Party Poker had a major press release on Wednesday when it announced that the mystery man who uses the online handle Isildur1 will pull up a chair for their televised cash game, The Big Game IV. The news comes on the heels of a blog entry by Party Poker spokesman Tony G where he literally pleaded with the anonymous Swede to take part in the game; going so far to assure his continued secrecy by not revealing his name andRead Full Article

PokerNewsDaily.com has reported that Isildur1 –the high-stakes player who captivated the online poker world with his play on Full Tilt Poker—will have his own private table at Real Deal Poker, an online poker site set to launch in March. If the upstart poker-room is successful in luring Isildur1 to their site –Isildur1 is perhaps the biggest draw in online poker at the moment– Real Deal Poker as a site will gain instant recognition. After a hot start, Isildur1 ended hisRead Full Article

The rise and fall of isildur1 on the Full Tilt Poker tables appears to be far from over at this point: Not only has the mysterious Swedish poker player filed a complaint with Full Tilt Poker regarding the losses he suffered by players who were found guilty of data-mining, but now Tony G has made yet another spectacular blog post regarding the still unknown, high-stakes poker player. Tony G –who earlier outed Isildur1 as Viktor Blom

It appears the poker community jumped the gun on identifying Viktor Blom as Isildur1, either that or after his massive downswing Blom may be loathed to admit his connection to the now legendary screen-name. After a few sources including Luke “full_flush” Schwartz and Tony G seemingly outed the Swedish superstar based on his ability and style of play at the Full Tilt Poker tables. The consensus that Isildur1 is Viktor, hasn’t seemed to die down with the denial: After all,Read Full Article

One of the most discussed topics in online poker has been the identity of the new high-stakes phenom on Full Tilt Poker who uses the alias Isildur1: Million dollar pots and multi-million dollar swings have become the norm since this mystery man from Sweden showed up at the nosebleed tables on Full Tilt Poker, and it now seems the online poker community has its answer –or perhaps more precisely, confirmation. Antanas Gouga, better known as Tony G in the pokerRead Full Article

After one of the sickiest high stakes heads up games in history on Full Tilt poker, the question everyone is asking. Who is Isildur1? Tom Dwan, or his more common name – Durrrr, has just finished a monster high stakes heads up session with Isildur1. In the session that has lasted near two days, and seen Durrr loss near $1.5 million, the game finally came to an end when Isildur1 couldn’t continue for lack of sleep. Even though Durrr triedRead Full Article