Mystery Swedish Poker Pro: Isildur1

A mystery Swedish online poker pro "Isildur1" has burst on to the scene on Full Tilt Poker last November of this year has caught the attention of many in the poker world. For several weeks now a player using the username Isildur1 has been tearing up the high stakes games on Full Tilt Poker.


Last month of this year, he took the high-stakes Pot Limit Omaha and No Limit Hold’em worlds by storm in November of 2009, squaring off heads-up against players like World Series Of Poker renowned poker players like Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, and also Isildur1 took Tom “Durrrr” Dwan for a few million dollars, and was at the tables again doing the same thing to many other pros for several hundred thousands this past weekend.

According to several sites, Isildur1 is up over $6,000,000 this month alone playing the high stakes cash games on Full Tilt Poker. By the first week of November, Isildur1 was up $1 million according to Poker Table Ratings and crossed the $2 million threshold shortly thereafter. On November 15th, 2009, Isildur1 had raked in more than $5 million from his opponents. Most of his success had come at the expense of Dwan.

On November 21st, Antonius took down a record-setting $1.3 million pot against Isildur1. Two days later, Ivey was the victim of a $1.1 million haul by Isildur1. Then, the bottom dropped out. By December 1st, 2009, Isildur1 was $1.7 million in the hole, a nearly $7 million real money swing at the tables at online casino poker Full tilt Poker.


Isildur1's True Identity

The controversy goes rant and rave on in the online poker community as to the true identity of Isildur1. Isildur1's peculiarity never be known due to complicated tax laws in the Scandinavian nation, but early speculation that Isuldur1 is Robert "Gulkines" Flink.

Moreover, another speculation burst out as Frank "Frank1The1Tank" Calo posted about Isildir1's identity; "Fwiw, I have received intelligence by some very credible sources (who shall be kept completely private) who said pretty confidently who isildur1 is. So I give you the knowledge I have (with like 99% certainty but not quite 100% yet) that it is Robert Flink aka Gulkines. No this is not a level or me having fun or w/e. I can say with like 100% certainty that it isn't viktor blom either fwiw."

Another speculation is when the poker bad boy Tony G reveal that a Swedish poker pro named Viktor “blom30” Blom is Isildur1. Viktor Blom has denied being the high-stakes newcomer, telling Bluff Europe, “I am not the one you are looking for. Keep searching.”


However, a conversation at the playing table between Isildur1 and Illari "Ziigmund" Sahamies, that was published on the 30th of November at the PocketFives.com poker forum seems to strengthen the idea that Isildur1 is Viktor Blom:

Ziigmund: u r nice guy
Ziigmund: and pretty viktor
Isildur1: lol Ziigmund: :- )
Isildur1: can u atlest reload finnish superstar
Ziigmund: :- )

In the above converstaion of Ziigmund and Isildur1, Ziigmund invoke with the name of "Viktor". In an interview of PokerNewsBoy to Viktor "blom30" Blom about hime being as a Isildur1 indentity:
November 19, 2009 at 5:39 am


Viktor Blom: Ok, ok, it will soon be revealed anyway so to stop all the speculation, I am isildur1 on Full Tilt.

November 21, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Viktor Blom: Actually just kidding, I am not Isildur1

November 23, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Viktor Blom: Or maybe I am?!?!?!? Don’t know….

November 23, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Viktor Blom: Hold on waiting for a mail from FTP to see if I actually do have an account there, you wouldn’t believe how much Jäger I’ve consumed lately, phew.

Still,the speculations hasn't been unveil yet, and to think of it Isildur1 is currently the most profitable player on Full Tilt Poker in 2009, having netted approximately $5.5 million dollars in profit over the first 10 1/2 months of the year.

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