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Last week’s high stakes online poker movements
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2010-02-15 16:02
Last week was one of the more eventful ones, at least as far as the nosebleed stakes
online poker action was concerned. Several important things happened, among which Isildur1’s return to action stood out head and shoulder.
The mystery Swede is apparently back in the saddle and up to his old tricks again. His style hasn’t really changed much, but at least this time he seemed to stick to NL Holdem, the game that’d propelled him to fame last time around.
Last week saw him log a massive 17,674 hands at
Full Tilt Poker, although he has not yet recovered enough money to hit his favorite roaming grounds, the nosebleed stakes again.
He played mostly in the $50/$100 and $100/$200 NL Holdem tables during January, though success decided to elude him. At this pace, his return to the nosebleed stakes is likely to be postponed for quite a while yet.
Altogether, he dropped about $151,293 so far in February, to a host of different players including to Di Dang, Sami Kelopuro, Isaac Haxton and Tom Dwan. Dwan only managed to get about $48k off the guy who had crippled him last year, sending him back to the lower stakes to forage for crumbs there. Given Isildur1’s latest run, one has to seriously wonder whether what we’re dealing with here is in fact the biggest fish in the history of online poker or not.
In the meantime, Tom Dwan continued his rebound and began playing for six-figure pots again. Patrik Antonius was the other big story of the week, as he finally managed to put an end to his downward swing.
The Finn had a great Super Bowl Sunday. He booked a $575,000 profit that day alone, including a $191,000 batch off John Hennigan.
Alexander Kostitsyn had a couple of heads-up matches against Di Dang in which he booked a massive $681,000 profit. This move definitely put Kostritsyn onto the nosebleed stakes map, making him a player to watch for railbirds in the weeks to come. The largest pot that Kostritsyn played for against Urindanger was a $163,558 monster, which was promptly shipped to Kostritsyn’s side of the table after he made a flush against Dang’s flush draw and pair of 6s.
