Tom Dwan vs Isildur1 : Greatest High Stakes Poker Battle

Tom Dwan and Isildur1 a.k.a Viktor Blom were the two phenoms of online high stakes poker 10 years ago.Back in the days of Full Tilt Poker people used to wait to see both durrrr and isildur1 play in nosebleed stakes.In the upcoming hype for Doug Polk vs Daniel Negreanu poker match we look at one of the greatest online poker heads up grudge matches that literally changed online poker.
Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:45 Day 1
4:15 Day 2
5:41 Day 3
6:21 Hand review by MMAsherdog
8:51 Day 4
9:10 Day 5
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[@acefromspace2727]

I remember watching this live. At one point Isildur was simultaneously playing heads up with Durrr, Phil Ivey, and Patrick Antonious. My mind was blown.

[@Polarizingg]

He was the goat at that time

[@christophera3330]

I remember it, too. Remember watching the biggest pots live, including the PA vs. Isildur1 PLO hand. The nostalgia...

[@imemine8605]

Thats why st one point he had 10s of millions but now hes broke. Exiting yes. Also stupid

[@thesorrow88]

Thank you for your opinion, man who can't spell "exciting". I'm sure you are a great authority on stupidity. ​@@imemine8605

[@lordfarquard9902]

@@imemine8605He’s not broke- PokerStars give him $100,000 a month free play and also pay him a sponsorship salary?

[@0ptimal]

This was a very exciting event. I'd usually rail the nosebleeds just before bed and happened to see this guy going wild against big names. It was sick because we didn't know who he was but he seemed on a totally different level. He was absolutely fearless. His ninja avatar and name isuldur1, it all just added to his mystery like who tf is this absolute beast.

[@icanspelle6050]

And here I am complaining about my all in bluffs for 3$ lmao

[@ilovebrandnewcarpets]

6 bet jamming all in with AK and 350bb seems bad whether it's 2009, 2019, or 1909.

[@VodkaSoda]

Great in 2029 though

[@jamescollier3]

yeah. I'll fold fake chips at that point

[@stianw.danielsen2943]

Different times

[@Kimmy431]

There was a mandatory 3k raise so they weren’t really playing .5-1, they were playing 1-3 and around 100bb deep.

[@Otodat83]

Reminds me how fucking dumb poker is lol.

[@johnnycash-tb3dg]

yeah i was watching all of this back in FTP days. online poker was much better experience with us players

[@christopherohare6276]

I remember watching these live and buying wpt poker magazine every month and reading all about it.. fuck I'm old

[@emmanueldiaz6096]

Wow🤩simply Wow!.. the mastery, fearlessness, not to mention ridiculous bank roll.💰💰Thank you for this amazing video.

[@anthonycarchidi3rd123]

Back in the day at Rail Heaven these pots happen every 10 minutes

[@jhh-jiynks6568]

Omg I watched this live on full tilt Before victor was known as isldur My gosh it was epic !!!

[@thegarrett9690]

I recall watching these matches as well

[@MichaelLeightonsKarlyPilkboys]

Same. Good ol days

[@markus7102]

Imagine claiming to have watched it live while not even being able to spell the mans name right.. Viktor* you donut

[@thegarrett9690]

@@markus7102 😂

[@jasonwood8907]

@@thegarrett9690 is u ii Bulbul just

[@blomster4304]

The hand analysis is completely flawed due to not addressing the fact that they, at that point, had agreed on 3k raise as mandatory from the button. Its not 250BBs as they were essentially playing 1K/3K with a BB button

[@stevenwalker9013]

Exactly, so many people do videos on these hands from back then and don’t even know the conditions of the match. With the 3k mandatory, they were usually around 100bbs effective

[@beepurplepoker6839]

new poker bounty hell yea

[@richjohns6132]

Hey man, appreciate the content!! Thank you :]

[@dok2.333]

Are you a bot?

[@richjohns6132]

@@dok2.333 What would give you that idea?

[@OKG2000]

i remember watching this madness live

[@liamhooks4943]

@3:05 you mean - bottom pair and a backdoor flush draw

[@anthonykakavas5226]

High Stakes 2010, Poker Stars.

[@WestCoastSamoan]

Good video

[@dimre8117]

epic days

[@brockyHSV]

GREAT VIDEO 👍🤙

[@PokerBounty]

Thanks 👍

[@marcin6386]

Even that I know this story I still enjoying watching it :-)

[@SP-cp3qu]

nice video

[@sarcas55]

Bring back fiill tilt

[@breakbad9753]

It’s amazing how much money changes hands with a simple mouse click lol

[@anthonykakavas5226]

694, 953 .50 . Winning Stack.

[@Thisisaweirdthing2makeusdo]

Please do one on XWINK/XBLINK

[@paligula.]

Dur vs Dur

[@twown]

7:38. "You can't really blame Isildur." Why would anyone blame Isildur?

[@breakbad9753]

He means, the correct play with AA is usually to just call the 4 bet

[@anthonykakavas5226]

Of JEZZA747 2010 Poker Star's.

[@jhh-jiynks6568]

Isldur I understand got his bank roll from paradise poker

[@johnsnakes6125]

Jh h then lost it all

[@westernforce8498]

Everyone says his name wrong. It's pronounced Isil-door , from lord of the rings.

[@sweetkiwipie1569]

Yeah that’s what I thought

[@ZalexMusic]

lol at the hand review. "the three bet size is good. the four bet size is good". no WHY, no rationale. 🙄

[@plomo8716]

subtitle please ^^

[@CalebJNelson]

“And the pots were beyond a reasonable range.” LOL

[@imemine8605]

I can remember nobody plsying him at hold em so he started playing plo against zigmund and the best plo players and played like the average 5/10c plo playerm he hsd no regard for money at all hed getcit in with bare over pair jacks on the river on a flush and 4 card straight board

[@M.S.Fitness]

QQ vs 52 was brutal

[@liamhooks4943]

Some crazy plays here looking back. The AJ v T7s where durrr jams his top a pair and nut flush draw on the turn for example. Durrr either has the best hand or is behind, and only gets called by worse. It would make more sense to jam AKhh maybe as we dont have enough showdown but not with AhJx

[@deniskurek3013]

Unlucky that you didn't have big enough bankroll back then to challenge Dwan and take a couple of millions more from him

[@alexojideagu]

@@deniskurek3013 Why is it every time someone criticises a "Pro" someone gets on their nut sack? It doesn't matter who anyone is, if you make a bad play you make a bad play. It's his opinion. If Liam is wrong then explain why he's wrong.

[@liamhooks4943]

@@deniskurek3013 Talk about taking what I said out of context. Some of the plays he makes are not GTO based on todays standards and even someone with moderate skill will know that. Im not saying if only I had a BR big enough to play him id be rich, because I wouldnt. I only know NOW some lines are bad because of the knowledge we have TODAY. I didnt have that knowledge then because the game wasnt quite as solved as it is today and we didnt have access to the material we have now. In hindsight some of the plays are bad and its fascinating how the game has developed. I guess on social media though people dont comment unless they can put a negative spin on something. So I'll excuse your misunderstanding

[@liamhooks4943]

@@alexojideagu Im not wrong I just have the ability to watch this video almost decade later when the game has changed and our knowledge surrounding optimal strategy has changed. I didnt have that knowledge back then, and if anyone reads my comment and assumed im saying im better than durrr, then I cant help them. I dont think you was one of them though alex

[@deniskurek3013]

@@liamhooks4943 then you are missing a whole point of what GTO is. Until your opponent is not playing a gto then your gto is not going to be the most profitable game strategy and you have no idea what was going on between the two of them for thousands of hands so clearly noone of us can say where the mistakes where without studying for hours all the sessions they played.

[@draganpetev4677]

I was playing back then at Full Tilt and all it was was Isildur running hot on Tom... Tom was always getting huge hands to lose with...

[@stevenwalker9013]

I kinda agree, if you look at the numbers he wasn’t supposed to win that much. He ran really well. That style was not attainable either, as we seen. Went broke not very long after all this

[@draganpetev4677]

@@stevenwalker9013 Cuz he was simply running hot...

[@D1G1TALFOX]

😎

[@jasonwood8907]

His number uuujust

[@Chino-bk9fd]

Whos is Sweden?

[@BoleDaPole]

Isildurrrr1

[@veyselasso8428]

bro durrrr vs isildur1 or Tom Dwan vs Victor Blom easy

[@CalebJNelson]

God, Durr was playing quite a bit too loose. He made it easy.

[@gurusheat3506]

they just go all in every hand

[@Living_the_Highlight]

That's how I play too. To seek domination over the opponent. To literally soul crush them.

[@Tyson13797]

Exactly it isn't clever just bingo

[@Tyson13797]

​@@Living_the_Highlightthats why you ain't famous

[@selkyrk7817]

I swear there is a mode for your human mind to attract good luck... And people like Tom Dwan and Viktor Blom have that cerebral and psychological attitude and quality that took them so far in the poker world. If I can just tap into that energy, to be that lucky while using the skills everybody knows... I just folded a KK because an A came on the flop... My luck needs to be as strong as Tom's and Viktor's. Were they that lucky because they were thinking "Get lucky make the hand"? Or were their parents programming their minds to attract luck? I want to be that lucky. And I think there is a mode that your mind has to be in... to be on a hot streak. And subsequently, there's gotta be a mode that does the opposite too! Call it superstitious... but we are all energy. They became millionaires from their energy, skills that most players already know, and consistent strategies to increase their chances... I got the skills... My strategy needs some work as far as doing Martingayle like betting patterns in my buy ins. But that energy and mindset they had to become the world famous poker players they are today... I want to tap into that energy and stay lucky. What do you think? Is there more than math, stats, percentages and beyond luck, is there a thought or energy that our minds can have to alter how variance is dealt to us? If i am happy, is my next hand going to likely be better somehow if it is before the shuffle? And if I am sad, does that effect how the cards are shuffled and then distributed on an atomic energy level? I'm going to become a poker monk. After seeing all of Poker Bounty's videos, I'm convinced that beyond that math and the psychology of reads and tells.... there's an energy and life force surround each hand dealt and we are creating our luck from that context. ^Sorry for the novel. But everybody reading this is probably a poker player. And if you played enough hands, you might know what I mean... When our pocket Aces hold up and win, is it because our minds attract it? When our pocket Aces lose, is it because our minds attract it? In the pokerboom... did Tom Dwan and Viktor Blom attract winning? Beyond the math, luck and percentages... is their an energy within us as poker players that can effect the outcome of hands during our playing? And if so... then as players we gotta influence the players around us into rooting for us in a way... Someone, lmao lets talk poker! At the end of writing this... I had KK vs a JJ.... Their JJ became a flush from four suited on the board. My luck energy isn't as strong as the luck energy Tom Dwan and Viktor Blom had when they rised to stardom. I want the energy they had during their glory days to make me wealthy in poker and I got to figure that pattern of thinking and train my brain to attract luck like theirs was during their rise... I want to get lucky enough to be the poker millionaire you make a documentary about in a year. And yet my brainwaves likely gotta attract luck and I gotta learn how... We already know the numbers and how to calculate outs and reads are easy... But to master the energy of luck is like some 5th dimension supernatural quality that I want to become apart of... I want to be so lucky that I become part of the poker world instantly right now... It's up to what though?> Energy? Luck? Timing? Skills? God? Luck will be luck... skills i got! timing... we are the pioneers of online poker still. As for God, I don't think god can effect this universe... as in... God cant help any creature living and the universe is something God can't alter but only observe... and yet if there was a god.. we'd all be famous poker millionaires because we prayed for it today. But that energy... Energy seems so plausible.... Someone give me goodluck and a great life forever just by being the energy that thinks it and good luck to us both.

[@Living_the_Highlight]

We can all tap into it. It's just a question of consistency.

[@pokerace420]

Why dont you mention how the pros got together and pooled their hands against isuldur1 and basically cheated him

[@HidetoraToujou]

Every good player discusses hand histories/strategies with fellow pros. That’s not cheating. As long as Brian Hastings didn’t have another player behind him telling to bet/check/fold in real time, which he didn’t. he didn’t cheat shit

[@jeromelawler902]

Nobody f*cking cheated Isilfish was just a spewtard donk who ran good for a while, flash in the pan

[@stevenwalker9013]

Lol, Brian Hastings bought hand histories from a site. It’s not illegal. It’s no different than studying film of someone. Islidur was always going to go broke playing that style. It wasn’t sustainable. He ran extremely hot for a bit and then crashed back down to earth

[@grantkearney6354]

Hi my name is Tom and I will play any garbage you deal me.

[@sylvainlacasse879]

When i have AA i never win....strange

[@chrisyoung3146]

Do u pre raise

[@acegibson9533]

Ramming, jamming up poker. Very asian actually. Just shove all the money in the middle of the table and let's see who wins.

[@zamanmodiri8248]

This is a great lessen if you want grow up your poker skilll

[@kevinjack5184]

Wasn't Tom getting hand histories from his friends who cheated Isildur1?

[@maxaffe3195]

yes its so sad actually. he would have owned all

[@stevenwalker9013]

No, Brian Hastings is the one who busted isliudur for everything and bought hand history’s from a sight. Which is perfectly legal. It’s no different of watching tape of someone playing live to see tendencies.

[@jakeszczepaniak9049]

Lol dwan broke now if that tells you anything

[@valuablesandwich]

Incorrect

[@emmanueldiaz6096]

From a $50 online poker deposit at age 17 and now a net worth of over $10,000,000 at age 33; I think he’s a little far from broke. Check your facts brother... all in good spirits from an avid poker fan.😎👍

[@OKG2000]

most poker pros go broke but Dwan has alot of money from other stuff as well as poker...very smart kid

[@valuablesandwich]

Tom Dwan is a SAINT

[@jeromelawler902]

And isilfish has been broke for like a decade now LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jeromelawler902]

Blom was just a fish, flash in the pan #Isilfish

[@anthonykakavas5226]

Of JEZZA747 2010 ( Isildur 1) start, Heads Up Poker Stars.