Without a doubt one of the most talked online poker players of all time is a player who plays under the nickname Isildur1 at Full Tilt Poker which is the world’s second biggest online poker site. There have been lot of questions about the identity of this mysterious poker player and rumors about him. In order to answer some of the most common questions we have created this little theme page about Isildur1

Who is Isildur1?

He has never publicly announced his real name and thus we can’t really say anything as a sure thing. But the consensus among online poker followers is that the player behind account is Viktor Blom who is around 20 years old poker player from Sweden.

What are nicknames have been connected to the player behind the account Isildur1?

There has been rumors that he might have played previously under the nickname Martonas at Full Tilt Poker, however as it is against the rules to have more than one account at Full Tilt that can’t be taken as a sure thing – even though there are some signs that point to player behind Isildur1 and Martonas possibly being the same person, for an example both had their location listed as Sweden, both played the super-aggressive type style that caused massive swings and both played the same size games.

It is believed that at the iPoker network Isildur1 used to play under the nick Blom90 (there is a story around that claims he managed to ran couple thousand up to over a million dollars in just a couple weeks on that account). There are also some people who believe that he might have played under the name theitalianstyle at iPoker (at iPoker network you can have an account at every site of the network and thus having more than one account isn’t against the rules).

At Entraction network which is a slightly smaller network and thus has less high stakes online poker action he is believed to have played under the nick Zebul_ON and it is also believed that he did extremely well on that account and won hundreds of thousands of euros in a matter of month, which in that network would be extremely nice accomplishment.

What poker games he plays the most?

He seems to stick exclusively to No Limit texas holdem games and pot limit Omaha poker games. In both games he seems to prefer the absolutely biggest games, so most of the time you can find him playing on stakes between $100/$200 and $500/$1000. He also seems to prefer headsup (one against one player) poker over 6 max and 10 player table poker.

What type of poker style does Isildur1 play?

If you were to ask someone to describe the poker style of Isildur1 with two words those words would most likely be “loose” and “aggressive” and indeed that is actually how he seems to play, in fact to untrained eye his style seems even maniac-kind most of the time. But obviously, as they say, “there is a method in his madness”