High Stakes Poker Update: Tom Dwan and Isildur1

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The past few days have brought plenty of high stakes poker action, particularly on Full Tilt Poker where, as is fast becoming the norm, everybody seemed to want a piece of the anonymous Scandinavian “Isildur1”.

First up for Isildur1 on Monday was a heads up battle with Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies at $300 / $600 Pot Limit Omaha. Sahamies had a bad session, losing $710,000 over 699 hands, before the pair decided to increase the stakes to $500 / $1,000. The Finn fared no better at the higher limits, quickly rattling off a further $330,000 in losses.

During that session, four pots tipped the scales at over $200,000 and the largest of those contained $423,000, when Sahamies had his pocket aces busted by Isildur1’s flopped set. A $253,000 pot also went in Isildur1’s direction after Sahamies attempted a huge bluff with just one pair on the turn and the former kept him honest with top two.

Next in line was Cole South, also heads up at $300 / $600 Pot Limit Omaha. The pair played 1,124 hands across six tables and South profited to the tune of $82,000.

South was replaced by colleague Brian Hastings, who played 454 hands against the mysterious Swede before the stakes were raised to $500 / $1,000, where another 840 hands were played. Hastings continued his incredible domination of Isildur1, ending the session over $540,000 to the good and boosting his total earnings against him to over $3.7 million.

Despite the Hastings shaped dent in his bankroll, Isildur1’s poker winnings for the week still total just over a million dollars. Amazingly though, he isn’t the week’s highest online poker earner, an honour which goes to Tom “durrrr” Dwan.

Dwan has scooped $1.7 million this week, an impressive $1.3 million of which came on Saturday alone. The bulk of the earnings came from “PixKim”, who lost not far short of a million dollars, whilst other online rivals Di “Urindanger” Dang, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies and Brian Hastings all contributed six figure sums.

Antonius rounded off a horror week, where he is stuck for around $1.2 million in total, by losing over $340,000 in another session of “The ‘durrrr’ Challenge”, meaning he has now lost ten of the last eleven clashes between the two players. Dwan’s lead is up to $1,755,708 and there are still 16,758 hands to play.

Where would poker fans be without Tom Dwan and “Isildur1”?

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