The PokerNewsBoy Awards have come to a close and now it’s time to look at the winners chosen by you the fans. Here is a look at the winners in the PokerNewsBoy Player Awards Categories: ·    Best Newcomer (Player) – Winner: Jake Cody (46% of the vote) – Runner-up: XBlink The UK poker pro was a runaway winner in this category. ·    Best HighRead Full Article

PokerStars have just revealed the true identity of Isildur1 as Viktor Blom. The once Full Tilt nosebleed level player with enough mystery to keep him interesting, while having swings that only a crazy teen could explain, is now the PokerStars pro who grinds mid to high-stakes and everyone know who he is. Although Isildur1 has been great for online poker over the last year,Read 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

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 knockedRead 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.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 willRead 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 itsRead 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 finallyRead Full Article