In the 2nd of the Superstar Showdown games at Pokerstars Isildur1 took on Tony G in 2500 hands of Poker (half PLO, and half NLHE).  It was a close game throughout, until the very end with Isildur1 eventually winning with $44,820 profit.  The game took a good 8 hours or so, with only very short breaks.  Tony G put on a good performance, but towards the end tried to gamble it up a little more to pull back the deficit towards a victory, only to end up increasing the deficit.   As Tony himself said, he had to go for it for the sake of people who had prop bets on him.

 Here are the final details of Isildur’s win:

After 625 hands at table Showdown1 (NLHE), both players were even.
After 625 hands at table Showdown2 (NLHE), Isildur1 earned $500.00 profit.
After 625 hands at table Showdown3 (PLO), Isildur1 earned $158,470.00 profit.
After 625 hands at table Showdown4 (PLO), Tony G earned $114,150.00 profit.

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Following the recent signing of Isildur1 to Pokerstars a challenge series of heads-up showdowns has been created where anyone can challenge Isildur1 to a heads-up match of 2500 consequtive hands with each player bringing $150,000 to the tables.

Isaac Haxton was the first to take up the challenge and after 625 hands at each of 4 tables (2500 hands in total) Haxton emerged as the victor, being up by $41,701. Haxton had adopted a min-raise strategy which appeared to frustrate Isildur1 a little. Following many tos-and-fros Haxton just edged it but there is already talk of a rematch at some point after a few more contestants have taken a shot.

You can watch the challenges (or even take part!) at Pokerstars. Join Pokerstars and receive a $600 sign-up bonus

Grolongo on Stars is widely suspected to be one and the same as Isildur1 on Full Tilt. He has a very similar style and will take on all-comers all at the same time on lots of different tables. His location is also listed as Gothenburg, Sweden.

He made an appearance in the $25,500 WCOOP Heads-up Event yesterday. Yes that is $25,500 Buy-in not prizepool. He didn’t fair so well though with his trip nines running into a turned boat:

PokerStars Game #49862385079: Tournament #2010090039, $25000+$500 USD Hold’em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (25/50) - 2010/09/19 15:22:03 ET
Table ‘2010090039 9′ 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: grolongo (2350 in chips)
Seat 2: philivey2694 (17650 in chips)
grolongo: posts small blind 25
philivey2694: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
grolongo: raises 50 to 100
philivey2694: calls 50
*** FLOP *** [9d Ah 9s]
philivey2694: checks
grolongo: bets 100
philivey2694: calls 100
*** TURN *** [9d Ah 9s] [3c]
philivey2694: checks
grolongo: bets 250
philivey2694: calls 250
*** RIVER *** [9d Ah 9s 3c] [Jh]
philivey2694: checks
grolongo: bets 750
philivey2694: raises 16450 to 17200 and is all-in
grolongo: calls 1150 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (15300) returned to philivey2694
*** SHOW DOWN ***
philivey2694: shows [3s 3d] (a full house, Threes full of Nines)
grolongo: shows [9c 6c] (three of a kind, Nines)
philivey2694 collected 4700 from pot
grolongo finished the tournament in 27th place
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 4700 | Rake 0
Board [9d Ah 9s 3c Jh]
Seat 1: grolongo (button) (small blind) showed [9c 6c] and lost with three of a kind, Nines
Seat 2: philivey2694 (big blind) showed [3s 3d] and won (4700) with a full house, Threes full of Nines

For those interested, philivey2694 is Issac Haxton a big winner in tournaments around the globe.

The latest cash action on Full Tilt Poker has been crazy.  Huge games everywhere with durrrr and Isildur1 ploughing through tens of thousands of hands over the space of just a few days. 

On Sunday they played around 7500 hands with hundreds of them reaching 100K or above.  A massive 21 hands topped $400K.

Dwan finished Sunday around $1.2 million down and came back on Monday looking to get some of it back.   Monday saw a mind boggling 12,000 hand session, with Dwan losing a further $600K.

Tuesday it continued with Dwan dropping a further $850K to Isidur1

On Wednesday Dwan was tied up with filming High Stakes Poker, much to his frustration no doubt.    While the cat’s away the dog must play.  Isildur1 went up against Antonius, Cole South and Brian Townsend.   He finished up around $400K from that 4-way encounter.

Then Dwan was back, keen as mustard to start getting un-stuck, and went on to lose yet again, this time around $700K

Overall after this somewhat crazy week Durrrr was about $3 million down.   That sure did screw his overall stats over for 2009.

All this action flying around reached fever pitch today with Isildur1 and Patrik Antonius competing for a pot of just under $900,000.  A world record online pot.  Antonius emerged the victor, liberating Isildur1 of around $450K

What craziness will follow over the coming days, god only knows.  But one thing’s for sure it’s going to be exciting to watch.