2009 has come to an end, and it’s been a fairly busy year. So PokerNewsBoy (PNB) have compiled a list of the most popular poker news stories. 2009 was a good year if you where interested in keeping up with poker news and whats happening in the poker world. We seen Phil Ivey make the final table of the WSOP, only to be knocked out by Darvin Moon (the lumber jack from the US who has never played online poker).Read Full Article

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

After perhaps the most impressive online poker run of all-time, Isildur1 –rumored to be Swedish pro Viktor Blom—has returned to earth. Actually, returned is a bit of understatement: Isildur1 has crashed to earth. The poker world is now waiting to see if the Swede has enough bankroll, and emotional control, to continue challenging the best players in the world day-after-day, or if he will drop back down in limits having learned a very important lesson, or if he will simplyRead 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