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Isildur1 set to play in the PartyPoker Big Game IV

The prospect of a live shot at Isildur1 continues to draw interest in the PartyPoker Big Game IV.

Tony G announced on the partypokerblog a few days ago that Isildur1 had indeed accepted his offer to play and the Big question on everyones lips is “Will isildur1 finally reveal his true identity”? We will only have a few days to wait and find out as the Partypoker Big game 1v starts April 11th.

The latest pro to confirm a spot in the April 11-13 cash game at Les Ambassadeurs Club in London is DragTheBar.com instructor and Team PokerStars Online Pro Dusty “Leatherass” Schmidt, who says the unknown Swede has definitely peaked his curiosity.

“To play live against Isildur1 is pretty exciting to say the least,” he said.

According to PartyPoker, Isildur1, who has spurred heavy action in the high-stakes games online for the past six months, will participate in the live cash game and potentially reveal his identity for the first time ever.

“Big Game IV will be the most hotly anticipated poker show of all time,” said Barry Hearn of organizers Matchroom Sport.

“With Isildur1 participating, interest in the made-for-television poker event might be unprecedented.”

Schmidt himself has won more than $3 million over more than 8 million hands in the past five years online. He claims to have never had a losing month, and in 2007, achieved PokerStars SuperNova Elite status in just eight months playing cash games exclusively.

“My intention is to grind out the whole 48 hours,” said Schmidt. “I’ll just have one hand to focus on, so it’ll be nice to be able to think things through more.

“I’m also excited to play deeper stacks in a more creative way than I normally would when playing 15 tables at a time.”

2010 Online High-Stakes Review

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?

Isildur1 Wins $1.5 Million in One Day

With Hastings having won $4.2 million in a single session against Isildur1, and South having the best year of his life so far, the odds seemed slim for Isildur1 to have much of a chance if he returned to the biggest games on Full-Tilt.

To the surprise of many, he did come back just a couple months after his crushing defeat, and has begun to steamroll his way back to the top.

For Isildur1, yesterday’s session began with a 1,114 hand $200/$400 Pot-Limit Omaha match against South, ending with Isildur1 up $240,779.

Hoping to expedite his comeback, South chose to step up the heads-up match to $300/$600 PLO, but only managed to lose another $401,733 over 566 hands.

With South’s hole growing deeper by the second, Hastings logged on to try and get one back for the CardRunners team. After 811 hands of $300/$600 PLO, Hastings himself booked a $250k loss before moving the game to the nosebleed stakes: $500/$1,000.

After 1,356 hands of furious action, Hastings threw in the towel down another $581,954.

Up next for Isildur1 came another re-match against Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo at $200/$400 No-Limit Hold’em. Across the two-and-a-half-hour 2,386-hand Hold’em match, Isildur1 took another $101k before Bonomo took his leave.

After losing $31k to NEKOTYAN over just six hands of $200/$400 PLO, Isildur1 went on to make another $154k at the $200/$400 Cap-PLO tables.

His day would end on the downswing, starting with a $30k loss to skjervoy at $100/$200 PLO before he sat across from South once more, this time losing back $354,008 over 133 hands of $500/$1,000.

In total, Isildur1 booked a more than $1.5 million profit, add that to the $572,746 he made Monday and everyone’s favorite mystery Swede is quickly working his way to the top of the 2010 profit leaderboard.

In fact, he is currently sitting in second place behind Alexander “PostflopAction” Kostritsyn on around $2.8 million.

South, thanks to his $354k win at the end of the night, managed to keep his losses to only $309,215, while Hastings took a hit of over $832k.

Below are three of the largest pots from yesterdays matches.

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