Isildur1 is back in black

December 8th, 2009

Isildur1 booked a $1.6 million dollar win vs Ilari Sahamies aka Ziigmund yesterday in Pot Limit Omaha over 945 hands at Full Tilt Poker. He lost about 400k to Brian Townsend over 4,300 hands. Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 was playing on 6 screens. Somewhere in the mix he was playing Patrik Antonius, but I couldn’t keep track of all the screens since they were moving from table to table to split up money. The day before on December 6th, Isildur1 won 600k from Tom Dwan aka durrrr. This big wins have taken Viktor from down 2 million to up 700k in the last 4 days.

Some photo highlights of Isildur1 VS Durrrr and Isildur1 VS Brian Townsend:

Durrrr 6 screens

Durrrr Flops boat

All durrrr or anyone really has to do is practice some pot control preflop. Isildur1 is very aggressive and will also call big bets with mediocre hands.

Once again, as I posted in other posts on this blog, Isildur1 will make huge bluff re raises having missed his draw or with complete air.

Here durrrr raises, gets re raised to 27k (which means hes most likely up against a set or 2 pair like he was), then he re raises all in for over 100k with J4 flush draw. Isildur1 is simply incapable of folding, so why
bet that much, use pot control to see if you can catch your flush.

Here is another example of trying to semibluff Isildur1, he will call, and probably even if he had only one pair instead of the two he had here.

When he has hands, he gets paid like with AA here.

Brian reluctantly calls huge bet on river.

Brian demonstrates how Isildur1 will call down big bets in Omaha with nothing even close to nuts.

Isildur1 fades the ace high flush draw of Brian on the flop and takes down huge pot. More reason for pot control until you get there.

Again, wait for big hand and get paid big vs isildur1.

Reaches 1 million stack on one of screens vs Brian Townsend

After this match with Brian Townsend, Isildur1 would take on Ziigmund and win around 1.6 million off of him. This would bring Isildur1 back into black and out of the red. He now is on a huge tear, with a upward climb of almost 3 million to bring himself out of the negative.

A simple formula IMO to beat Isildur1 would be to only play him in Pot Limit Omaha, wait
for him to have a losing session against someone else (preferable one where they hit and run him). Then wait for 12 midnight when he gets fatigued to play him. Use pot control to keep the pot size down until you flop big hands, then let him hang himself.

Isildur1 weakness:
1. Goes on major Tilt
2. Plays fatigued
3. becomes over aggressive when he misses draw or invests too much money with weak hands.
4. Calls decent sized bets with nothing on the river or weak hands. So he can be value bet to death provided you have the balls to call his all in river reraise bluffs.
5. will play Omaha rather than holdem. He is underdog in Omaha.

Isildur1 strengths
1. fearless with total disregard for money
2. huge bankroll
3. ability to play 8 screens heads up at once.
4. Very good at NL holdem. Probably one of the best NL Holdem heads up players in the world. But you won’t see him in any casino or WSOP in the USA until hes 21.