Oskar Silow

For those of you who has missed the ongoing epic battles between Isildur1 and his opponents might also have missed that the record for largest online pot ever has been broken.  Patrik Antonius was the lucky player who could rake in the pot of stunning $878959.  If these battles continue I think we’ll see a pot over a million within the near future…

See the pott here

I wish I wrote it myself and could take credit, ut this time it was another blogger who deserve the credit.  Haseeb, a high stakes spelare, wrote the best blog of the year, a must read!  Read here!

In an interview with myself  here

Isildur has been a nice addition to the high stakes tables online.  I think it’s especially nice that we once again can find a Swede up there.  And he’s only 19, how sick is that?

It’s been said about Durrr that he is the next Phil Ivey, so the question is if  Isildur is the next Durrr or has he already passed him in talent?  Durrr is famous for beeing the player who can handle the most tabels and the longest session at the high stakes tables, at least until he played Isildur.  In the most epic online HU-battles since Bad_IP played FastFreddie the young Swede has crushed his opponents and mostly Durrr.  They’ve played a number of <24h sessions the last week and it will be very interesting to see how this will continue.

As you can see in the picture above from Highstakesdb, Isildur already is the 4th biggest winner online since 2007-01-01 even though his accoun is only 3 weeks old.  Another interesting fact is that he played 72k hands in these 3 weeks,  which can be compared to Antonius, Ivey och Phil Galfond who all played between 250-350k hands in almost 3 years.

Let’s hope that his BR-management is as good as his talant is great so that we will be able to follow his adventures in poker for years to come

When day 3 started there were 43 players still in the fireld.  37 was going to get money and with a stack of 103,4k and average beeing 95k I felt pretty sure to at least hit the money.

I started of nice and easy, but with 39-38 players left I shifted gears and played very aggressive to take home a lot of pots preflop with raises and reraises.  It payed off and I increased my stack from 98 to about 165k around the bubble and was very happy with that.

With 36 players left there was a redraw and I had to leave my nice and easily played table and sit at the tv-table.  I had only played with one player there before in the tournament and that was the guy who I doubled up on day 2 when he was all in with QJ vs my AK and he hit the J on the river.  On my right hand side I had the chipleader, a very aggressive guy from Hungary.  With a new table and many new players I decided to shit gears again and play slow until I hit some cards or pick up some reads.

After folding for a little more than 2 orbits I pick up 88 in the big blind and face a raise from button.  He has a total of bout 60k and raised to about 8,5k.  I put him all in and he folds after a few minutes.  Just a few hands later I raise from late position with AJ and pick up the blinds and antes.  A few hands later I again get AJ and raise from UTG to8,3k with blinds 1500-300 ante 400.  Everybody folds around to the chipleader in the big blind and he makes it 22k to play.  My play in a position like this is fold 100/100 but this chipleader has been very active and re-raised 5 times before the flop and showed hands like 93 after his opponents folded.  He’s obviously trying to take maximum advantage of his chiip position and indimidate his opponents.  Still with a stack of 160k and average 120k folding and wait for a better spot is usually the right play here.  Especially since the money get bigger quite quickly and it usually pays off for me to play slow and pick my spots and climb the money ladder why others spew their chips away.  But, I study my opponent a little bit adn notice that a vein in his throat is jumping like mad.  I remember a hand in South Africa when I bluffed all in on the river and my opponent after he folded and I showed my bluff told me that I had the same tell, but he ws too scared to follow his read.  I feel confident that I can pick up the pott with a push and go all in.  Unfortunately my opponent calls and shows AKs.  Not so strange that he get excited/nervous with a coinflip hand for a big pot in this stage of the tournament.  I feel sick!  A jack in the door and maybe maybe I can get lucky one time and I get a little hope.  When the complete flop is out he flopped the nutflush and I’m bust.  I feel sick and very dissapointed in myself and my play.  It’s been a while since I was in good position to go deep in a tournament like this and with the field that was left and my chipposition it felt like I threw away a chance to make good money :(  The only comfort is that I actually had the balls to go with my read, even if it happened to be wrong this time…. I got €6k for finishing 32nd. 

The winner of the event was Swedish online phenomenon Kristoffer “Sumpas” Thorsson.  Congratulations!

Count on me beeing hungry for more in Prag……