he would play and how he would fare.
Isildur1 kicked off his evening with some $300/$600
PLO against Patrik Antonius and Rafi Amit, although the
latter reversed out of the match after only a hundred
hands, having made $181 000 - mainly off Antonius.
After a brief sally across the $500/$1 000 No-Limit
Hold'em tables that saw him up $160 000 against DjAdi,
Isildur1 and Antonius clashed again on PLO with the
Finnish pro intent on winning back some of his
considerable recent losses (see previous InfoPowa
reports).
Sadly for Antonius, it was not to be
and he took another bath, paying Isildur1 $536 000 at
the end of the session in addition to a loss of $152 000
earlier in the evening in six-max action against the
Swede, according to MarketPulse figures.
Overall
another successful evening for Isildur1, who took home
$667 000, cutting his losses over the past week down to
around $2.2 million.
The Isildur1 phenomenon was
discussed on the new US-facing poker television program
“Poker2Nite” over the Thanksgiving break, with hosts
Scott Huff and Joe Sebok examining the record $1.3
million Pot Limit Omaha hand between Patrik Antonius and
the Swedish online poker player.
Replaying the
hand, Sebok no doubt summed up the thoughts of many when
he commented: “Sickness. Madness. I’m wondering if we’re
going to fit these guys for straightjackets soon. At the
end of the day, they feel like they have an edge over
whoever they’re playing.”
Like legions of online
poker fans on message boards, blogs and Internet media,
Sebok was unable to come to a firm conclusion on the
identity of the Swedish phenom, remarking: “I think this
is a kid we’re going to see more and more of. He’s
already probably a top five Omaha player in the world.
The only problem he’s running into is he’s playing maybe
number 1 and 2 in Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius.”
Googling the name Isildur - as an aside - furnishes
the information that the name refers to "....a fictional
character in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium. He appears
in the author's books The Lord of the Rings, The
Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.
"He was
(briefly) the second king of Gondor and Arnor. His name
means "devoted to the moon". In a note written well
after the initial publication of The Lord of the Rings,
Tolkien gave Isildur's height as seven feet tall.
"Isildur was born in the year 3209 of the Second Age
in Númenor, the first son of Elendil son of Amandil, the
last Lord of Andúnië. He had a younger brother, Anárion.
Isildur had four sons: Elendur, Aratan, Ciryon, and
Valandil."
So now you know!
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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