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The poker grapevine: Sahamies on Isildur1 and the online poker legalization issue
Posted by: James Carter. - Mon, 2009-12-14 06:52
Believe it or not, we regular online poker players are not the only ones who consider Isildur1 a basket case. Some of his fellow nutcase nosebleed stakes opponents seem to think so too, and if notoriously looney-bin worthy Ilari Sahamies says he thinks someone is a nutcase, you’d better believe him: he’s got first-hand knowledge of what he’s talking about.
In a recent interview he did for a Finnish radio station, Sahamies said that he found Isildur1 to be “missing a chromosome”. After all, only a true nutcase would be caught on Full Tilt Poker playing at 9 tables against Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan heads up- at the same time. While he was $1 million up on the mystery Swede, Sahamies said he didn’t have the bankroll to keep that pace up. Despite that though, he said the kicks were too big for him to pull out. He also said he thought Isildur1 was Victor Blom, echoing a suspicion shared by many of his high stakes online poker peers. It has to be said though that so far Blom has denied any connection with the Isildur1 account on Full Tilt Poker.
In other news: the WSOP circuit is yielding new records. Doug Carli, quite possibly one of the best live poker players to avoid the spotlight, recorded yet another cash finish in the $500+$60 NL Holdem event of the Series’ 4th stop of the season. This latest success took his overall number of WSOP Circuit cash finishes to 40, awful difficult to catch up with considering the fact that Dean Schultz, the closest competitor has but 21 ITM finishes.
During the same stop but in a different event, Mark Smith tied Men Nguyen’s record of 4 WSOP Circuit wins.
Courtesy of CNBC, we’re set to take an in depth look at the world of illegal high stakes gambling and poker on December 16th. The hour-long program hosted by Melissa Francis will delve deep into the annals of illegal poker games and illegal gambling, taking a look at possible solutions through legalization, but also at the potential downsides of such a legal move. As one directly interested in the online poker industry I can hardly wait to see that one.
