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…Isildur1 yet again. Now it was his turn to lose
After Isildur1 finished up his two latest sessions he was ready for a new challenge. He played more and more hours and eventually lost 1,7 million to Phil Galfond. We really don’t know if the long sessions got to the Swede or was it just Galfond running in god mode.
There was three opponents against Isildur1 in his last session: Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo and Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond.
Isildur1 lost about a million to Dwan in PLO, won about half a million from Bonomo in NLHE and lost almost 1,7 million dollars to Galfond!
Even though the Swede lost really big, he is still up around 1,6 million dollars for the year. Let’s hope he’s going to take a nap before his next session.
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…Isildur1 yet again. Now it was his turn to lose
And Isildur1 against Cole South again!
We wonder if Isildur1 has even slept yet. He just finished his second match against Cole South at Full Tilt Poker. South lost about $500k this time.
South has lost almost 1,3 million dollars to the Swede in the last 24 hours and Isildur1 has grinded up nearly 4 million dollars this year! That is really exceptional work from the Swedish sensation yet again.
Biggest pot of the session; Isildur1 hits full house, $316k pot
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Isildur1 grinded 1,4 million last night!
Isildur1 is back! He has made 1,4 million dollars in the last 24 hours on Full Tilt Poker - playing PLO. He has now won the most in 2010. Pretty insane guy.
Most of his winnings came from Cole South and Brian Hastings. South lost $785k and Hastings $556k. After this session the Swedish sensation is now the biggest winner of the year with over three million dollar in winnings.
Isildur1 makes a nice check/raise on the river and wins a $382k pot:
Isildur1 ($242,980)
Brian Hastings ($190,988)
Brian Hastings raises to $3,000, Isildur1 raises to $9,000, Brian Hastings calls $6,000
FLOP ($18,000) 2h 6d Qh
Isildur1 checks, Brian Hastings checks
TURN ($18,000) 2h 6d Qh 7d
Isildur1 bets $18,000, Brian Hastings calls $18,000
RIVER ($54,000) 2h 6d Qh 7d 8h
Isildur1 checks, Brian Hastings bets $43,000, Isildur1 raises to $183,000, Brian Hastings calls $120,988
Isildur1 shows As 3d Ah Kh
Isildur1 wins $381,975
Without no doubt the Swede is going to play until he is broke or has won all the money from everyone. If you believe some rumors, Isildur1 made about 7 million dollars last year but lost everything. Now everything looks the same, except the games have been a bit smaller.
Let’s see how far the Swede can fly this time.
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Tom “durrrr” Dwan has great March - He’s up about 1,7 million dollars
There has been loads of action this month on Full Tilt Poker. The biggest winner is Tom Dwan with 1,72 million dollar winnings.
There’s couple of other players who are doing great this month. The internet sensation Isildur1 is up about a million and the Finnish “LokoIsBack” is up $530k.
Patrik Antonius has lost the most, around 1,15 million dollars so far. Cole South is not far behind with 950k dollar losses.
Here are some of the results so far:
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Tom “durrrr” Dwan has great March - He’s up about 1,7 million dollars
Ziigmund lost a million to Isildur1
Full Tilt Poker games are wild. There’s not a single day when someone wins or loses seven figures. Last Sunday “PixKim” lost a million, and this time it was Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies who lost a million.
Ziigmund and Isildur1 played about 1000 hands of $300/$600 and $500/$1000 PLO.
Isildur1’s full house beats Sahamies’ hand in a $423k pot
After their heads up was over, Sahamies told to Isildur1 that he should lose his money to Brian Hastings - and that is what happened. Isildur1 lost about half a million to Hastings later on.
Ziigmund: its just ****** amazing
Ziigmund: give my money for hastings
Ziigmund: gg
Eventually the Swedish Isildur1 managed to lose most of his winnings and is up only about 181.000 dollars in the past 24 hours.
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Dwan adds to his lead in the “Durrrr Challenge” against Antonius
The “Durrrr Challenge” continued earlier today and Tom Dwan managed to increase his lead against Antonius by 342.000 dollars. He is now almost 1,8 million dollars ahead.
It doesn’t look that shabby for Patrik Antonius at the moment, although they have only played 33,242 hands of the total 50k hands so anything can happen. Dwan leads by $1.755.708 now.
You can find the biggest hands of the session here.
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Dwan adds to his lead in the “Durrrr Challenge” against Antonius
David Benefield and Isildur1 in a wild marathon session
Isildur1 is infamous of his overly long playing sessions and last night was no exception. Isildur1 has played over 13,500(!) hands in the last 24 hours. Most of the hands were played against David Benefield.
Benefield and Isildur1 played for quite many hours in six $200/$400 PLO tables until Benefield had to stop:
David Benefield: i need a break
David Benefield: not used to these long sessions
Isildur1: k im to tired for break
Isildur1: then i go to bed
…
Cole South: up for a match?
Isildur1: ok
Isildur1: or no
Isildur1: tomorrow mb hjave to sleep
Highstakesdb recorded amazing 13,517 hands for Isildur1 in the last 24 hours. He won $303.242. Benefield played 8895 hands and lost $30.925, so it seems that their heads up match was quite even.
The biggest pot of the evening. Turn all-in, Benefield takes down $177k pot with a full house:
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No more “2 Months, $2 million”!
According to PokerNewsDaily (PND), the cable station G4 will not renew the reality poker show “2 Months, $2 Million”.
Jay “Krantz” Rosenkrantz told the bad news to PND. Now “Krantz”, Dani Stern, Emil Patel and Brian Roberts are wondering what they are going to do in the future.
The half-hour episodes of “2 Months, $2 Million” was broadcasted in last Autumn. The four poker players had a task to win 2 million dollars in 2 months. They eventually won only $676.000 after the show was finished.
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Isildur1 wins $112k
Swedish Isildur1 is trying to make yet another comeback at Full Tilt Poker. Last night he won 112k dollars from $50/$100 and $100/$200 CAP PLO games.
Let’s see what he is up to next. He won almost 1,6 million dollars in two days last month, but then lost a bit over $900k and moved to smaller stakes.
Brian Townsend has lost the most in the last 24 hours. He has lost about $200.000 now.
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Sahamies and Dwan breaks down Cole South’s domination
It looked like no one could stop Cole South at Full Tilt Poker. South was already up 3,5 million dollars for the year yesterday, but then he ran out of luck.
Cole South
Yesterday’s games were not going as South had planned and he lost about million dollars to Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Tom “durrrr” Dwan.
South was playing $300/$600 PLO against Ziigmund and durrrr, who both were able to win about $500k from him.
All-in on flop, Sahamies had flopped a full house, $226k pot:
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Erick Lindgren is with David Benyamine’s ex-girlfriend?
Erica Schoenberg, who has been single for a while, is rumored to have a new man. Of course he’s another poker professional, the two-time WPT winner Erick Lindgren.
Lindgren and Schoenberg were seen having some intimate moments at the LAPC Main Event where Lindgren was railing Erica, who actually lasted longer in the tournament. E-dog offered his resorting shoulder after Schoenberg was eliminated.
There’s not any proper news about the couple, but it seems that Schoenberg has indeed found another high profile poker professional by her side. Schoenberg’s former boyfriend was the high stakes player David Benyamine.
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Cole South up almost $2 million in February
Cole South continued to play great in February, earning him $1.982.064 and was clearly up the most from the Full Tilt Poker nosebleed players. Also Alexander “PostflopAction” Kostritsyn ($1,56 million) and Tom “durrrr” Dwan ($1 million) had a good month.
Cole South
Brian Townsend didn’t have that good month and he lost almost 1,3 million dollars. Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies ended up losing 873,000 dollars as well.
Below are some of the biggest winners and losers from January and February:
Cole South $3.488.611
PostflopAction $2.570.307
Gus Hansen $1.797.212
NEKOTYAN $1.153.667
David Oppenheim $923.291
Jani Vilmunen $266.015
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies $231.034
Isildur1 $199.816
Patrik Antonius -$2.097.361
Brian Townsend -$1.607.803
Matatuk -$960.229
Richard Ashby -$840.130
DrPill -$765.144
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Cole South beats Ilari Sahamies
Cole South was running red hot when he was playing heads up against Ilari Sahamies yesterday. They didn’t have long session, but South still managed to own Sahamies totally.
Ziigmund 24/02/2010
Cole and Ziigmund played only 320 hands of $300/$600 PLO and South managed to grind out 786,621 dollars from Ilari’s pockets.
The picture above shows the session graph. You can clearly see that Ziigmund started the session quite alright, but the South’s heater began. Cole’s winrate was an impressive 204BB/100 hands.
South vs Ziigmund:
Cole makes an impressive call on river, $234k
Cole freerolls and takes $217k
Ziigmund flops the nut straight which isn’t enough, $210k
Ilari stopped his games for the day after this. Cole played a bit more and eventually won $677,284 for the day. Also Brian Townsend and Tom Dwan were able to win a bit.
Winners top 3 (nick, hands, result):
| Cole South | 1198 | $677 284.95 |
| Brian Townsend | 2588 | $126 206.95 |
| durrrr | 1372 | $125 066.20 |
Losers top 3:
| PixKim | 1142 | -$117 238.15 |
| Jani Vilmunen | 678 | -$138 751.15 |
| Ziigmund | 320 | -$786 621.00 |
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Negreanu, Rousso and Raymer give their advice for Shootout tournaments
Three poker professionals, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso and Greg Raymer are giving away their secrets for Shootout tournaments in a recent CardPlayer video.
Not the “Fossilman”, but the lovely Vanessa Rousso
While the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian is nearing its end, there was an side event played. A $25.000 Shootout torunament. Shootout tournaments work a bit differently than normal tournaments. Normally when people are eliminated from the tournament, they break up the table and have the players take new seats from other tables. In Shootout format you will play each table like a sit’n'go, only the winner continues the tournament.
So you have to adjust your play according to the shootout format. Negreanu, Rousso and Raymer are giving away some of their tricks for Shootout tournaments in this video.
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Negreanu, Rousso and Raymer give their advice for Shootout tournaments
Ahston Griffin wins $196k and Tom Dwan lost $105k yesterday
It was quite quiet day yesterday. Only few players around the Full Tilt Poker tables. It might be that everyone were at the Venetian where the North American Poker Tour event was held.
Tom Dwan lost the most yesterday. He recorded around $105k losses. Ashton “theASHMAN103″ Griffin was able to grind the best profit during the quiet evening. He won a bit over $169k.
Ashton “theASHMAN103″ Griffin
David Oppenheim managed to win quite nicely as well. He recorded $120k winnings. He’s over 1,1 million dollars up for the year so far, so he’s having a nice upswing.
Winners top 5 (nick, hands, result):
| theASHMAN103 | 708 | $169 428.50 |
| David Oppenheim | 303 | $120 249.50 |
| OMGClayAiken | 535 | $116 374.50 |
| FakeSky | 452 | $41 188.75 |
| NEKOTYAN | 213 | $30 870.75 |
Losers top 5 (nick, hands, result):
| SxMxF | 234 | -$46 670.00 |
| thecranium | 203 | -$47 489.25 |
| Patrik Antonius | 52 | -$64 104.50 |
| PixKim | 914 | -$89 577.00 |
| durrrr | 702 | -$105 021.75 |
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Ilari Sahamies wins $600k - Isildur1 loses $300k
Isildur1 made another of his comebacks to Full Tilt Poker yesterday. The games didn’t go as planned as he lost over $300k. Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies had oneof his better days as he managed to grind out over 600,000 dollars and he was the biggest winner of the day.
Isildur1 played a bit less than 1600 hands and lost $304,280 during his session. But yesterday’s biggest loser wasn’t the Swede, it was Cole South, the biggest winner for the year. He lost 509,154 dollars.
Ziigmund was clearly the biggest winner with his 609,154 dollar profit and is up a bit over million for the year.
Ziigmund has fun in Grand Casino Helsinki
Some hands from Monday:
Monday’s biggest pot, durrrr vs Cole South, $224k
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Full Tilt Poker under the investigation of FBI?
Online-casinos.com writes about a rumor that Full Tilt Poker is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the USA. UIGEA’s deadline is near, June first, and it is believed that the Feds are moving rapidly to prosecute someone right away.
It seems that the FBI agents have been interviewing online players of Full Tilt Poker. Even the small stakes players have been visited without warning by the FBI agents who then asked questions about the player’s transactional activities with Full Tilt Poker. The Feds have stated that they are not gathering information about the players but about Full Tilt Poker.
It is now speculated that this is going to lead into a case against Full Tilt Poker eventually. Washington state is one of the few of U.S. states which prohibits online poker. This seems like the perfect way for an FBI investigation as it could result in real convictions for firms offering online gambling to those who live in Washington state.
If the rumor is true and Washington state sues FTP, it will cause more strength for UIGEA and the downfall of UIGEA is nowhere in near vicinity.
Source: online-casinos.com
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William Thorson didn’t want to play in High Stakes Poker
Swedish William Thorson, who has cashed over 2,3 million dollars from live tournaments, got an invite to play in High Stakes Poker but he refused the honor.
Thorson told about the invitation during the PokerStars.tv live broadcast of the EPT Copenhagen final table.
He thinks he is not good enough cash game player in NL Hold’em so that he could sit at the same table with Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius or Tom Dwan.
But he is intrigued to play Omaha against the top pros. But who is the best Omaha player? Thorson says that the best PLO player is Ilari Sahamies.
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Sahamies knocks out Brian Hastings - Wins $722k
Ilari Sahamies and Brian Hastings have been playing against each other countless times on Full Tilt Poker’s high stakes tables. Yesterday they clashed heads up yet again and Ziigmund crushed his Hastings.
Hastings & Ziigmund
Sahamies wins the biggest pot of the session, $426k
Sahamies makes a great call on river:
Full Tilt Poker $300/$600 Pot Limit Omaha Hi $100 Ante – 2 players
Brian Hastings (BB): $128297.50
Ziigmund (BTN/SB): $680069.00
Pre Flop: ($1100.00)
Ziigmund raises to $2000, Brian Hastings calls $1400
Flop: ($4200.00) Ad 6c 5d (2 players)
Brian Hastings checks, Ziigmund bets $4200, Brian Hastings raises to $16800, Ziigmund calls $12600
Turn: ($37800.00) 2s (2 players)
Brian Hastings bets $37800, Ziigmund calls $37800
River: ($113400.00) 6s (2 players)
Brian Hastings bets $7159
7.50 all in, Ziigmund requests TIME, Ziigmund calls $71597.50
Final Pot: $256595.00
Brian Hastings shows Qd 7d 8s 7c (two pair, Sevens and Sixes)
Ziigmund shows 5s 9d Tc As (two pair, Aces and Sixes)
Ziigmund wins $256594.50
(Rake: $0.50)
Ilari has a nice stack after the session:
Ziigmund: y0
Brian Hastings: eh gonna call it quits i guess
Brian Hastings: gg wp
Ziigmund: nono
Ziigmund: lets play
Ziigmund: ok?
Brian Hastings: well i already stopped once cuz i didnt wanna 1 table
Brian Hastings: i got stuff to do anyway
Ziigmund: lets play 2table
Ziigmund: ok?
Brian Hastings: na im done
Brian Hastings: we’ll play soon
Brian Hastings: gg
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Marc “_myst_” Karam is the new Full Tilt Poker pro signing
The Canadian born Marc Karam is the latest addition to the Full Tilt Poker pro team. Karam has been playing professionally for years and in 2007 he placed second in the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Finale where he won €1,061,820. His current live tournament winnings are over 2,3 million dollars.
Karam hasn’t been that lucky always. Last year, when his former sponsor Eurolinx ran into economic problems, thousands of players lost their whole bankroll, including Karam.
So Karam must be really happy about his new sponsorship deal and let’s see if the new contract inspires him to play in the FTP high stakes games as well.
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Viktor Blom out of EPT Copenhagen - Isildur1 loses $900k just after that
Viktor Blom was eliminated from the European Poker Tour - Copenhagen yesterday and it didn’t take long after Isildur1 came online to Full Tilt Poker only to lose a bit over $900k. Viktor Blom is rumored to be the internet sensation Isildur1, even though he denies it.
Viktor Blom aka “Blom90″ aka “Isildur1″?
Even Pokernews.com seems to suggest that Blom is Isildur1:
“…one gentleman causing more than a ripple of interest among the ranks of assembled media was 20-year-old Swedish wunderkind Viktor Blom. Suspected by many to be the real-life incarnation of online phenomenon “Isildur1″, Blom was not giving anything away today - except, as it turned out, his chips.”
Isildur1 seems to be falling back
First he won $1,6 million in two days then he blew almost all up. Isildur1 played some $300/$600 PLO against Brian Townsend and then a bit of $100/$200 and $200/$400 NLHE against Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo.
After tge games were over, Isildur1 had lost a bit over $900k, most of it went to Townsend.
If Isildur1 is Viktor Blom, he might have taken the short trip to the Casino Copenhagen’s bar and then went straight to play online:
ZeeJustin: awnt to 4 table 2/4?
ZeeJustin: 4 table 2/4?
Isildur1: 5
Isildur1: im drunk
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Viktor Blom out of EPT Copenhagen - Isildur1 loses $900k just after that
Dwan vs Isildur1 - Dwan doesn’t like the Swede’s manner
Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Isildur1 played some $300/$600 PLO at Full Tilt Poker yesterday. After Isildur1 won almost a 255k dollar pot, the Swede suggested that they should move to play NL Hold’em. “Durrrr” didn’t like this at all.
Read the chat:
Isildur1: lets just play 6 tables 3 6 nl instead ?
durrrr: lol
durrrr: ur too annoying to deal with
durrrr: play for hours then the second u get up u want new game
durrrr: thats ridic
Isildur1: lol, like i just to quit playing
Isildur1: wtf
Isildur1: i play plo with u all even tho i dont want
durrrr: i wanna play here obv
Isildur1: i been waiting for u at nl and u say u comming but never show up
durrrr: its obv terrible timing right after u win 250k pot
Isildur1: thats annoying
durrrr: i came to play 4
durrrr: but had 4 other games
durrrr: u hav too many rules w/e
Isildur1: ye ok
durrrr: im stuck 500 ill play here
durrrr: dont wanna move tho
durrrr: i lost a lot to gus before u came
Isildur1: ok sry to hear that
durrrr: n said to friend on aim that i hoped u didnt win early or ud quit and ask me for NL
durrrr: its k we can play another time or w/e
Isildur1: i dont use to quit plo when im winning
durrrr: ok lets play then?
Isildur1: thats just bs
durrrr: lets play then?
Isildur1: i need 5 mins then i know after
Isildur1: plo
durrrr: ok
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Antonius: “I’ve always wanted to play against the best.”
Patrik Antonius, a former model and pro tennis player, has always been reaching to the top. The Finn, who dominated the online high stakes at Full Tilt Poker last year winning more than $9 million, was awarded both the European and Nordic Online Player of the Year Awards.
In an interview he gave to Coinflip.com from Mexico, where he is currently on vacation, Antonius saus he is honored to receive these awards:
“I value the European Poker Award highly since I consider myself first and foremost an online player these days.”
“My play was in great shape, and it was a really interesting and eventful year at Full Tilt Poker. Isildur brought a whole new dimension to the games and created huge action. I have always wanted to play against the very best and learn something new about poker every day. I like it when tough and aggressive fresh blood shows up cause it’s always an opportunity to learn for me, too.”
Antonius, who is familiar face in all the big games, both online and live at the Bobby’s Room in Las Vegas, feels that online games are currently the best games for a cash game specialist like himself:
“The Big Game has moved online,” Antonius confirms.
Patrik gives the online poker shooting star Isildur1 a lot of credit and thinks the mystery Swede, who won $7 million and lost it all in just over month last fall, could’ve taken the award from right under his nose.
“If Isildur had continued his great run, he should have been awarded this trophy,” the Finn says modestly.
Being voted as the best online player of the year awar at the Nordic Poker Awards was even sweeter for Antonius, as he feels that players who were nominated in his category was a very strong group of players, including players like Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies.
“At NPA the fans voted for the nominees and I’m very happy to get chosen from such tough company. A big thank you for all voters!”
Patrik is happy about winning the awards, but he is even happier that his family is going to have a new member in August. WSOP is normally the highlight of summer for a poker player, but this summer Antonius has something else to look forward to.
“I have a very special reason to look forward to next summer. My fiancee Maya is pregnant again and she’s due in August. We are all very excited about it, especially our two-year old daughter Mila who can’t wait to become a big sister!”
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Antonius: “I’ve always wanted to play against the best.”
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Opinion: High Stakes Poker 6th Season premiere wasn’t that good without AJ Benza
It didn’t take long after the criticism began. The common opinion in the poker forums seems to be that High Stakes Poker is not the same show without AJ Benza. Although people liked the first episode, they found it had many flaws.
AJ Benza
Many people thinks that the friendly chatter and joking between AJ Benza and Gabe Kaplan was a big part of the whole High Stakes Poker experience. Now, when Gabe is alone in the booth, there’s something missing. People also thinks that the new host, Kara Scott, isn’t bringing anything to the show - and that her player interviews are just useless.
Also the show seemed to be quite short; only 45 minutes. We are pretty sure the earlier seasons had longer episodes.
Of course there’s lots of people who like the renewal as well. But let’s wait for few more episodes to come out and see how it goes.
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Opinion: High Stakes Poker 6th Season premiere wasn’t that good without AJ Benza
Isildur1 is back! He is up $690,205 from the latest session
Isildur1 played a very long and wild session today at Full Tilt Poker. He played against Isaac “luvtheWNBA” Haxton and Justin “Zeejustin” Bonomo.
The Swedish internet sensation had up to eight $100/$200 NL Hold’Em tables open when they played with Haxton. Isildur1’s first session with Haxton didn’t go that well as Isildur1 managed to lose almost 120,000 dollars to him.
After Isildur1 was done with Haxton, Justin Bonomo challenged him. They opened up some $200/$400 heads up tables and after awhile Isildur1 crushed Bonomo.
Eventually Bonomo lost 550,000 dollars to the crazy Swede and Isildur1 is up a bit over 690.000 for the night. Bonomo’s friend had a piece of the action, so his total losses weren’t that big:
ZeeJustin: friend that had a peice backed out, i have to go down to 1/2 if you want to keep playing =(
Isildur1: ok 
sry i am to tired for that
ZeeJustin: up to you
ZeeJustin: ok, gg, gn
Isildur1: gg
…
ZeeJustin: just lost 550k to isildur
Dealer: URnotINdanger2 has timed out
Dealer: Hand #18501147155 has been canceled
ZeeJustin: i suggest you 4 table me now
URnotINdanger2: wow
Isildur1’s bankroll should be now about million dollars and the long waited comeback is happening! Let’s see who the Swede will challenge after he has slept a bit.
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Antonius loses a bit more in the “Durrrr Challenge”
Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan continued their challenge with a brief session this weekend.
They only played 79 hands, and “durrrr” managed to win $21,790 more into his lead. The played $200/$400 PLO.
Tom Dwan is now in an over 1,4 million dollar lead when they have played 32874 hands from the 50k hand challenge.
The challenge has lasted for 4 days, 8 hours and 38 minutes, so we are expecting to see a lot more hours to be played.
You can check all the statistics here.
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Isildur1 making a slow comeback - Made $51k in CAP PLO tables
Swedish Isildur1 is making a slow comeback at Full Tilt Poker and he has even made some results lately. Yesterday he was sighted at the $200/$400 CAP PLO tables where he won 51.000 dollars. The internet sensation has made a bit over 60.000 dollars within two days now.
It was very close that Tom Dwan and Isildur1 would have had a rematch as they were already playing six $100/$200 NL Hold’em tables, but unfortunately “durrrr” had to leave shortly.
durrrr: can do 6 now if y want
Dealer: durrrr has 5 seconds left to act
Isildur1: ok
Dealer: durrrr has timed out
Dealer: Hand #18470462115 has been canceled
Isildur1: 1 min
durrrr: o
durrrr: wait nm
durrrr: i lied
Isildur1: ?
durrrr: sry friends coming over i think
durrrr: gimme 1min
durrrr: lemme find out wts going on
durrrr: ya blech
durrrr: later i guess
It seems that the Swede is more disciplined now: he doesn’t play overlonged sessions and doesn’t jump into the biggest tables with his whole bankroll right away. Let’s see how he continues to raise.
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Isildur1 making a slow comeback - Made $51k in CAP PLO tables
Cole South is running hot - Already won $2.2 million!
Cole South’s year has started great! He has already won 2.265.521 dollars from Full Tilt’s high stakes games and is the biggest winner so far.
Cole South
South has been dominating the PLO games from where he has won 2,1 million dollars.
Alexander “PostflopAction” Kostritsin and Gus Hansen are the other happy million dollar winners. Hansen has made $1,7 million and Kostritsin $1,96 million.
The biggest losers are Patrik Antonius and Brian Townsend with a bit over 1,5 million dollar losses. Only time will tell if Townsend’s great comeback will stop abruptly.
The losers, Townsend & Antonius
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Patrik Antonius: “I’ve lost close to $10 million in staking”
Last year was Patrik Antonius’ year. He won 9 million dollars from Full Tilt Poker’s high stakes games. Now Patrik takes a look at his life as a poker professional and a father.
Life hasn’t been that easy to Patrik either. In a recent Card Player interview he tells that he has lost loads of money into staking other people, sports bets and golf.
“When I bet sports, I bet at least $50,000. And I don’t think I won any bets last year. And I lost millions on the golf course, as well. I’m a big loser in golf now,” Antonius tells.
And on top of that he has lost a lot staking other people. Antonius counts that he has lost nearly 10 million dollars while taking action from other people. That’s a lot of money. It’ll be hard to get it back in my lifetime.”
Patrik’s online games haven’t been running that good either. He has lost about $1,5 million by now. And if things can’t get any worse, his back is giving him problems again. But all this is very familiar to the Finn; “My life always goes like this. Things go bad or good. I hate these moments when everything just goes bad. When I get better, everything usually gets better, too. It’s normal. Welcome to the poker world,” Antonius concludes the first part of the interview.
About the current games, “Isildur1″ and Hastings
Patrik likes to play without any poker trackers or other software, but doesn’t mind if his opponents use them, instead he doesn’t approve that his opponents share the hand histories.
“For me, I don’t mind if they’re using (tracking software). But you should not share the hand histories, obviously, with other players … that’s completely out of line. That I don’t accept.”
Patrik would have liked to play more hands against “Isildur1″ but Brian Hastings managed to crush him before Antonius got the opportunity to play against him again. “I was ready to play him more. But then Brian Hastings ran $3 million over expectation.”
Hastings doesn’t get much love from his “thanks everybody” blog: “He should just be happy to take the money. If I were him, I would’ve just taken the money, I wouldn’t have said anything publicly.” Better way to tell about the session would have been something along the lines of: “I was very lucky. I ran over $3 million above expectation. It could happen to anybody,” says Antonius, with a laugh.
When looking to the future, Patrik waits for some new players to emerge into the high stakes games: “I think there are going to be more young players coming in to dominate the biggest games. Older players have problems competing, because they don’t work on their games as much as the younger guys.”
What comes to Patrik’s normal life, he tells that his wife, Maya, is on her third month waiting for their second child. Everything seems to be good at this point of Antonius’ life: “Babies are good, babies are good. I’m happy to be a young dad.”
You can read the whole interview here and here.
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Patrik Antonius: “I’ve lost close to $10 million in staking”
Sahamies wins almost $400k
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies won 393,000 dollars last night from Full Tilt Poker’s high stakes games and is up $420.000 this year.
Most of Ilari’s winnings came from Cole South while playing $200/$400 PLO. South is down $245k during the last 24 hours.
Sahamies hits his straight and takes down a $146k pot
Patrik Antonius managed to win last night as well. Only $290k, but he hasn’t been running that good lately so we think he is more than happy to win something.
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