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Dwan drops $120k to Isildur1
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2010-02-28 11:02
Though his record breaking nosebleed stakes days are over at least for the time being, Isildur1 is back at the high level cash tables at
Full Tilt Poker and he continues to frustrate his most bitter online poker rivals, particularly Tom Dwan.
For those of you who may not be in the know, Isildur1 is a Swedish mystery player who exploded onto the nosebleed scene last year. Tom Dwan was one of the players to jump on the opportunity to fleece the fish, but things didn’t quite turn out the way he’d planned and he dropped a massive $5.2 million to Isildur1 within a mere 3 sessions. Aching to get his money back, he tangled with Isildur1 several times after that meltdown, but every time, he got taken for more money. Isildur1 then proceeded to lose all of Dwan’s money to Antonius, Hastings and Ivey. Dwan was actually forced to move down the stakes to build up his bankroll again, before he could return full force to the highest levels of Full Tilt Poker cash play.
Isildur1 is currently doing his own stack-rebuilding. Having moved down the online poker stakes, the Swede is currently riding a roller-coaster. He wins some money off some players, he drops some to others. Last Friday, he hit the virtual felt once again, sitting into a game of $200/$400 PLO where Dwan was playing with Gus Hansen, Di Dang and skjervoy. Dwan had had a good session before that, as he took $229k off Cole South.
As soon as Isildur1 showed up though, his luck turned southward. In a mere 24 hands, the Swede amassed more than $59k in profits, then he agreed to move to a $100/$200 NL table where Dwan was hoping he could exact some revenge.
Once again though, the New Jersey Wonderkid found himself unable to break the Isildur1 curse. The Swede made a $59k profit over 980 hands of
NL Holdem, then moved on to play Phil Galfond at $200/$400 PLO. True to his ways, he dropped $18k there before calling it the day.
In the meantime, in other high stakes action, Ilari Sahamies got taken for $256k by Brian Hastings. Patrik Antonius showed up too, and he too dropped around $56k to Hastings.
