And... Did he?

From Raulgonzalez' poker retirement well/AMA




Seems he owes lots of people money and raul thinks there is no coming back because he is unable to get staked anymore

This is just speculation, but I remember DNegs saying that someone who is very popular among fan boys owes him money.

What a shocker.. He seemed soo responsible!

Viktor loaned a lot himself in the past that never got paid back. Nothing but respect for him - when someone makes a loan they know they take on the risk that it won't be paid back.

where is the full ama?

Could be dozens of people

its on the german pokerstrategy forums, in german

Old maxim- Never be a lender nor a borrower.

I suppose we all borrow from legit sources- banks and the like that we know HAVE to be paid back.

Lending money to so called friends is a definite no no and pretty much always ends in tears.

Probably old news but he is grinding small stakes PLO5 on Pokio. Have been playing with him a lot past year, he's little spewy preflop but v good post.

Which stakes does he grind?

always thought isildur is more that kind of "highstakes or nothing" guy. cant imagine him playing 1k tables or smth lower

1/2 and 2/4 with straddle mostly. Those games can get pretty deep but yeah, kiddie games.

He is a Pokio pro so 100 rb and maybe some small salary, he should be doing ok.

You can only play 1 table so sometimes I wonder if it's really him playing but maybe he doesn't have much else to do.

e. Btw Ziigmund is also a pro there, playing the same games.

They managed to keep those two being pro quiet... Do they both play under isildur1 and ziigmund?

Isildur1 and Ilari.

They could be playing a bunch of tables somewhere else at the same time.

Never loan money. It causes amnesia.

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This cant be true surely? Less than a year ago he basically went in like 30 High Roller Tournaments, with 200+ fields.. and like final tabled 10 of them and won like 4 and came 2nd in 2!

Or... he must be being paid a fortune to play on those other sites? He probably used those tournament winnings to pay people back. But still.. I find it hard to believe Isi no longer has the talent to compete at the top

does it matter? he can still make over 10k a month easily evan if he wakes up broke tomorrow, who cares, its just money for him comes and goes.

More interesting stuff from that ama and isildur. Someone came in and drops random information. Seems legit. Didn't know isildur had a brother. Anyone knows what he means with it?

"@ownage4u, thanks again for the reply!

Yeah, I would say I am quite knowledgeable about him.

When I asked you about that previous debt, I actually thought that the 610k$ you mentioned was regarding Isildur, and that there had been payments done on the 1m+ amount.

I didn't know it all had been settled, glad to hear that, even if it was "just" 400k~ that was sent back, thats why I got those things mixed up.

I didn't really understand that you were hoping to get that back, and at the same time not thinking Isildur1 would be able to make a comeback, but now I understand that you weren't referring to Isildur there with those 610k$.

Yes, around October 2018 those quotes are from if I remember correctly.

As for being staked, I know he used to be staked a lot by a player from the Netherlands, and also of course the one from Lithuania, and others in Sweden, Norway and the US. I just always hoped that some day he would not need to be staked anymore, and that he would be able to continue playing without being staked.

I also remember around 6 years ago or more, he avoided playing against you, since he saw sanIker as the toughest opinion on fulltilt, and then later on you and Isildur started playing so much against each other.

I was also always amazed that he kept playing against Ben over and over again, and I remember even asking Ben on Skype back in those days how they always ended up playing again and again.
Almost in the same way, I was also surprised that Isildur kept playing against you so much, when he had originally started playing against you even though he thought you had a big edge on him on the games you guys mostly played.

As for the "increase xbook or gg" that you mentioned, was because backers saw that in specific games Isildur was more likely to win, and therefore wanted to increase the xbook for those specific sessions. So it wasn't because Isildur himself demanded that, but I am pretty sure that you know that already ofcourse.

I also feel that some "deals" in terms of xbooking and such in the past maybe crosses the line, (not talking about any deals between you and Isildur), but between Isildur and other established players.

There has been a lot of weird things going on in the poker scene throughout the years, and I am also sad that his brother (MeatballsPls) had to go through all the stuff he had to go through back in 2011-2012.

In 2017 things were going poorly for Isildur as well in some ways at the end, even though on the tables on stars it looked like he was having his millions again according to the results for the first half of the year, and I remember that he wasn't staked by the player from Netherlands after 2017.
Wasn't 2017 the year you started with Pokeit as well? Maybe wrong there on the year. Checked my archives and it seems it was about that year you also started to use the Pokeit logo on stars.

When it comes to PokerStars, there has been a lot of things going on.

In 2016 I remember that he was trying to do some brm, there was a plan to start grinding in lower stakes again, but it ended up being 5k that got lost almost every day for a long time, in not that many hands, because he played higher stakes then he originally intended to, and had the limit set to 5, so he just logged back on every day, lost that 5k, and kept repeating that.

I remember when he got staked by JayP and transfers was made directly on the table instead of through other ways, which I guess is "dumping" in that sense, but not according to me in the same way as a normal "chip-dumping" would take place, because there was no bad intentions, just a weird way of transferring the money.

PokerStars also had a weird way of "investigating" multi-account and such, even accusing him of multi-accounting on the M****** account, which he didn't do.

This post became longer than expected because I wanted to make sure to get the most of it out in one post, so that I don't take up space for others to ask questions as well in the future. Apologize to the others here who had to see this long post, sending a message to ownage4u didn't work so I had to reply here. I wont make any more longer posts.

Feel free to ignore quoting this text when and if you read it, just in case it upsets other germans here that it's a long text that also isn't in german, i will edit this text later so it doesn't annoy people, just felt that I had to reply to you.

Again, a lot of people really appreciate you taking the time to answer questions here, so thanks for that, and sorry again for not writing in german."

https://www.pokernews.com/search/?q=...astian+blom%22

Played MSPLO as meatballspls on ftp a decade ago

A couple of interesting points, I remember 2017 for isildur1 so am surprised it being described as poor.

Is that post from Raul himeself? A lot of that info looks to be taken from speculation discussed in this thread!

https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a...ka-pokereliten

Perpetrator got 3+ years in prison for that 2011/2012 incident, so looks valid from alberthofmanns post above ' 'back in 2011-2012.' '
Not so bright pressurizing someone to make player transfers on stars, demanding a 50K dollar transfer and then tell him to ask his brother for it.

Just 1 post at Loctus PokerNews link regarding his brother after 2012 also, what happened seems to have had a big impact.
A lot more details in the judgment from court, in all likelihood the Aftonbladet link is enough to describe what happened.

Wow sick, so bloms brother got robbed, or was Blom also a victim? 3 years seems veeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry low, cant believe thats true. I know european court system are different, less about penality more about reintegration into society, but robbery with a gun put the head gets u 6years+ in most european countries. Where did u get the info about the 3years?

Nope, thats just from his ama and someone came in and posted that. The person wrote in english and obviously is somehow involved in highstakes scene. But how the person writes etc, seems legit insider. Raul also says that this person knows a bunch.

Just very interesting.

Didnt isildur final table multiple highrollers on pp this year? He must have been staked with very low % for himself

https://www.expressen.se/gt/tre-ar-for-pokerran/