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What happened to Isildur1-broke, retired, dethroned

January 10, 2010

Isildur1 recently received his first major and career threatening defeat to Brian Hastings. Brian, took a sickening $4.2 million from Isuldur1 in a mere 5hours. Hastings gave credit for his success to Townsend,who works as an instructor at the CardRunners poker training site.

After further investigation, it was found out that Hastings and Townsend analyzed over 50 000 hands played by Isildur1, thus ensuring that they built a solid strategy to counter attack the mystery Swede and take his millions.

Now that Isildur1 is broke, there is much speculation over his return. A recent report suggested that one of poker’s favorites sons, TonyG, will be funding Isuldur1’s return to the nose bleed high stakes tables. Only time will tell if Isuldur1 will return to high stakes action. In the mean time we can only wait in anticipation to see classic poker action like that again.

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