I’m Isuldur1 and so’s my poker playing wife

Apologies for not “blogging” for a while. I haven’t been doing too much of substance the last couple of weeks…

….but enough about me what about this Isuldur malarkey?

Just in case you’ve been living in a poker free world for the last three weeks you’ve missed some of the most amazing events in the history of the game/sport/big gambling laugh.

Quick potted history…

A young Swedish player – whose identity still isn’t 100% confirmed brought a bankroll over to Full Tilt from some of the euro sites. He started cleaning house against the 25/50 regulars before quickly moving up and going on one of the biggest heaters in online poker history.

At his peak he won a ludicrous $5 million in 10 days – including doing the unthinkable and kicking Durrs ass at NL Holdem for over 2 million. Of course he has now fallen to earth.

I’ve written about positive tilt a lot and this clearly happened to Isuldur as he started playing PLO (he still seems great at the game but not as good as NL) and started playing the best in the world simultaneously.

Last night he lost over 3 million (including the biggest pot in online history at over 1.3 million) playing Phil Ivey and Patrick Antonious heads up on 5 or 6 tables at the same time. Playing either of these two at poker can generally be described as ‘a bad tactical move’ – but playing them heads up at the same time at not your best game at 500/1000 blinds with a 200k buy in on each table. Well let’s just say Isuldur must carry his balls around in a wheel barrow.

It’s been quite something to watch. And I have no shame in admitting that for the first time in my life I’ve been a railbird.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that this week or two of online poker will be remembered for years and years to come. Up there with the classic heaters and matches in poker history.

Quite where Isuldur will land in terms of poker ability and longevity who knows. That’s not really the point, the point is the excitement and eye popping money that it brought to the game – online, accessible to everyone. Before the internet rare games like this happened almost in secret – now you can see every hand history.

The real sadness of it is that these stakes online and this level of competition will rarely happen again.

High stakes games will slowly die as players discover each others level and, as has already happened at No Limit, refuse to play each other.

And who really is going to put millions on the line against the best like this again?

I hope I’m wrong but I think the last year or so will be seen in the future as the golden age of internet poker.

I don’t know if I’m in awe of Isuldur’s gambling balls and fearless play or derisive of his lack of self management and disdain for money….probably all of that.

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