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Brian Hastings wins heads-up championship
Brian Hastings won eight consecutive matches to win the $10,000 buy-in heads-up no-limit hold ‘em world championship. Continue reading
Brian Hastings Wins WSOP $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em
Brian Hastings is best known as a high stakes cash game player, but this week he captured his first World Series of Poker title in the $10,000 no-limit hold’em heads-up championship. We caught up with him to learn more in this edition of ‘Batt… Continue reading
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Brian Hastings Wins $10K Heads-Up Event at WSOP
On Thursday, cash game pro Brian Hastings won the $10,000 heads-up event at the 2012 World Series of Poker. Hastings took $371,498 after beating out a field of 152. The …
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The Scoop — Brian Hastings Talks Isildur1, Black Friday
Brian Hastings joined host Deigo Cordovez on Card Player TV’s ‘The Scoop’ to discuss his legendary heads-up match with Viktor “Isildur1″ Blom, to set the record straight regarding the hand-history sharing rumors and to talk how his life has ch… Continue reading
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Poker blog — Isildur1 to play in Party Poker’s Big Game
I’m warning you right now, this isn’t an April Fools’ Day joke: Isildur1 is going to be on TV.
It might not make much sense for him to commit to this appearance, but I’ll start from the beginning and tell you what we know about the mysterious Isildur1. The basics are that he’s under 21, from Sweden and plays at the highest cash games possible online. He came out of nowhere late last year and had an amazing upswing. He faced off against the game’s best and until one awful session against Brian… Continue reading
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2010 Online High-Stakes at a Glance
While it’s no shock seeing Tom “durrrr” Dwan on the top of the leader board with over $3.4 million as we near the end of the first quarter of 2010, it is that Phil Ivey has barely played.
In total, Ivey has logged just 4,351 hands this year. And while he ‘s showing a $194,074 profit, every big name in the biggest games have played more hands.
In the meantime, Alexander “PostflopAction” Kostritsyn, winner of the 2008 Aussie Millions, has had tremendous success on Full Tilt in 2010 so far, earning over $2.2 million to put him into second place.
Kostritsyn has proved himself to be a master of mixed games, with more than $1.6 million of his profits coming from the high-stakes 7-Game tables.
But perhaps the biggest story of the year has been Cole South.
He held the profit lead with as much as $3.6 million to start the year, but a recent month-long downswing has left him with only $1.2 million of it.
The most volatile players ever to hit the digital felt made his first splash late in 2009, making over $5 million in just three days from Dwan.
Identity unknown, Isildur1 went on to play the biggest pots in online history, the largest worth over $1.3 million against Patrik Antonius, before losing that and another $2 million in just two weeks.
The majority of the losses came at the hands of Brian Hastings, including more than $4.2 million in a single session, and with the unknown Swede returning to the tables again this year, we’ve already seen more than one epic rematch.
Despite playing slightly more conservatively, Isildur1 has managed to go on a $3.6 million dollar swing. And even though Hastings still appears to still be getting the best of him, he’s currently sitting with $422,400 in profit.
Antonius has been another shocking story.
He absolutely crushed the leader board last year, but has been unable to find his stride in 2010, down almost $3.8 million since the first of January.
In addition to his massive losses, Antonius has also been getting dismantled in the durrrr Challenge, Dwan’s lead extending to almost $2 million.
Finally, since the 30-day suspension of his Full Tilt pro status, Brian Townsend has struggled to turn a profit in almost every session he has played, losing over $1.9 million so far this year.
It’s anybody’s guess as to what will happen over the next nine months, but the two questions most online rail birds are still hoping to have answered appear to be: When will Ivey decide to put up some numbers and just who is Isildur1?
Below are the three largest pots of the year so far. To see more hands from last night, head to MarketPulse.
Posted in Poker Tagged Alexander, aussie millions, Brian Hastings, Brian Townsend, Cole South, Dwan, full tilt, Hastings, Isildur, massive losses, nbsp, Phil Ivey, profit, Tom, year Comments Off
2010 Online High-Stakes at a Glance
While it’s no shock seeing Tom “durrrr” Dwan on the top of the leader board with over $3.4 million as we near the end of the first quarter of 2010, it is that Phil Ivey has barely played.
In total, Ivey has logged just 4,351 hands this year. And while he ‘s showing a $194,074 profit, every big name in the biggest games have played more hands.
In the meantime, Alexander “PostflopAction” Kostritsyn, winner of the 2008 Aussie Millions, has had tremendous success on Full Tilt in 2010 so far, earning over $2.2 million to put him into second place.
Kostritsyn has proved himself to be a master of mixed games, with more than $1.6 million of his profits coming from the high-stakes 7-Game tables.
But perhaps the biggest story of the year has been Cole South.
He held the profit lead with as much as $3.6 million to start the year, but a recent month-long downswing has left him with only $1.2 million of it.
The most volatile players ever to hit the digital felt made his first splash late in 2009, making over $5 million in just three days from Dwan.
Identity unknown, Isildur1 went on to play the biggest pots in online history, the largest worth over $1.3 million against Patrik Antonius, before losing that and another $2 million in just two weeks.
The majority of the losses came at the hands of Brian Hastings, including more than $4.2 million in a single session, and with the unknown Swede returning to the tables again this year, we’ve already seen more than one epic rematch.
Despite playing slightly more conservatively, Isildur1 has managed to go on a $3.6 million dollar swing. And even though Hastings still appears to still be getting the best of him, he’s currently sitting with $422,400 in profit.
Antonius has been another shocking story.
He absolutely crushed the leader board last year, but has been unable to find his stride in 2010, down almost $3.8 million since the first of January.
In addition to his massive losses, Antonius has also been getting dismantled in the durrrr Challenge, Dwan’s lead extending to almost $2 million.
Finally, since the 30-day suspension of his Full Tilt pro status, Brian Townsend has struggled to turn a profit in almost every session he has played, losing over $1.9 million so far this year.
It’s anybody’s guess as to what will happen over the next nine months, but the two questions most online rail birds are still hoping to have answered appear to be: When will Ivey decide to put up some numbers and just who is Isildur1?
Below are the three largest pots of the year so far. To see more hands from last night, head to MarketPulse.
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Isildur1 Dumps $1.6 Million to Hastings
Yesterday afternoon, Isildur1 found himself in the middle of a heads-up $500/$1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha battle with Sahamies and Hasting.
The match started with Isildur1 making just under $200k from Sahamies in 499 hands. Sahamies then left, giving his empty seat to Hastings, Isildur1′s top rival.
Isildur1 was down $350k after 1,500 hands against Hastings to start out. But over the next 1,210 hands, Hastings crushed the Swede for a total profit of $1.6 million.
After Hastings logged off, Isildur1 hooked up with Sahamies once more, this time at $200/$400 PLO. Isildur1 made just under $65k before agreeing to up the stakes to $300/$600.
Sahamies managed to make $349,925 at the higher stakes, leaving him up $60k on the day. He finished his day by taking over $237k from Tom “durrrr” Dwan at $500/$1,000 PLO, walking away up $295,617.
Unable to follow up his weekend rush with another win, Dwan finished yesterday down nearly $300k. But despite the loss, he still sits as the top online profit earner in 2010.
Finally, having lost over $1.7 million already, Isildur1 dropped down in stakes to play Cole South heads-up at $25/$50 PLO where he lost another $30k before calling it quits.
In total, Isildur1 lost a whopping $1,790,744.
Below are the three largest pots between Isildur1 and Hastings. To see more hands, head to MarketPulse.
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Isildur1 and durrrr Headline Weekend Action
The majority of the weekend’s action and almost all of the largest pot, came from a variety of six-max Pot-Limit Omaha games.
The largest pot of the weekend, worth $622,962, was won by Di “Urindanger” Dang at $300/$600 PLO when both Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and Isildur1 got it all in with the Dang brother pre-flop.
Dang managed to hit the perfect flop, making the bicycle straight, with neither player having two spades to complete what could have been a flopped flush. Not only did Dang flop the straight, but Isildur1 was left drawing dead and Galfond only had outs to chop.
Despite winning the largest pot of the weekend, Dang still finished with an overall loss of $150k. Galfond, who showed up on the losing end of 3 out of 5 of the weekend’s largest pots, also booked a $238,466 loss.
Dwan’s first serious match of the weekend came at $200/$400 No-Limit Hold’em where he lost $174k to Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo over 1,715 hands.
He was able to re-coup his losses in the next match he played, taking $230k from Patrik Antonius in the short 61-hand durrrr Challenge session. Thanks in part to this loss, Antonius finished the weekend down $923,567.
After a few small losses, all with a combined total of less than $25k, Dwan spent just 552 hands at the six-max $300/$600 PLO tables, making an impressive $707,785 before calling it quits.
In total, Dwan finished the weekend up over $797k.
Meanwhile, Isildur1 managed to have the best weekend results of all, posting a weekend profit of around $845k. Isildur1′s first match came at $100/$200 NLHE against Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro. After losing over $87k, Isildur1 doubled the stakes, but lost another $144k in the process.
Moving to $200/$400 PLO against Dang, Isildur1 crushed the session, leaving up $550,456 after almost 4,000 hands.
Isildur1 carried his momentum into his next HU match, this time taking $284k from Alexander “PostflopAction” Kostritsyn at $300/$600 PLO.
Unfortunately, Isildur1 was unable to navigate the $300/$600 PLO six-max game, losing over $344k during his 521-hand stint.
After taking on Kelopuro once more, this time at $300/$600 NLHE, and making back over $220k, Isildur1 sat with Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies at $500/$1,000 PLO.
The two played 500 hands with Isildur1 making just under $200k before Sahamies logged off. His empty seat was filled by Brian Hastings who, at the time of publication, had lost $150k after 1,500 hands in a still ongoing match.
Up until press time, Isildur1 had made over $844k on the weekend. Check back tomorrow for the final results of the Isildur1 vs. Hastings nosebleed match.
Below are three of the weekend’s largest pots. To see more hands from last night, head to MarketPulse.