Last year the biggest buzz in the high stakes online poker games was the Swedish unknown player Isildur1.  Just as rapidly as he ascended to the pinnacle of pokerdom, multi-tabling against the best players in the world:  Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan,  Patrik Antonius and others he blew his bankroll away to little known Brian Hastings.  Then he disappeared (to lick his wounds perhaps) and now… he’s back.

The Lord of the Ring Games, Isildur1 showed up infrequently last week, and then made his big return in a meteoric 24 hour span.  Isildur1 sat down in a $200/$400 CAP Pot Limit Omaha game against players like theASHMAN103 and URINDANGER.  That session translated into an over $238k win.

Isildur1 ran into a bit of a hiccup after that.  He played some No limit Texas Hold’Em against Isaac Haxton on eight tables with $100/$200 blinds.  Isildur1 played 2,022 losing hands and gave Haxton $90k of his winnings.  He didn’t stop instead he went bigger.  He challenged ZeeJustin and Ziigmund, two of the top online poker players in the world, and left a good bit richer after each match.  In 24 hours he played almost 6,000 hands and earned about $126 a hand.   His profit a mere 725k.   Six hours later he had built the winnings into an over a million dollar day.

His first victim?  ZeeJustin aka Justin Bonomo.  Bonomo, a good friend with Isaac Haxton, thought the gravy train had rolled into the station.  Only problem it had but he was the train.  The two squared off and played almost 3300 hands.  Things did not go well for Justin Bonomo (ZeeJustin) as Isildur1 snapped him off for half a million.  It was the worst loss in Bonomo’s career and it took place over six $200/$400 No Limit Hold’Em tables. 

Bonomo’s biggest loss happened when he flopped two pair and Isildur1 cold decked him with top set.   Bonomo opened for a raise from the button with Qh6h.  Isildur1 looked at two kings and popped him back.  A cold deck flop of KQ6 had Bonomo drawing really thin.  Isildur1 bet his top set.  Bonomo raised and Isildur1 just called.  An eight fell on the turn and Isildur1 cooly checked to Bonomo.  ZeeJustin couldn’t help but fire out a quarter of his stack.  Isildur1 shipped it and Bonomo called.  As the Jack of hearts hit the river the pot became official.

Bonomo’s losses brought up an interesting piece of chat: 

ZeeJustin: friend that had a piece backed out, i have to go down to 1/2 if you want too keep playing =(
Isildur1: ok =( sry i am to tired for that =(

Yes his backer backed out and Bonomo was on his own but he didn’t have the scratch to play Isildur!’s stakes.  Isildur1 apparently wasn’t too tired to play because he ran into Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies.  Their stakes were $100/$200 Pot Limit Omaha.  Isildur1 continue to run good and made a 49k profit.  Once they doubled the blinds and played 625 hands Isildur1 won another $116k. 

The cherry on top came after Isildur1 sat down at a $300/$600 table.  With Tom “Durrrr” Dwan itching to win back some of the money he lost in the last supernova explosion of Isildur1 on the poker scene they set up some heads up tables of Pot Limit Omaha.  Alas for poor Dwan things went according to the old script and Dwan got snapped off yet again.  When it was all said and done, Isildur1 had another 230k from Durrrr’s bankroll.

Durrrr was lucky it stopped there because he dropped a pot that was bigger than his total losses as the session ended.  The largest online pot on the day came when Dwan had two pair and a wrap draw.  Isildur1 had turned a straight and it held.  That pot alone was for over a quarter million. 

Isildur1’s return to the online poker high stakes cash games is a welcome sign that there is some railbirding excitement.