In the second matchup of PokerStars’ newly minted Superstar Showdown it was Tony G, the brash outspoken Party Poker spokesman, who would be taking on Isildur1 in a 2,500-hand challenge match, and in the end it was the Swedish Mystery Man who would come out victorious. The 2,500 hand match is played across 4-tables, and Tony G and Isildur1 took the non-traditional route ofRead Full Article

After a crushing defeat at the hands of PokerStars newest pro Isildur1, Scott “URnotINdanger2” Palmer was none too pleased with the outcome, going so far as to question the legitimacy of the game. Palmer dropped $175k to the team PokerStars Pro Isildur1 over the course of a 6 hour PLO session on PokerStars, and the following day Palmer was eager to discuss the matchRead Full Article

It’s official, PokerStars has released the name of the next player that will battle the newly minted Team PokerStars Pro Isildur1, and it’s none other than the brash Party Poker spokesman Tony G! Tony G and Isildur1 have a bit of a track record, but not at the poker tables. First, it was Tony G who initially outed Isildur1 as Viktor Blom, but thenRead Full Article

High-stakes poker Rui Cao and Isildur1 were playing a session of $25/$50 PLO on PokerStars when Cao expressed his interest in taking on Isildur1 in the PokerStars Superstar Showdown challenge match. Cao, who plays at PokerStars under the name ‘PepperoniF’, but is better known by his Full Tilt Poker handle ‘gohanounet’, is likely to be pushed to the back of line considering he isRead Full Article

Head on over to the PokerNewsBoy poker forums to cast your vote for the best High-Stakes player in poker! Here is the list of nominees our crack research staff has chosen for the honor! Phil Ivey – The man the myth, the legend! Ivey is widely considered the best all-around poker player in the world (perhaps history) and you can’t argue with his results.Read Full Article

What makes the Isildur1 signing at PokerStars so interesting is that unlike the signing of say Daniel Negreanu or other big-name poker players who are fairly scarce at the online poker tables, Isildur1 plays online poker, and plays a lot! Isildur1’s latest encounter on PokerStars saw him once again pitted against Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond –Galfond goes by the name of MrSweets28 on PokerStars—in aRead Full Article

Well, that didn’t take too long now did it! Just hours after PokerStars unveiled its latest signing by way of the PokerStars Blog, Isildur1 could be found by playing a heads-up match of $50/$100 PLO against “MrSweets28”, who just happens to be online poker legend and BlueFire Poker coach and owner Phil “OMGClayAiken Galfond! Railbirds will not only get the chance to watch Isildur1Read Full Article

You may recall that when Isildur1 burst onto the high-stakes online poker scene in late 2009, one of his early victims was the then virtually unknown –and like Isildur1 anonymous– jungleman12. Isildur1 promptly relieved jungleman12 of a sizable amount of his bankroll during their high-stakes heads-up confrontations. Fast-forward to late 2010, and not only do we have identities for their online screen-names –with jungleman12Read Full Article

Isildur1 has been absent from the high stakes since his roller-coaster ride at the end of 2009 and early 2010: Over the course of 2010 Daniel ‘Jungleman12’ Cates has usurped the mantle of the most talked about young online phenom. So, when two of the most talked about online poker players over the past year wind-up squaring off against one another you can beRead Full Article

It was an interesting week in poker as the World Series of Poker Europe wrapped up with a homegrown Brit capturing the title; the EPT London stop started up immediately afterward; and a whole host of changes were made at Full Tilt Poker. Full Tilt changes Rakeback calculation In what will surely be the talk of the online forums in the coming days FullRead Full Article