*** The Official Isildur1 Thread ***

[anthonyjf23]

Originally Posted by AAGRESSOR

Isildur and Zigmund about to start playing Zigmund tells him it will just take a minute or 2 to poo, should be interesting

fyp

[Daleroxxu]

Originally Posted by nolimitfiend

Overheard at the nail salon

Mrs. Hellmuth: "So how's your boy doing these days?"

Mrs. Dwan: "Little Tommy's had a few business setbacks lately. He tells me a Swedish competitor, using questionable business practices is moving in on his territory."

Mrs. Hellmuth: "Oh, that's too bad! My son is always talking about Tommy's future." (Like how he would be surprised if he's even in business five years from now)

Mrs. Ilsidur1: "Tee hee"

Mrs. Dwan: "Did you say something dear?"

Mrs. Ilsidur1: "Oh, no. I just saw something funny in my People Magazine."

Mrs. Hellmuth: "You know, my son tells me he is the best in the world. I'm sure he could show this Swedish competitor a thing or two." (What kind of pansy did you raise? Letting some idiot Northern European get the best of him.)

Mrs. Ilsidur1: Gagging and spitting up her mocha latte

Mrs. Hellmuth: "Is there something wrong?."

Mrs. Ilsidur1: "No, I just had a little trouble with my latte." Gets up, hands the manicurist a couple of hundred, "Keep the change, it's my son's treat". Leaves.

Mrs. Hellmuth: "Who was that anyway?"

Manicurist: "No one has a clue, she's new in town."

hahaha, do more of these

[3betu]

isildur1 does not play limp game.

[kimos123]

Isildur1: split at more tables ?
Ziigmund: i have money
Isildur1: ok
Ziigmund: but cant play more tables
Isildur1: i am to tired to play 2 tables right now
Ziigmund: 3 mqx
Isildur1: ok then
Ziigmund: max
Isildur1: u comming ??
Ziigmund: i can play only 2
Ziigmund: cant get for screen
Ziigmund: 3
Ziigmund: playing different computer
Isildur1: 3
Ziigmund: then we have to quit
Isildur1: ok
Isildur1: i want play 2
Isildur1: gg

[cman24687]

http://www.pokerbloggs.com/high-stak...blom-biography

maybe its already been posted

[Such A Card]

Originally Posted by Ambeon

David Benyamine: 300 600 plo
Isildur1: i play that if we botg allways potbet to 2 k pre-flop

What the hell does botg mean?

[RaiseWanMiryon]

typo of 'both' imo

[CallMeCapo]

51 pages in thread. I'm lazy.

But from Ansky's blog (http://www.anskypoker.com/) :

Isildur1 didn’t change poker as we know it (as INTERNETPOKERS claimed). He’s gonna be more a flash in the pan – crushing one month, gone the next.

[Such A Card]

Originally Posted by RaiseWanMiryon

typo of 'both' imo

That makes sense. I thought it was some weird poker lingo/acronym.

[Maxaon]

Originally Posted by CallMeCapo

51 pages in thread. I'm lazy.

But from Ansky's blog (http://www.anskypoker.com/) :

Can anyone link the 2p2 post that the blog was referring to?

[DeepFryer]

Originally Posted by Yaksha

And pretty much all the HS-regs disagree with you :P It's considered unethical in those games to hit'n'run. There is an expectation at that level to give people the chance to recover if you're going to get action again. All the top pros recognise this in interviews, books, chat etc. They nearly all got pissed off with Mark Vos and his short-stacking, they all get pissed when people hit n run. Because these actions are beyond expectation for a fair game. This isn't some wild utopian theory :P

Have you actually heard this from PA, Ivey, Durrrr, and the other top online pros... or are you making some assumptions here? You should provide some quotes IMO.

Anyway, I don't think anyone should feel obligated to play any game they don't want to... play your best games, make teh moneys.

[Yaksha]

Originally Posted by DeepFryer

Have you actually heard this from PA, Ivey, Durrrr, and the other top online pros... or are you making some assumptions here? You should provide some quotes IMO.

Certainly have heard of from Ivey and Durrr, not specifically from PA.
But it is common knowledge. I already posted a link here to a quote where Ivey is giving Lederer **** for not giving action, so he won't make a prop bet with him. Negreanu makes several comments in one of the HSP episodes about this, Durrr has made constant references in chat, and even PA did promise to give isil NL action and then backed out.

Frankly I'm pretty surprised that anyone is considering this contentious enough to require quotes :P It's pretty basic. Nearly everybody has a 'best' game, or best set of circumstances (multi-tabling, live/online etc) - if everybody exclusively played only on their terms then nobody would be playing poker at the highest stakes. They all accomodate others strengths for the health of the game and so they can get action on their strengths too, and you just gotta hope that your weaknesses aren't as pronounced as your opponents when he's playing 'your' game.

So sure, it's probably profitable for PA to take advantage of isil and consistently refuse to play him on his terms, but it's anything but 'genius' or 'respectable' like others here are implying to me.. Durrr doesn't do that, nor does Ivey.

[cman24687]

guys is it confirmed that isildur is victor blom? http://www.pokerbloggs.com/high-stak...blom-biography

[westswindon]

Just seen this also

[pokerinfokoning]

Originally Posted by senator1214

http://www.coinflip.com/news/isildur...nds-later.html

How many 32,000 "small sample" hand battles have you had sir

Nice link. Looking at it, I actually think durrr's loss is less absolute than it seems from the graphs. Most of these hands are just coolers, especially given how hyper aggro they both are.

For instance, on average, when you play HU, it will happen 1 in 100.000 hands that you will get dealt AK while your opponent is dealt AA. A very rare event, so durrr made no mistake with pushing it their.
Similar stories for him hitting pair+nut-flush draw and running into top-set and so on.
Coolers don't show up in the EV-line either, so if you happen to have AK/KK versus AA a couple of times, when you are both sitting very deep, it looks in the graphs like you are being entirely outplayed, while in fact you just got very unlucky.