The news, however, about the popular unknown Swedish high stakes player do not stop just there as this weekend Isildur1 will go one step further in building up his win or lose way of thinking by taking his seat in the first Super Star Showdown hosted at PokerStars.com were Isildur1 will face Isaac ‘philivey2694′ Haxton at 6pm ET in a game that is predicted to bring major attention to both railbirds and online poker critics.

Isildur1’s playing pattern is yesterday’s news so we should expect nothing less than fully loaded action against Haxton which is an excellent online and live player with experience at the highest levels of online cash games. Haxton’s best results up to date were second place in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event in 2007 with a win of $861,789 and the WSOP 40th Anniversary $40,000 event in 2009 were Haxton took home $1,168,565!

PokerStars SuperStar Showdown

Haxton and ‘Isildur1′ will compete online Sunday on December 19 at 18.00 ET on a heads-up cash game which will count 2,500 hands of $ 50/$ 100 No-Limit Hold’em, with each player participating with a bankroll worth $150,000.

To watch the SuperStar Showdown you will have to maintain an account at pokerstars.com regardless if it is funded or not on Sunday evening. The tables will be located in Hold’em> No Limit / Pot Limit> All and table names will be called ‘Showdown’.

If you may not have an account at pokerstars.com you can select to issue on today by using the PokerStars Bonus Code STARS600 after coupling it with PokerStars Marketing Code PSP13011 as shown in the image to the left in order to claim the full 100% sign up bonus for all deposits up to $600.

Our editors will be watching the game and comments will follow on luckyroom.com on late Sunday evening.

Although the beginning for Isildur1 was quite exciting when he won the biggest portion of Tom “durrrr” Dwan’s bankroll the next events were disappointing as Isildur put his bankroll on fire In a heads up game of $500/$1.000 Pot Limit Omaha played against Phil Ivey, “Ziigumnd” and Patrik Antonius, all at the same time. After gradually losing much of his money, he faced Brian Hastings at a session that cost him his presence at online poker games of these stakes. The $4 million which were lost in one night was enough to make him stop and to switch to smaller stake games.

For some time now there have been rumors that the personality called “Isildur1″ will join a well known online poker room as a member of the Pro’s team; early last night rumors had reached their peak, but as of this morning it is official that as from today the online poker phenomenon is an official member of the professional team of Pokerstars after an announcement made to all partnering websites from pokerstars.com. The card room is celebrating this by conducting a cash game, where there is an open challenge/invitation to anyone who wants to play against him.

The popular online card room said also that they MAY reveal the actual name of Isildur1 before January at the PCA, but until then he will be playing on Pokerstars under the name “Isildur1″.

“I decided to respond positively to the invitation to join the team of Pokerstars because it is the largest site and it will be a great challenge for me”, said “Isildur1″. “It’s a very good deal and I will now play against the Daniel Negreanu, Dario Minieri and Johnny Lodden. My goal is to improve my game especially for live tournaments as I will take part in some of the following events while I will focus on the Heads up NL Hold’em and to the Pot Limit Omaha”.

We are confident that the true identity of “Isildur1″ will be revealed in the PCA next January, the largest celebration of Pokerstars, so that he can represent pokerstars.net in the next live events that follow. The official announcement made by pokerstars.com follows:

“We are pleased to announce that one of the most mysterious online high-
stakes players in the world “Isildur1” has joined Team PokerStars Pro. The
enigmatic player, who has still yet to publicly reveal his identity, shot
to fame in the poker world in 2009 when he took on and beat some of the
biggest heads-up players in the game. But with a place on Team PokerStars
Pro now confirmed, Isildur1’s real identity is set to be unveiled in the
near future.

In a bid to prove that Isildur1 is the best heads-up cash game player in
the world, he will be playing a series of high stakes heads-up matches at
PokerStars.com. The specially developed SuperStar Showdown format consists
of a single session of 2,500 hands at stakes no lower than $50/$100. His
first match will take place at 6pm ET on December 19, with the opponent to
be named in the coming days.”

The challenge is open to both new and existing players at pokerstars.com with the latter having the opportunity to join the worlds largest online poker room by using the new updated PokerStars Bonus Code which unlocks 100% up to $600 in super sing up bonus. Read more how to claim the bonus under the PokerStars Bonus section.

The popular blogger did not reveal the name of the player and does not plan to do so for as long as no formal agreement is released to the press in fear of lawsuits. The description of the player, however states that he is 20 years old and has become the focus of discussions in the global poker community at the end of 2009, shooting clear at Isildur1 which had an adventurous season during the end of last year.

The post also said that the agreement was in the works for a long time, and that the conduct of negotiations are taking place with a representative of the popular player and the sponsoring poker room. If rumors prove true, then the true identity of Isildur1 will be revealed to any formality in the world … after the completion of the agreement.

It is no secret however that worldwide poker community has concluded that the ‘notorious’ Isildur1 is Victor Blom (photo above) which is very likely to become the centre of attention in the following days. The truth is yet to come.

Isidur1 did not give it up and continued a few hours later after the match with Cole South in which he completed a total of 2.393 hands. The result was positive for the popular Swede who managed to add $ 785,000 to his account after several hours of play in the $ 100 / $ 200 and $ 300 / $ 600 PLO. It is noteworthy that during the match both players played in 49 different tables; which is certainly a unique record. The next day “Isildur1″ returned again to the PLO to add another “building block” to his huge profits of the previous day. The result after the long struggle at the PLO tables with Brian Hastings were again positive for the “Isildur1″ phenomenon who won $ 556,000, bringing his total profits of the two days to an astronomical sum of $ 2.2 million dollars.

“Zigmund” has found juice in the online tables this past week with gains of $230,000 earlier this week. Cole South is also on a good run as he is up $765,000, bringing him up to the top of the list of most valuable players in 2010 with $ 3.8 million in winnings.”Isildur1″ also flirted with $200 / $ 400 Pot Limit Omaha but after losing $16,000 he decided to relax and spend some time at the $ 0.25 / $ 0.50; his evening at the low stakes tables closed with losses of $15.50.

The final hit for the mystery Swede came from Townsend which sat against Isildur in a surprise game which allowed the cardrunners instructor to leave the table +$651,000 therefore adding up to a total loss of $959,645 for the Swedish Houdini. The last table of the night came as a big surprise to many as after the Hastings scandal in December railbirds and poker players would not expect Isildur to accept going against any of the cardrunners crew. The action is expected to peak tonight with more high stakes poker at Full Tilt Poker as Isildur1 has managed to become talk of the town for the majority of online poker portals and poker blogs who patiently anticipate his next move.

As of Feb. 3, Isildur1 has returned and in only 5 days he has been tracked to have played a total of 16,000 hands on Full Tilt Poker losing $147,079. After taking five days off, Isildur1 returned to the tables playing $50/$100 No-Limit Hold’em only to raise to $100/$200 which was were he made his first $327,000 return on his multi million loss back in the year.

Since his return Isildur1 has taken on amongst others Di “Urindanger” Dang and Andrew “PostflopAction” Kostritsyn. Yesterday he took on Justin “ZeeJustin” Bonomo and left the table $567,000 + summing up to positive balance of $806,685 in less than three days. The truth is yet to come.

On the other hand this upswing is what we call “dejavu” as Gus had managed to win nearly $3 million in the first three months of the previous year only to lose it all several months later. The return of some of the big names of high stakes poker are set to return to the tables during the following weeks and it will be interesting to see the outcome of profits which will be ranked on the world poker players earning rankings. It is well mentioned that the booming appearance and vanishing of super high stakes poker player Isildur1 is rumored to have a second round of action as his bankroll is said to be backed up for a comeback by Tony G. as posted on Tony G’s personal blog. The following weeks will surely be very interesting for both poker fans and railbirds.

“I learn so much by playing, I feel that I will end up as a winner over time. I think it was good that I fought with durrrr as I learned a lot from him. It’s all OK, even if I lost so much money. I was disappointed for a while, but got over it easily.” Although he learned a lot from durrrr, Isildur1 says the biggest advantage he got against him is the opportunity to exploit his habit of making some stupid plays.”

“In the last session where Hastings won all the money I felt like something went wrong” Said Isildur1 at Pokernews.com.” At that moment I thought it was just a matter of mad luck.”

Isildur1 believes that Hastings had gained an unfair advantage against him by the database collected by Brian Townsend. Fewer than half of the data, however, came from the sessions he has had with Townsend, while using hand histories they shared between them, something prohibited under the terms of popular US poker room Full Tilt Poker. Isildur1 also has reevaled that he has requested the administration of Full Tilt Poker to investigate this matter further and that in the meantime does not intend to play at the site until the issue is resolved.

Referring to his progress as a high stakes poker player Isildur1 said: “I have never studied books or watch poker videos. I played poker and always struggled with every player who had the desire to play against me. To be honest I have not even studied my own hand histories“.