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Online Poker news: Isildur1 clashes with Ivey, Dwan and Sahamies
Posted by: James Carter. - Sun, 2009-11-22 04:37
The appearance of mystery Swedish player Isildur1 has set the nosebleed stakes online poker world on fire.
Full Tilt Poker’s high stakes tables have probably never been busier and they probably haven’t attracted so many railbirds either.
Looking to make up for the nearly $3 million he dropped to Patrik Antonius, Isildur1 matched skills with Dwan again, with Phil Ivey and with Ilari Sahamies. Though he dropped about $900k to Ivey, he recovered $1 million from Sahamies and close to $200k from Dwan, who has now lost around $3.2 million to the Swede.
Isildur1 obviously picked the wrong guy to “milk” in Phil Ivey. Ivey has been enjoying a relatively quiet spell following his
WSOP final table presence, but he made the right choice to take the Swede on at the $500/$1,000 NL Holdem tables at Full Tilt Poker. At the end of their session, he took about $900k off his opponent, thus becoming the only one to significantly hit Isildur1 at his favorite game. Several of the pots they played broke the 400k mark. The largest pot of the session was a 460,997 one. Ivey made a full house to beat Isildur1’s A-high heart flush for the win.
Following his $3 million fleecing at Isildur1s hands, Tom Dwan finally got the chance to strike back. Even though he’d managed to move $1.5 million ahead at one point, he gave all that money right back and ended up about $190,000 below the red line.
The game the two were playing was $500/$1,000 PL Omaha. The biggest pot of this session was a $569,979 monster, which found its way to Isildur1’s side of the table, after Dwan’s two pair fell to Isildur1’s bigger two pair.
Ilari Sahamies was one of the high stakes players who’d managed to stay out of Isildur1’s way for a while. All that changed the other day though when the two players locked horns at 3 $500/$1,000 PLO tables, for a 2,217 hand session. The match-up soon turned into a slaughter, with Sahamies dropping $1 million to Isildur1, despite the fact that he’d managed to take down the largest pot of the session.
The $589,000 whopper went to Sahamies, when he made a two pair (Ks and 4s) against Isildur1’s pocket rockets.
